Forthcoming Meetings
‘An introduction to forensic audio’
Click here for further information about meetings, including location details.Title: ‘An introduction to forensic audio’
Location: Royal Academy of Engineering, London
Description: Lecture by Gordon Reid, CEDAR Audio Ltd
Start Time: 18:30 for 19:00
Date: Thursday 15th April 2010
Speech enhancement has come a long way in the digital era, but it is not the ‘magic wand’ depicted on TV and in Hollywood movies. Adaptive filters have traditionally been the basis of forensic audio work, but a combination of techniques – including broadband noise reduction, buzz removal, equalisation and background noise suppression – can provide superior results when compared with any single approach. This introduction, illustrated using examples processed in real-time on a CEDAR Cambridge Forensic system, aims to shed light on this, demonstrating how signal processing can aid investigators in areas including criminal investigation, counter-terrorism and air accident investigation.
‘Remastering the Beatles’ albums’
Click here for further information about meetings, including location details.Title: ‘Remastering the Beatles’ albums’
Location: Royal Academy of Engineering, London
Description: Lecture by Simon Gibson of Abbey Road Studios
Start Time: 18:30 for 19:00
Date: Tuesday 11th May 2010
‘When All the Songs Sounds the Same: Insights into the Musical Brain’
Click here for further information about meetings, including location details.Title: When All the Songs Sounds the Same: Insights into the Musical Brain
Location: Royal Academy of Engineering, London
Description: Lecture by Dr Lauren Stewart, Goldsmiths University, London
Start Time: 19:00
Date: Thursday 10th June 2010
The ability to make sense of musical sound has been observed in every culture since the beginning of recorded history. In early infancy, it allows us to respond to the sing-song interactions from a primary caregiver and to engage in musical play. In later life it shapes our social and cultural identities and modulates our affective and emotional states. But a few percent of the population fail to develop the ability to make sense of or engage with music. The study of disordered musical development sets in sharp relief the perceptual and cognitive abilities which most of us take for granted and give us a unique chance to investigate how musical perceptual ability develops, from the level of the gene to the brain development and the emergence of a complex and fundamental human behaviour.
Dr Stewart is Senior Lecturer and director of a new MSc course:
Music, Mind and Brain at Goldsmiths, University of London
Lauren originally studied Physiological Sciences at Balliol College Oxford, but transferred from bodies to brains with an MSc in Neuroscience and doctoral and postdoctoral training at the Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, the Wellcome Department of Imaging Neuroscience (both UCL) and Harvard Medical School.
Her current research interests ranges from studying those with congenital amusia who have an inability to make sense of musical sound to studying the acquisition of perceptual, cognitive and motor skills in trained musicians.
