General Information
| Name (first, last): | Alexander Galembo | |
| Profession | musical acoustician | |
| Citizenship | Russia | |
| Telephone | +7 812 273-5359 | |
| galembo@galembo.mail.iephb.ru | ||
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Particular interests and research directions:
| Musical tone and musical instrument quality concept | |
| Musical instruments acoustics (especially piano) | |
| Polymodal perception of musical istrument quality | |
| Tonality perception across pitch ranges and timbres | |
| Singer and musical instrument recognition and identification | |
| Overlapping, interaction and segregation of tones in music | |
Acoustical, pedagogical and psychological aspects of piano touch
| Role of time and time constants of the ear in music perception
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Experience
| 1995 - present | Visiting researcher at the Lab. 32, Setchenov Institute of Evolutionary Physiology and Biochemistry, St. Petersburg, Russia Responsible for musical acoustics research Host: Dr. Andrej Popov | |
| 2005 | Visiting researcher at the Music Acoustics Lab of the Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden on a grant from the Swedish Academy of Sciences. Investigating acoustical/psychological issues related to touch vs. tone relations in pianos Host: Dr. Anders Askenfelt | |
| 2002-2003 | Visiting researcher at the Music Acoustics Lab of the Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden on a grant from the Swedish Institute Investigating acoustical/psychological aspects of a piano tone quality. Host: Dr. Anders Askenfelt | |
| 2001-2002 | Visiting researcher, at the Music Acoustics Lab of the Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden on a grant from the Wenner Gren Foundation Investigating acoustical and psychological issues related to touch vs. tone relations in pianos Host: Dr. Anders Askenfelt | |
| March, June 2001 April, 2000 July, 1999 December, 1998 |
Acoustical consultant at AS HIIS Grand Piano Factory, Tallinn, Estonia | |
| 1999, January-February | Guest researcher at the Music Acoustics Lab of the Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden Researching in the problem of quality criteria of piano bass tones Host: Dr. Anders Askenfelt | |
| 1998-2000 | Technical consultant, Barmalei Movie Studio, St. Petersburg, Russia | |
| July 1996 - July 1998 | North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) Science Fellow, Acoustics lab, Department of Psychology, Queen's University, Kingston, Canada Worked on the role of inharmonicity and other objective factors of the piano tone quality. One of the projects related to design, technological and acoustical factors responsible for timbral differences in pianos. The second project was devoted to a melody perception across pitch ranges Host: Prof. Lola L. Cuddy | |
| 1995-PRESENT | Visiting Researcher Setchenov institute of Evolutionary Physiology and Biochemistry, St. Petersburg, Russia Host: Dr. Andrej Popov | |
| 1994, April - November | Guest researcher at the Music Acoustics Lab of the Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden Investigated the problem of pitch strength and inharmonicity in piano tones and perceived tones interaction in musical phrases, developed new methods for digital processing of musical signals for measuring its inharmonicity Host: Dr. Anders Askenfelt | |
| 1994 - 1996 |
Translator (English-Russian-English), for Bang & Bonsomer OY, St. Petersburg Translated technical documentation Supervisor: Dr. Victor Rodin | |
| 1993, February - May | Guest researcher at the Music Acoustics Lab of the Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden Investigated the problem related to pitch and inharmonicity of the tones of stringed instrument, modified pitch extraction algorithms for its application to pitch strength evaluation Host: Dr. Anders Askenfelt | |
| 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 In charge of up to 15 engineers and technicians researching in acoustics of musical instruments - pianos, guitars, accordions | |
| 1970 - 1976 | The head of the group of engineers and physicists of the acoustic laboratory of the Leningrad Red October piano factory Responsible for research and development of piano strings and action, created procedures for subjective and objective analysis of musical sound quality. Responsible for teaching piano designers and technicians musical acoustics. Responsible for a technical equipment of the laboratory | |
