Host to three full-time faculty; undergraduate, Masters, and Ph.D. students; and post-doctoral research staff; the Bregman Studio was founded in 1967 and has been at the forefront of digital music practice and research for over four decades.
We seek outstanding students for our 2-year 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 2013.
Application requirements, online application form
Graduate Studies at Dartmouth
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.
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.
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
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.
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:
See the ISMIR 2011 Web Site for more information, and to get PDFs of our papers.
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.
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.
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.
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/
Shown here from left to right, Professor Michael Casey, Lecturer and Technical Director Spencer Topel, and and computer science PhD students Qingyuan Kong and Andy Sarroff. (photo by Joseph Mehling '69)
Digital Musics director Michael Casey and researchers from the Bregman Music and Audio Research Studio (BMARS) is named as the recipient of a Faculty Research Award from Google Inc, for the project “Search by Groove”, a project spanning several years at the studio aimed at creating a new search engine to find music tracks with similar rhythmic backgrounds in large audio databases.
Digital Musics student Alexander Dupuis premiered his piece All Hail the Dawn this May at the New Interfaces for Musical Expression conference in Oslo, Norway. The piece is an interactive audiovisual feedback loop mediated by a custom-built photosensitive oscillator instrument. Documentation of the piece can be viewed here.
The New Music Collective of Charleston, SC performed pieces by Digital Musics graduate student David Kant and Professor Larry Polansky at the closing concert of Receiver Time-Based Media Festival. Devoted to the presentation of art that invokes time, Receiver Festival 2011 occurred March 10th-13th in downtown Charleston, and featured over twenty artists from across the United States and Canada. Performances, video screenings, installations and kinetic sculptures were scattered at public venues throughout the city. The closing concert by the New Music Collective occurred March 13th and also featured works by Alvin Lucier, Jason Brogan, G. Douglas Barrett and John Lely.
Dartmouth Music Department Faculty member Kui Dong’s “Spring, Summer, Autumn and Winter” will receive its east coast premiere at The Arthur M. Sackler and Freer Gallery of Art: the National Museums of Asian Art at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington D.C. on February 19, 2011.
Kui Dong’s other recent accolades include a new CD released February 8th on OtherMinds Records entitled “Since When Has The Bright Moon Existed” featuring works written over the past five years.
Upcoming events include the premiere of ”Painted Lights” for mixed chorus and children’s chorus by the prestigious vocal group Volti and the Piedmont Children’s Choir in San Francisco and Berkeley, CA, March 4, 5, and 6, 2011
Graduate student Alison Mattek presented a paper at the 26th Annual Conference of the Society for Electro-Acoustic Music in the United States (SEAMUS) last month in Coral Gables, FL. Her paper is entitled “Emotional Communication in Computer Generated Music: Experimenting with Affective Algorithms.” The full paper can be downloaded here.
The conference was co-chaired by Digital Musics alumnus, Colby Leider, and his wife Christine. Also in attendance was former Digital Musics student, Bruno Riviaro and former program director, Jon Appleton.
New York City’s S.E.M. Ensemble will premiere new work by Digital Musics student David Kant. Kant’s piece Variations for Functions and Divisions of Time – Variation XXVII (Quartet for Ruth) is an homage and computer re-synthesis of ideas from Ruth Crawford-Seeger’s well known String Quartet.
The performance will occur at the annual SEM Workshop Thursday, February 17th at The Willow Place Auditorium in Brooklyn, NY. The program will also feature a premiere by Digital Musics alum Beau Sievers. See www.semensemble.org for further information.
Saturday, February 12 · 8:00pm – 9:00pm
Opensound, 33 Union Square, Somerville, MA
1. duo: Todd Brunel, clarinets, Rob Bethel, cello, Ben Houge, laptop
2. duo: Linda Clave, live painting, Eric Zinman, keyboard
3. Dartmouth Contemporary Music Lab: Doug Perkins, Director, Alex Dupuis – guitar, David Kant – saxophone and electronics, Alison Mattek – keyboards and electronics, Alex Wroten – megatar and electronics
Doors open at 7:30pm!
Violinist Kevin Rogers performed Digital Musics graduate student Alex Wroten’s newest piece, “Knockoffs,” at the Hot Air Music Festival at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music this Sunday (February 6, 2011). This well-received piece juxtaposes a variety of pre-rendered synthesized and sampled electronic violin timbres with live acoustic violin performance to explore the relationship between “real” and “fake” violin sounds.
Rogers premiered “Knockoffs” on Friday, January 21, 2011 for his own Masters degree recital at Kaleidoscope Free Speech Zone in San Francisco. Wroten attended this premiere and documented the performance, which is now available for viewing at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mst5abG2pvA.