Guest lecture Ben Knapp of Sonic Arts Research Centre, April 28
Following up on a visit of Edwin van der Heide and Maarten Lamers to the Sonic Arts Research Centre (SARC) in Belfast, Dr. Ben Knapp of SARC will present a guest lecture for the Media Technology program. All are invited!
Speaker: Ben Knapp of SARC of Queen’s University Belfast
Topic: Integral Music Control, The Continuum from Gesture to Emotion
Time: Tuesday April 28, 2009, 14h00 – 15h30
Place: Snellius building room 413
The Sonic Arts Research Centre of Queen’s University, Belfast, is dedicated to the research of music technology. This interdisciplinary institute unites internationally recognized experts in the areas of musical composition, signal processing, performance, internet technology and digital hardware.
In February 2009, Edwin van der Heide gave a guest performance at SARC, and together with Maarten Lamers he gave a presentation about the Media Technology program. We expect further collaboration between both institutes.
Ben Knapp leads the Music, Sensors, and Emotion (MuSE) research group at SARC. His research at SARC focuses on the understanding and measurement of the physical gestures and emotional states of musical performers and their audience.
He will speak about controlling music and sound using the recognition of physical gestures and emotional state. His talk explores the broad area of using kinematic and physiological sensors (e.g. EMG, EKG) for interacting with sound. The details of the measurement and recognition of these signals and the patterns within them during performance are discussed. The talk will focus on three areas:
1) Understanding gestures and emotion
2) Simple pattern recognition techniques
3) The SARC Eyesweb Toolkit
Read about SARC at http://www.sarc.qub.ac.uk.
More about Ben Knapp.
