Prof. Bozena Kostek received the 50th Anniversary Medal of the Polish Section
(PS) of the IEEE in recognition of many years of activity, contributing to the
development of the Section and expansion of its activities.
14.12.2022
Bartłomiej Mróz, a Ph.D. student at the Multimedia Systems Department, won the
first prize in the recording competition held as part of the 19th Symposium on
New Trends in Audio and Video, NTAV 2022. The symposium was held on October
13-15 in Wrocław. The awarded recording is the 20th-century piece The Rite of
Spring by the Russian composer Igor Stravinsky in a version for four-hands
for piano. Two parts from Act I, entitled Adoration of the Earth, were
presented − namely The Augurs Of Spring, Dances Of The Young Girls and
Ritual of Abduction.
The performers were pianists from the Gdańsk Academy of Music − Mikołaj Sikała and Adam Piórkowski. The recording session took place in the Auditorium of the Gdańsk University of Technology in August 2020 on a Steinway & Sons concert piano. A part of this recording was used in Mikołaj Sikała's doctoral dissertation, defended in 2022.
An excerpt from the presented recording is available here.
17.10.2022
Prof. Bożena Kostek received the Distinguished Service Award. The citation for Prof. Kostek's award reads as follows: "In recognition of more than thirty years of dedicated service to the Society as Section officer, Governor, three times as a Vice President, and as the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of the Audio Engineering Society from 2011 to 2020”. The award was announced at the Opening ceremony by Prof. Jonathan Wyner, AES President.
10.06.2021
Prof. Bożena Kostek was recently elected Fellow of the Acoustical Society of America. The citation for Prof. Kostek's Fellowship award reads as follows: "For contributions to musical acoustics, artificial intelligence, and education". The award was announced at the Plenary Session and Awards Ceremony of the 179th Acoustical Society Meeting (Acoustics Virtually Everywhere) on Wednesday December 9, 2020. The link to this information is available on the ASA website.
10.12.2020
In October 2020, students from Multimedia Systems Department took part in
the 149th Audio Engineering Society Convention, held in New York. During the
Convention, Damian Koszewski, the Ph.D. student from the Multimedia Systems
Department and the only Pole in the final, was awarded a silver medal in the
Student Recording Competition in category Audio: Modern Studio.
17.11.2020
On October 15th 2020, the 18th International Symposium of Novelties in Audio and Video Technology took place. During the conference, employees, PhD candidates and students of the Multimedia Systems Departament presented 4 papers. The paper entitled Comparison of music genre recognition accuracy with the use of artificial neural networks and varied types of the input data prepared by the team composed of Maciej Blaszke, Damian Koszewski, and Bożena Kostek, received the award of the Polish Acoustic Society for the best conference paper. An honourable mention went to the paper entitled Automatic generation of musical playlists, prepared by the team consisting of Kamila Pietrusińska, Adam Kurowski, and Bożena Kostek.
19.10.2020
On June 2-5, 2020, students from Multimedia Systems Department took part in
the 148th, the 1st virtual, Convention of Audio Engineering Society held in
Vienna. During the Convention, Damian Koszewski, the Ph.D. student from the
Multimedia Systems Department, was awarded a gold medal in the Student
Recording Competition in category Audio: Modern Studio.
17.06.2020
Dr. Jan Cimbalnik from the International Clinical Research Center (ICRC) in Brno, Czech Republic, will be joining our BME lab in Gdansk as one of the laureates of prestigious ULAM program grants from the Polish National Agency for Academic Exchange (NAWA). Read more
2.10.2019
At the beginning of June 2019, Professor Ian Corbett, worldwide known audio engineer (Audio Engineering & Music Technology), was invited by the Multimedia Systems Department. During his visit, Prof. Corbett conducted several lectures for students interested in audio and recording technology and he led a session of Recording Critiques. During his lectures, students were able to learn about the fundamentals of audio engineers’ work and got to know how to improve their mixing and recording skills.
2.07.2019
A group of undergaduate and PhD students participated in the 146th Audio Engineering Society Convention in Dublin. As part of the convention, a vote was held for the position of vice-chair for Europe and International Regions in which B.Sc. Kamila Pietrusinska was elected. Kamila will hold office in the Student Delegate Assembly for the next two years (the first year as a vice-chair, the second as a chair) representing the Department of Multimedia Systems on conventions in Europe and the United States.
27.03.2019
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