Research Focus and Projects
LAMP projects are organized around sound-focused research initiatives that connect music, audio, AI, health, environment, performance, composition, and technology. The work includes present Purdue activity, recent collaborations, and earlier research lines that continue to shape current LAMP directions.
Sound AI
Sound AI is a sound-focused AI initiative exploring how machine listening, audio analysis, generative systems, and human-centered tools can support music, performance, listening, and creative research.
- Present directions: Sound AI in collaboration with Purdue Polytechnic's Guitar Lab; AI-supported music performance and practice; immersive and generative audio; interactive systems; and student/faculty projects in music technology.
- Recent example: Park, T. H. (2025). Jamming with planet Earth. In Proceedings of the AI Music Creativity (AIMC) Conference, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Brussels, Belgium.
- Related Purdue example: Williams, C., Taylor, M., Nadolsky, T., French, M., Yun, K., & Park, T. H. (2024). Studio report 2024: Purdue University Department of Music. In Proceedings of the International Computer Music Conference (ICMC) (pp. 178-181), Seoul, South Korea.
Sound Health
Sound Health is a sound-focused health initiative connecting audio signal processing, voice, speech, remote sensing, biofeedback, and health-oriented listening technologies.
- Vital Audio and acoustic vital-sign monitoring: work connecting sound, voice, physiological monitoring, and remote health assessment.
- staRt and visual-acoustic biofeedback: browser-based tools for speech treatment and voice training, including work with NYU collaborators and Purdue-linked audio/DSP contributions.
- Recent papers: Accessible delivery of visual-acoustic biofeedback for speech sound disorder and Web-based application for real-time biofeedback of vocal resonance in gender-affirming voice training, both presented at Interspeech 2025.
- Related WAC 2024 work: remote patient monitoring via conventional phone calls, heart-rate extraction from voice, and staRt: web-based real-time biofeedback for speech treatment.
Soundscapes, Environment, and Community Listening
This area connects sound mapping, acoustic ecology, sonification, community-centered sensing, and creative listening. Earlier Citygram and soundmapping work provides a research lineage for present LAMP directions without treating all earlier work as Purdue Music output.
- Citygram and Spaces | Places | Traces: soundscape research, sensor networks, urban listening, sonification, and public-facing sound data.
- Soundmapping our world in 3D: data-driven, community-driven, and art-driven frameworks for connecting sound, place, technology, and listening.
- Community-centered airplane noise research and The Music of Airplanes: public-facing work exploring aviation sound, environmental listening, and creative responses to noise.
Creative Research, Composition, and Performance
LAMP also supports performance-centered creative scholarship: composition, live electronics, audio production, recording, mixing, mastering, media scoring, interactive sound, and ensemble experimentation.
- Monte Taylor: composition, live electronics, audio engineering, music technology teaching, and production work, including recent works such as Parable of the Harmoniums (2024), Kairos (2024), and FLAMETHROWER (2026).
- L'Ensemble (LAMP Ensemble): ensemble activity connecting music technology, performance, production, and experimentation.
- Production and public events: see the LAMP Productions page for WAC 2024, SEAMUS 2025, Steinway Spirio Residency, Taste of Tippecanoe, and related events.
Books in Progress
Several current book projects extend the Computer-Musically Speaking approach as a series connecting technical research, pedagogy, and music-centered computing.
- Park, T. H. (under contract). Introduction to Cyber-Physical Computing: Computer-Musically Speaking [tentative title]. World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd.; complete manuscript due May 1, 2028.
- Park, T. H. (under contract). Introduction to digital signal processing: Computer musically speaking (2nd ed.). World Scientific; manuscript completion planned for summer 2026.
- Park, T. H., Bronzaft, A., & Yoo, M. (in progress). Urban Noisescapes [tentative title]. Springer.
Facilities and Infrastructure
Projects use Purdue Music's departmental facilities, including Recital Hall (Elliott 15), Music Production Studio (Elliott 33), the Ensemble Practice Room and Tracking Room (Elliott 31), and the Music Computing Lab (Pao B189).