Curriculum Vitae

Publications:    See separate list: http://www.pvv.ntnu.no/~farner/pub

Professional development:

May 2006-Oct 2006

Researcher on artificial transformation of the voice as a part of the project VIVOS in the Analysis/Synthesis group at IRCAM in Paris, France.

Jan 2006-Apr 2006

Postdoc on emsemble playing over internet at Centre for Quantifiable Quality of Service in Communication Systems, NTNU. Experiment in two parts to study the ability of musicians and nonmusician to cope with rhythmic ensemble playing (hand clapping) with delayed sound. Part 1 in a large room with normal room acoustics, and part 2 in virtual environment with the participants separated each in a room with minimal reverberation.

Jan-Jun 2005

Lecturing of the course TTT4190 Music Technology at NTNU.

Jan 2004-Des 2005

Postdoc and project manager in the project SONATA at the Department of Electronics and Telecommunications, NTNU with international collaboration. Financed by the Reseach Council of Norway to establish perception metrics for the naturalness in speech and music. Speech part: perceptive cost functions for concatenation of phonemes in unit selection synthesis. Music part: the effect of variation in playing parameters and timbre on the naturalness and expressiveness of the performance. Modification of playing parameters and sound signal as well as perception experiments.

Sep 2001-Aug 2003

Postdoc at Laboratoire de Mécanique et d'Acoustique, CNRS, Marseilles, France. Acoustics of musical instruments, connected to the EU project "MOSART". Physical modelling and numerical solution of self-sustained musical instruments (computer program: Harmbal). Analysis-resynthesis of musical sound. Speech-signal modifications for experiments on the electrical activity in the brain when modifying semantics and prosody, and comparison with modifications in harmony and rhythm in music (collaboration with the Langage, musique et motricité group at INCM, CNRS, Marseilles). One month at the Music Acoustics group at the University of Copenhagen.

Jul 1995-Jun 1996

Military service as a personnel assistant at the Royal Air Force Academy in Trondheim. I followed courses in sports instruction, linguistics and phonetics, and fluid mechanics.

Apr-Jun 1995

Short engagement with maintenance of the computer lab at the Faculty of Physics and Mathematics, NTH (now NTNU).

Jan 1991-Jul 1994

Part-time job as a student assistant at a computer lab at Faculty of Physics and Mathematics, NTH; supervision of students in information technology and maintenance of the computer lab.

Education:

Sep-Dec 2003

Semester of studies at NTNU. Undergraduate course in Digital signal processing and graduate courses in Theoretical acoustics and Speech processing.

Aug 2000-Jun 2001

One-year undergraduate course in Musicology (Musikkvitenskap grunnfag) at NTNU

Aug 1996-Dec 2000

Doktor ingeniør (Ph.D.) at the Department of Materials Technology and Electrochemistry at NTNU. Thesis title: Remelting of Aluminium by Continuous Submersion of Rolled Scrap. Dec 2000. Defended May 2001. Study of the heat transport and melting of aluminium scrap immersed in molten aluminium. The melting mechanisms were studied by continuous feeding of thin plates of aluminium into its own melt. The work includes theoretical modelling and numerical simulation of the process as well as laboratory and industrial experiments.

Other university courses at NTNU: Speech and music technology, The structure of Non-Indo European languages (Japanese lingustics), and general phonetics and linguistics.

Sep 1994-Apr 1995

Diploma-thesis work at the Department of Physics at Hiroshima University in Japan. Title: Specific Heat of Superconducting Sr₂RuO₄. Measurements of heat capacity at cryogenic temperatures including development of apparatus.

Sep 1990-Apr 1995

Sivilingeniør (Master of Science) at the Department of Physics at the Norwegian Institute of Technology (NTH) which since Jan 1996 is a part of NTNU. Main fields: Materials Science (superconductivity in particular) and fundamental physics.

Aug 1987-Jun 1990

Senior highschool with electronics and physics as majors

Other:

Organization experience:

board member in several choirs (chairman in one) and sports clubs

dance instructor and taekwondo instructor in NTNU's sports organization (NTNUI)

initiator and teacher in an informal Japanese circle at NTNU

Hobbies:

Sports, languages, music, dancing, and more.

Languages:

English and French in addition to some Japanese and German (and native Norwegian).