News and Events
Presentation of a new Phonos CD of Andrés Lewin-Ritcher
Presentation of a new Phonos CD of Andrés Lewin-Ritcher
On March 18th at 19:30h at the Sala Mompou there will be the presentation of the new CD of music by Andrés Lewin-Ritcher produced by Phonos.
Announcement CD Presentation Seminar by R. Bargar and I. Choi on interactive authoring for media production
Seminar by R. Bargar and I. Choi on interactive authoring for media production
Robin Bargar and Insook Choi, from City University of New York, will give a seminar on Wednesday 10th of March at 18:00h in room 52.S31 on "Interactive Authoring with Semantic Reasoning for Heterogeneous Media Production".
Abstract: Computational models and intelligent signal processing are becoming mainstream methodologies in the media production chain. Media Authoring is a versatile practice that utilizes computational representations between interpreted languages and scripting. Robust models of computational architectures are becoming more feasible in media production as consumer platforms converge on standard processing capabilities that permit extensible applications in high-level programming languages with open source libraries. In this context we recently developed a working method and prototype system for authoring interactive media presentations supported by an ontological inference engine. The system supports real-time query across heterogeneous media resources, parallel media signal processing, and multiple display formats. Authoring is implemented as path-planning in ontological space; path members are concept nodes that generate queries and return media resources coupled to real-time displays. Ontology supports heterogeneous cross-referential capacity for media of multiple types. A dual-root-node data design links ontological reasoning with media metadata, which provides a method for defining hybrid semantic-quantitative relationships. Ontological organization enables users to author and explore media resources by concept-based navigation displaying relationships across media of diverse types, rather than isolating resource types.
Robin Bargar is Professor of Entertainment Technology and Insook Choi is the Director of the Emerging Media Technologies Program, both at the School of Technology and Design of City University of New York.
entrevista a Xavier Serra a TV3
entrevista a Xavier Serra a TV3
entrevista a Xavier Serra al programa Divendres de TV3 amb demostracions d'un software de transformació de veu, KaleivoiceCope, i parlant de Vocaloid (03/03/2010)
Presentation of a new Phonos CD of Julian Elviara
Presentation of a new Phonos CD of Julian Elviara
On March 4th at 19:30h at the Sala Mompou there will be the presentation of the CD by Julian Elvira produced by Phonos.
The Postgraduate Course in Interactive Systems has started
The Postgraduate Course in Interactive Systems has started
The Postgraduate Course in Design of Interactive Music Systems offered by IDEC in collaboration with the Escola Superior de Música de Catalunya has started for the first time this month. The director of the course is Sergi Jordà, who teaches in it together with Carles F. Julià, Daniel Gallardo and Mathieu Bosi.
The students enrolled in the course are: Arecio Gonzalez, Oriol Soler, Rafael Pérez, Ángel Andrés Cataño, Marcelo Rodríguez, Carlos Eduardo Cortés, Tomeu Coll, Jesús Gollonet, Daniel Cantero, Mario Pifarré, Aleix Fabra, and Victor Lloret.
This course is the second part of the Postgraduate Programme in Sonology. The first part, dedicated to Music Production Techniques has just finished.
Phonos Concert: Instruments and electronics
Phonos Concert: Instruments and electronics
On Thursday 25th of February 2010 at 19:30h on the Espai Polivalent of the Tànger Building, Phonos Foundation organizes a concert including varios instrumental and electronic pieces.
La revolución digital abre nuevas maneras de componer música
La revolución digital abre nuevas maneras de componer música
Artículo en el El Periodico de Catalunya sobre algunos proyectos del MTG (22-02-2010).
ElPeriodico-22-2-2010.pdfPhonos Concert: Ellen Fallowfield, cello and electronics
Phonos Concert: Ellen Fallowfield, cello and electronics
On Tuesday 23rd of February 2010 at 19:30h on the Espai Polivalent of the Tànger Building, Phonos Foundation organizes a concert by Ellen Fallowfield performing pieces by cello and electronics.
Seminar by Michael Gurevich on "Style and Constraint in Electronic Musical Instruments"
Seminar by Michael Gurevich on "Style and Constraint in Electronic Musical Instruments"
Michael Gurevich, from the School of Music and Sonic Arts of Queen's University Belfast, will give a seminar on "Style and Constraint in Electronic Musical Instruments" on Wednesday 24th of February 2010 in room 52.S31 at 18h. This seminar takes place in the context of the Postgraduate Programme in Sonology.
Abstract:
Style is the ability to impart a unique and personal imprint on an activity; it is what distinguished a virtuosic performer from a highly skilled one. To experience a performance with style, one must be able to assess not only what the performer is doing, but how they are doing it, or how they are doing it differently than someone else would. But digital musical instruments, and digital devices in general, present significant challenges to the cultivation of style and our ability to perceive it. In this talk, I will present our concept of style and its impact in the user experience and the spectator experience, both in the context of music performance and in interactions with a wide array new technologies. I will report on the results of a recent study of performers that explored the relationship between constraint in design and the development of style.
Post-doc positions funded by the spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation
Post-doc positions funded by the spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation
The spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation has announced a call for post-doc positions within the programs Ramon y Cajal and Juan de la Cierva. These programs aim at incorporating post-docs into the spanish research centers.
