Prof. Dr. Frank Scherbaum

Frank Scherbaum is a retired Professor of Geophysics at the University of Potsdam/Germany where he created  the SeismoSoundScape-Lab, a virtual lab space for transdisciplinary work in the fields of seismology, acoustics, musicology, and computer science. Since 2018 he lead the Potsdam part of the GVM-project (Computational ethnomusicology of traditional Georgian vocal music). Since 2015, his academic research focuses on the field of computational ethnomusicology. In this context he is working on the  development of  new field recording techniques including the manufacturing  of sensors, the generation of new multi-media datasets of traditional Georgian vocal music for computational analysis, the development of new visualisation techniques for non-western music, and the acoustical analysis of audio data.  He has also done extensive field work in Georgia, primarily in Svaneti and Adjara.