All Outputs (103)

Populating the mix space : parametric methods for generating multitrack audio mixtures (2017)
Journal Article
generating multitrack audio mixtures. Applied Sciences, 7(12), 1329. https://doi.org/10.3390/app7121329

The creation of multitrack mixes by audio engineers is a time-consuming activity and creating high-quality mixes requires a great deal of knowledge and experience. Previous studies on the perception of music mixes have been limited by the relatively... Read More about Populating the mix space : parametric methods for generating multitrack audio mixtures.

Towards bio-responsive control for music (2017)
Presentation / Conference
Williams, D., Murphy, D., & Fazenda, B. (2017, December). Towards bio-responsive control for music. Presented at DMRN+12 : Digital Music Research Network, Queen Mary University London

Music and audio applications are well suited to tactile control. In sound and music computing there can be a disconnect between design of human-computer interfacing and application congruent design. A categorical approach is proposed, considering act... Read More about Towards bio-responsive control for music.

On the suitability of evolutionary computing to developing tools for intelligent music production (2017)
Presentation / Conference
Wilson, A., Loughran, R., & Fazenda, B. (2017, September). On the suitability of evolutionary computing to developing tools for intelligent music production. Presented at 3rd Workshop on Intelligent Music Production (WIMP 2017), Salford, UK

Intelligent music production tools aim to assist the user by automating music production tasks. Many previous systems sought to create the best possible mix based on technical parameters but rarely has subjectivity been directly incorporated. This pa... Read More about On the suitability of evolutionary computing to developing tools for intelligent music production.

Cave acoustics in prehistory : exploring the association of Palaeolithic visual motifs and acoustic response (2017)
Journal Article
Fazenda, B., Scarre, C., Till, R., Pasalodos, R., Guerra, M., Tejedor, C., …Foulds, F. (2017). Cave acoustics in prehistory : exploring the association of Palaeolithic visual motifs and acoustic response. ˜The œJournal of the Acoustical Society of America (Online), 142(3), 1332-1349. https://doi.org/10.1121/1.4998721

During the 1980s, acoustic studies of Upper Palaeolithic imagery in French caves—using the technology then available—suggested a relationship between acoustic response and the location of visual motifs. This paper presents an investigation, using mod... Read More about Cave acoustics in prehistory : exploring the association of Palaeolithic visual motifs and acoustic response.

Influence of source location and temporal structure on spatial auditory saliency (2017)
Journal Article
Podwinska, Z., Fazenda, B., & Davies, W. (2017). Influence of source location and temporal structure on spatial auditory saliency. ˜The œJournal of the Acoustical Society of America (Online), 141(5), 3639-3639. https://doi.org/10.1121/1.4987852

Hitherto, not many studies have dealt with spatial auditory saliency. Auditory attention studies concerned with spatial aspects generally concentrate on top-down selective or divided attention, e.g., where subjects are asked to attend to one source a... Read More about Influence of source location and temporal structure on spatial auditory saliency.

A metric for predicting binaural speech intelligibility in stationary noise and competing speech maskers (2016)
Journal Article
Tang, Y., Cooke, M., Fazenda, B., & Cox, T. (2016). A metric for predicting binaural speech intelligibility in stationary noise and competing speech maskers. ˜The œJournal of the Acoustical Society of America (Online), 140(3), 1858-1870. https://doi.org/10.1121/1.4962484

One criterion in the design of binaural sound scenes in audio production is the extent to which the intended speech message is correctly understood. Object-based audio broadcasting systems have permitted sound editors to gain more access to the metad... Read More about A metric for predicting binaural speech intelligibility in stationary noise and competing speech maskers.

