Dr. phil. Tim Ziemer

Interim Professor

Address

Universität Hamburg

Faculty of Humanities

Kulturwissenschaften

Institut für Systematische Musikwissenschaft

Neue Rabenstr. 13

20354 Hamburg

Office

Room: 3012

Office hours

By appointment via email

Contact

Tel: +49 40 42838-4857

Email: tim.ziemer"AT"uni-hamburg.de, ziemer"AT"uni-bremen.de

ORCID: 0000-0001-6821-7327

Key aspects of activity

Psychoacoustics
Sonification
Spatial Cognition

Biografie

* 1986 in Henstedt-Ulzburg

2006 Internshiüp at Tonstudio Modern Toys Music

2006-2011 Studies in Systematic Musicology, Historic Musicology and Economics at the University of Hamburg

2008-2009 Student Assistant at the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Media, Hamburg

2008-2010 Acoustics tutore at the Institute of Systematic Musicology at the University of Hamburg

2011 Acoustics Engineer at the Ingenieurbüro für Akustik Busch GmbH

2011-2015 PhD Student at the Institute of Systematic Musicology at the University of Hamburg

2011-2014 Technical and organizational staff at U-Need concert and event logistics

2013-2020 Freelance author for CHIP, Focus- and CHIP-Online Praxistipps, Netmoms, Heise and others

2013-2016 Research Assistant at the Institute of Systematic Musicology at the University of Hamburg

January - April 2016 Research Intern at the National Institute of Informatics (NII) Tokyo, Japan

2016-2018 research Assistant in the Bremen Spatial Cognition Center at the University of Bremen

2018 Research Assistant at the Institute of Systematic Musicology at the University of Hamburg

2019-2022 Postdoctoral Researcher in the Medical Image Computing Group of the Bremen Spatial Cognition Centers at the University of Bremen

Since 10/2022 Interim Professor for Systematic Musicology at the University of Hamburg

Publikationen (Auswahl)

Book

Ziemer, Tim: Psychoacoustic Music Sound Field Synthesis – Creating Spaciousness for Composition, Performance, Acoustics and Perception, Springer: Cham 2020.

Journal Papers

Ziemer, Tim & Schultheis, Holger, “PAMPAS: A PsychoAcoustical Method for the Perceptual Analysis of multidimensional Sonification”, in: Frontiers in Neuroscience 16, 2022, paper number: 16:930944

Ziemer, Tim & Plath, Niko, “Microphone and Loudspeaker Array Signal Processing Steps towards a ‘Radiation Keyboard’ for Authentic Samplers”, in: Applied Sciences 10(7), paper number: 2333, 18 pages, 2020

Ziemer, Tim & Schultheis, Holger, "Psychoacoustic Auditory Display for Navigation. An Auditory Assistance System for Spatial Orientation Tasks", in: Journal on Multi-Modal User Interfaces (JMUI) (Special Issue: Interactive Sonification), 2018.

Ziemer, Tim, Schultheis, Holger, Black, David & Kikinis, Ron, "Psychoacoustical Interactive Sonification for Short-Range Navigation", in: Acta Acustica United with Acustica 104(6), 2018, S. 1075-1093.

Ziemer, Tim & Bader, Rolf, "Psychoacoustic Sound Field Synthesis for Musical Instrument Radiation Characteristics", in: J. Audio Eng. Soc. 65(6), 2017, S. 482-496.

Book Chapters

Ziemer, Tim, “Wave Field Synthesis”, in: R. Bader (Hrsg.): Springer Handbook of Systematic Musicology, Springer: Berlin, Heidelberg 2018, Kap. 18, S. 175-193.

Ziemer, Tim, “Source Width in Music Production. Methods in Stereo, Ambisonics, and Wave Field Synthesis”, in: A. Schneider (Hrsg.): Studies in Musical Acoustics and Psychoacoustics, Springer: Cham 2017, S. 299-340.

Ziemer, Tim: Implementation of the Radiation Characteristics of Musical Instruments in Wave Field Synthesis Applications [PDF], Hamburg, Univ. Diss., 2015.

Conference Papers

Ziemer, Tim, Kiattipadungkul, Pattararat & Karuchit, Tanyarin, “Novel Recording Studio Features for Music Information Retrieval”, in: Proceedings of Meetings on Acoustics (POMA) 42(1), 2020, Paper-Number: 035004.

