Chris Darwin
Emeritus Professor of Experimental Psychology
School of Psychology
University of Sussex
Falmer, Brighton BN1 9QH, UK
Email: cjd<at>sussex<dot>ac<dot>uk
Chamber Music
Strings Attached
provide useful information about chamber music concerts and amateur
players in Brighton and the surrounding area. I maintain the calendar of events and directory of local players.
Programme Notes
Since retiring I have written programme notes for The Dome / Strings
Attached Coffee Concert Chamber Music Series
and also for the Nicholas Yonge Society. The pdfs for all my programme notes are indexed here.
Playing
I will usually drop everything (including hints) to play chamber
music. I have given local concerts with the Sussex Camerata,
Petchov piano quartet and Sussex string quartet.
I play violin in the Palmeira Quartet along
with Anna Ruijterman, Paul Manderson and Howard Gough. Here are a
couple of items from a concert for Music on Sundays in Chichester (18
Nov 2012). Beethoven Op 18 no 4 second movement. Puccini Crisantemi. We played the Mendelssohn Octet with the
Chilingirian Quartet at the Bishopsgate Institute in April 2013 in a
memorial concert for Michael Hall, the founder of the Northern
Symphonia. We will be playing for the Bognor Regis Music Club on 1 Feb 2014.
Sonata for Violin & Piano by Christopher Longuet-Higgin
This sonata was initially written by Christopher
Longuet-Higgins while he was a young man at Oxford, but was
revised and converted to computer readable format (Encore 3) after he retired.
I corrected some errors in the Encore score and added some
phrase marks, metronome marks and dynamics with the composer's
assistance. After his death I converted the score to MuseScore format and produced pdfs from this version.
Please download pdfs of the piano and violin parts and play it. It is also available at imslp.org
Dvorak Cello Conversion kit addendum Op 23 Bärenreiter edition
Dvorak uses the false treble clef for high cello notes.
Cellists prefer the Tenor clef. A conversion kit by Don Cohen is
available for the International editions of Dvorak chamber music from
ACMP.
I have prepared a kit of overlays for the Bärenreiter edition of the
Piano Quartet Op 23 which can be downloaded as a single pdf file. Also available as separate pdf files or MuseScore files for each extract with the movement and bar numbers given in the file title.
Personal
Cooking
Recipes: Danish Rye Bread, and Sourdough Mixed grain bread
Research
I
have now retired. My active research interests were in auditory
perception and in speech perception - more specifically in auditory
grouping and the "cocktail-party" effect. Listen to a BBC Radio 4
program that I contributed to on the cocktail-party problem (12 Mbyte mp3 file).
Pub Med direct access to my publications
Selected Publications (including difficult to obtain material as pdfs).
Speech / Hearing Research Tools
Praat
Paul Boersma's
excellent, free, multi-platform, user-friendly, stable,
well-maintained, scriptable program for doing a multitude of tasks in
speech and hearing research is here.
Tell your friends about it. Some Praat scripts that I have written for
doing changes to speech vocal tract size, Fo and duration and for
producing sine-wave speech and Shannon AM-noise speech are here.
Last update 30 Apr 2013