| 1966 - 1970 | Engineer-physicist, Leningrad Red October piano factory Responsible for research and development of piano hammers and felts | |
Education
| 1996 - 1998 | INTERNET, HTML programming, Java Script programming | |
| 1997, October - December | C++ Programming, St. Lawrence College, Kingston ON, Canada | |
| 1995, February | Ph. D. (Russian equivalent: Candidate of Sciences) in electroacoustics
St. Petersburg Institute of Cinema and Television Supervisor: Prof. Yasher Vakhitov | |
| 1992 | Course of American Management Practice
Graham School of Management, St. Xavier University, Chicago IL USA | |
| 1972 | Course in Patent Engineering
Leningrad, The City Center Of Technical Information | |
| 1965 | Course of musical acoustics Dept. of Physics, Leningrad State University Prof. G. Ostroumov | |
| 1965 | Master degree in Physics
Dept. of Physics, Leningrad State University | |
Teaching experience
| 1970-76 | Teaching piano designers and technicians musical acoustics | |
Membersship
| 1997-98 | Acoustical Society of America | |
| 1997-98 | Society for Music Perception and Cognition (North America) | |
| 2000 | Institute of Physics, Great Britain | |
Awards
| 2005 (4 months) | Visiting research grant from the Swedish Academy of Sciences, Dept. of Speech, Music and Hearing, Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden. | |
| 2003 (9 months) | Visiting Research grant from the Swedish Institute, Dept. of Speech, Music and Hearing, Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden. | |
| 2002 (6 months) | Visiting Professorship grant from Wenner-Gren Foundation, Dept. of Speech, Music and Hearing, Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden. | |
| September 2001 | Invited lecture grant from Volkswagen Foundation, International workshop "Human Supervision and Control in Engineering", Kassel, Germany | |
| 2001 (6 months) | Visiting Professorship grant from Wenner-Gren Foundations, Dept. of Speech, Music and Hearing, Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden. | |
| 1996-98 (2 years) | NATO Science Fellowship, Dept. of Psychology, Queen's University, Kingston, Canada | |
| 1994 (6 months) | Visiting Research grant from Wenner-Gren Foundations, Dept. of Speech Communication and Music Acoustics, Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden | |
| 1993 (3 months) | Swedish Institute grant for Visiting Research: Dept. of Speech Communication and Music Acoustics, Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden | |
Publications
| 58 scientific papers 107 abstracts on musical acoustics Multiple poetry publications |
Skills
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~ Experienced musical and analytical ear
~ C++, HTML and JAVA SCRIPT programming ~ INTERNET traffic, WEB design ~ Sound editing and synthesis software ~ Programming listening tests in MAX Opcode ~ Windows: Word, Excel, Power Point, Systat, etc. ~ Playing musical instruments ~ Active English, passive German, native Russian ~ Russian, US, Canadian driver's license |
About:
| Marquise Who’s Who in the World, 21st, p. 732 (2001+) |
| KIEV POST newspaper, 8-14.02.1996 |
| MELODIA newspaper (Tula) 24.10.1979 |
| SMENA newspaper (Leningrad) 24.12.1964 |
| DAGBLADET newspaper (Oslo) 20.10.1963 |
References
| Prof. Gabriel Weinreich | Randall Laboratory, University of Michigan Ann Arbor MI, USA | Fax 1 313 763-9694 E-mail weinreic@umich.edu |
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| Dr. Anders Askenfelt | Dept. of Speech Communications and Music Acoustics, Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden | Fax 46 8 790-7854 E-mail andersa@speech.kth.se |
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| Prof. Andrzej Rakowski | F. Chopin Academy of Music, Warsaw, Poland | Fax 48 22 278306 E-mail rakowski@plearn.edu.pl |
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| Prof. Lola Cuddy | Dept. of Psychology, Queen's Univ., Kingston ON, Canada | Fax 1 613 545-2499 E-mail cuddyl@pavlov.psyc.queensu.ca |
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| Dr. Andrej Popov | Setchenov Inst. of Evolut. Physiology and Biochemistry, St. Petersburg, Russia | Fax 7 812552-3012 E-mail popov@ief.spb.su |
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| Prof. Yasher Vakhitov | Institute of Cinema and Television, St. Petersburg, Russia | Tel. 7 812 268-5075 | |||