Douglas McGilvray
Dougie is a lecturer in Audio Technology at the
School of Engineering and Computing
at
Glasgow Caledonian University
.
He began his academic career at the
Centre for Music Technology
in the
University of Glasgow
where he researched his PhD in computer assisted analysis of musical performance.
His research interests currently include music informatics
and computer asisted analysis of musical performance.
Contact Details
School of Engineering and Computing
Glasgow Caledonian University
Cowcaddens Road
G4 0BA
tel +44 (0)141 331 3498
dougie ...at... n-ism.org
Current Projects
- Microtonalism: 'Rehearsing microtonal music: grappling with performance and intonational problems'.
- The Rosegarden Codicil is a performance analysis environment built into the Rosegarden MIDI Sequencer. It provides real-time and post-performance analysis of performed pitch. As part of the Microtonalism project, this has been extended to include support for microtonal music.
Ongoing Research Projects
Performance Markup Language
Computer analysis of musical performance requires simultaneous consideration of the score and the resulting performance data, because interesting information about the performance is contained within a performer's inflections and departure from the strict score rather than in the measured performance information itself. A method of representing these and possibly many other aspects of a given performance is therefore required. Performance Markup Language (PML) is an open, extendable XML-based representation which is intended to be used as a basis for systems used to investigate elements of musical performance. It can be used to extend XML-based musical notation representations to include support for the representation of performance markup and analytical structures. Home page: http://www.n-ism.org/Projects/pml.php
Rehearsing Microtonal Music: Grappling with Performance and Intonational Problems (2006–2007)
AHRC-funded project, £4,976, with Dr I Pearson (RCM, Principal Investigator), A Morrison (BBC Singers), Prof R Parncutt (University of Graz), and D McGilvray (CMT Glasgow), involving the composition and performance of microtonal music, i.e. music which does not have twelve equal divisions of the octave. The technology developed involved the delivery of modified MIDI sequencer software which is capable of real-time and off-line analysis of the pitch of a performance and displays it alongside musical notation for the purposes of rehearsal.
Publications
Nicholas Bailey, Douglas McGilvray, Graham Hair
Musically Significant, Automatic Localisation of
Note Boundaries for the Performance Analysis of
Vocal Music
Proc Conf Interdisciplinary Musicology, Thessaloniki, 2008
(The unabridged
version contains some extra material which could not easily be
reproduced in Microsoft Word)
A. R. Jensenius, A. Camurri, N. Castagn, E. Maestre, J. Malloch,
D. McGilvray, D. Schwarz, and M. Wright. The need of formats for
streaming and storing music-related movement and gesture data. In
Proceedings of the ICMC, 2007.
A. R. Jensenius, A. Camurri, N. Castagn, E. Maestre, J. Malloch,
D. McGilvray, D. Schwarz, and M. Wright. A summary of formats for
streaming and storing music-related movement and gesture data. In
Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Enactive Interfaces, 2007.
Nicholas Bailey, Douglas McGilvray, Graham Hair,
Ingrid Pearson, Amanda Morrison, Richard Parncutt
The
Rosegarden Codicil: Rehearsing Music in Nineteen-Tone Equal Temperament
Proc International Computer Music Conference, 2008.
Stuart Pullinger, Douglas McGilvray, Nicholas Bailey
Music
and Gesture File: Performance Visualisation, Analysis, Storage
and Exchange
Proc International Computer Music Conference, 2008.
Graham Hair, Ingrid Pearson, Amanda Morrison, Nicholas Bailey,
Douglas McGilvray, Richard Parncutt
The Rosegarden Codicil: Rehearsing Music in Nineteen-Tone Equal Temperament
Scottish Music Review, v1(1).
Graham Hair, Douglas McGilvray, Nicholas Bailey, Ingrid Pearson
Tools for Expert Musicians for Practising and Rehearsing Microtonal Music Proc. DMRN+1 University of London Queen Mary College, Dec 2006.
Invited Presentations
Rehearsing Microtonal Music
with Amanda Morrison,
Ingrid Pearson,
Nicholas Bailey and
Graham Hair
Sir George Grove Research Series,
Royal College of Music,
London, 18th May 2006.
Thinking and Performing Microtonally: Rehearsal Strategies in 19ET
using the Rosegarden Codicil
with Nicholas Bailey
and Graham Hair
Stirling University Perception Conference, Department of Psycology,
Dec 2006
Bringing the Marginal into the Mainstream: Overcoming the Problems of Thinking,
Composing and Performing Microtonally
with Nicholas Bailey
and Graham Hair
The University of Edinburgh Research Colloquium,
9th Nov 2006.
Between Hardware and Protien: Pig in the Middle
with Nicholas Bailey
and Graham Hair
Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama
Research Colloquium, 20th Feb 2006.
Thinking Microtonally with Amanda Morrison (soprano),
Graham Hair, and
Nicholas Bailey,
Royal Musical Association Research Colloqium, 1st Feb 2006.