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	MENU Home Key Projects Participants Creative Works Publications Test Site Contact	The Sonic Communications Research Group (SCRG) Key Projects 1. Real time computational generation of large scale musical structure; assessment of the cognitive accessibility of the generated structures, and their possible role in affect. (ARC Discovery Grant, 2004-6, CI: Roger Dean; Key Collaborators: Hazel Smith and Kate Stevens) The project aims to develop efficient techniques for the generation and control of large-scale musical structure in real-time, and to use these to assess the degree to which the resultant structures are cognitively accessible to experienced musicians. The specific aims of the project can be summarised as follows: 1. To develop new algorithmic methods for the real-time generation of large scale musical structure ("digistructuralisation"), in a style-independent manner. 2. To investigate the detectability by expert musicians (composers and improvisers) and musicologists of the structural features so developed. 3. To develop a theoretical framework for the detection, generation and utilisation of a range of musical segmentation devices (structural ‘dividers’); this framework will be informed initially by scientific and musicological considerations, and later also by postmodern cultural theory. 4. To iteratively test the relationship between defined algorithmic structural modifications of an otherwise unchanged piece, cognitive recognition of these changes and the newly established structures, and their affective content. 2.   Verbal and Sonic Interactivity: a computational approach to user control and generation of displayed and spoken text, and of sonic streams. (Support from the Area of Research Strength, 2003-4; Collaborators: Roger Dean, Sam Hinton, Hazel Smith) 3. Australian Contemporary Jazz (since 1960) on  cd: book, cd, cdr, and web- ebook, by Roger Dean, to be published by the Australian Music Centre, in conjunction with the National Library of Australia. 4. Sonification as a tool for exploring emergent forms in exchange trading data. Worrall. PhD thesis. Copyright © University of Canberra Page Content Queries? Roger Dean Last Updated on June 10, 2004