Oliver Larkin
Systems Administrator/Research Support Programmer

Profile

Biography

Oliver Larkin is a musician and programmer who has been working at the Music Research Centre since January 2009. His primary interests are DSP for creative audio synthesis/processing applications and novel musical interfaces.

At the MRC he teaches the Digital Audio Programming and Interfacing modules on the MA Music Technology course, as well as developing software for research projects and artist collaborations, and maintaining the centre's computing facilities.

Oliver graduated from Middlesex University in 2006 with a BSC in Sonic Arts (first class honours). Before this he spent an internship year at the Groupe de Recherches Musicales (GRM) in Paris and at Music production studios in London. Between 2007 and 2008 he worked as a research assistant and taught Music Technology at The Interdisciplinary Centre for Scientific Research in Music lab (ICSRiM) at the University of Leeds. At Leeds he worked on i-Maestro which was a three-year EC-IST research project with nine European partner institutions. The goal of the project was to research and develop new technology for music pedagogy and the ICSRiM team focused on the analysis of bowed string instrument performance using 3D motion capture. They developed a real-time interface to a VICON motion capture system which integrated video, audio, sensor and motion data capture and reported various analyses of the performance using multimodal feedback.

Outside of the institutions that he has worked in, Oliver develops his own audio plugins which have been featured in international music technology publications, and are used by many successful recording artists. In 2008, his "preset interpolation" software pMix won the second prize in the LOMUS International music software competition. Oliver works extensively with Cycling 74's Max MSP/Jitter software and C++, and is a regular contributor to the Max MSP community forum.

Research

Overview

Oliver Larkin is involved in software development for MRC research projects and artist collaborations.

Current projects

  • The Morning Line
  • New Aesthetics in Computer Music (NA-CM)
  • Other Artist collaborations

Supervision

  • MA music technology individual projects on interfacing and synthesis topics

Publications

Selected publications

  • Malham, D., Myatt, T., Larkin, O., Worth, P., Paradis, M., “Audio Spatialization for The Morning Line” in Proceedings of the 128th AES Convention London, UK, 2010.
  • Larkin, O., Koerselman, T., Ong, B., Ng, K. - “Sonification of Bowing Features for String Instrument Training”. Proceedings of the International Conference on Auditory Display (ICAD), 2008. Paris, France.
  • Larkin, O. “Int.lib - A Graphical Preset Interpolator for Max MSP”. Proceedings of the International Computer Music Conference (ICMC), 2007. Copenhagen, Denmark.
  • Ng, K., Larkin, O., Koerselman, T., Ong, B., Schwarz D, Bevilaqua, F. -  “The 3D Augmented Mirror - Motion Analysis for String Practice Training”. Presentation, Proceedings of the International Computer Music Conference (ICMC), 2007. Copenhagen, Denmark.
  • Koerselman, T., Larkin, O., Ng, K. - "The MAV Framework: Working with Motion data in Max MSP / Jitter". Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Automated Production of Cross Media Content for Multi-channel Distribution (AXMEDIS) - i-Maestro Workshop, Barcelona 2007.

Teaching

Postgraduate

  • Digital Audio Programming, course module, MA music technology
  • Interfacing, special interest group, MA music technology
  • C Programming, support course, MA music technology
  • Plug-in programming, support course, MA music technology
  • Solo research project supervision, MA music technology
 
Oliver Larkin

Contact details

Mr Oliver Larkin
Systems Administrator/Research Support Programmer
MRC, Department of Music
University of York
Heslington
York
YO10 5DD

Tel: +44 (0)1904 32 2435

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