Louise Bryce

Many actors have won awards for their impersonations of real people in film and television. This project investigates the speech qualities in four of these impersonations—Meryl Streep playing Margaret Thatcher, Natalie Portman as Jackie Kennedy, James Franco as Tommy Wiseau, Colin Firth as King George VI—to discuss the differences and similarities in each performance when compared to the real person saying the same phrase.

Guillermo Peeters

We tend to adapt to the patterns of stress, rhythm and intonation of our close relatives and our significant others. This project investigates to which extent prosody and vocal accommodation facilitate the inference of meaning cross-linguistically on dyadic relationships.

David Foster

It is difficult to get a life-like performance from sample based virtual instruments without expert tweaking of parameters. This project produced a tool which shows the user the amplitude and pitch variations of every sample, so that they can more accurately reproduce or create a musical performance.

Amogh Kabbinakanthi Matt

Amongst the fans of the heavy metal band Metallica, James Hetfield's vocal transition after the ‘Justice’ album is often a topic of discussion. This project presents the evolution of his vocal characteristics throughout his career by analysing the track ‘Nothing Else Matters’ as recorded yearly from 1993 through 2018.

James Weaver

This study looks at how varying reverberation conditions on two performers playing a duet changes their expressivity. This project looks specifically at tempo, and loudness change from performance to performance, and builds a replicable methodology for future studies and analysis of ensemble performance.

Edward Hall

This project attempts to build a computational model of the musical surface – the most salient features within the texture that we actually pay attention to when listening to music. With this model, it is hoped that we can understand better the ways in which we perceive music.

Georgios Kefalas

For listeners, temporal awareness seems to be lessened while listening to ambient music. This study tries to examine how accurately people can estimate time through an ambient soundscape.