{"193881":{"#nid":"193881","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Alexander Lerch Joins Music Faculty as an Assistant Professor of Music Technology","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ELeading computational music expert, Dr. Alexander Lerch, \u0026nbsp;will join the School of Music\u0027s teaching faculty and the Music Technology graduate program, beginning fall semester 2013. Lerch\u0027s research focuses on Music Information Retrieval, Digital Signal Professing, and analysis of performance-specific musical information. \u0026nbsp;\u003Cbr \/\u003E \u003Cbr \/\u003E Alexander Lerch studied Electronic Engineering at the Technical University Berlin and Tonmeister (Sound Engineering) at the University of the Arts Berlin. He received his PhD on algorithmic music performance analysis from the Technical University Berlin. In 2001, he co-founded the industry leader company \u0022zplane\u0022 - a research-driven technology provider for the music industry. At zplane, Lerch has worked on the design and implementation of algorithms for music processing and music information retrieval that have been licensed to companies such as Ableton, Native Instruments, Sony, and Steinberg. In addition to his work at zplane, Dr. Lerch lectures at the audio communications department of the Technical University Berlin. His book \u0026nbsp;\u0022An Introduction to Audio Content Analysis: Applications in Signal Processing and Music Informatics\u0022 has been published in 2012 by IEEE \/ Wiley press.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EMusician and electronic engineer Alexander Lerch is the latest to join the School of Music\u0027s faculty.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27202","created_gmt":"2013-02-20 13:48:28","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:13:40","author":"David Morton","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2013-02-20T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2013-02-20T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"193851":{"id":"193851","type":"image","title":"Alexander Lerch","body":null,"created":"1449179891","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 21:58:11","changed":"1475894843","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:47:23","alt":"Alexander Lerch","file":{"fid":"196361","name":"alexander_lerch_0.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/alexander_lerch_0_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/alexander_lerch_0_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":62865,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/alexander_lerch_0_0.jpg?itok=Cj31wsii"}}},"media_ids":["193851"],"groups":[{"id":"1221","name":"College of Design"}],"categories":[{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"}],"keywords":[{"id":"1310","name":"contemporary music"},{"id":"59181","name":"Lerch"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}