Music Technology Group

Music Department, College of Architecture, Georgia Institute of Technology

Mark Godfrey

Bio

Mark Godfrey is currently completing his Masters in Electrical and Computer Engineering, where his coursework was focused on digital signal processing and electrical design.  He is interested in applying his engineering expertise to musical applications, particularly in the field of musical information retrieval.  In the past, Mark worked under Dr. Bruce Walker with the Sonification Lab in Georgia Tech's School of Psychology, where he developed a dynamic soundscape for an aquarium, aimed at making the attraction more accessible to the blind.  Currently, Mark is assisting Dr. Jason Freeman tackle the technical issues involved in a live audience-participative performance, Flock.


Current/Recent Research

Flock

Flock, a ninety-minute work for saxophone quartet commissioned by the Carnival Center for the Performing Arts in Miami, was conceived to directly engage audiences in the composition of music by physically bringing them out of their seats and enfolding them into the creative process. During the performance, the musicians and 60-80 audience members move freely around the performance space. A positioning system, created in collaboration with GVU professors Frank Dellaert and Tucker Balch under a GVU seed grant, determines the locations of the musicians and audience members and uses that data to generate performance instructions for the musicians, who view them on wireless handheld displays. (Jason Freeman, Martin Robinson, Mark Godfrey)


Listening Machines

Listening Machines is a concert series featuring pieces by the faculty and students from Georgia Tech's Music Technology group. The concert series explores concepts of machines listening and improvisation and musical human-machine interaction. (Gil Weinberg, Jason Freeman, Parag Chordia, Frank Clark, Chris Moore, Scott Driscoll, Travis Thatcher, Mark Godfrey)


Publications

2006

Walker, B. N., Godfrey, M. T., Orlosky, J. E., Bruce, C., & Sanford, J. "Aquarium Sonification: Soundscapes for Accessible Dynamic Informal Learning Environments." Proceedings of the International Conference on Auditory Display (ICAD 2006), London, England (20-24 June). pp. 238-241.

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