About
- My name is Gewenxin Yu, born and raised in China.
- Co-founder of the Mountaineering Acoustics Network (MAN) and a member of the "Mantle Program" duo, dedicated to exploring the intersection of mountaineering and acoustics.
- A dedicated field recordist with a deep passion for mountaineering and hiking: Have conducted several field recording experiments in China, the UK, France, and Switzerland since 2023.
- An ardent Linux user (Artix, Alpine and Manjaro Linux), distributor of Free and Open-source softwares and decentralized network architectures; A philosophy-driven contributor with expertise in distributing and using various anonymity network technologies.
- A project manager leading multiple web projects (related to art, music and philosophy); A meticulous typesetter, reprinter, and translator of historical music, poetry, and philosophical documents.
- A poet: Writes poems on naturalistic-individualistic-romantic themes that continue the aesthetic movement occurred in 19th-century German Idealism. Lebensphilosophie, Naturphilosophie, and George-Kreis aestheticism.
- A peaceful and life-long music lover with huge collection of CDs and Vinyl.
Research interests
- Mountaineering Acoustics, Field Recording
- Electroacoustic Composition, Data Sonification
- Digital Signal Processing, Virtual Acoustics
- History of Music Ideas, Archival Studies
- Security, Privacy, and Anonymity Technologies
Code
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Denoising of Ecological Bird Song Recordings Using Autoencoder Model (2023) [pdf] [code]
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Sound Installation With IanniX, Arduino and Max/MSP (2022) [pdf] [presentation] [code]
Research
- Enhancing McAdams Coefficient-Based Speaker Anonymisation with Cross-Gender Timbre Transfer [pdf] [presentation] [code] [demo]
Mountaineering Acoustics
Talks
- Brief Auditory Storage: Take the “Darwin1972” and “Treisman1972” as examples (Nov, 2022) [pdf]
- Source Mixing and Separation Robust Audio Stegenography (March, 2023) [pdf]
Contact
- g.yu at se22.qmul.ac.uk (please use this address for academic)
- g.yu at mantle-sound.org (for general topics)
