AES Warsaw 2015 Presenter or Author
Andrew McPherson
Primary Affiliation: Queen Mary University of London - London, UK
Andrew McPherson is a Senior Lecturer in the Centre for Digital Music at Queen Mary University of London. With a background in electrical engineering and music, his research focuses on augmented acoustic instruments, new performance interfaces, and study of performer-instrument interaction. He did his undergraduate and Master's work at MIT, completing his M.Eng. thesis in Barry Vercoe's group at the MIT Media Lab. He completed his PhD in music composition in 2009 at the University of Pennsylvania. Before joining Queen Mary in 2011, he spent two years as a post-doctoral researcher in the Music Entertainment Technology Laboratory (MET-lab) at Drexel University.
His projects include the magnetic resonator piano, an electromagnetically augmented acoustic grand piano used in performances across Europe and North America, and the TouchKeys multi-touch keyboard which launched in a successful Kickstarter campaign in 2013. More recently he has studied how musicians appropriate and misuse technology for creative purposes, creating a new digital musical instrument, the D-Box, specifically designed to be hacked and subverted by the performer using circuit bending techniques.
More Info: http://www.eecs.qmul.ac.uk/~andrewm
Session List
May 8:
P10: (Poster) Transducers
Active Control of a String Instrument Bridge Using the Posicast Technique (Author)
May 10:
P16: (Poster) Applications in Audio
An Environment for Submillisecond-Latency Audio and Sensor Processing on BeagleBone Black (Author)
