Emeritus Professor of Experimental Psychology
School of Psychology
University of Sussex
Falmer, Brighton BN1 9QH, UK
Email: cjd<at>sussex<dot>ac<dot>uk
Sourdough Mixed grain bread.
Strings Attached provide useful information about chamber music concerts in Brighton and the surrounding area.
Spare Parts Sheet Chamber Music Exchange
Personal
I played violin in the National Youth Orchestra from 1961-63, and led the University of Sussex Orchestra in the 1980s when it was conducted by Michael Hall.
I will usually drop everything (including hints) to play chamber music.
Here is the start of a sight-read Haydn string-quartet Op20 movement, recorded with a dummy head in our living room. Haydn.mp3(900kBytes). NB Dummy-head recordings should be listened to over stereo-headphones, not over loudspeakers; they give a good impression of out-thereness - and a little bit of help with poor intonation!
Sonata for Violin & Piano by Christopher Longuet-Higgins
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.
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)
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.
