Personal information Surname(s) / First name(s) Grill, Thomas Address(es) Heinestraße 13/7, 1020 Wien, Austria Telephone(s) +43 660 6110261 Email(s) [email protected] Website http://grrrr.org Nationality(-ies) Austrian Date of birth August, 8th 1972 Gender Male Occupational field Electroacoustic composition and performance, digital sound art, machine listening and machine learning Work experience since 9.2020 Vice Head of the Artistic Research Center (ARC) at the University of Music and Per- forming Arts Vienna since 10.2019 Head of the Certificate Program in Electroacoustic and Experimental Music (ELAK) at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna since 10.2018 Senior lecturer at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna, Institute for Composition, Electroacoustics and Tonmeister-Education since 05.2018 Artistic researcher at the University of Music and Performing Arts, Vienna. Project manager and Principal investigator for the artistic research project rotting sounds – Embracing the temporal deterioration of digital audio (FWF AR445-G24) 06.2012–04.2018 Postdoctoral researcher at the Austrian Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence (OFAI), Vienna, Group for Intelligent Music Processing and Machine Learning 07.2017–09.2017 Paternal leave 12.2012–04.2013 Paternal leave 09–12.2011 Visiting artist and researcher at IRCAM, Paris, France 2009–2011 Scientific associate (project manager) at the University of Music and Performing Arts, Vienna 2008–2012 Researcher at the Austrian Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence (OFAI), Vi- enna, Group for Intelligent Music Processing and Machine Learning 2004–2015 Curator for the contemporary music series ‘Neue Musik in St. Ruprecht’ 2004–2012, 2015–2018 Associate lecturer at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna, Institute for Composition and Electroacoustics 2003–2015 Associate lecturer at the University of Applied Arts Vienna, Institute for Trans-Media Arts 2003–2009 CEO and CTO of Köcher & Grill OEG (commercial development of interactive media systems) 1999–2000 Civil service as social worker 1991–2003 Contractor for ICT services, mostly for technical acoustics and interactive media since 1991 Independent composer, performer and media artist Invitations and appearances (selection) November 2018 Orpheus research summit: Selected participant, Gent, Belgium September 2018 ars electronica festival, symposium Sonic Saturday: Invited speaker and panelist, Linz, Austria September 2016 ars electronica festival, audiovisual installation: Relative realities, Linz, Austria August 2016 European Forum Alpbach, Higher Education Symposion, opening performance: 1flug1, Alpbach, Austria Page 1 / 4 - Curriculum vitæ of Dr.phil. Thomas Grill, MA September 2015 todaysart festival, audiovisual installation: Walter, Scheveningen, Netherlands October 2014 TADAEX festival, electroacoustic solo performance: Extended View, Tehran, Iran September 2011 IRCAM Séminaire recherche–création: invited talk Touch the sound, Paris, France Exhibitions (selection) May 2018 rising-up flowing-down group exhibition, graphic and sound installation: ober- halb/unterhalb, Vienna, Austria September 2016 ars electronica festival, audiovisual installation: Relative realities, Linz, Austria September 2015 todaysart festival, audiovisual installation: Walter, Scheveningen, Netherlands July 2014 Festival Konfrontationen Nickelsdorf, audio installation: they sound, Nickelsdorf, Aus- tria October 2013 May space gallery, solo exhibition, audiovisual installation: world construction, varia- tion: empty vessel, New Orleans, USA October 2010 Filament festival @ EMPAC, audiovisual installation: Relative realities, Troy, USA May 2010 Medienkunstlabor @ Kunsthaus Graz, solo exhibition, audiovisual installation: 1/space, Graz, Austria Prizes and stipends (selection) 2017 Artist residency at Villa Stonborough-Wittgenstein, Kunstsammlung Oberösterreich 2017 Work stipend by Austrian Federal Chancellery 2015 Work stipend by Austrian Federal Chancellery 2014 Outstanding artist award for Interdisciplinarity, Bonus prize, Austrian Federal Chan- cellery 2012 Award of Excellence, Austrian Federal Ministry of Science and Research 2011 Laureate of the IRCAM Musical Research Residency, IRCAM, Paris, France 2011 Artist residency, Cité des Arts, Paris, France 2010 Theodor-Körner-Prize, Vienna, Austria 2009 Prix Ars Electronica, Honorary mention, Linz, Austria Peer review activities 2011, 2012, 2016, 2017 Reviewer for the Sound and Music Computing (SMC) Conference 2012–2016 Reviewer for the International Society for Music Information Retrieval (ISMIR) Confer- ence 2015 Reviewer for the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence 2012 Program Committee member for the International Computer Music Conference (ICMC) 