Peter Townsend's music commenced with violin lessons at the age of 4, he has played in quartets and orchestras, researched violin making techniques, lectured on physics of music, and sings (baritone). His research in physics and engineering is unusually diverse with topics ranging from luminescence, ion implanted waveguide lasers, optical detection of breast cancer (Descartes prize finalist), to archaeology and geology. He has also worked on commercial engineering products. He has PhD and DSc degrees plus honorary doctorates from both the Autonoma Universidad de Madrid and the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. His scientific outputs include some 550 publications, 7 books plus patents.

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• 1: Music - an ever-changing landscape 2: Musical development assisted by technology 3: Musicianship and the cult of personality 4: Signal processing by the brain 5: Interpreting complex sounds 6: Scales - idealism or compromise? 7: Musical changes driven by technology 8: Development of fixed frequency keyboards 9: Decay of information and data loss 10: From live music to electronic offerings 11: Analogue or digital recording 12: The voice 13: Acoustics of concert halls and rooms 14: Orchestral layout and the best concert seats 15: Music, Emotions and Political Influences

Peter Townsend's music commenced with violin lessons at the age of 4, he has played in quartets and orchestras, researched violin making techniques, lectured on physics of music, and sings (baritone). His research in physics and engineering is unusually diverse with topics ranging from luminescence, ion implanted waveguide lasers, optical detection of breast cancer (Descartes prize finalist), to archaeology and geology. He has also worked on commercial engineering products. He has PhD and DSc degrees plus honorary doctorates from both the Autonoma Universidad de Madrid and the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. His scientific outputs include some 550 publications, 7 books plus patents.

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• 1: Music - an ever-changing landscape 2: Musical development assisted by technology 3: Musicianship and the cult of personality 4: Signal processing by the brain 5: Interpreting complex sounds 6: Scales - idealism or compromise? 7: Musical changes driven by technology 8: Development of fixed frequency keyboards 9: Decay of information and data loss 10: From live music to electronic offerings 11: Analogue or digital recording 12: The voice 13: Acoustics of concert halls and rooms 14: Orchestral layout and the best concert seats 15: Music, Emotions and Political Influences

Peter Townsend's music commenced with violin lessons at the age of 4, he has played in quartets and orchestras, researched violin making techniques, lectured on physics of music, and sings (baritone). His research in physics and engineering is unusually diverse with topics ranging from luminescence, ion implanted waveguide lasers, optical detection of breast cancer (Descartes prize finalist), to archaeology and geology. He has also worked on commercial engineering products. He has PhD and DSc degrees plus honorary doctorates from both the Autonoma Universidad de Madrid and the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. His scientific outputs include some 550 publications, 7 books plus patents.

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• 1: Music - an ever-changing landscape 2: Musical development assisted by technology 3: Musicianship and the cult of personality 4: Signal processing by the brain 5: Interpreting complex sounds 6: Scales - idealism or compromise? 7: Musical changes driven by technology 8: Development of fixed frequency keyboards 9: Decay of information and data loss 10: From live music to electronic offerings 11: Analogue or digital recording 12: The voice 13: Acoustics of concert halls and rooms 14: Orchestral layout and the best concert seats 15: Music, Emotions and Political Influences