Notice of availability (Al Bregman )


Subject: Notice of availability
From:    Al Bregman  <bregman(at)hebb.psych.mcgill.ca>
Date:    Mon, 23 Mar 1998 21:52:06 -0500

Dear Colleagues, Over the past few weeks, I have had some discussions with Alexander Galembo who is a participant in our list. I discovered that he was looking for a position for next year. I encouraged him to announce his availability on the AUDITORY list. He was a bit hesitant to do so; so I asked him for some basic information about himself and I am now posting this to the list: Alex's web page contains a lot of information about him. http://www.geocities.com/CapeCanaveral/Lab/8779/ Here is a brief Curriculum Vitae Alexander Galembo, Ph. D. NSERC-NATO Science fellow Present address(up to July 1998): Acoustics Lab, Department of Psychology Queen's University Kingston, ON, K7L 3N6, CANADA Phone: (613) 545-6000, ext. 5754 / Fax: (613) 545-2499 Email: galembo(at)psyc.queensu.ca or galembo(at)pavlov.psyc.queensu.ca URL : http://www.geocities.com/CapeCanaveral/Lab/8779/ --------------------------- Home country address (usable after August 1998): 47 Furstadtskaia St., Apt. 17 St.Petersburg 191123, Russia Phone: 7 (812) 273-5359 E-mail:galembo(at)ief.spb.su --------------------------- Objective: I would like to work in the field of - musical acoustics - psychoacoustics, auditory perception - musical psychology My particular interests and research directions are: - Timbre and musical quality conception - Musical instruments acoustics, technology, quality - Perception and description of musical tones - Perception of pitch, melody and tonelity across pitch ranges and timbres - Overlapping, interaction and segregation of tones in music - Singer and musical instrument recognition and identification - Acoustical, pedagogical and psychological aspects of piano touch Experience: 1996-1998: NATO Post-doctoral Science Fellow, Acoustics lab, Department of Psychology, Queen's University, Kingston, ON, Canada. One of the projects relates to design, technological and acoustical factors responsible for timbral differences in pianos. The second project is devoted to a melody perception across pitch ranges. 1994, April-Nov.: Guest researcher at the Music Acoustics Lab of the Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden, investigating problem of pitch strength and inharmonicity in piano tones and perceived tones interaction in musical phrases, also developing new methods for digital processing of musical signals for measurement its inharmonicity. 1993 Feb.-May: Guest researcher at the Music Acoustics Lab of the Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden. Investigated problem related to pitch and inharmonicity of the tones of stringed instrument, modified pitch extraction algorithms for its application to pitch strength evaluation. 1987-1992: Music Acoustics expert at the Leningrad Signal Industrial Corporation; responsible for the solution of acoustical problems involving electronic musical instruments. 1980-1992: Referent in musical acoustics for USSR Referative Journal of Physics. 1976-1987: The head of the acoustic laboratory of Leningrad Musical Instruments Industrial Corporation. Responsible for acoustic research and development of pianos, guitars, accordions. 1970-1976: The head of the group of engineers and physicists of the acoustic laboratory of the Leningrad piano factory, responsible for research and development of piano strings and action technologys. Created procedures for subjective and objective analysis of musical sound quality. Also responsible for the teaching piano designers and technicians in musical acoustics. 1966-1970: Engineer-physicist, Leningrad piano factory. Responsible for research and development of piano hammers and felts. --------------------------- Education: - Course in C++ programming 1997, St. Lawrence college, Kingston, Canada - Ph. D. (Russian equivalent - Candidate of Sciences) in acoustics, 1995, St. Petersburg Institute of Cinema and Television - Special course of musical acoustics, 1965, Leningrad State University - Certificate in Patent Engineering, 1972, Leningrad - Magister degree in Physics, 1965, Department of Physics, Leningrad (presently St. Petersburg) State University --------------------------- Hobbies,abilities: - Developed musical and analytical ear - IBM PC user: Windows, HTML, digital sound editors and synthesizers - C++ programming - MAX programming on Macintosh - Amateur playing of musical instruments --------------------------- Publications: - 3 books - 47 articles - 107 published referates on works in musical acoustics and technology of musical instruments - poetry publications Languages: - Active English, - some German, - native Russian References: - available