2011, 2012 Reviewer for the IRCAM Musical research residency Funded projects as applicant and co-applicant (selection) 2017 Rotting sounds – embracing the temporal deterioration of digital audio, PEEK call, Austrian Science Fund (FWF), duration 3.5 years, funding amount 400,000 e 2012 Automatic segmentation, labelling and characterisation of audio streams, Transla- tional Research line, Austrian Science Fund (FWF) and Austrian Federal Ministry for Transport, Innovation and Technology (bmvit), duration 3 years, funding amount 400,000 e 2008 Towards annotation of electroacoustic music, Austrian Science Fund (FWF), duration 2 years, funding amount 230,000 e 2006 Public Display Control Engine, Departure call, Vienna Business Agency, duration 2 years, funding amount 100,000 e 2003 Maestra, the multimedia performer, Creative Industries call, Vienna Business Agency, duration 3 years, funding amount 100,000 e Page 2 / 4 - Curriculum vitæ of Dr.phil. Thomas Grill, MA Peer-reviewed publications of the last five years T. Grill, T. Bovermann, and A. Schilling, “Embracing the temporal deterioration of dig- ital audio: A manifesto,” in Proceedings of the Politics of the Machines Conference, 2018 A. Flexer, M. Dörfler, J. Schlüter, and T. Grill, “Hubness as a case of technical algo- rithmic bias in music recommendation,” in Proceedings of ICDM Workshop on High Dimensional Data Mining (HDM’18), (Singapore, Singapore), 2018 M. Dörfler, T. Grill, A. Flexer, and J. Schlüter, “Basic filters for convolutional neural networks applied to music: Training or design?,” Neural Computing and Applications, vol. Special Issue on Deep Learning for Music and Audio, 2018 M. Dörfler, R. Bammer, and T. Grill, “Inside the spectrogram: Convolutional neural networks in audio processing,” in Sampling Theory and Applications (SampTA), 2017 International Conference on, pp. 152–155, IEEE, 2017 A. Flexer and T. Grill, “The problem of limited inter-rater agreement in modelling music similarity,” Journal of New Music Research, vol. 45, no. 3, pp. 239–251, 2016. PMID: 28190932 A. Holzapfel and T. Grill, “Bayesian meter tracking on learned signal representations,” in ISMIR-International Conference on Music Information Retrieval, pp. 262–268, IS- MIR, 2016 T. Grill and J. Schlüter, “Music Boundary Detection Using Neural Networks on Com- bined Features and Two-Level Annotations,” in Proceedings of the 16th International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference (ISMIR 2015), (Malaga, Spain), 2015 J. Schlüter and T. Grill, “Exploring Data Augmentation for Improved Singing Voice Detection with Neural Networks,” in Proceedings of the 16th International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference (ISMIR 2015), (Malaga, Spain), 2015 T. Grill and J. Schlüter, “Music Boundary Detection Using Neural Networks on Spec- trograms and Self-Similarity Lag Matrices,” in Proceedings of the 24th European Sig- nal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO 2015), (Nice, France), 2015 K. Ullrich, J. Schlüter, and T. Grill, “Boundary Detection in Music Structure Analysis using Convolutional Neural Networks,” in Proceedings of the 15th International Soci- ety for Music Information Retrieval Conference (ISMIR 2014), (Taipei, Taiwan), 2014 T. Grill, “On world construction, variation: duoddaris,” in xCoAx 2014 – Computation, Communication, Aesthetics and X, (Porto, Portugal), 2014 N. Holighaus, M. Dörfler, G. A. Velasco, and T. Grill, “A framework for invertible, real- time constant-q transforms,” IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Pro- cessing, vol. 21, no. 4, pp. 775–785, 2013 Non Peer-reviewed publications and works of the last five years (selection) N. Krenn and T. Grill, “oberhalb/unterhalb.” 12-part graphic and sound installation, 2018 T. Grill and A. Hvizdalek, “5cm higher.” Radio art, commissioned by Ö1 Kunstradio, 2018 T. Grill, “World construction, variation: better proportions!.” Listening experience, com- missioned by Kunstsammlung Oberösterreich, 2017 T. Grill, “the bore.” Electroacoustic composition, ars electronica festival, Linz, Austria, 2016 Page 3 / 4 - Curriculum vitæ of Dr.phil. Thomas Grill, MA L. Geeven and T. Grill, “Walter.” Generative sound installation, commissioned by to- daysart festival, Scheveningen, Netherlands, 2015 T. Grill, “World construction, variation: jars of sound.” Participative sound environment, commissioned by Schmiede festival, Hallein, Austria, 2015 H. Kaltenbrunner and T. Grill, “die tönen (they sound).” Interactive sound installation, commissioned by festival Konfrontationen, Nickelsdorf, Austria, 2014 T. Grill, “Extended view.” Modular multichannel electroacoustic composi- tion/performance, TADAEX festival, 2014 T. Grill and A. Castelló, “Tractu temporis.” Musical inquiry into the temporal structure of urban space, commissioned