April 21, 2012 – 4:17 PM

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A CELEBRATION OF MUSIC AT DARTMOUTH: SONG AND SOUND

Join us next week for the 34th annual Celebration of Music at Dartmouth: Song and Sound, presented by the Department of Music, with our guestensemble-in-residence Callithumpian Consort. Programs also feature performers and composers from the Dartmouth College community. All events are free and open to the public.

Event Details:

A CELEBRATION OF MUSIC AT DARTMOUTH: SONG AND SOUND
with special guests CALLITHUMPIAN CONSORT and featuring
Performers and composers from Dartmouth.
Tues | MAY 1 | 7 PM |
Spaulding Auditorium

Way to Go Out, New Music Concert Series
Thu | Apr 26 | 6 pm |
Cynthia Reeves Gallery, Main St. Hanover
featuring the Dartmouth Contemporary Music Lab
with special guest faculty composer John King.

New Music at Top of the Hop
Sun | Apr 29 | 6 pm | Top of the Hop
featuring new works by Dartmouth undergraduates.

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February 1, 2012 – 9:34 AM

Digital Musics Spencer Topel and affiliate faculty member Soo Sunny Park present the year-long PLATFORM 8 installation Capturing Resonance at the deCordova Museum Saturday, February 4th from 2 – 3PM. They will discuss their collaboration over the summer, including their process, inspiration, and implementation.

Capturing Resonance explores the relationship between audience, light, and sound. Within the interstitial gallery space, interwoven sculptural modules form a sprawling superstructure. Motion sensors capture movement of gallery visitors and use this information to make the installation “respond”, through the excitation of sculptural modules via low-frequency bass exciters. The resulting effect is that of dynamic transformation and immersion, amplified by the kinetic movement of the chain-link modules, which in turn cause thousands of tiny plexi pieces embedded in the structures to vibrate, and reflect light in shimmering patterns around the white walls of the gallery space.The work has already received a warm reception in the blogosphere:

“Capturing Resonance” is a magical piece that must be seen in person.  And while it is technically not part of the “Temporary Structures” show, it is an apt illustration.

That’s what we’re all trying to do…capture resonance. It seems that, as a pair, Soo Sunny Park and Spencer Topel really did it.

The talk is free and open to the public. For more information on this work and links to video can be found here.

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Bregman Lab to Host NEMISIG Jan 27th-28th 2012

December 20, 2011 – 4:00 PM

The Northeast Music Informatics Special Interest Group workshop brings together graduate students and faculty in the Northeast USA working on music, information, and computation.

In January 2012, the workshop is being hosted by Dartmouth’s Bregman Lab, with generous support from the Neukom Institute for Computational Science

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Bregman Lab at Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS) 2011

December 20, 2011 – 3:56 PM

Bregman Studio graduate students Jessica Thompson, Andy Sarroff, Qinguan Kong, and Spencer Topel, co-authored two submissions at this year’s Neural Information Processing Systems workshops in Granada, Spain.

Casey, M., Thompson, J., Kang, O., and Wheatley, T., “Timbre Population Codes for High-Level Categorization of Music”, Neural Information Processing Systems, Workshop on Machine Learning and Interpretation of Neuroimaging, Granada, Spain, December, 2011.

Kong, Q., Sarroff, A., Topel, S., and Casey, M., “Getting Into the Groove with Hierarchical Independent Component Analysis”, Neural Information Processing Systems, Workshop on Machine Learning and Music Processing, Granada, Spain, December, 2011.

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Bregman Lab at International Society for Music Information Retrieval

October 24, 2011 – 10:50 AM


The six graduate students in the Bregman Masters program, and two Ph.D. students, will be attending ISMIR 2011 in Miami. Our students will present a total of 3 posters and 3 music works at the conference. Good luck, see you in Miami.

Bregman’s papers include:

  • Alison Mattek GR and Michael Casey “Cross-Modal Aesthetics from A Feature Extraction Perspective: A Pilot Study”
  • Spencer S. Topel GR and Michael A. Casey “Elementary Sources: Latent Component Analysis for Music Composition”
  • Jessica Thompson GR will present a late breaking Demo.
  • Alex Dupuis, David Kant, and Spencer Topel have music works on the ISMIR concert.

See the ISMIR 2011 Web Site for more information, and to get PDFs of our papers.

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Digital Musics Group, Green Orpheus, Performs at FUEL

October 24, 2011 – 9:44 AM

Green Orpheus consists of all six of the graduate students in the digital music department: David Kant GR’12, Alex Dupuis GR’12, Alison Mattek GR’12, Ryan Maguire GR’13, Phillip Hermans GR’13 and Jessica Thompson GR’13.

The group plans to perform in various campus venues in the coming months, including One Wheelock and the Hopkins Center, but their most ambitious plan involves utilizing the Baker Tower bells in the spring.

Full story

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Apply to the Masters Program in Digital Musics: Deadline Feb. 1st 2012

October 23, 2011 – 9:10 AM

We seek outstanding students for our 21 month Masters in Digital Musics at Dartmouth. This fully-funded program (tuition plus stipend) encourages interdisciplinary research and creative production at the intersection of digital music composition/performance, sonic and audiovisual arts, computer science and engineering, and music cognition and neuroscience.

Applications must be received by February 1st 2012.
Application requirements, online application form
Graduate Studies at Dartmouth

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Bregman receives NEH Digital Humanities Award for Computational Cinematics

October 22, 2011 – 3:49 PM


Dartmouth College (Hanover, NH 03755)
Professor Michael A. Casey, Department of Music, Department of Computer Science
Professor Mark Williams, Department of Film and Media Studies

ACTION (Audio-visual Cinematic Toolbox for Interaction, Organization, and Navigation): an open-source Python platform

The development of a platform that would support the computational analysis of film and other audio-video materials. The platform would allow such features as the automatic detection of shots and scenes, the analysis of soundtracks, and overall content analysis.

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Digital Musics CS Ph.D. Student, Andy Sarroff, Receives Neukom Fellowship

September 15, 2011 – 9:48 AM

Digital Musics CS Ph.D. Student, Andy Sarroff, is the recipient of a fellowship from the Neukom Institute for Computational Science at Dartmouth College. Andy will be working on the Search-By-Groove project, which is co-sponsored by Google Inc via a Faculty Research Award to Professor Michael Casey.

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Congrats to Our Two New Masters Graduates

June 13, 2011 – 1:54 PM

Congratulations from everyone at Dartmouth Digital Musics to Josh Hudelson (‘09) and Alex Wroten (‘09), who graduated from the program this past Sunday, June 12th, 2011.  We wish you the best in your future endeavors and enjoyed having you with us these past two years.

To find out more about their work:

Joshua Hudelson: http://joshuahudelson.com/bio.html

Alex Wroten: http://www.alexwroten.com/

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