Champaign-Urbana
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Dr. Lippold Haken
I build the Continuum Fingerboard
(a new electronic music instrument),
contribute to music-related software,
and teach Electrical and Computer Engineering
at the
1906
330G Everitt Laboratory
Electrical and
1406
Computer Music
Invented the Continuum
Fingerboard, a low-latency polyphonic touch-sensitive surface for
expressive musical performance.
The Continuum Fingerboard has traditional
I am looking for an art patron interested in financially supporting my work on the Continuum Fingerboard, much like the Rosens supported Theremin in the 1930s. Please contact me if you would consider furthering the electronic arts in this way.
Directed undergraduate, graduate, and PhD research in Computer Music topics. Designed, built, and programmed high-speed audio signal processing hardware. Created a real-time timbre morphing and time dilation technique. Utilized psychoacoustic techniques and developed a new time-frequency analysis to produce efficient timbre synthesis.
Invented a timbre representation and manipulation technique using envelope parameter streams. Envelope parameter streams are the counterpart to sample streams in sampling synthesis. The streams provide amplitude, frequency, phase, and noise envelope parameters for each sine-wave component (each partial) of a sound. Such streams were used in one of the first successful real-time timbre morphing systems, and are now used for computer music, multimedia, radio advertisements, and soundtracks for film.
Developed novel real-time DSP algorithms for additive synthesis, sound morphing, granular synthesis, wavetable matching synthesis, fundamental frequency detection, pitch shifting, cross synthesis, linear predictive synthesis, formant oscillators, and other algorithms. These algorithms are implemented for Symbolic Sound’s Kyma Sound Design Workstation, which contains 28 Motorola 56xxx processors and is used in high-end music and sound design studios.
Author of Lime™, a sophisticated music notation program for Macintosh® and Windows® with total distribution of over 110,000 copies.
Together with Dorothea Blostein of
Together with Dancing
Dots, Inc. of Valley Forge,
Contributed to the core algorithm of the world’s most popular musical instrument tuning program, APTuner. The algorithm incorporates time-frequency reassignment and nonlinear string modeling. The APTuner is available at www.cerlsoundgroup.org.
Classroom Teaching
Co-designer and the lecturing professor for the first five offerings of ECE110,
an Electrical and Computer Engineering laboratory course the
Given the highest possible teaching effectiveness rating by 15 of 18 students after the pilot offering of ECE110. Repeatedly included in the “Incomplete List of Excellent Teachers.”
Added a laboratory component and redesigned the lectures for ECE402, a technical Computer Music course for Electrical and Computer Engineering grad students and seniors. The course concentrates on musical signal processing algorithms and real-time implementations. Students gain hands-on experience with a professional Sound Design Workstation. Taught the most recent six offerings of this course.
Engineering Consulting
Invented and implemented a new medical tool tracking technology for Computerized Medical Systems, Inc. This hardware and software technology has been incorporated into the IBeam product, to track the exact position and orientation of a free-hand ultrasound probe and produce a 3-D volume from multiple ultrasound images. Localization of the ultrasound data is performed by real-time computer processing of images from a camera attached to the probe.
Together with Garrett Heath of Shure, Inc., developed the Frequency Compatibility Calculator. Developed efficient algorithms for determining frequency assignments that minimize interference between wireless microphones. Developed algorithms to automatically detect and avoid analog and digital TV channels. Developed a general framework for frequency assignments in all world regions.
Developed software to monitor and control wireless receiver equipment for Shure, Inc.
Developed hardware for Motorola to test video cell phone technology.
Mainframe Computer and Communications Technology
For 15 years, Lippold was in charge of hardware development of NovaNET
(PLATO), both at the
Leader of the hardware design group for the Zephyr, a quad-CPU ECL mainframe computer for large-scale networked education. This was one of the very few mainframe computers designed at any University in the last 20 years to see commercial service. After 15 million contact hours the Zephyr was retired and replaced by DEC 64-bit mainframes in 1994.
Lippold's Family Pictures
Lippold's
Slide Show of a dive trip to Conception Island, Bahamas
Lippold's
pdf about the 1812 Ship Wreck Southampton and Vixen near Conception Island
Fast Sine
and Cosine for SHARC ADSP-21364
Lippold's List of Publications