Hi everyone, Joern Loviscach is a prolific researcher in music technology, HCI, machine learning, and beyond. He's coming next Friday to give a talk at Princeton, so please come meet him and hear about his work! Abstract & bio are below. Rebecca *** Novel User Interfaces for Audio and Music Computing Friday May 28, 2010, 2-3pm Woolworth Music Building, Room 101 Many tasks in digital music making, audio retrieval, and audio processing become chores, with only few occasions for inspiration and serendipity. This talk is a show & tell presentation of a range of prototypes of enhanced user interfaces developed by the presenter and his collaborators to bring back the fun, such as: * Acoustic and visual support for finding music and sounds * Improved visual feedback in music sequencers and digital audio workstations * Modified on-screen fader controls, modified mice, and color-changing buttons used as controllers for music software * Digital music making with the Wii remote controller, a loudspeaker, and other items, among them a bass guitar For examples, see http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eiwj7Td7Pec http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UuUjf-c6L6U http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fTLkafr2Xp8 Bio Joern Loviscach ( www.j3L7h.de ) is a professor of technical mathematics and computer engineering at Fachhochschule Bielefeld (University of Appleid Sciences), Germany. In his research, he aims at connecting human-computer interaction, visual computing, signal processing, machine learning, and electronics. He is a regular contributor to conferences such as SIGGRAPH, Eurographics, AES Convention, and ICMC. In addition, he has published numerous chapters in book series such as Game Programming Gems and ShaderX Programming.