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Remko Scha:
Research on Auditory Perception and Music


R.J.H. Scha: Experimenten over de getalwaarde van het subjectief octaaf. [Experiments on the numerical value of the subjective octave.] Eindhoven: Institute for Perception Research IPO, Report no. 101, June 1967.

R.J.H. Scha: Impulsreeksen met onregelmatige intervallen IV. De juist waarneembare vertraging van één enkele puls. [Pulse trains with irregular intervals IV. The just noticeable delay of one single pulse.] Eindhoven: Institute for Perception Research IPO, Report no. 102, June 1967.

R.J.H. Scha: An algorithm for separating piano sounds from noise in damaged recordings. Master's thesis, Technological University Eindhoven, 1970.

The proposed algorithm employs an additive auto-correlation method to detect and reconstitute periodic signals. Dr. B. Lopez-Cardozo pointed out that this proposal constitutes a rediscovery of Buys Ballot's "method of periodograms".
One of the motivations for the algorithm was the conjecture that similar methods are employed by the human brain. It has not been established yet whether this is in fact the case.

Remko Scha: "Muziek in 1983." Eindhovens Dagblad, December 31, 1983.

Remko Scha: "Music and Mechanics." In: D. Raaymakers (ed.): Anti Qua Musica. The Hague: SDU, 1989, pp. 67-72. [In Dutch.]

Remko Scha: "Virtual Voices." Mediamatic 7, 1 (1992), pp. 27-42.

Huge Harry: "A Computational Perspective on Twenty-First Century Music." Contemporary Music Review, 14, 3 (1995), pp. 153-159. (Proceedings of the Conference "Leaving the Twentieth Century. Ideas and Visions for New Music", Bretton Hall University College, 28-30 March, 1994.)

Remko Scha: "George Brecht and WATER-YAM." Simulacrum 4, 2 (May 1995), pp. 16-17. [In Dutch.]

Markwin J. van den Berg: Aspects of a Formal Theory of Music Cognition. Ph. D. Dissertation, University of Amsterdam. September 30, 1996. (Promotor: Remko Scha.)

Christiane ten Hoopen: Perceptions of Sound; Source, Cause and Human Presence in Electroacoustic Music. Ph. D. Dissertation, University of Amsterdam. April 21, 1997. (Promotors: Remko Scha and Rembrandt Wolpert.)

Huge Harry: "Radio for Everyone; a Computer's Reflections on the Future of Broadcasting." In: Eric Kluitenberg (ed.):  New Media Logbook KUNST.NRW.NL, pp. 28-29. Amsterdam: De Balie, September 1999. [Reprinted in: Michael Fahres and Othmar Schimmel (eds.):  Soundscapes be)for(e 2000, pp. 43-46. Amsterdam: Centre for Electronic Music, 1999.]

Remko Scha: "Computer linguistics and music education." In: Frans Evers, Lucas van der Velden and Jan Peter van der Wenden (eds.): The Art of Programming, pp. 117-120. Amsterdam: Sonic Acts Press / De Balie, 2002.

Jos de Bruin and Remko Scha: "Iedereen zijn eigen DJ." Automatisering Gids, June 27, 2003, p. 17.