Ziemer, Tim & Schultheis, Holger, “Psychoacoustical Signal Processing for Three-Dimensional Sonification”, in: 25th International Conference on Auditory Display (ICAD2019), Newcastle, June 2019.

Stirnat, Claudia & Ziemer, Tim, "Spaciousness in Music: The Tonmeister's Intention and the Listener's Perception", in: Philipp Kessling & Thomas Görne (Eds.): KLG 2017. klingt gut! 2017 - International Symposium on Sound, Hamburg, June 2017.

Ziemer, Tim, Yu, Yi & Tang, Suhua, “Using Psychoacoustic Models for Sound Analysis in Music”, in: Proceedings of the 8th Annual Meeting of the Forum on Information Retrieval Evaluation, 2016, S. 1-7.

Ziemer, Tim & Bader, Rolf, “Implementing the Radiation Characteristics of Musical Instruments in a Psychoacoustic Sound Field Synthesis System”, in: 139th International AES Convention, 2015.

Ziemer, Tim, “Sound Radiation Characteristics of a Shakuhachi with different Playing Techniques [PDF]”, in: Proceedings of the International Symposium on Musical Acoustics (ISMA), Le Mans, 2014, S. 549-555.

Ziemer, Tim, “Towards a Lateral Line Sensor to Supplement Active Sonar in Shallow Water”, in: ASME 33^thInternational Conference on Ocean, Offshore and Arctic Engineering OMAE2014, San Franciso, CA, 2014

Complete List of Publications

My complete list of puclications can be found as a PDF document, on my personal list of publications website and on the publications website of the institute.

Auszeichnungen und Drittmittel

2019

Zentrale Forschungsförderung (ZF) der Universität Bremen: Eigene Projekte für Postdocs: "3-Dimensional Interactive Psychoacoustic Auditory Display (3DAD)". 3 Jahre.

2018

Hyundai Motors Best Paper Award auf der International Conference on Auditory Display (ICAD2018) für das Paper: "A Psychoacoustic Auditory Display for Navigation" [pdf].

Best Poster Award der Spatial Cognition 2018 für den Beitrag: "An auditory display for representing two-dimensional space".

Postdoc Plus Stipendium der Claussen Simon Stiftung. 1 Jahr.

2017

Kongressreisezuschuss vom Deutschen Akademischen Austauschdienst (DAAD) zur Teilnahme an der Acoustics '17, the 173rd Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America and the 8th Forum Acusticum, Boston, MA, Jun 2017.

2016

Association for Computing and Machinery (ACM) und Special Interest Group on Information Retrieval (SIGIR): Student travel grant zur Teilnahme am Forum for Information Retrieval Evaluation (FIRE), Kolkata, India, Dec 2016.

2015

Acoustical Society of America (ASA): Best paper award for students and young presenters auf dem 170th Meeting on Acoustics, Jacksonville, FL, Nov 2015 for my paper. "Complex Point Source Model to Calculate the Sound Field Radiated from Musical Instruments".

Acoustical Society of America: Student Transportation Subsidies to participate in the 170th Meeting on Acoustics, Jacksonville, FL, Nov 2015.

Universität Hamburg: Reisekostenzuschuss aus dem Körperschaftsvermögen der Universität Hamburg.

Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst (DAAD): Kongressreisestipendium zur Teilnahme an der 139th Audio Engineering Society Convention, New York, NY, Oct-Nov 2015.

American Society of Mechanical Engineering (ASME): Outreach for engineers specialty forum, St. John's, NL, Canada, 2015.

2014

Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst (DAAD): Kongressreisestipendium zur Teilnahme am International Symposium on Musical Acoustics (ISMA), Le Mans, France, Jul 2014.

2010

ERASMUS: Travel grant zur Teilnahme an der International Summer School in Systematic Musicology (ISSSM), Jyväskylä, Finland, 2010.

Eingeladene Vorträge

Ziemer, Tim, “Psychoakustische Sonifikation", Jahrestagung der Gesellschaft für Musikforschung (GfM) 2019, Detmold/Paderborn, Sep 2019.

Ziemer, Tim, Keynote speech: “Monophonic Sonification for Spatial Navigation", International Workshop on Informatics (IWIN) 2019, Hamburg Sep 2019.

