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Monthly Archives: July 2015

Free event @QMUL: Listening in the Wild: Animal & machine audition in multisource environments, 28 Aug

31 Friday Jul 2015

Posted by Jo Brodie in C4DM - Centre for Digital Music, conferences / seminars / workshops, Events, QMUL - Queen Mary University of London, Research / experiment, talks

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acoustics, birdsong, Dan Stowell, natural sounds, nature, Sarah Angliss, sound

Full details of event location, contact details and free Eventbrite tickets for this delightful-sounding event at Queen Mary University of London (Stepney Green / Mile End) on Friday 28 August. The event’s organised by Dan Stowell and colleagues from the Centre for Digital Music (C4DM).

Programme and speaker (and poster) abstracts

Listening in the Wild: Animal and machine audition in multisource environments
Research workshop, QMUL, London
Fri 28th August, 10:30am-5pm

* How do animals recognise sounds in noisy multisource environments?
* How should machines recognise sounds in noisy multisource environments?

This workshop will bring together researchers in engineering disciplines (machine listening, signal processing, computer science) and biological disciplines (bioacoustics, ecology, perception and cognition), to discuss complementary perspectives on making sense of natural and everyday sound.

INVITED SPEAKERS:

  • Annamaria Mesaros (Tampere University of Technology, Finland)
    Sound event detection in everyday environments
  • Alison Johnston (British Trust for Ornithology)
    What proportion of birds do we detect? Variation in bird detectability by species, habitat and observer
  • Jordi Bonada (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona)
    Probabilistic-based synthesis of animal vocalizations
  • Sarah Angliss (composer, roboticist and sound historian, London)
  • Rob Lachlan (Queen Mary University of London)
    Analysing the evolution of complex vocal traits: song learning precision and syntax in chaffinches
  • Alan McElligott (Queen Mary University of London)
    Mammal vocalisations: from quality to emotions
  • Emmanouil Benetos (City University London)
    Matrix factorization methods for environmental sound analysis

ACCEPTED POSTERS:

  • Acoustic 3-D tracking of cetaceans in the vicinity of tidal turbines
    Douglas Gillespie, Jamie Macaulay, Jonathan Gordon, Bernie McConnell, Carol Sparling
  • Vocal response of male serin, Serinus serinus, to interactive playback
    Ana T. Mamede
  • The Role of Form in Modelling Auditory Scene Analysis
    S. L. Denham, M. Coath, S. A. Collins
  • Quantifying difference in vocalizations of bird populations
    Colm O’Reilly
  • CHiME-Home: A Dataset for Sound Source Recognition in a Domestic Environment
    Peter Foster, Sid Sigtia, Sacha Krstulovic, Jon Barker and Mark Plumbley
  • Large-scale decline of bats and bush-crickets revealed thanks to automatic acoustic monitoring scheme.
    Yves Bas, Christian Kerbiriou, Alienor Jeliazkov, Isabelle Le Viol, Jean-François Julien.
  • Assessing snore sounds recorded in the home via smartphone
    Amy V. Beeston and Guy J. Brown
  • Automatic Acoustic Monitoring of Natural Systems: Towards the Detection and Classification of Bird Flight Calls
    Justin Salamon, Juan Pablo Bello, Andrew Farnsworth, Steve Kelling
  • Using of an iVector for Bird Identificiation on the Close Set
    Ladislav Ptacek, Zbynek Zajic, Ludek Muller
  • Dynamic Time Warping and Affinity Propagation Clustering for the categorisation of bird species: A case study
    Simone Clemente, Marco Gamba, Daniela Pessani & Livio Favaro

The sound of bees buzzing (sound recordings)

27 Monday Jul 2015

Posted by Jo Brodie in Sound recordings

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bees, buzzing, nature, sound, UK

As someone who takes sound snapshots almost as much as photos I thought it was about time I organised and shared them. I’ve upgraded this blog so that I can make use of the sound file player.

First up, bees.

Sounds inexpertly recorded on an iPhone 5S, some will need you to increase the volume a bit.

Bee recording: bees-17-may-2014-afternoon.m4a

https://soundnoticeboard.files.wordpress.com/2015/07/bees-17-may-2014-afternoon.m4a

Bee recording: bees-28-may-2015-18431.m4a

https://soundnoticeboard.files.wordpress.com/2015/07/bees-28-may-2015-18431.m4a

Bee recording: bee-29-may-2015-1744.m4a

https://soundnoticeboard.files.wordpress.com/2015/07/bee-29-may-2015-1744.m4a

Bee recording: bees-and-aircraft-5-april-2015-1539.m4a

https://soundnoticeboard.files.wordpress.com/2015/07/bees-and-aircraft-5-april-2015-1539.m4a

School of Noise at the fabulous @ShuffleFestival – Sat 1 August, 12.30 – 2.30, £2

20 Monday Jul 2015

Posted by Jo Brodie in Events, film screenings, music, Shuffle Festival

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Mile End, School of Noise, Star Trek IV

Screen Shot 2015-07-20 at 12.09.41“The SCHOOL of NOISE workshops are designed to encourage young people to explore noise, sound and music in creative, enjoyable and educational ways.

Run by a collective of musicians, sound artists and noise enthusiasts the SCHOOL of NOISE aims to make the fascinating world of experimental and electronic music increasingly accessible to young people. There is no need to have any musical experience to come along and participate in the workshop.

At the festival we will be creating a piece of music together using a range of sound making and sculpting equipment including beatboxing flowers and a choir of singing apples.”

SATURDAY 1ST AUGUST
THE MIGRATION PAVILION (number 9 on the site map)
12:30 – 2:30 PM
£2 entry for kids and big kids – please bring cash on the day

Also on Saturday 1 August in the same place, they’re showing Start Trek IV: The Voyage Home – which features an interesting manipulation of a sound recording of whales, so is fairly relevant to this blog 🙂

Here’s the full Shuffle Festival Programme. Reduced price tickets for residents of E3.

Lewisham / Blackheath / North Greenwich people – the 108 bus goes to Bow Interchange (Bus stop T, Stop ID: 72145) which is probably about a twenty minute walk to the venue (depending on how fast you walk!).

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