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Read more at: Lottie Anstee to start funded PhD at Goldsmiths College

Lottie Anstee to start funded PhD at Goldsmiths College

21 February 2024

We are very pleased to hear that Lottie Anstee, recent undergraduate student at the Centre for Music and Science (2021-22), has just received a PhD scholarship from Goldsmiths, University of London. Lottie will be starting the PhD in September, working with Lauren Stewart and Katie Rose Sanfilippo. The project concerns...

Read more at: New paper: Timbral effects on consonance disentangle psychoacoustic mechanisms and suggest perceptual origins for musical scales

New paper: Timbral effects on consonance disentangle psychoacoustic mechanisms and suggest perceptual origins for musical scales

19 February 2024

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...

Read more at: Xiaoxuan Wang to start funded PhD at the Digital and Cognitive Musicology Lab at EPFL, Switzerland

Xiaoxuan Wang to start funded PhD at the Digital and Cognitive Musicology Lab at EPFL, Switzerland

2 February 2024

We are delighted for Xiaoxuan Wang, recent CMS MPhil student (2022-23), who has just accepted a PhD position at the Digital and Cognitive Musicology Lab (DCML) at EPFL, Switzerland. The DCML is run by Martin Rohrmeier, himself an alumnus of the Centre for Music and Science. The current plan is to use deep learning to model...

Read more at: Xi Zhang and Sam Leak pass their PhD vivas

Xi Zhang and Sam Leak pass their PhD vivas

12 October 2023

Hearty congratulations to CMS PhD students Xi Zhang and Sam Leak for successfully completing their PhD vivas! Xi’s thesis was entitled ‘Singing in Chaozhou: The relationship between tones and songs’. Sam’s thesis was entitled “Can adults learn absolute pitch? Evaluating the ‘Melody Triggers’ method”. Both impressed their...

Read more at: Summer research placements at SoundOut

Summer research placements at SoundOut

11 October 2023

Congratulations to our undergraduate students who completed research placements at SoundOut this summer! SoundOut is a world leader in new music testing, helping major record companies to predict how music will resonate with customers, and helping organisations to match brand personality to music. Project titles: Reuben...

Read more at: ICMPC17 presentation - Huw Cheston - Coordination Strategies in Networked Jazz Performances

ICMPC17 presentation - Huw Cheston - Coordination Strategies in Networked Jazz Performances

4 September 2023

We just got back from from an inspiring ICMPC17 (International Conference for Music Perception and Cognition) in Tokyo. It was so great to hear from music psychology laboratories over the world, and to reconnect with old friends and colleagues. Several of our CMS members presented at this conference, including PhD student...

Read more at: Michaelmas 2023 seminars announced
CMS seminar Nov 2021 - Camilla Fletcher

Michaelmas 2023 seminars announced

30 August 2023

The seminar list for Michaelmas 2023 has now been published on the CMS seminars page ! We are excited to have guests joining us from institutes around the world, including Europe, the United States, and Australia, to talk about a variety of topics spanning pitch, rhythm, timbre, and memory.

Read more at: Research associate position for managing a randomised controlled trial of music therapy with autistic children

Research associate position for managing a randomised controlled trial of music therapy with autistic children

30 August 2023

The Autism Research Centre at the Cambridge Department of Psychiatry is looking to appoint a research associate (fixed-term) to manage a randomised controlled trial of music therapy with autistic children. The application deadline is 10 September 2023. For more details see the following link: https://www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job...

Read more at: British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowships: open for applications

British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowships: open for applications

11 July 2023

Applications for British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowships are now open for a start date from 1 st September 2024. This is an excellent opportunity to conduct an independent postdoctoral research project at the Centre for Music & Science. British citizens and any nationals from the European Economic Area are eligible...

Read more at: New paper: Handedness and musicality in secondary school students

New paper: Handedness and musicality in secondary school students

1 July 2023

We are very proud of Lottie Anstee, CMS alumnus, whose undergraduate dissertation paper has now been published in the journal Music Perception. The paper describes a large-scale quantitative investigation of potential associations between handedness and musicality in secondary school students. Congratulations Lottie...

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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...

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...

New paper: Consonance in the carillon

21 August 2024

Our new paper entitled 'Consonance in the carillon' has just been published in the Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. This paper grew out of an undergraduate dissertation by James MacConnachie. Well done James! The paper explores an interesting phenomenon whereby the idiosyncratic frequency spectrum of the...

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