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We are pleased to share our just-published paper in the journal Nature Communications, entitled 'Timbral effects on consonance disentangle psychoacoustic mechanisms and suggest perceptual origins for musical scales'. This work represents a long-term collaboration with colleagues at the Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics (Nori Jacoby) and Princeton University (Raja Marjieh), amongst others.

You can find our University press coverage here: https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/pythagoras-was-wrong-there-are-no-un...

You can find the paper itself here: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-024-45812-z

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Claire Brillon to start funded PhD at McGill University

8 April 2024

We are proud to share that Claire Brillon, recent CMS MPhil student (2022-23), will be starting a funded PhD later this year at McGill University. Claire hopes to study the emotions of timbre, and will be perfectly located to do so with Stephen McAdams and Marcelo Wanderley. Congratulations Claire!