To see who cited and extended my work, refer to my Google Scholar profile.
Books
Brecht De Man, Ryan Stables and Joshua D. Reiss, Intelligent Music Production, Routledge, October 2019. [Routledge | Amazon]
Book chapters
Brecht De Man, “Audio Effects in Sound Design,” Foundations in Sound Design for Linear Media (M. Filimowicz, ed.), Routledge, 2019. [Routledge | Amazon | Google Books]
Brecht De Man and Joshua D. Reiss, “Crowd-sourced learning of music production practices through large-scale perceptual evaluation of mixes,” Innovation In Music II (R. Hepworth-Sawyer, J. Hodgson, J. L. Paterson, and R. Toulson, eds.), Future Technology Press, 2016. [pdf | BibTeX | Amazon | Google Books]
Special Issues (as guest editor)
Kirk McNally and Brecht De Man, Music and the Machine: Contemporary Music Production [Special Issue], Arts, Vol. 8. no. 3, August 2019.
Journal papers
Brecht De Man, Kirk McNally and Joshua D. Reiss, “Perceptual Evaluation and Analysis of Reverberation in Multitrack Music Production,” Journal of the Audio Engineering Society, Vol. 65 (1/2), pp. 108-116, January/February 2017. [pdf | BibTeX]
Brecht De Man and Joshua D. Reiss, “Analysis of peer reviews in music production,” Journal on the Art of Record Production, Vol. 10, July 2015. [pdf | BibTeX]
Zheng Ma, Brecht De Man, Pedro D. Pestana, Dawn A. A. Black and Joshua D. Reiss, “Intelligent dynamic range compression,” Journal of the Audio Engineering Society, Vol. 63 (6), pp. 412-426, June 2015. [pdf | BibTeX]
Brecht De Man and Joshua D. Reiss, “A semantic approach to autonomous mixing”, Journal on the Art of Record Production, Vol. 8, December 2013. [pdf | BibTeX]
Conference papers
Peer-reviewed
Brecht De Man, Nicholas Jillings and Ryan Stables, “Comparing stage metaphor interfaces as a controller for stereo position and level,” 4th Workshop on Intelligent Music Production, September 2018. [pdf | BibTeX | poster]
Brecht De Man, Joshua D. Reiss and Ryan Stables, “Ten Years of Automatic Mixing,” 3rd Workshop on Intelligent Music Production, September 2017. [pdf | BibTeX]
Brecht De Man and Joshua D. Reiss, “The Mix Evaluation Dataset,” Proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Digital Audio Effects (DAFx-17), September 2017. [pdf | BibTeX | poster | website]
Ryan Stables, Brecht De Man, Sean Enderby, Joshua D. Reiss, György Fazekas and Thomas Wilmering, “Semantic description of timbral transformations in music production,” Proceedings of the ACM International Conference on Multimedia, October 2016. [ACM Digital Library | BibTeX | website]
Nicholas Jillings, Brecht De Man, David Moffat, Joshua D. Reiss and Ryan Stables, “Subjective comparison of music production practices using the Web Audio Evaluation Tool,” 2nd AES Workshop on Intelligent Music Production, September 2016. [pdf | BibTeX | github | SoundSoftware]
Brecht De Man and Joshua D. Reiss, “The Open Multitrack Testbed: Features, content and use cases,” 2nd AES Workshop on Intelligent Music Production, September 2016. [pdf | BibTeX | website]
Nicholas Jillings, Brecht De Man, David Moffat, Joshua D. Reiss and Ryan Stables, “Web Audio Evaluation Tool: A framework for subjective assessment of audio,” 2nd Web Audio Conference, April 2016. [pdf | BibTeX | github | SoundSoftware]
Nicholas Jillings, Brecht De Man, David Moffat and Joshua D. Reiss, “Web Audio Evaluation Tool: A browser-based listening test environment,” 12th Sound and Music Computing Conference, July 2015. [pdf | BibTeX | github | SoundSoftware]
Brecht De Man, Brett Leonard, Richard King and Joshua D. Reiss, “An analysis and evaluation of audio features for multitrack music mixtures,” 15th International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference (ISMIR 2014), October 2014. [pdf | BibTeX | poster]
Ryan Stables, Sean Enderby, Brecht De Man, György Fazekas and Joshua D. Reiss, “SAFE: A system for the extraction and retrieval of semantic audio descriptors,” 15th International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference (ISMIR 2014), October 2014. [pdf | BibTeX | poster | website]
Brecht De Man and Joshua D. Reiss, “Adaptive control of amplitude distortion effects,” 53rd Audio Engineering Society Conference on Semantic Audio, January 2014. [pdf | BibTeX | poster]
Extended abstract peer-reviewed
Jakub Pesek and Brecht De Man, “touchEQ: An eyes-free audio equalizer for a surface haptic interface,” 150th Convention of the Audio Engineering Society, May 2021.
