Research in Sound, Music Technology, and Auditory Perception
Publications and Papers
[2024] Exploring the Emergence of Beat Induction using a 'Swarm of Onsets' Generative Model
Proceedings of the Sound and Music Computing Conference. 2024.
[2023] Individual differences of limitation to extract beat from Kuramoto Oscillators: Transition from beat based tapping to frequent tapping with weaker coupling
Public Library of Science (PLOS ONE). 2023. Published October 9, 2023. doi: doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0292059
[2023] Introducing the Collective Rhythms Toolbox: an audio-visual interface for coupled-oscillator rhythmic Generation
International Sound and Music Computing (SMC) Conference. Stockholm, Sweden.
[2022] Constructive Accumulation: A Look at Self-Organizing Strategies for Aggregating Temporal Events along the Rhythm Timbre Continuum
International Sound and Music Computing (SMC) Conference. Saint Etienne, France.
[2021] Beat Perception in the "Swarm": a look into tapping synchronization strategies using coupled metronomes
Neurosciences and Music VII: Connecting Music across the Lifespan. Aarhus, Denmark.
[2020] Extracting beat from a crowd of coupled metronomes: effects of coupling strength and timbre
International Conference on Music Perception and Cognition (ICMPC) Sheffield, UK
[2020] Menagerie: Exploring the audio-visual rhythms of violence through gun triggers, data, and swarms
Sound and Music Computing Conference (SMC). 2020. Torino, Italy.
[2020] Sound Art and AI: About 'Engine Error / Self-Portrait'
Oral Presentation at International Conference on Computational Creativity (ICCC). Coimbra, Portugal
[2019] Extracting beat from a crowd of loosely coupled, concurrent, periodic stimuli.
Acoustical Society of America (ASA, San Diego, CA). The Predictive Brain Conference (Marseilles, France)
[2019] Kuroscillators: A Max MSP object for sound synthesis using coupled oscillators
A paper summarizing a Max MSP and Faust implementation for real-time audio synthesis using coupled oscillators.
[2019] Sound in Multiples: Synchrony and Interaction Design using Coupled Oscillator Networks
Sound and Music Computing Conference. Malaga, Spain. Algorithmic design using self-synchronizing oscillators as a generative device for audio and rhythmic synthesis.
[2018] BDSMR: Velcro as a Sensory Material and Erotic Interface
Published in British Computer Society. This paper examines the sensory mechanics of the Velcro hook-and-loop fastener and its use as a sound object in contemporary sound-based art and the autonomous sensory meridian response (ASMR) community.
[2018] An Adaptive Model of Pulse in Jazz Percussion: Rhythmic Generation in Quasi-periodic Musical Contexts using Sequence-to-Sequence Learning
Using a sequence-to-sequence LSTM neural network to infer and generate pulse using raw audio of solo jazz drumset recordings.
[2017] SeismoDome: Sonic and visual representation of earthquakes and seismic waves
Paper about the sonification and visualization of earthquake data at the Hayden Planetarium at the Museum of Natural History NYC.
[2017] A Generative Model of Pulse Percept: Analyzing Performances of Jazz Drumming using Dynamic Beat Tracking and Recurrent Neural Networks
By analyzing audio recordings of a particular jazz drummer, this LSTM RNN takes as input beats as inferred by a dynamic beat tracking algorithm to learn a representation of a particular drummer's performance style.
[2016] Head Tracking Binaural Localization System for Horizontal Sound Source Detection
This project attempted to reconstruct an interactive spatialization auditory scene by using a head tracking sensor in conjunction with a binaural panning system implemented in the MaxMSP programming environment.
[2016] Phase Coherence as a Measure of Perceptual Synchrony in Large-Scale Coupled Oscillator Systems
This pilot study looked at the way in which participants were able to synchronize to a coupled-oscillators model that contains concurrent periodic sound onsets.
[2012] Data Sonification: Mutatis Mutandis, Synthesizing Sound with Glaciological and Atmospheric Data
Electronics and Fabrication Design
See github.com/nolanlem for circuit design and fabrication design code and documentation.