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Notice of availability
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@psyc.queensu.ca
or
galembo@pavlov.psyc.queensu.ca
URL : http://www.geocities.com/CapeCanaveral/Lab/8779/
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Home country address (usable after August 1998):
47 Furstadtskaia St., Apt. 17 St.Petersburg 191123, Russia
Phone: 7 (812) 273-5359
E-mail:galembo@ief.spb.su
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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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).