Ziemer, Tim, “Psychoakustische Wellenfeldsynthese für Musik", Kolloquium: Aktuelle Arbeiten in der Musikwissenschaft, Hamburg 2018.

Ziemer, Tim, "Perceptually Motivated Sound Field Synthesis for Music Presentation", Acoustics '17: Joint Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America and the European Acoustics Association, Boston (MA), Jun 2017.

Wöllner, Clemens und Ziemer, Tim, “Recent Research Projects Carried Out at the University of Hamburg (UHH), Institute of Systematic Musicology”, Sound and Music Computing Conference (SMC), Hamburg 2016.

Ziemer, Tim, “Vector Base Amplitude Panning (VBAP)" (Workshop), Sound and Music Computing Summer School (SMC), Hamburg 2016.

Ziemer, Tim, “Wave Field Synthesis Do-It-Yourself" (Workshop), Sound and Music Computing Summer School (SMC), Hamburg 2016.

Ziemer, Tim, “Psychoacoustic Wave Field Synthesis for Music", International Summer School in Systematic Musicology (ISSSM), Hamburg 2012.

Ziemer, Tim, “Synthese der Abstrahlcharakteristik von Musikinstrumenten mittels Wellenfeldsynthese", Kolloquium: Aktuelle Arbeiten in der Musikwissenschaft, Hamburg 2011.

Organized Events

2012

Organization of the International Summer School in Systematic Musicology (ISSSM2012), Hamburg, Germany

2016

Co-Organization of the Sound and Music Computing (SMC) Summer School, Hamburg, Germany

Chaired Session "Rooms, Spaces, Environments" at the Sound and Music Computing Conference (SMC), Hamburg, Germany

2017

Chaired Session "General Topics in Musical Acoustics II" together with James P. Cottingham on the Acoustics '17 joint meeting of the Acoustical Society of America (ASA) and the European Acoustics Association (EAA), Boston, MA

2018

Chaired Session "Sonification and Ambient Displays" on the International Conference on Auditory Display (ICAD2018), Houghton, MI

2020

Chaired Sessions "General Topics in Musical Acoustics I, II and III", co-chaired with Bozena Kostek at the virtual meeting of the Acoustical Society of America (ASA)

2022

Organization of the Interactive Sonification Workshop (ISon) 2022, Delmenhorst, Germany

2023

Organization of the Sonic Tilt Competition

Paper chair for the International Conference on Auditory Display (ICAD2023), together with Marian Weger, Norrköping, Sweden

Gutachtertätigkeit

Roles:

Co-Editor of the International Journal of the Informatics Society Japan (IJIS)

Review Editor at Frontiers in Signal Processing

YouTube Channel Subboard member at the International Community for Auditory Displays (ICAD)

Fachzeitschriften:

Psychomusicology: Music, Mind, and Brain published by the American Psychological Association (APA)

Scientific Reports by Springer Nature

Frontiers in Psychology published by Frontiers Media

Frontiers in Neuroscience published by Frontiers Media

Ergonomics in Design: The Quarterly of Human Factors Applications published by SAGE and the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society (HFES)

Journal on Multimodal User Interfaces published by Springer

Frontiers in Signal Processing published by Frontiers Media

International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health published by MDPI

Education Sciences published by MDPI

Applied Sciences published MDPI

Acoustics published by MDPI

Sensors published by MDPI

Electronics published by MDPI

Future Internet published by MDPI

Processes published by MDPI

Cognitive Systems Research published by Elsevier

Space and Culture Journal published by SAGE

Journal on Multimodal User Interfaces published by Springer

IEEE Transactions on Human-Machine Systems published by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and the Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Society (SMC)

Human Factors published by SAGE and the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society (HFES)

Patterns Journal published by Cell Press

Robotics and Autonomous Systems published by Elsevier and the Intelligent Autonomous Systems (IAS) Society

Konferenzen:

International Summer School of Systematic Musicology (ISSSM)

Interactive Sonification Workshop (ISon) 2022

Audio Mostly Conferences

OMAE Conference on Ocean, Offshore, and Artic Engineering, organized by the American Society of Mechanical Engineering

International Conference on Auditory Display (ICAD) organized by the International Community for Auditory Display

International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI) organized by the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)

SysMus-Conferences

Lehre

2022

WS: Seminar "Musikgeschmack mit künstlicher Intelligenz untersuchen"

Theoretische Grundlagen und praktische Implementierung von maschinellem Lernen, akustischen Features und Hörertypen zur Erforschung des Musikgeschmacks (3SWS)

WS: Seminar "Hörbahn – Evolution, Stationen, Funktionen und ihre Modellierung"

Entwicklung des Gehörs, Stationen, Funktionen und Modelle der Hörbahn und ihr Beitrag zur Klangverarbeitung und -wahrnehmung.

