Post-doctoral fellow
Schulich School of Music, McGill University
Areas of Interest
- Timbre perception
- Instrumental blend and its perceptual and acoustical correlates
- Role of timbre in music and orchestration
- Musical scene analysis
- Spatial and room-acoustical factors related to timbre
Education
PhD in Music Technology, Schulich School of Music, McGill University (2009-2014)
MA in Musicology, Acoustics and Audio Technology, Technische Universität Berlin, Germany (2000-2007)
- thesis: Dimensionen der Klangfarbe - Skalierung von Instrumentalklängen unterschiedlicher Tonhöhe
ERASMUS academic mobility program in Psychology, Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal (2004-2005)
Work experience
R&D engineer, Akustikbüro Krämer & Stegmaier, Berlin, Germany (2006-2009)
- development of an acoustical measurement, analysis and prediction system
Course instructor
- MUMT 303: New Media Production 2 (Winter 2011, 2012, 2013)
Congress Contributions
Lembke, S.-A. and McAdams, S. (2011). "The relevance of spectral shape to perceptual blend between wind instrument timbres." CIRMMT Student Symposium, Montreal, Canada.
Lembke, S.-A. and McAdams, S. (2011). "The relevance of spectral shape to perceptual blend between wind instrument timbres." Society for Music Perception and Cognition (SMPC), Rochester, NY, USA.
Lembke, S.-A. and McAdams, S. (2012). "A spectral-envelope synthesis model to study perceptual blend between wind instruments." 11th Congrès Français d'Acoustique and 2012 IOA annual meeting (Acoustics 2012), Nantes, France.
Lembke, S.-A. and McAdams, S. (2012). "Timbre blending of wind instruments: acoustics and perception.” 5th International Conference of Students of Systematic Musicology (SysMus12), Montreal, Canada.
Lembke, S.-A. and McAdams, S. (2012). "Establishing a spectral theory for perceptual timbre blending based on spectral envelope characteristics.” 12th International Conference on Music Perception and Cognition (ICMPC-ESCOM 2012), Thessaloniki, Greece.