Brecht De Man, “Evaluation of Implementations of the EBU R128 Loudness Measurement,” 145th Convention of the Audio Engineering Society, October 2018.
Nicholas Jillings, Brecht De Man, Ryan Stables and Joshua D. Reiss, “Investigation into the Effects of Subjective Test Interface Choice on the Validity of Results,” 145th Convention of the Audio Engineering Society, October 2018.
Amandine Pras, Brecht De Man and Joshua D. Reiss, “A case study of cultural influences on mixing practices,” 144th Convention of the Audio Engineering Society, May 2018.
David M. Ronan, Brecht De Man, Hatice Gunes and Joshua D. Reiss, “The impact of subgrouping practices on the perception of multitrack mixes,” 139th Convention of the Audio Engineering Society, October 2015. [pdf | BibTeX]
Brecht De Man, Matthew Boerum, Brett Leonard, Richard King, George Massenburg and Joshua D. Reiss, “Perceptual evaluation of music mixing practices,” 138th Convention of the Audio Engineering Society, May 2015. [pdf | BibTeX]
Brecht De Man, Mariano Mora-Mcginity, György Fazekas and Joshua D. Reiss, “The Open Multitrack Testbed,” 137th Convention of the Audio Engineering Society, October 2014. [pdf | BibTeX | poster | website]
Brecht De Man and Joshua D. Reiss, “APE: Audio Perceptual Evaluation toolbox for MATLAB,” 136th Convention of the Audio Engineering Society, April 2014. [pdf | BibTeX | code]
Brecht De Man and Joshua D. Reiss, “A knowledge-engineered autonomous mixing system,” 135th Convention of the Audio Engineering Society, October 2013. [pdf | BibTeX | podcast]
Brecht De Man and Joshua D. Reiss, “A pairwise and multiple stimuli approach to perceptual evaluation of microphone types,” 134th Convention of the Audio Engineering Society, May 2013. [pdf | BibTeX | video]
Patents
Michael J. Terrell, Stuart Mansbridge, Joshua D. Reiss and Brecht De Man, “System and method for performing automatic audio production using semantic data,” US Patent App. 14-471,758, 5 March 2015. [Google Patents | USPTO | EPO]
Ryan Stables, Nicholas Jillings, Brecht De Man and Sean Enderby, “Digital audio workstation,” published pending application. [UKIPO | PCT]
Ryan Stables, Nicholas Jillings, Brecht De Man and Sean Enderby, “Collaboration system,” published pending application. [UKIPO | PCT]
Theses
Brecht De Man, Towards a better understanding of mix engineering, PhD dissertation, School of Electronic Engineering and Computer Science, Queen Mary University of London, 2017. [pdf]
Brecht De Man, Active compensation for room-independent sound reproduction, MSc dissertation, Department of Information Technology, University of Ghent, 2012. [pdf]
In the news
“Music Technology: Do or Die?” on The Naked Scientists (BBC East of England, UK; BBC Radio 5 Live, UK; ABC Radio National, Australia; podcast), 8 December 2015.
My advisor Dr Josh Reiss talks about autonomous mixing systems developed at the Centre for Digital Music. The machine mix was generated by the system described in my AES135 paper.
“Training computers to understand the language of music” on BBC Science & Environment, 10 September 2014.
“So you want to be a music producer? Just switch on your laptop” in The Irish Times, 10 September 2014.