WS: Übung "Mathematik für Musikwissenschaftler"

Mathematische Grundlagen für das Studium der Systematischen Musikwissenschaft: Mengen, mathematische Operatoren, Trigonometrie, komplexe Zahlen, Matrixrechnung, Ableitungen, Integrale, Reihen, Fourier-Analyse, Lösen von Differentialgleichungen. (3 SWS)

2020

WS: Online Masters’ Project “Sonification Apps”

I supervised 20 master’s students in Computer Science and Digital Media, who work 40 hours per week to conceptualize, implement and release Tiltification, a multi-platform audio app (8 SWS)

2019

WS:Seminar “Sonification”

Definitions and use cases of auditory display and practical implementation of psychoacoustic auditory display methods

SS: Praktikum "Psychoacoustical Audio Programming"

Programming of synthesizers and audio effects, psychoacoustical models, the auditory pathway and perceptual music analysis (3SWS)

2018

WS: Seminar "Applied Psychoacoustics"

Theoretic foundations and practical implementation of psychoacoustics in music for Bachelor’s and Master’s students (2 SWS)

SS: Seminar "Psychoakustische Sonifikation"

Theorie in Psychoakustik und praktische Umsetzung in Sonifikation für Bachelor- und Masterstudenten (2 SWS an der Universität Hamburg).

2016

Summer: Workshops on "Vector Base Amplitude Pannign (VBAP), Ambisonics and Wave Field Synthesis"

Foundations and demonstrations of diverse audio technologies for Master's and PhD students (4 hours at the International Sound and Music Computing (SMC) Summer School)

SS: "Praktikum Akustik"

Praktische Anwendung und wissenschaftliche Experimente auf dem Gebiet der Musikalischen Akustik, Raumakustik, Psychoakustik und der Digitalen Signalverarbeitung für Bachelorstudenten (3 SWS an der Universität Hamburg).

2015

SS: "Praktikum Akustik"

2014

WS: "Übung Akustik"

Grundlagen der Instrumentenakustik, Raumakustik, Psychoakustik und Digitalen Signalverarbeitung, für Bachelor-Studenten (SWS an der Universität Hamburg).

SS: Seminar "Raumakustik und Auralisation"

Theory and application in the field of room acoustics, virtual acoustics, microphone- and loudspeaker-array technology for Bachelor's and Master's students (2 SWS at the University of Hamburg).

2013

WS: Seminar "Musikalische Wellenfeldsynthese"

Theorie, Andwendung und Forschungstrends auf der Gebiet der Wellenfeldsynthese und verwandter Mehrkanal-Audiosysteme, für Bachelor- und Master-Studenten (2 SWS an der Universität Hamburg).

WS: "Orientierungseinheit"

Einführung der Erstsemester-Bachelorstudenten in das Studium der Systematischen Musikwissenschaft (einwöchiger Intensivkurs, ca. 30 Stunden an der Universität Hamburg).

2012

Summer: Tutorial "Sound Field Synthesis"

Theorie und Demonstrationen verschiedener Schallfeldsynthesemethoden für Musik, für Masterstudenten und Doktoranden (3 Stunden auf der International Summer School in Systematic Musicology (ISSSM)).

2009

WS: Tutorium zur Übung Akustik

Training und Übungsaufgaben in linearer Algebra, Rechnen mit komplexen Zahlen, Logarithmus und Exponentialfunktionen, und dem Lösen von linearen, partiellen Differentialgleichungen für Bachelor-Studenten (2 SWS an der Universität Hamburg).

SS: Tutorium zum Praktikum Akustik

Training und Übungsaufgaben in Mikrofonarraymessungen, Körperschallmessungen, und Schaltplanentwurf und Löten eines analogen Synthesizers (2 SWS at the University of Hamburg).