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Join us for C21U's February Seminar with Professor Alexander Lerch of the School of Music.
Topic? Software for Rehearsing with Music Ensembles
Who? Professor Alexander Lerch, School of Music
When? Tuesday, February 16 from 11:00 am - 12:00 pm
Where? C21U UnConference Room, Klaus 2405
Abstract:
The acceptance of technology in the music classroom is only slowly growing. Teaching and learning of performance practice, in particular, is still mostly based on methods and curricula that have not significantly changed during the last century. Successful technology integration faces many challenges, for instance, the (real-time) analysis of audio signals and the qualitative assessment of the student's music performance. This talk will detail these challenges and present ongoing work on a learning software for vocal ensembles.
Speaker Bio:
Alexander Lerch works on creating the next generation of music software technology, enabling new ways of understanding, creating, accessing, and listening to music. His main research areas are Music Information Retrieval/Audio Content Analysis and Intelligent Signal Processing.
Lerch studied Electrical Engineering at the Technical University Berlin and Tonmeister (Sound Engineering) at the University of the Arts Berlin. He received his PhD on algorithmic music performance analysis from the Technical University Berlin. In 2001, he co-founded the industry leader company zplane.development - a research-driven technology provider for the music industry. At zplane, Lerch worked on the design and implementation of algorithms for music processing and music information retrieval that have been licensed to companies such as Ableton, Native Instruments, Sony, and Steinberg. His book "An Introduction to Audio Content Analysis: Applications in Signal Processing and Music Informatics" has been published in 2012 by IEEE / Wiley press. Lerch joined the Faculty of the Georgia Tech Center for Music Technology in 2013.