upon request ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Concise list of scientific publications Abbreviations CBSTI of LIM RSFSR - Central Bureau of Scientific Technical Information of the Local Industry, Ministry of Russian Soviet Federative Socialistic Republic. SRDTIMI - Scientific Research, Design and Technological Institute of Musical Industry. M. - Moscow L. - Leningrad Books Galembo, A. The quality of piano tones (Moscow, 1987). Otiugova, T., Gurkov, I, Galembo, A. Birth of an orchestra (Leningrad, 1987). The physics of musical sounds, by Charles Taylor, The English Universities Press, 1965 - Russian translation by A. Galembo, Legkaia Industria Press, L., 1976. Piano - Technical History (in preparation) Articles and reports Galembo, A., Askenfelt, A. "Representation of signals and estimation of spectral parameters by inharmonic comb filters with application to the piano," "IEEE Transactions on Speech and Audio Processing" (submitted for publication). Galembo, A., Askenfelt, A., Cuddy, L. L. "Inharmonicity and quality of piano tones". Report to the International Symposium on Musical Acoustics (ISMA'98), Leavenworth WA, June 26 - July 1, 1998 Galembo, A., Askenfelt, A. & Cuddy, L. L. "On the acoustics and psychology of piano touch and tone". Invited report to the International Acoustical Congress/135 Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, Seattle, June, 1998. Russo, F.A., Galembo, A., & Cuddy, L.L. (1998). "Perception of tonality across the tessitura of an instrument," Report to the Musical Cognition and Behaviour Relevance for Music Composing conference, Roma, May 28-30, 1998. Galembo, A., Cuddy, L.L. (1998). Large grand vs. small upright pianos: factors of timbral difference. (click here for the lay language shorted version) Invited report to the 134 Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, San Diego, Dec. 1997. Russo, F.A., Galembo, A., & Cuddy, L.L. (1997). Evaluation of perceived tonality across the musical pitch range. Canadian Acoustics, 25(3), 35. Galembo, A. , Cuddy, L. L. (1997). "String inharmonicity and the timbral quality of piano bass tones: Fletcher, Blackham, and Stratton (1962) revisited". Report. to the 3rd US conference on Music Perception and Cognition, MIT, Cambridge, July-August, 1997. Galembo, A. Russian (Soviet) contribution to musical acoustics // The Journal of the acoustical Society of America, 98 (6), p. 3071-3079), 1996. Galembo, A. "Visualization and measuring of spectral inharmonicity in piano tones" - report for the "Forum Akustikum" congress, Antwerp, 1996. Galembo, A. "Sounds overlapping in melody played on a piano", International Congress on Acoustics, Trondheim, (Norway), June 1995, v.3, p. 435-438. Galembo, A. Musical pitchiness evaluation through pitch extraction / Abstract of the report 5aMU3 to the 129 ASA Meeting // Journal of the Acoustical Soc. of Amer. - 1995. - V. 97. - N5. Part 2. - p. 3390. Galembo, A., Askenfelt, A. "A note on the overlap of piano tones," Speech Transmission Laboratory Quarterly Progress and Status Report, Dept. of Speech Communication and Music Acoustics, Royal Institute of Technology, P.O. Box 700 14, S-100 44 Stockholm, Sweden, STL-QPSR 1/95, p. 23-28 (1995). Galembo, A. "Development of the methods for evaluation of a pitch strength in musical (piano) sounds (in Russian)", Dissertation, 207 p., Sankt Petersburg Institute of Cinema and Television, Feb. 1995. Galembo, A., Askenfelt, A. "Investigation of a signal by inharmonic comb filters" (in Russian), Technicheskaia Akustika, v. 3, N 3-4, p. 64-72, 1994. Galembo, A., Askenfelt, A. "Investigation of spectral inharmonicity by pitch extraction" (in Russian), Technicheskaia Akustika, v. 3, N 3-4, p. 53-64, 1994. Galembo, A., Askenfelt, A. "Signal representation and estimation of spectral parameters by inharmonic comb filters," Speech Transmission Laboratory Quarterly Progress and Status Report, Dept. of Speech Communication and Music Acoustics, Royal Institute of Technology, P.O. Box 700 14, S-100 44 Stockholm, Sweden, STL-QPSR 4/94, p. 85 - 93 (1994). Galembo, A. "Musical acoustics in Russia," Speech Transmission Laboratory Quarterly Progress and Status Report, Dept. of Speech Communication and Music Acoustics, Royal Institute of Technology, P.O. Box 700 14, S-100 44 Stockholm, Sweden, STL-QPSR 3-4/94, p. 1 - 42 (1994). Galembo, A., Askenfelt, A. "Measuring of inharmonicity through pitch extraction," Speech Transmission Laboratory Quarterly Progress and Status Report, Dept. of Speech Communication and Music Acoustics, Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden, STL-QPSR 1/94, p. 135-143 (1994). Galembo, A., Askenfelt, A. "Measuring of inharmonicity through pitch extraction," in Proc. of Stockholm Music Acoustics