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Kai Siedenburg
Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg
Dept. für medizinische Physik und Akustik
Küpkersweg 74
26129 Oldenburg
Research areas
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Music perception and cognition
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Auditory scene analysis
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Hearing impairment
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Music signal processing
Resume
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since 02/2020
Principal investigator, Music Perception and Processing Lab and Freigeist Fellow at the Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg -
01/2016–01/2020
Postdoctoral fellow, Signal Processing Group (Prof. Simon Doclo) at the Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg -
09/2012–05/2016
PhD in Music Technology at McGill University, Montreal, Canada
Specialization: Music perception and cognition -
09/2012–09/2015
Research assistant, Music Perception and Cognition Lab (Prof. Stephen McAdams) at McGill University, Montreal, Canada -
02/2012–07/2012
Research associate, Intelligent Music Processing Group (Prof. Gerhard Widmer) at the Austrian Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence, Vienna, Austria -
10/2009–04/2011
Research assistant, Audio Communication Group (Prof. Stefan Weinzierl) at the Technical University Berlin -
06/2009–08/2009
Research assistant, Center for New Music and Audio Technologies (Prof. David Wessel) at the University of California at Berkeley, USA -
09/2008–08/2009
Fulbright visiting student in Music and Mathematics -
10/2005–01/2012
MSc (Diplom) in Mathematics (major) and Musicology (minor) at the Humboldt University Berlin -
09/2004–09/2005
Studies in Jazz-Piano, Berlin
Publications
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K. Siedenburg (2022)
Beyond (the cave of) loudness/pitch-equalization: A commentary on Reymore (2021).
Empirical Musicology Review, in press
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M. Bürgel, L. Picinali, K. Siedenburg (2021)
Listening in the mix: Vocals robustly attract auditory attention in popular music.
Frontiers in Psychology, doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2021.769663
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K. Siedenburg, F. M. Barg, H. Schepker (2021)
Adaptative auditory brightness perception.
Scientific Reports, 11(21456), https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-00707-7
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K. Siedenburg, S. Jacobsen, C. Reuter (2021)
Spectral envelope position and shape in sustained instrument sounds.
The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 149(6), 3715–3727, https://doi.org/10.1121/10.0005088
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M. Touizrar, A.L. Knoll, K. Siedenburg (2021)
Repetition and aesthetic judgment in post-tonal music for ensemble and large orchestra.
Frontiers in Psychology, https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.673706
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K. Siedenburg, K. Goldmann, S. van de Par (2021)
Tracking musical voices in Bach’s The Art of the Fugue: Timbral heterogeneity differentially affects younger normal-hearing listeners and older hearing-aid users.
Frontiers in Psychology, 12(608684), https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.608684
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C. Saitis & K. Siedenburg (2020).
Brightness perception for musical instrument sounds: relation to timbre dissimilarity and source-cause categories.
The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 148(4), 2256-2266, https://doi.org/10.1121/10.0002275
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K. Siedenburg (2020)
Die Farbe macht die Musik: Akustische und perzeptuelle Grundlagen der Klangfarbenwahrnehmung.
Akustik Journal. 3/20, 27–39
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K. Siedenburg, S. Röttges, K. C. Wagener, V. Hohmann (2020).
Can you hear out the melody? Testing musical scene perception in young normal-hearing and older hearing-impaired listeners.
Trends in Hearing, 24, 1–15, https://doi.org/10.1177/2331216520945826
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K. Siedenburg, C. Saitis, S. McAdams, A. Popper, R. Fay (2019)
Timbre: Acoustics, Perception, and Cognition
Springer Handbook of Auditory Research Series, New York, NY: Springer, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-14832-4
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K. Siedenburg, M.R. Schädler, D. Hülsmeier (2019)
Modeling the onset advantage in musical instrument identification.
The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 146(6), EL523–EL529, https://doi.org/10.1121/1.5141369
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B. Cauchi, K. Siedenburg, J. F. Santos, T. H. Falk, S. Doclo, S. Goetze (2019)
Non-intrusive speech quality prediction using modulation energies and LSTM-network.
IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech, and Language Processing, 27(7), 1151–1163, https://doi.org/10.1109/TASLP.2019.2912123
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K. Siedenburg (2019).
Specifying the relevance of onset transients in musical instrument identification.
The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 145(2), 1078–1087, https://doi.org/10.1121/1.5091778
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K. Siedenburg (2018)
Timbral Shepard-illusion reveals perceptual ambiguity and context sensitivity of brightness perception.
The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 143(2), EL-00691, https://doi.org/10.1121/1.5022983
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K. Siedenburg & S. McAdams (2018)
Short-term recognition of timbre sequences: Musical training, pitch variability, and timbral similarity.
Music Perception, 36(6), 24–39, https://doi.org/10.1525/mp.2018.36.1.24