Dr. Dale E. Parson's homepage, last updated November 1, 2007.

Here are my Patents and Published Research Papers.

Here is my Industrial Resumé and Academic CV, including Teaching and Research Statements. I have recently retired from Agere Systems after a very fruitful career in Bell Labs, and I am considering career alternatives in industry and academia. I am interested in research, development and teaching in the areas of pattern-directed inference for distributed systems, embedded systems, and computer music systems. At present I am performing contract R&D into mobile telephony applications for an embedded digital signal processor company, and enhancing my personal application framework for MIDI banjo and guitar accompaniment. I have lots of embedded computing experience.

Ongoing Real-time Computer Music Research

My paper "Real-Time Detection of Finger Picking Musical Structures" is now on the DAFX 2006 (9th Intl. Conf. on Digital Audio Effects) website. I presented this paper in Montreal on September 18. The paper discusses my C++ program MIDIME that accepts MIDI messages from a finger-picked guitar or banjo and performs three stages of analysis and one stage of synthesis: 1. MIDI to State of Instrument Strings analysis, 2. State of Instrument Strings to Rhythm + Scale + Chord + Drone + Melody (RSCDM) analysis, 3. RSCDM to Composition Matching analysis, and 4. Synthesis of MIDI accompaniment by Agents evolved by the Genetic Algorithm. Attached are a draft paper and a talk that I presented at Electro-Music 2006 in Philadelphia in June that expand on some MIDI topics that are not in the DAFX paper.

For now the remainder of this page holds links to a few original tunes in MP3 files, copyrighted by me in 2004-2006, for my pals' listening pleasure.

Listen to 49th Winter first for some old time minimalist modal banjo. I wrote this tune in March, 2003 after cross-country skiing.

Then listen to Polarized Shuffle for a completely different use of arpeggios. This tune is test output from pipeline stages 1 through 3 of my MIDIME accompaniment software (under construction). Polarized Shuffle is the example tune in the "Towards Quantum Computer Music" paper that I have submitted to ICMC 2006. If you haven't read the paper (likely), the clean passes of the arpeggiator run into in-phase melody notes that the arpeggios absorb (there are two of these passes), and other other passes of the arpeggiator have some interesting audio interference patterns. You'll know them when you hear them. This was driven by my Godin MIDI guitar playing run through a Roland GR-33 guitar synth, and through the front end of my MIDIME software and then through StringStudio software synth. This started out as a banjo tune called "Seven of Eight."

A piece called "Opposing Force," with sound effects supplied by the above MIDIME software, and electric bass accompaniment by my son Jeremy, appears on the Electro-Music website.

A more recent copyrighted piece called "Ordinary Machinery," using processed acoustic 5-string banjo and spoken word, coauthored by my daughter Sierra (words) and Jeremy (recording), appears on the home page of my Virb account.

Stay tuned.