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Read more at: 2026 SEMPRE PGR/ECR Conference – Call for submissions

2026 SEMPRE PGR/ECR Conference – Call for submissions

14 October 2025

The 2026 SEMPRE PGR/ECR Conference will take place on 16 April 2026 at the Faculty of Music, University of Cambridge . It will be hosted by the Centre for Music and Science (University of Cambridge) and the Music, Mind and Brain group (Goldsmiths College, University of London). The remit of the conference is music...


Read more at: Harin Lee wins best student paper award at ISMIR 2025

Harin Lee wins best student paper award at ISMIR 2025

2 October 2025

We're really proud of Harin Lee for winning best student paper award at ISMIR 2025! The paper is entitled " GlobalMood: A cross-cultural benchmark for music emotion recognition ", and presents a methodology for automatically collecting music emotion descriptors across diverse languages. Harin will be joining us later this...


Read more at: 2026 SEMPRE PGR/ECR Conference - Save the date!

2026 SEMPRE PGR/ECR Conference - Save the date!

22 September 2025

The 2026 SEMPRE PGR/ECR Conference will be held on Thursday 16th April 2026 for postgraduate and early career researchers (PGRs/ECRs) in the fields of music psychology and music education. It will be jointly hosted by the Centre for Music and Science (University of Cambridge) and the Music, Mind and Brain group (Goldsmiths...


Read more at: Isaac Sebenius wins Best Poster award at the CHIA conference

Isaac Sebenius wins Best Poster award at the CHIA conference

27 June 2025

Many congratulations to Isaac Sebenius for winning the Best Poster award at the 2025 Centre for Human Inspired Artificial Intelligence Conference! Isaac has been working with us this summer on this project, called "Cognitive Benchmarking of Symbolic Music Foundation Models".


Read more at: Maddie Jones starting PhD at Bristol University

Maddie Jones starting PhD at Bristol University

28 March 2025

We are very pleased to hear that Maddie Jones, who did an undergraduate dissertation project at the CMS analysing the relationship between music listening and mood, has been awarded a full PhD scholarship to study at Bristol University, in the School of Psychological Science. She will be supervised by Professor Claire...


Read more at: New article: Reverberation time and musical emotion in recorded music listening

New article: Reverberation time and musical emotion in recorded music listening

28 March 2025

Many congratulations to Hannah Wilkie for her recent article in Music Perception entitled 'Reverberation time and musical emotion in recorded music listening'! This article came from Hannah's MPhil thesis at the CMS in 2023. Hannah is now studying for a PhD in Princeton University. Abstract: The influence of room acoustic...


Read more at: Nicky Swett successfully defends PhD

Nicky Swett successfully defends PhD

14 January 2025

We are very pleased to share that Nicky Swett, CMS PhD student, has successfully defended his PhD thesis titled 'Functional Analogies: Hans Keller’s Wordless Functional Analysis as a Theory of Musical Comparison'. This work investigates Hans Keller's innovative 15 Functional Analyses from the perspective of cognitive...


Read more at: New paper: Artist identification using rhythm via machine learning

New paper: Artist identification using rhythm via machine learning

21 October 2024

We are excited to share our new paper appearing in the journal Royal Society Open Science, entitled “Rhythmic Qualities of Jazz Improvisation Predict Performer Identity and Style in Source-Separated Audio Recordings”. This was completed by Huw Cheston during his PhD at the CMS, and builds from two earlier publications...


Read more at: New paper: Computational analysis of improvised music at scale

New paper: Computational analysis of improvised music at scale

1 October 2024

Our new paper entitled “Jazz Trio Database: Automated Annotation of Jazz Piano Trio Recordings Processed Using Audio Source Separation” is just published in Transactions of the International Society of Music Information Retrieval (TISMIR). This paper arises from work completed by Huw Cheston during his PhD at the CMS, in...


Read more at: New paper: Coordinating online music performances

New paper: Coordinating online music performances

1 October 2024

Our new paper entitled “Trade-offs in Coordination Strategies for Duet Jazz Performances Subject to Network Delay and Jitter” has just been published in Music Perception. This paper arises from work completed by Huw Cheston during the early stages of his PhD at the CMS, and was funded by an award from Cambridge Digital...


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