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Peter got his first taste of broadcasting whilst he was studying Psychology at Queen's.   In February this year he returned to campus once again to visit the Sonic Arts Research Centre.  He joined Dr John D’Arcy for a Q&A about about his life, work, and that all-important voice.  After captivating the lunchtime audience with anecdotes of his time working with the BBC, ITV, E4 and other broadcasters, Peter took time to meet our Broadcast Production students and hear more about their studies.

We hope to see Peter at SARC again soon, but in the meantime we’ll be hearing echoes of his booming voice as our students start practicing with Gravy for the Brain.

The award-winning paper improves the modeling of time-varying electronic components in audio circuits (such as wah-wah pedals), allowing the design of more accurate and flexible virtual analog models. The paper also contributes new theoretical insight on the choice of wave variable types in Wave Digital Filter formalism.

The conference was hosted by Profs Guilherme Campos and Nuno Fonseca through the University of Aveiro Institute of Electronics and Informatics Engineering and in collaboration with the Portuguese Audio Engineering Association (APEA). At DAFx, academic and industry presenters from around the world gave papers, posters, tutorials and keynote talks on a range of subjects related to audio signal processing, including virtual analog modeling, music information retrieval, machine learning and audio effect design.

Upcoming Related Events

If you are interested in the work being done by Dr Werner and Mr Bogason, you can hear public lectures on their recent work on wearable audio electronics and the history of drum machine circuitry at two upcoming SARC/Music Seminars at Queen's University Belfast.

Both seminars are free and open to the public:

• Dr Kurt James Werner: ‘ “Nothing Sounds Quite Like an 808”: Pop Music’s Most Celebrated Kick Drum Circuit and its Ancestors’. 1:00–2:00pm on 7 November 2018 at SARC’s Sonic Lab (4 Cloreen Park, Belfast BT9 5HN)
• Ólafur Bogason: ‘Title TBA’. 1.00-2.00pm on 6 February 2019 at SARC’s Sonic Lab (4 Cloreen Park, Belfast BT9 5HN)

Further Information

The winners from Queen’s included: 

In Drama, sponsored by Westway Films the honours went to Queen’s University Film Studies & Production students for Beast by Alex Harper; Ryan Early, Holly Croman, Sean Dorris and Skaiste Gotseldaite. Highly commended also went to Queen’s students for Red Brick City by Mark McNally, James McBrien, Ryan Campbell, Darragh McCaughey and Ryan Humphreys.

The Factual award, sponsored by Crawford McCann went to Nomad by Queen’s University Film Studies & Production students Zoe Tweedy and Joshua McGonigle, who also picked up the new Craft award recognising particular skill in camera work for their production, sponsored by UTV.

Kieran Doherty, Chair of RTS NI who studied at the Belfast Institute of Further and Higher Education said: “As an educational charity these awards help the RTS to raise awareness of the amazing home grown talent emerging from our third level colleges. This year’s entries all displayed very high standards of creativity, innovation and technical capability and I know the judges had a difficult task selecting our winners, I trust these awards will assist all the students in their future careers.

“The third level colleges continue to play an increasing important role in preparing future generations for a career in the creativity industries, keeping up with the ever changing technology and the RTS looks forward to continuing our relationship to showcase their achievements.”

Supported by the Department for Communities as part of Creativity Month, the RTS NI Student Television Awards recognise the importance of education within the growing creative industry sector in Northern Ireland. The winners of these Awards go forward to the national RTS Student Media Awards which will be held in London later this year.

The winning films are products from the Advanced Film Practice modules at level three, convened and taught by Dr Declan Keeney and Richard O’Sullivan, from the School of Arts, English and Languages.

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