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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...

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.

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...

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...

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...

New paper: "Large-scale iterated singing experiments reveal oral transmission mechanisms underlying music evolution"

23 March 2023

We just published a new paper in the journal Current Biology, entitled "Large-scale iterated singing experiments reveal oral transmission mechanisms underlying music evolution". This was a fun project where we 'evolved' melodies in massive online experiments, getting participants to vocally imitate melodies from each other...

Workshop "Decoding Musical Structure: Theory, Computation, and Neuroscience" (5-9 February 2023)

10 February 2023

We cohosted a workshop entitled "Decoding Musical Structure: Theory, Computation, and Neuroscience" together with Martin Rohrmeier (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne) and Markus Neuwirth (Anton Bruckner University Linz). The workshop took place at the beautiful location of Monte Verità, Ascona, Switzerland. The...

Elizabeth MacGregor appointed to new position at Birmingham City University

9 December 2022

We are happy to report that Elizabeth MacGregor has been appointed as a Research Fellow in Creativity in Arts Education at Birmingham City University, starting in January 2023. Elizabeth recently finished her PhD in music education, and has been a dedicated contributor to undergraduate teaching at the CMS over the last few...

New paper: A case study investigating the interaction between tuba acoustic radiation patterns and performance spaces

27 October 2022

Recent CMS undergraduate Silas Sanders just presented his dissertation project at the 153rd Convention of the Audio Engineering Society. The project is entitled 'A case study investigating the interaction between tuba acoustic radiation patterns and performance spaces'. Silas put together an impressive pipeline of acoustic...

New PhD and research assistant positions: Score design for music reading

11 October 2022

We are happy to share several new positions at our Centre for Music and Science (Faculty of Music, Cambridge). These positions are part of the Leverhulme Trust-funded project Score designs for the facilitation of music reading: Cognitive and artistic perspectives led by Professor Ian Cross (Principal Investigator) and Dr...

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Library exhibition entitled 'Music and Science: Exploring the Scientific Principles Behind Musical Phenomena'

4 July 2024

Harriet Edwards, recent undergraduate music and science student, has curated a library exhibition entitled 'Music and Science: Exploring the Scientific Principles Behind Musical Phenomena'. This exhibition is currently on display at the John's College Library, and has an online version available at this link . Do have a...

Call for papers: Tacit Engagement in the Digital Age (TEDA) 2024

2 July 2024

Tacit Engagement in the Digital Age (TEDA) 2024 continues the discussion from the 2019 conference that was co-hosted by the Centre for Music and Science and CRASSH Re-Network and international Polanyi Society, sponsored by the AI & Society Journal (Springer). The 2024 conference will take place in Cambridge over 2 days...

Huw Cheston starts internship at Spotify

10 June 2024

Good luck to Huw Cheston, current CMS PhD student, who starts an internship with Spotify today! Huw will be developing new machine-learning models for better understanding how different people contribute individual stylistic elements to musical recordings.

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

Michaelmas 2023 seminars announced

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

British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowships: open for applications

New paper: Handedness and musicality in secondary school students

New paper: "Large-scale iterated singing experiments reveal oral transmission mechanisms underlying music evolution"

Workshop "Decoding Musical Structure: Theory, Computation, and Neuroscience" (5-9 February 2023)

Elizabeth MacGregor appointed to new position at Birmingham City University

New paper: A case study investigating the interaction between tuba acoustic radiation patterns and performance spaces

New PhD and research assistant positions: Score design for music reading

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