“University launches new software training computers to understand language of musicians” on Phys.org, 11 September 2014.
“The SAFE project teaches computers to understand your musical vocab” in Engadget, 9 December 2014.
Collaborator Dr Ryan Stables from Birmingham City University talks about our SAFE project, a collaboration between the Centre for Digital Music and BCU’s Digital Media Technology Lab.
“AES Educational Foundation Announces Awards for 2014,” Audio Engineering Society Press Release, 23 September 2014.
“AES Educational Foundation Announces 2013 Awards,” Audio Engineering Society Press Release, 4 September 2013.
Announcing the HARMAN scholarship I received - the first of its kind - and its renewal, to support my PhD.
“2014 ABTA Doctoral Researcher Awards”
Honourable Mention in the Engineering Sciences category in honour and recognition of academic excellence, from 250+ UK-based PhD students. Visit to Antalya International University and Akdeniz University to present PhD research and participate in a panel on postgraduate studies in the UK.
Scholarly service
- Director at the Audio Engineering Society (2021-2022); Governor (2020-2021)
- Reviewer for the Journal of the Audio Engineering Society and the IEEE/ACM Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing
- Program Committee member for the Audio Engineering Society conventions and International Society of Music Information Retrieval (ISMIR), International Conference on Digital Audio Effects (DAFx), Sound and Music Computing (SMC), Audio Mostly, Audio Developer Conference (ADC), and Web Audio conferences
- Vice Chair of the AES Education Committee (2016-2020)
- Chair of the Belgian Section of the Audio Engineering Society (2018-…)
- Committee member of the British Section (2015-2017) and Past Chair of the London UK Student Section (2013-…) of the Audio Engineering Society
- Committee member of the AES Technical Committee on Perception and Subjective Evaluation of Audio Signals and on Semantic Audio Analysis
- Co-chair of Sound Talking, an interdisciplinary workshop on the language of sound, at the London Science Museum, 3 Nov 2017
- Co-chair of the 2nd Workshop on Intelligent Music Production (WIMP) in London, 13 Sep 2016
- Sponsorship Chair for the 22nd International Conference on Digital Audio Effects (DAFx-19) and the 5th Workshop on Intelligent Music Production (WIMP 2019)
- Up Your Output! student event in London: Vice Chair 8-9 Mar 2014, Chair 7-8 Mar 2015, Past Chair 12-13 Mar 2016
- Workshop chair “New Developments in Listening Test Design” at the 142nd AES Convention in Berlin, 20-23 May 2017; and at the 143rd AES Convention in NYC, 18-21 Oct 2017.
- Workshop chair “Perceptual Evaluation Interface Design” at the 140th AES Convention in Paris, 4-7 June 2016
- Student events organiser as Chair of the Student Delegate Assembly (Europe and International) at the 139th AES Convention in NYC, 29 Oct - 1 Nov 2015 and 140th AES Convention in Paris, 4-7 June 2016
- Student events organiser as Vice Chair of the Student Delegate Assembly (Europe and International) at the 137th AES Convention in Los Angeles, 9-12 Oct 2014 and 138th AES Convention in Warsaw, 7-10 May 2015
- Session chair and elected Vice Chair of the Student Delegate Assembly at the 136th AES Convention in Berlin, 26-29 Apr 2014
- Session chair at the 9th, 10th, 11th and 12th Art of Record Production Conference: Oslo, Norway, 4-6 Dec 2014; Philadelphia, PA, USA, 6-8 Nov 2015; Aalborg, Denmark, 2-4 Dec 2016; Stockholm, Sweden, 1-3 Dec 2017
- Organising committee member for the 3rd and 4th Workshop on Intelligent Music Production in Manchester, 14-15 Sep 2017
- Organising committee member for the 61st AES conf. on Audio for Games in London, 10-12 Feb 2016; the 56th AES conf. on Audio for Games in London, 11-13 Feb 2015; and the 53rd AES conf. on Semantic Audio in London, 26-29 Jan 2014
- Organising committee member for the Audio and Music Hackathon London, 18-19 July 2015
- Volunteer at the 54th AES conf. on Forensic Audio in London, 12-14 June 2014