Wednesday, February 3, 2010

How not to write a PhD thesis

A great article in the Times Higher Education on 'How not to write a PhD thesis' by Tara Brabazon (Professor of Media Studies, University of Brighton.)

Thursday, January 7, 2010

Need help understanding statistics?

I found a great video based tutorial on interpreting statistics by The Teaching Company. Information on the tutorial can be found here. It will only cost you close to 250 USDollars!

Tuesday, December 15, 2009

A listing of some new relevant publications

A listing of some recent publications (well most are recent) relevant to my own research area:

ISMIR 2009, Session Title: Musical Instrument Recognition & Multipitch Detection
ISMIR 2009 Poster Session (PS3):

Tuesday, November 17, 2009

Perceptions based on prior knowledge?

I found a very interesting journal article on how our perceptions are based on prior experience. It ties in with the perception of sounds.

Friday, September 4, 2009

Some more papers on instrument ID

Three papers my supervisor has brought to my attention:

Thursday, August 27, 2009

IPEM and the psychology of electronic music

I'm working with the IPEM Toolbox. A difficult task given that it's tied to Matlab versions 5.3.1 and 6.0. The source code is available and can be toyed with to try to make it compatible with later versions. A fix is to find the original versions, more as a time saving exercise! But as an aside, the concept of IPEM and the extraction of perceptual features is of interest to my own research. And in particular, being an electronic music fan, this article discusses the "Psychology of Electronic Music".

Wednesday, August 12, 2009

4475 separted notes

I separated the notes from the majority of the IOWA musical instrument samples. Total notes = 4475. WOW! It wasn't easy! I'll be writing about how I did it in my next publication. Look out a few short lines describing about 9 day's of hard work!!