Associate Professor Neil McLachlan
B.Sc. (Hons), PhD
Associate Professor
Contact details:
| email: mcln AT unimelb.edu.au | |
| telephone: +61 3 83446290 | website:http://www.ausbell.com |
The design of our acoustic experience and environments can only be improved by a multi-disciplinary understanding of the sources, propagation and human perception and cognition of sound. To this end I have had extensive professional experience ranging from the performing arts and music, installation art and environmental design, psycho-physical modeling and acoustic and aerospace design and engineering with patents and/or publications in all these fields. Recent examples of projects I have undertaken in these areas include; The Federation Bell Project (Australian Bell Pty Ltd, 1999-2002), Designing New Instrumental Ensembles (Tuned Percussion Instruments, Australia Council for the Arts and ARC Discovery funding, 2004-present), Mach 550 project (RMIT and DSTO, 2003-2004), Cyber Ear audio classification (Intelligent Sensing Pty Ltd and DSTO, 2005) and “Multitracker” Vision System (Intelligent Sensing Pty Ltd and Arts Victoria, 2006).
Research Interests:
- design optimization
- Finite Element modeling
- human psycho-acoustical modeling
- neuro-physiologically inspired machine sensing systems
- human cognitively based representations of music and acoustical events
Professional Associations, Memberships & Awards:
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Memberships
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Member of the Acoustical Society of America
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Associations
- PRIMAL Network Inc.
- Music Research Laboratory
Selected Publications: |
N. M. McLachlan, D. K. Kumar and J. Becker, (2006) “Wavelet Classification of Indoor Environmental Sound Sources” International Journal of Wavelets, Multiresolution and Information Processing, 4 (1), p 81-96.
N. M. McLachlan, (2006) “Transverse Modes of Vibration in European Church Bells”, submitted to Journal of Sound and Vibration.
N. M. McLachlan and S. Wilson (2006) “The calculation of pitch multiplicity of autocorrelation models”, submitted to Music Perception.
A. Sharma, D. K. Kumar and S. Kumar and N. M. McLachlan (2004) “Wavelet Histograms for Gesture Classification” International Journal of Wavelets, Multiresolution and Information Processing 2 (3) p.283-298.
N. M. McLachlan, B. Keramati Nigjeh and A. Hasell, (2003) “The Design of Bells with Harmonic Overtones”, Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 114 (1), p 505-511.
N. M. McLachlan, (2003) “Musical Desegregation of Acoustic Space”, Context: Journal of Music Research, 25 p.11-15.
N. M. McLachlan, (2000) "A Spatial Theory of Rhythmic Resolution", Leonardo Music Journal, 10, p 61-67.