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R. Michael WintersM.A. Music Technology 2011–13Supervisor: Prof. Marcelo M. Wanderley Email: raymond [dot] winters [at] mail [dot] mcgill [dot] ca Web: Fax: +1 (514) 398-2962 Phone: +1 (514) 398-4535 ext. 094846 |
Thesis Available Here
CV Available Here
Research Interests
- Sonification and Auditory Display
- Music and Emotion
- HCI and Affective Computing
Academic Background
- B.A. in Music (Piano Performance) and Physics, College of Wooster, 2010.
- Minors in Philosophy and Mathematics
Professional Experience
- Webcasting/Recording Engineer, Schulich School of Music
- Intern, Sennheiser Electronic Corp.
- Research Associate, The College of Wooster Physics Department
Projects
Awards
- SEMPRE Conference Award (2013)
- CIRMMT Travel Award (2013)
- NSERC Engage Grant, “Audio Environment for the Emotional Imaging Composer” (2012)
- McGill Graduate Excellence Scholarship (2012)
- College of Wooster Covenant Scholarship (2006-2010)
Journal Publications
- R. Michael Winters and Marcelo M. Wanderley. "Sonification of Emotion: Strategies and Results from the Intersection with Music" Organized Sound 19(1), 2014.*Author's Copy*
- R. Michael Winters, Alexandre Savard, Vincent Verfaille, and Marcelo M. Wanderley. “A Sonification Tool for the Analysis of Large Databases of Expressive Gesture,” International Journal of Multimedia and Its Applications, 4(6), 2012.
- Gerhardt Funk, Deva O'Neil, R. Michael Winters. "What the Oblique Parameters S, T, and U and Their Extensions Reveal About the 2HDM: A Numerical Analysis", International Journal of Modern Physics A, 27(5), 2012.
- S. Y. Lehman, Elizabeth Baker, Howard A. Henry, Andrew J. Kindschuh, Larry C. Markley, Megan B. Browning, Mary E. Mills, **R. Michael Winters, D. T. Jacobs. "Avalanches on a Conical Bead Pile: Scaling with Tuning Parameters", Granular Matter, 14(5), 2012.
Conference Publications
- R. Michael Winters, Julie E. Cumming. Sonification of Symbolic Music in the ELVIS Project, In Proceedings of the International Conference on Auditory Display, New York, New York, June 22-25, 2014.
- R. Michael Winters and Marcelo M. Wanderley. "Sonification of Emotion: Strategies for Continuous Auditory Display of Arousal and Valence", The International Conference on Music and Emotion, Jyväskylä, Finland, June 11-15, 2013.
- R. Michael Winters, Ian Hattwick, and Marcelo M. Wanderley. "Integrating Emotional Data into Music Performance: Two Audio Environments for the Emotional Imaging Composer", The International Conference on Music and Emotion, Jyväskylä, Finland, June 11-15, 2013.
- R. Michael Winters, Marcelo M. Wanderley. "New Directions for the Sonification of Expressive Movement in Music Performance", In Proceedings of the International Conference on Auditory Display, Atlanta, Georgia, June 18-22, 2012.
- R. Michael Winters, Andrew Blaikie, Deva O'Neil. "Simulating the Electroweak Phase Transition: Sonification of Bubble Nucleation", In Proceedings of the International Conference on Auditory Display, Budapest, Hungary, June 20-24, 2011. *Simulation Videos*
- R. Michael Winters, "1/f Noise and Auditory Aesthetics: Sonification of a Driven Bead Pile", In Proceedings of the International Conference on Auditory Display, Budapest, Hungary, June 20-24, 2011. Audio Examples:1.5cm10cm
Performance
Other Interests
- Activities: Soccer, Frisbee, Running, Hiking, Bicycle Maintenance
- Art & Craft: Reading, Writing, Photography, Sculpture