Research

Book Chapters

Hockman, J., Thibodeau, J., 2018. 'Games Without Frontiers: Audio Games for Music Production and Performance'. In, pp. 171-183.

Journal Articles

Hockman, J., Tomczak, M., 2025. 'Annotation of soft onsets in string ensemble recordings', Journal of New Music Research.

Cheshire, M., Drysdale, J., Enderby, S., Tomczak, M., Hockman, J., 2022. 'Deep audio effects for snare drum recording transformations', Journal of the Audio Engineering Society, 70 (9), pp. 742-752.

Stables, R., Hockman, J., Välimäki, V., Fontana, F., 2020. '22nd international conference on digital audio effects DAFx 2019 (2-6 september 2019, Birmingham, United Kingdom)', Applied Sciences (Switzerland), 10 (3).

Wu, C.W., Dittmar, C., Southall, C., Vogl, R., Widmer, G., Hockman, J., Muller, M., Lerch, A., 2018. 'A Review of Automatic Drum Transcription', IEEE/ACM Transactions on Audio Speech and Language Processing, 26 (9), pp. 1457-1483.

Ali-MacLachlan, I., Tomczak, M., Southall, C., Hockman, J., 2016. 'NOTE, CUT AND STRIKE DETECTION FOR TRADITIONAL IRISH FLUTE RECORDINGS', Note di Matematica, 12, pp. 30-35.

Stasis, S., Stables, R., Hockman, J., 2016. 'Semantically controlled adaptive equalisation in reduced dimensionality parameter space', Applied Sciences, 6 (5).

Conference Papers

Drysdale, J., Hockman, J., 2024. 'Latent Space Exploration for Drum Samples', 21st International Conference on Content-based Multimedia Indexing, Reykjavik, Iceland.

Yang, Z.S., Hockman, J., 2023. 'A plugin for neural audio synthesis of impact sound effects', AM '23: Audio Mostly 2023, Edinburgh, United Kingdom, 30/8/2023 - 1/9/2023, in AM '23: Proceedings of the 18th International Audio Mostly Conference, pp. 143-146.

Tomczak, M., Hockman, J., 2023. 'Onset Detection for String Instruments Using Bidirectional Temporal and Convolutional Recurrent Networks', 18th International Audio Mostly Conference, Edinburgh, United Kingdom, 30/8/2023 - 1/9/2023, in AM '23: Proceedings of the 18th International Audio Mostly Conference, pp. 136-142.

Colombo, M., Dolhasz, A., Hockman, J., Harvey, C., 2022. 'Acoustic rendering based on geometry reduction and acoustic material classification', 2022 IEEE Conference on Games (CoG), Beijing, China, 21/8/2022 - 24/8/2022, in 2022 IEEE Conference on Games (CoG).

Drysdale, J., Hockman, J., Ramires, A., Serra, X., 2022. 'Improved automatic instrumentation role classification and loop activation transcription', 25th International Conference on Digital Audio Effects (DAFx20in22), Vienna, Austria, 6/9/2022 - 10/9/2022, in Proceedings of the 25th International Conference on Digital Audio Effects (DAFx20in22).

Colombo, M., Dolhasz, A., Hockman, J., Harvey, C., 2021. 'Psychometric mapping of audio features to perceived physical characteristics of virtual objects', 2021 IEEE Conference on Games (CoG), Copenhagen, Denmark, 17/8/2021 - 20/8/2021, in 2021 IEEE Conference on Games (CoG).

Drysdale, J., Tomczak, M., Hockman, J., 2021. 'Style-based drum synthesis with GAN inversion', 22nd International Society of Music Information Retrieval Conference, Online, 7/11/2021 - 12/11/2021, in Extended Abstracts for the Late-Breaking Demo Session of the 22nd Int. Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference.

Drysdale, J., Tomczak, M., Hockman, J., 2020. 'ADVERSARIAL SYNTHESIS OF DRUM SOUNDS', in Proceedings of the International Conference on Digital Audio Effects, DAFx, 1, pp. 167-172.

Tomczak, M., Goto, M., Hockman, J., 2020. 'Drum Synthesis and Rhythmic Transformation with Adversarial Autoencoders', in MM 2020 - Proceedings of the 28th ACM International Conference on Multimedia, pp. 2427-2435.

Cheshire, M., Stables, R., Hockman, J., 2020. 'Investigating timbral differences of varied velocity snare drum strikes', in 148th Audio Engineering Society International Convention.

Tomczak, M., Drysdale, J., Hockman, J., 2019. 'Drum translation for timbral and rhythmic transformation', in Proceedings of the International Conference on Digital Audio Effects, DAFx, pp. 340-346.

Cheshire, M., Stables, R., Hockman, J., 2019. 'Microphone comparison: Spectral feature mapping for snare drum recording', in 147th Audio Engineering Society International Convention 2019.

Michailidis, T., Hockman, J., 2018. 'Affordances of vibrational excitation for music composition and performance', in Proceedings of the 15th Sound and Music Computing Conference: Sonic Crossings, SMC 2018, pp. 382-387.

Tomczak, M., Southall, C., Hockman, J., 2018. 'Audio style transfer with rhythmic constraints', in Proceedings of the International Conference on Digital Audio Effects, DAFx, pp. 45-50.

