Rafael Ferrer Flores

Campus Puebla

SNI: (Sistema Nacional de Investigadores)
Grupo de Investigación de Enfoque Estratégico (GIEE): Sociedad del Conocimiento

Semblanza

El Dr. Ferrer se dedica al estudio científico de la música. Recibió los grados de Doctor en Musicología y Maestría en Música, Mente y Tecnología por la Universidad de Jyväskylä, Finlandia. Y la Licenciatura en Música por la Universidad de las Américas-Puebla en México. Realizó estancias de verano en el Instituto de Psicoacústica y Música Electrónica en la Universidad de Ghent, Bélgica, en dónde profundizó en el estudio de los métodos usados en la musicología sistemática. Se formó como investigador en el Centro Finés de Excelencia para la Investigación Interdisciplinaria en Música. Actualmente es investigador en la Escuela Nacional de Educación, Ciencias Sociales y Humanidades, y profesor en la carrera de Producción Musical Digital del Tecnológico de Monterrey.

Clases

Día

Horario

* Teoría, sociología, percepción y cognición de la música

Día

Horario

* Programación de audio y técnica vocal

Investigaciones realizadas

Actualmente se encuentra desarrollando algoritmos para investigar el fenómeno del timbre y sus efectos en el ser humano, particularmente en el desarrollo de las preferencias musicales.
Explora convergencias entre los aspectos semánticos, perceptuales y acústicos del timbre musical desde la perspectiva de la cognición socialmente distribuida, combinando métodos de extracción de información musical y procesamiento de lenguajes naturales.

Docencia

Ha impartido cursos de teoría, sociología, percepción y cognición de la música, programación de audio y técnica vocal.

Publicaciones

Artículos

Eerola, T., Ferrer, R, & Alluri, V. (2012) Timbre and Affect Dimensions: Evidence from Affect and Similarity Ratings and Acoustic Correlates of Isolated Instrument Sounds. Music Perception: An Interdisciplinary Journal, Vol. 30, No. 1, pp. 49-70
Ferrer, R. & Eerola, T., & Vuoskoski, J. (2012). Enhancing Genre-based Measures of Music Preference by User-defined Liking and Social Tags. Psychology of Music
Ferrer, R. (2011). Timbral Environments: An ecological approach to the cognition of timbre. Empirical Musicology Review, 6(2).
Ferrer, R. & Eerola, T. (2011). Semantic structures of timbre emerging from social and acoustic descriptions of music. EURASIP Journal on Audio, Speech, and Music Processing, 2011, 2011:11.
Ferrer, R. (2009). Embodied Cognition Applied to Timbre and Musical Appreciation: Theoretical Foundation. British Postgraduate Musicology, Vol 10.
Eerola, T., & Ferrer, R. (2008). Instrument library (MUMS) revised. Music Perception, 25(3), 253–255.

Actas de congreso

Ferrer, R. & Eerola, T. (2011). AMP: Artist-based Musical Preferences Derived from Free Verbal Responses and Social Tags. In Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME). Barcelona, Spain.
Ferrer, R. & Eerola, T. (2011). Looking Beyond Genres: Identifying Meaningful Semantic Layers from Tags in Online Music Collections. In Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on Machine Learning and Applications. Honolulu, Hawaii.
Ferrer, R. & Eerola, T. (2010). Timbral Qualities of Semantic Structures of Music. In Proceedings of the 11th International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference (ISMIR). Utrecht, Netherlands, pp. 571-576.
Ferrer, R. (2008). Embodied Cognition Applied to Timbre and Musical Appreciation: Theoretical foundation. M. M. Marin, M. Knoche, & R. Parncutt (Eds.). In Proceedings of the First International Conference of Students of Systematic Musicology (SysMus08), Graz,Austria, pp. 35-40.
Eerola, T., Alluri, V., & Ferrer, R. (2008). Emotional connotations of isolated instruments sounds. In Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Music Perception and Cognition (ICMPC10), pp. 483–489, Sapporo, Japan. University of Hokkaido.