An evolutionary computation approach to intelligent music production informed by experimentally gathered domain knowledge (2016)
Presentation / Conference
Wilson, A., & Fazenda, B. (2016, September). An evolutionary computation approach to intelligent music production informed by experimentally gathered domain knowledge. Presented at 2nd AES Workshop on Intelligent Music Production (WIMP), London, UK

A novel methodology for intelligent music production has been developed using evolutionary computation. Mixes are generated by exploration of a “mix-space”, which consists of a series of inter-channel volume ratios, allowing efficient generation of r... Read More about An evolutionary computation approach to intelligent music production informed by experimentally gathered domain knowledge.

Variation in multitrack mixes : analysis of low-level audio signal features (2016)
Journal Article
Wilson, A., & Fazenda, B. (2016). Variation in multitrack mixes : analysis of low-level audio signal features. Journal of the Audio Engineering Society, 64(7/8), 466-473. https://doi.org/10.17743/jaes.2016.0029

To further the development of intelligent music production tools, towards generating mixes that would realistically be created by a human mix-engineer, it is important to understand what kind of mixes can be created, and are typically created, by h... Read More about Variation in multitrack mixes : analysis of low-level audio signal features.

Perception and automated assessment of audio quality in user generated content (2016)
Conference Proceeding
quality in user generated content. In Quality of Multimedia Experience (QoMEX), 2016 Eighth International Conference on 6-8 June 2016. https://doi.org/10.1109/QoMEX.2016.7498974

Technology to record sound, available in personal devices such as smartphones or video recording devices, is now ubiquitous. However, the production quality of the sound on this user-generated content is often very poor: distorted, noisy, with garble... Read More about Perception and automated assessment of audio quality in user generated content.

Learning music production practice through evolutionary algorithms (2016)
Presentation / Conference
Wilson, A., & Fazenda, B. (2016, June). Learning music production practice through evolutionary algorithms. Presented at MusTWork16 – ‘Music Technology Workshop 2016: Establishing a Partnership Between Music Technology, Business Analytics and Industry in Ireland', Dublin, Ireland

The field of intelligent music production has been an active research topic for over a decade. The aim is to develop systems which are capable of performing common tasks in music production, such as level-balancing, equalisation, panning, dynamic r... Read More about Learning music production practice through evolutionary algorithms.

Relationship between hedonic preference and audio quality in tests of music production quality (2016)
Book Chapter
Wilson, A., & Fazenda, B. (2016). Relationship between hedonic preference and audio quality in tests of music production quality. In 2016 Eighth International Conference on Quality of Multimedia Experience (QoMEX) (1-6). IEEE. https://doi.org/10.1109/QoMEX.2016.7498937

In many subjective listening tests, audio is evaluated on either "quality" or "preference". These terms are often conflated. Little evidence has been gathered which explains the subtle differences between these terms in audio perception --- we may no... Read More about Relationship between hedonic preference and audio quality in tests of music production quality.

Evaluating a distortion-weighted glimpsing metric for predicting binaural speech intelligibility in rooms (2016)
Journal Article
Tang, Y., Hughes, R., Fazenda, B., & Cox, T. (2016). Evaluating a distortion-weighted glimpsing metric for predicting binaural speech intelligibility in rooms. Speech Communication, 82, 26-37. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.specom.2016.04.003

A distortion-weighted glimpse proportion metric (BiDWGP) for predicting binaural speech intelligibility were evaluated in simulated anechoic and reverberant conditions, with and without a noise masker. The predictive performance of BiDWGP was compare... Read More about Evaluating a distortion-weighted glimpsing metric for predicting binaural speech intelligibility in rooms.

Perception of audio quality in productions of popular music (2016)
Journal Article
Wilson, A., & Fazenda, B. (2016). Perception of audio quality in productions of popular music. Journal of the Audio Engineering Society, 64(1/2), 23-34. https://doi.org/10.17743/jaes.2015.0090

The quality of recorded music is often highly disputed. To gain insight into the dimensions of quality perception, subjective and objective evaluation of musical programme material, extracted from commercial CDs, was undertaken. It was observed tha... Read More about Perception of audio quality in productions of popular music.

