Music Research at the OU
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Facilities Specialist research facilities at the OU include the following: Music Research Studio The Music Research Studio was established in 2009 and comprises a recital room (“Howard Music Room”), a separate recording booth, a recording control room, and four research pods for audio/video editing and analysis. The acoustic response of the recording rooms is shaped with the use of suspended cubes, curtains, and acoustic panels, thus providing flexible recording conditions. The recital room is equipped with three remotely controlled digital cameras, two in front and one behind the main performance area; the recording booth is equipped with one more video camera. The control room performs professional recording of up to 24 audio tracks and 5 video signals featuring a Pro Tools workstation, four-track digital video recorder, audio/video recording and monitoring routing system, and EditShare server networked with all workstations. The research pods are provided with PC workstations running Avid Media Composer, Digidesign Pro Tools, The Observer, Adobe Audition, Praat, and other software. The studio is ideal for research on music performance and can be used for a wide range of interdisciplinary research, education and dissemination purposes. Music Research Studio Officer: Acoustics Research Laboratory Acoustics Research Group facilities include two anechoic chambers, a laser laboratory, an ultra high speed camera, a scanning Laser Doppler Vibrometer, professional quality microphones, as well as a wide range of measuring apparatus, recording equipment and high performance computing hardware. Music Computing Laboratory The Music Computing Research Group hosts a Music Computing Lab stocked with a range of music computing software; electronic musical instruments; motion trackers, pitch trackers, sensors, and diverse technologies for gestural control and data capture. In close collaboration with the Pervasive Interaction group we are constructing new musical interfaces using a variety of multi-touch and whole body tracking technologies.
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