Research
My research interests include adaptive music for interactive narratives, new musical tunings and timbres, and physical modeling of musical instruments.
Publications
Prechtl, A., Milne, A.J., Holland, S., Laney, R., & Sharp, D.B. (2012 [accepted for publication]. A MIDI sequencer that widens access to the compositional possibilities of novel tunings. Computer Music Journal, 36(1).
Milne, A.J., Xambó, A., Laney, R., Sharp, D.B., Prechtl, A., & Holland, S. (2011). Hex Player—a virtual musical controller. In A.R. Jensenius & R.I. Godøy (Eds.), Proceedings of the 2011 International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression (NIME11), Oslo, Norway. (PDF)
Sethares, W.A., Milne, A.J., Tiedje, S., Prechtl, A., & Plamondon, J. (2009). Spectral tools for Dynamic Tonality and audio morphing. Computer Music Journal, 33(2), 71–84.
Prechtl, A. (2009). Musically-induced emotional peaks (Master's thesis). University of Jyvaskyla, Jyvaskyla, Finland. (PDF)
Milne, A.J., & Prechtl, A. (2008). New tonalities with the Thummer and The Viking. In A. Crossan & T. Kaaresoja (Eds.), Proceedings of the 3rd International Haptic and Auditory Interaction Design Workshop (Vol. 2, pp. 20–22). Jyväskylä, Finland. (PDF)
Posters & Demos
Milne, A.J., Xambó, A., Laney, R., Sharp, D.B., Prechtl, A., & Holland, S. (2011). Hex Player—a virtual musical controller. Poster presented at the 2011 International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression (NIME11), Oslo, Norway. (PDF)
Milne, A.J., Prechtl, A., Laney, R., Sharp, D.B. (2010). Spectral pitch distance and microtonal melodies. Poster presented at the 11th International Conference on Music Perception and Cognition, University of Washington, Seattle, USA. (PDF)
Milne, A.J., Prechtl, A. (2010). 2032—A physical modelling synthesizer for Dynamic Tonality. Presentation and demo at Digital Music Research Network (DMRN+5). Queen Mary University, London, UK.
Presentations
Prechtl, A. (2011). Exploring microtonal music with Dyanamic Tonality. Presentations at the first Microtonalist Entrepreneurs International Meeting, Isik and Baskent Universities, Istanbul and Ankara, Turkey. (Abstract PDF)