101 mixes : a statistical analysis of mix-variation in a dataset of multi-track music mixes (2015)
Presentation / Conference
Wilson, A., & Fazenda, B. (2015, October). 101 mixes : a statistical analysis of mix-variation in a dataset of multi-track music mixes. Presented at 139th International Convention of the Audio Engineering Society, New York City, New York, USA

The act of mix-engineering is a complex combination of creative and technical processes; analysis is often performed by studying the techniques of a few expert practitioners, qualitatively. We propose to study the actions of a large group of mix-engi... Read More about 101 mixes : a statistical analysis of mix-variation in a dataset of multi-track music mixes.

Microphone handling noise : measurements of perceptual threshold and effects on audio quality (2015)
Journal Article
Kendrick, P., Jackson, I., Fazenda, B., Cox, T., & Li, F. (2015). Microphone handling noise : measurements of perceptual threshold and effects on audio quality. PLoS ONE, 10(10), e0140256. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0140256

A psychoacoustic experiment was carried out to test the effects of microphone handling noise on perceived audio quality. Handling noise is a problem affecting both amateurs using their smartphones and cameras, as well as professionals using separate... Read More about Microphone handling noise : measurements of perceptual threshold and effects on audio quality.

Perceived audio quality of sounds degraded by non-linear distortions and single-ended assessment using HASQI (2015)
Journal Article
assessment using HASQI. Journal of the Audio Engineering Society, 63(9), 698-712. https://doi.org/10.17743/jaes.2015.0068

For field recordings and user generated content recorded on phones, tablets, and other mobile devices nonlinear distortions caused by clipping and limiting at pre-amplification stages, and dynamic range control (DRC) are common causes of poor audio... Read More about Perceived audio quality of sounds degraded by non-linear distortions and single-ended assessment using HASQI.

A glimpse-based approach for predicting binaural intelligibility with single and multiple maskers in anechoic conditions (2015)
Presentation / Conference
Tang, Y., Cooke, M., Fazenda, B., & Cox, T. (2015, September). A glimpse-based approach for predicting binaural intelligibility with single and multiple maskers in anechoic conditions. Presented at Interspeech 2015, Dresden, Germany

A distortion-weighted glimpsing metric developed for estimating monaural speech intelligibility is extended to predict binaural speech intelligibility in noise. Two aspects of binaural listen- ing, the better ear effect and the binaural advantage, ar... Read More about A glimpse-based approach for predicting binaural intelligibility with single and multiple maskers in anechoic conditions.

Navigating the mix-space : theoretical and practical level-balancing technique in multitrack music mixtures (2015)
Book Chapter
Wilson, A., & Fazenda, B. (2015). Navigating the mix-space : theoretical and practical level-balancing technique in multitrack music mixtures. In The 12th Sound and Music Computing Conference, Music Technology Research Group, Dept. of Computer Science, Maynooth University, Maynooth, Co. Kildare, Ireland. Sound and Music Computing

The mixing of audio signals has been at the foundation of audio production since the advent of electrical recording in the 1920’s, yet the mathematical and psychological bases for this activity are relatively under-studied. This paper investigates h... Read More about Navigating the mix-space : theoretical and practical level-balancing technique in multitrack music mixtures.

How to design and conduct listening tests (2015)
Other
Fazenda, B. (2015). How to design and conduct listening tests

This is a copy of a presentation on listening tests delivered at lectures and invited talks. Optimisation of acoustic spaces and audio equipment is often dependent on objective metrics that can be measured directly and defined numerically. However,... Read More about How to design and conduct listening tests.

Perceptual thresholds for the effects of room modes as a function of modal decay (2015)
Journal Article
of modal decay. ˜The œJournal of the Acoustical Society of America (Online), 137(3), 1088-1098. https://doi.org/10.1121/1.4908217

Room modes cause audible artifacts in listening environments. Modal control approaches have emerged in scientific literature over the years and, often, their performance is measured by criteria that may be perceptually unfounded. Previous research... Read More about Perceptual thresholds for the effects of room modes as a function of modal decay.