Tesis

Ferrer, R. (2012). "The Socially Distributed Cognition of Musical Timbre: a Convergence of Semantic, Perceptual, and Acoustic Aspects" PhD Dissertation. Jyväskylä: Jyväskylän Yliopisto.
Ferrer, R. (2007). “The Role of Timbre in the Memorization of Microtonal Intervals” M.A. Thesis. Jyväskylä: Jyväskylän Yliopisto.

Actividades

Presentaciones

Ferrer, R. (2009). Defining ‘Timbral Environments’ Using a Large Musical Database and Perceptual Similarity. The 7th Triennial Conference of European Society for the Cognitive Sciences of Music (ESCOM), Jyväskylä, Finland.
Ferrer, R. (2009). Music genre classification through social behaviour data. The 13th Annual Symposium for Music Scholars in Finland. Turku, Finland.
Ferrer, R. (2008). Embodied cognition applied to timbre and musical appreciation: Theoretical foundation. The 1st International Conference of Students of Systematic Musicology (SysMus), Graz, Austria.
Ferrer, R. (2008). Music appreciation schemata as a function of timbre. At International Summer School in Systematic Musicology. Ghent, Belgium.
Eerola, T., & Ferrer, R. (2007). “Emotional Qualities of Isolated Instrumental Sounds”. In Abstracts of The 11th National Symposium on Music Research. Oulu: Oulun Yliopisto

Carteles

Ferrer, R. & Eerola, T. (2012). Deriving Musical Preference Profiles from Liked and Disliked Artists. In Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Music Perception and Cognition (ICMPC) 8th Triennial Conference of the European Society for the Cognitive Sciences of Music (ESCOM). Thessaloniki, Grece, July 23-28.
Ferrer, R. & Eerola, T. (2010). Timbral Qualities of Semantic Structures of Music. In Proceedings of the 11th International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference (ISMIR). Utrecht, Netherlands, August 9-13.
Ferrer,R. (2009). Visualizing Social Descriptions of Music. Scientific Poster Competition, University of Jyväskylä, October, 2009.
Ferrer, R., Eerola, T., & Vuoskoski, J. K. (2009, August). Is preference for musical genres an adequate measure of musical taste? In 7th Triennial Conference of European Society for the Cognitive Sciences of Music, University of Jyväskylä, Finland, August 12-16.
Eerola, T. & Ferrer, R. (2009, August). Setting the standards: Normative data on audio-based musical features for musical genres. In 7th Triennial Conference of European Society for the Cognitive Sciences of Music, University of Jyväskylä, Finland, August 12-16.
Eerola, T., Alluri, V., & Ferrer, R. (2008, August). Emotional connotations of isolated instruments sounds. In 10th international conference on music perception and cognition. Sapporo, Japan.
Ferrer, R. (2007, November). Is Timbre a Relevant Feature in Ear Training? In Michele Biasutti (Ed.), Abstracts of the International Conference TMT07. (pp.60 & 106). Padova: Cooperativa Libraria Editrice Università di Padova.

Herramientas / Bases de datos

Artist-based music profiler. (2012). AMP is a tool that transforms lists of liked and disliked artists into a standard psychometric test to assess music preferences.
http://amp.cc.jyu.fi
Looking Beyond Genres: Semantic Layers Database. (2011). A database containing 12,386 tags that have been attributed with scores according to 10 categories.
https://www.jyu.fi/hum/laitokset/musiikki/en/research/coe/materials/tags/byondg
MUMS installer. (2008). Downloadable package containing an installer of the 6546 samples available in MUMS 3-DVD set released in 2006, which remaps the collection in a comprehensible way and rename the files homogeneously for further automatic retrieval.
http://www.jyu.fi/hum/laitokset/musiikki/en/research/coe/materials/mums/