New book chapter

 Hello,

I hope you are keeping OK in these strange times. I've got a publication announcement, a new chapter in the Cambridge Companion to Video Game Music, which you can check out on the writing pages of the site.

Hopefully some more normality soon!

Cheers,

Duncan

New open access journal paper (another one!)

 Hi folks,

with the world of teaching and research a very unusual place right now in the pandemic, I'm pleased to say I have another new paper out in the journal Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence, the fruits of a collaboration with DC Labs' Victoria Hodge and the Electronic Engineering Department at the University of York. The details of the paper are in the writing pages here, or you can click through to the Frontiers Journal site,
here.

Things are rather hectic at the moment so updates may be sparse between now and the end of term!

Thanks for stopping by,

Duncan

New open-access journal paper

Hello, 

along with my colleagues Victoria Williamson (University of Sheffield), George Fazekas (Queen Mary University of London), and Bruno Fazenda (University of Salford, of course!), we have a new journal paper exploring the use of heart-rate generated music to promote running. It's in the journal Sensors, and you can see the full reference on my writing pages. 

I'm pleased to say the journal is open access, so free to read for anyone (the way research should be!). Term time is about to start, and in the current climate that means a lot more time working on our courses behind the scenes, so you might not hear from me for a while now, but thanks for stopping by!

Duncan

Virtual conferences and new book chapter

Hello,

Two lockdown related updates this month. Firstly I'm very curious to attend the 20th conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression (NIME), which is being held virtually for the first time ever. I have papers to present on a work-in-progress project about adaptive audio for wellbeing, with colleagues at Salford, QMUL, and Sheffield universities, and on my own project using Brain-Computer-Interfacing technology to help with audio mixing.

Secondly, I am pleased to have been able to contribute a (rather timely) chapter all about distance learning for audio engineers, to a new Routledge book, Audio Education, Theory culture and Practice 

Details of all three are in the writing pages here of course.

That's it for now, with a bit of a summer break on the horizon!
Cheers,
Duncan

Changes and new publications

Hello, I'm reflecting on my first year as a lecturer at Salford Acoustic Research Centre - a great year with a brilliant team, and fab students who have been very resilient in the midst of the global pandemic. I'm pleased to say that as of next term I will be the course leader for the Sound Engineering and Production BSc degree, which I've since found on doing some digging on Unistats, has some really nice student feedback already (pic attached!). I hope not to make a mess of them!

Also out now is an open access journal publication in Nature Scientific Data, which reports on our findings with joint EEG and fMRI studies in response to my affectively-driven algorithmic music generator - which is also available to download via the Nature website. As always, more details are available on the writing page of my site (the paper itself is free open access).

More publications coming soon - particularly two exciting book chapters and conference paper reports from the forthcoming NIME (now virtual) event in July, but until then thanks for stopping by.

Duncan

New book chapter and conference paper

Hello,

I'm pleased to say that my chapter with long-term collaborator Dr Ian Daly, who works at the University of Essex's Brain Computer Interfacing and Neural Engineering research group, is now out.

Our chapter, "Hello Computer, How Am I Feeling?" Case Studies of Neural Technology to Measure Emotions, is part of our longer term collaboration on research into the field we are dubbing "Neurocuratorship" - more on that soon. The chapter features in C.S. Nam's new book, "Neuroergonomics, Principles and Practice" released in February by Springer.

In more publications news, we have a forthcoming conference paper (travel dependent!) accepted for ICSV27, the International Congress on Sound and Vibration, which is being held this year in Prague. If you are planning on going, do let me know. This paper is a collaboration with colleagues at Arup, looking at the use of EEG to determine neural and acoustic correlates of noise and perceived annoyance in environmental soundscapes.

References and details for both are now on the writing pages of this blog.

Bye for now,

Duncan

Break it Down Show (Podcast appearance)

Hello,

Just a quick one to note that I'm on the co-host on a recent episode of the Break it Down Show podcast series, this time with Alex Doman from Advanced Brain Technologies.

The show was a lot of fun to record and whilst it mainly focuses on Alex's work I'm sure if you find my work of interest you might enjoy it.

Check it out on all good podcast formats, e.g., Player.FM (!)

Cheers,

Duncan