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jason a. hockman

music information retrieval .: digital signal processing .: gestural control

PhD Candidate, DDMAL
Music Technology, Department of Music Research
McGill University, Canada

Advisor:Ichiro Fujinaga

Education and Research Experience

2007– Ph.D. Candidate McGill University Music Technology Area Montreal, Canada
2012 Visiting Research Student INESC Sound and Music Computing Group Porto, Portugal
2007 Associate Research Student Queen Mary University of London Centre for Digital Music London, United Kingdom
2007 Music Technology, M.M. New York University Music Technology New York City, New York
2000 Sociology, B.A. Cornell University Sociology Department Ithaca, New York

Publications

Hockman, J.A., M.E.P. Davies, and I. Fujinaga. 2012. One in the jungle: Downbeat detection in hardcore, jungle, and drum and bass. in Proceedings of the International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference (to appear).

Hockman, J.A., D.M. Weigl, C. Guastavino, and I. Fujinaga. 2011. Discrimination between phonograph playback systems. in Proceedings of the 131st Convention of the Audio Engineering Society.

Hockman, J.A. and I. Fujinaga. 2010. Fast vs slow: Learning tempo octaves from user data. in Proceedings of the International Conference on Music Information Retrieval. 231-6.

McKay, C., J.A. Burgoyne, J.A. Hockman, J. Smith, G. Vigliensoni and I. Fujinaga. 2010. Evaluating the performance of lyrical features relative to and in combination with audio, symbolic and cultural features. in Proceedings of the International Conference on Music Information Retrieval. 213-8.

Li, Z., Q. Xiang, J.A. Hockman, J. Yang, Y. Yi, I. Fujinaga, Y. Wang. 2010. A music search engine for therapeutic gait training. in Proceedings of ACM Multimedia '10.

Hockman, J., M.M. Wanderley, and I. Fujinaga. 2009. Phase vocoder manipulation by runner’s pace. in Proceedings of the 2009 Conference on New Instruments for Musical Expression. 90-3.

Hockman, J., M.E.P. Davies, J.P. Bello, and M. Plumbley. 2008. Automated rhythmic transformation of musical audio. in Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Digital Audio Effects. 177–80.

Pugin, L., J. Hockman, J.A. Burgoyne, and I. Fujinaga. 2008. Gamera versus Aruspix: two optical music recognition approaches. in Proceedings of the International Conference on Music Information Retrieval. 419–25.

Hockman, J. 2007. Automatic timbre mutation of drum loops. Masters diss, Music Technology, New York University.

Software

Last FM / YouTube mashup application: Download LastFM tagged music via YouTube (May 2010)

Time-Scaling Running Shoe: Automated synchronization of music to runner's pace (April 2009)

Content-Aware Effects: Control of delay-based effects based on onset detection (December 2008)

Rhythmic Transformation of Musical Audio: Manipulation of rhythmic feel of a piece of music given a second piece as a control signal (July 2007)

Automated percussion loop modification: adjustment of the ordering and timbre of a drum loop provided a second loop as a control signal (May 2007)

Work Sites/Blogs

Breakbeat Science (current)

Here Come the Metre Men

MAQaddict


550 Sherbrooke Street West, suite 500
Montreal, Quebec, Canada H4A 2N3
phone: 514.398.4535 ext. 0300
email: jason.hockman [at] mail.mcgill.ca