Southall, C., Stables, R., Hockman, J., 2018. 'Improving peak-picking using multiple time-step loss functions', in Proceedings of the 19th International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference, ISMIR 2018, pp. 313-320.

Cheshire, M., Hockman, J., Stables, R., 2018. 'Microphone comparison for snare drum recording', in 145th Audio Engineering Society International Convention, AES 2018.

Southall, C., Stables, R., Hockman, J., 2018. 'Player vs transcriber: A game approach to data manipulation for automatic drum transcription', in Proceedings of the 19th International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference, ISMIR 2018, pp. 58-65.

Southall, C., Stables, R., Hockman, J., 2017. 'Automatic drum transcription for polyphonic recordings using soft attention mechanisms and convolutional neural networks', in Proceedings of the 18th International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference, ISMIR 2017, pp. 606-612.

Di Donato, B., Dooley, J., Hockman, J., Bullock, J., Hall, S., 2017. 'Myospat: A hand-gesture controlled system for sound and light projections manipulation', in 2017 ICMC/EMW - 43rd International Computer Music Conference and the 6th International Electronic Music Week, pp. 335-340.

Stasis, S., Hockman, J., Stables, R., 2017. 'Navigating descriptive sub-representations of musical timbre', in Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression, pp. 56-61.

Southall, C., Stables, R., Hockman, J., 2016. 'Automatic drum transcription using bi-directional recurrent neural networks', in Proceedings of the 17th International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference, ISMIR 2016, pp. 591-597.

Stasis, S., Stables, R., Hockman, J., 2015. 'A model for adaptive reduced-dimensionality equalisation', in DAFx 2015 - Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Digital Audio Effects.

Hockman, J.A., Davies, M.E.P., 2015. 'Computational strategies for breakbeat classification and resequencing in hardcore, jungle and drum and bass', in DAFx 2015 - Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Digital Audio Effects.

Hockman, J.A., Davies, M.E.P., Fujinaga, I., 2012. 'One in the jungle: Downbeat detection in hardcore, jungle, and drum and bass', in Proceedings of the 13th International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference, ISMIR 2012, pp. 169-174.

Hockman, J.A., Weigl, D.M., Guastavino, C., Fujinaga, I., 2011. 'Discrimination between phonograph playback systems', in 131st Audio Engineering Society Convention 2011, 1, pp. 586-591.

Li, Z., Xiang, Q., Hockman, J., Yang, J., Yi, Y., Fujinaga, I., Wang, Y., 2010. 'A music search engine for therapeutic gait training', in MM'10 - Proceedings of the ACM Multimedia 2010 International Conference, pp. 627-630.

McKay, C., Burgoyne, J.A., Hockman, J., Smith, J.B.L., Vigliensoni, G., Fujinaga, I., 2010. 'Evaluating the genre classification performance of lyrical features relative to audio, symbolic and cultural features', in Proceedings of the 11th International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference, ISMIR 2010, pp. 213-218.

Hockman, J.A., Fujinaga, I., 2010. 'Fast vs slow: Learning tempo octaves from user data', in Proceedings of the 11th International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference, ISMIR 2010, pp. 231-236.

Hockman, J.A., Wanderley, M.M., Fujinaga, I., 2009. 'Real-time phase vocoder manipulation by runner's pace', in Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression, pp. 90-93.

Hockman, J.A., Bello, J.P., Davies, M.E.P., Plumbley, M.D., 2008. 'Automated rhythmic transformation of musical audio', in Proceedings of the International Conference on Digital Audio Effects, DAFx, pp. 177-180.

Pugin, L., Hockman, J., Burgoyne, J.A., Fujinaga, I., 2008. 'Gamera versus aruspix two optical music recognition approaches', in ISMIR 2008 - 9th International Conference on Music Information Retrieval, pp. 419-424.

Posters

Enderby, S., Stables, R., Hockman, J., Tomczak, M., Wing, A., Elliot, M., Di Luca, M., 2023. 'Adaptive metronome: a MIDI plug-in for modelling cooperative timing in music ensembles', Rhythm Production and Perception Workshop 19.

Oronti, I.B., Goodman, T., Li, M.S., Tomczak, M., Hockman, J., Witek, M., Wing, A., Di Luca, M., Elliot, M., 2023. 'Annotation variance analysis for optimal feedback correction', Rhythm Production and Perception Workshop 19.

Tomczak, M., Li, M.S., Witek, M., Hockman, J., 2023. 'Effect of leadership change on microtiming patterns in string quartet', Rhythm Production and Perception Workshop 19.

Goodman, T., Li, M.S., Oronti, B., Tomczak, M., Hockman, J., Witek, M., Wing, A., Di Luca, M., Elliot, M., 2023. 'Padded bGLS - an approach for near real-time estimation of synchronisation parameters for ensemble musicians', Rhythm Production and Perception Workshop 19.

Li, M.S., Tomczak, M., Elliot, M., Bradbury, A., Goodman, T., Abdulkarim, D., Di Luca, M., Hockman, J., Wing, A., 2023. 'Tempo change and leadership in ensemble synchronisation: a case study', 9th Joint Action Meeting (JAM 9).