"Start at the beginning - and when you get to the end, stop."
"Strike that - reverse it."
Feb 2008 - present
This site has been lying to you for nearly a year.
In February of last year I left the Centre for Digital Music to join Intrasonics, a startup company just outside Cambridge (UK) who are doing some very cool things with audio and mobile phones. I've been helping to develop their technology which has been pretty much fascinating.
I was sorry to leave C4DM, both in terms of the work I was doing there and the people I was fortunate enough to be working alongside. But they seem to be doing just fine without me ;)
Since I joined Intrasonics we've doubled in size and made huge progress with the technology, which continues to spark off cyberpunky excitement in my geeky core. Moving from Mile End Road to an old water mill in the English countryside, with sheep 50 metres from my office door is a definite upgrade too. The last year's been fantastic and strange, and that's how I like 'em ;D
I am working as a Research Assistant on the OMRAS2 project in the Centre for Digital Music at Queen Mary in London.
I'm particularly interested by the Semantic Web side of the project, which is where I've been spending my time so far. There's some really cool stuff going on. See my Digital Music page for more info on what I've been doing.
Work on SoundBite also continues - we recently released the first version for Windows, and we hope to soon release a version including rhythm analysis, courtesy of Kurt.
I'm living in Leicester, commuting to London every week or two as necessary.
Software development for the SoundBite project, creating an automatic playlist creation tool based on musical content rather than social networking.
Sept 2005 - Sept 2006Studied for an MSc in Digital Music Processing at Queen Mary, University of London.
My master's thesis was on vocal melody transcription.
Spent a month driving around central Europe with three friends in my Volkswagen camper van
June 2005Graduated from Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge in 2005 with a BA in Computer Science.
My final year project was on learning and recognition of tunes played on the harmonica. This was arguably just a sneaky way to do more harmonica practice when I should have been studying.