Conference (SMAC93), Royal Swedish Academy of Music, Stockholm, 1994, p. 302-308. Kravtchun, P., Shliapnikov, V. , Galembo, A. "On the influence of the piano una corda pedal on tone quality and dynamics (in Russian)," in Proc. of the 11th USSR Acoustical Conference, p. 17-20, M., 1991. Galembo, A. "Subjective evaluation of the tonal quality of musical instruments - psychological aspects (in Russian)," in Proc. of the 28th Acoustical Conference on Physiological Acoustics, Psychoacoustics, Acoustics of Music and Speech, p. 83-86 (Strbske Pleso, Visoky Tatry, Czechoslovakia, 1989). Galembo, A. "Making high quality piano hammers (in Russian)," CBSTI of LIM RSFSR, ser. 3, N 7, p. 1-18 (M., 1988). Galembo, A. "Psychological aspects of quality estimation of musical instruments (in Russian)," in "Measurement of psychical characteristics of human operators", p. 113-118 (Saratov University Press, 1986) Galembo, A. "Quality of piano hammers and methods for control (in Russian)," CBSTI of LIM RSFSR, Ser. 3, N1, p. 1-8 (M., 1985). Galembo, A., Uvarov, M. The stand for a control of parameters of the low frequencies power amplifiers (in Russian)," Technical Information Center of Leningrad, N961-84 pp. 1-2 (L., 1984). Galembo, A., Uvarov, M. "Stand for measurement of parameters of electromagnetic pickups for a guitar (in Russian)," CBSTI of LIM RSFSR, Ser. 3, N 3, pp. 1-4 (M., 1983). Galembo, A., Uvarov, M. "The stand for measurement of the frequency characteristic of electromagnetic adapter (in Russian)," Technical Information Center of Leningrad, # 1257-83, pp. 1-3 (L., 1983). Galembo, A. "The problem of separate estimations of tonal and playing qualities of musical instruments (in Russian)," in Proc. of the 10th USSR Acoustical Conference, p. 17-20 (M., 1983). Osadchaia, T., Markitcheva, Z., Galembo, A. "A method for improving the hammer felt in musical instrument production (in Russian)," in Perfection of the industry of non-woven textile materials - problems of increasing quality and economical efficiency, p. 36-42 (M., 1982). Galembo, A. "Quality evaluation of musical instruments (in Russian)," Technical Aesthetics, No. 5, p. 16-17 (1982). Galembo, A. "Crossmodal masking in the expertise of complex quality (in Russian)," in Theses of the 1st USSR Meeting on Statistic and Discrete Analysis of Non-quantitative Information, Expert Estimation and Discrete Optimization, p. 24, Moscow-Alma Ata, 1981. Galembo, A. "Some data on the tonal structure of pianos (in Russian)," in Proc. of the 4th USSR Scientific Technological Conference on Electrical Musical Instruments, part 1, p. 49-55 (M., 1981). Galembo, A. "Device for evaluation of musical instrument quality," Invention certificate No. 828215, Cl. G 10 1/02, 1981. Published in the Bulletin for discoveries, inventions, trade marks and industrial designs (USSR), N 17, p. 215, 1981. Galembo, A. "Special aids for measurement for piano technology (in Russian)," CBSTI of LIM RSFSR, Ser. 3, N 3, p. 1-16 (M., 1980). Galembo, A. "Piano hammers - technology and quality (in Russian)," in "Methods for increasing the quality of musical instruments and their structural parts", p. 30-42 (SRDTIMI, M., 1980). Galembo, A. "A method for objective evaluation of the timbre in the piano treble (in Russian)," in Proc. of the 18th Acoustical Conference of Czechoslovakia (Cesky Krumlov, 1979), p. 45-48. Shapotchkin, A., Galembo, A. "Felt for musical instruments (in Russian)," CBSTI of LIM RSFSR, issue 9, p. 1-8 (M., 1978). Galembo, A. "Cupola measurement in vertical pianos (in Russian)," CBSTI of LIM RSFSR, Ser. 3, N 7, p. 1-7 (M., 1978). Galembo, A. "A device for cupola measurement in soundboards (in Russian)," Technical Center of Leningrad, issue N126-78, p. 1-4 (L., 1978). Galembo, A. "Devices for measuring of down bearing in piano string (in Russian)," Information center of Local Industry Ministry, Ser. 3, N 2, p. 1-9 (M., 1978). Galembo, A., Ivanovskaia, L. "Spectral time structure and noise sources in the high treble of the piano (in Russian)," in Proc. of the 9th USSR Acoustical Conference, p. 37-40 (M., 1977). Galembo, A. "New data related to the acoustical significance of piano touch (in Russian)," in Theses of the 8th USSR Acoustical Conference, p. 97 (M., 1973). Galembo, A. "Impregnation of the nonimpacting part of the piano hammer - aid for improvement (in Russian)," CBSTI of LIM RSFSR, ser. 1, issue 3, p. 9-12 (M., 1971). Galembo, A. "Dependence of the quality of piano hammers on felt technology (in Russian)," CBSTI of LIM RSFSR, ser. 1, N 3, p. 12-19 (M., 1971) Galembo, A. "Acoustical investigation of hammer felt for piano (in Russian)," in Theses of the 7th USSR Acoustical Conference, p. 32 (L., 1971).


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