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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 purpose of this workshop was t…

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 years. We are very gratef…

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 modelling, taking a CAD m…

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 Arild Stenberg (Senior Rese…

Image (left to right): Lottie Anstee, Huw Cheston, Peter Harrison, Xi Zhang, Ian CrossWe had our first post-COVID conference trip this weekend, to the 50th anniversary conference of the Society for Education, Music and Psychology Research (SEMPRE). It was great to catch up with old friends and meet more of the community. We are particularly proud o…

The University of Cambridge has just launched a new research centre: the Centre for Human-Inspired Artificial Intelligence (CHIA). CHIA will be bringing together researchers from many parts of the University, including engineering and mathematics, philosophy, and social sciences. The goal is to investigate how human and machine intelligence can be …

DataCamp has kindly renewed its support for Music & Science teaching at the CMS. They will be providing our undergraduate students with free online data science classes over the 2022 summer holidays. Students will be taking classes in Python, learning fundamental programming and data analysis skills that will serve them very well for future researc…

We are very proud of our nine Part II project students who completed their studies this summer. Each of them conducted their own research project over the course of the academic year, which they wrote up as a dissertation for their final examinations. Topics included emotion, acoustics, memorability, musical abilities, and ADHD.We are particularly …

We are delighted to have been awarded a £20,000 grant from the Cambridge Humanities Research Grants Scheme for the project 'Transforming music cognition research through next-generation online experiments'. This grant will drive ongoing development of our PsyNet software. PsyNet provides a concise yet highly expressive language for designing divers…

We are pleased to have received a Project Incubation Grant from the Centre for Digital Humanities to support Huw Cheston's PhD research. This £2000 grant is supporting the development and validation of an exciting new software tool for studying interaction in musical performances. Musicians (e.g. a jazz duo) play together on MIDI instruments, with …

We are happy to share our new publication, 'REPP: A robust cross-platform solution for online sensorimotor synchronization experiments', a project led by researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics and the Centre for Music and Science (Manuel Anglada-Tort; Peter Harrison; Nori Jacoby). REPP (Rhythm ExPeriment Platform) is a new…

CAMathories is a project run by a group of Cambridge University alumni and faculty members whose goal is to develop fun and interactive stories and games for teaching young children mathematics. Music often plays an important role in these applications. Third-year CMS undergraduate student Silas Sanders got involved recently, and has contributed vo…

I gave a talk today at Goldsmiths, University of London, speaking to the students and lecturers of the MSc in Music, Mind & Brain and MSc in Psychology of Aesthetics, Neuroscience and Creativity. The talk was titled Computational theories of aesthetics, and presented an argument for why computational theories are crucial for the goal of developing …

Michaelmas Term has been drawing to an end, and our Part II undergraduate students have been making excellent progress on their coursework research projects.Ellis Thomas has been studying the sense in which room acoustics affects expert performances of keyboard music.Emily Trubshaw has been running a series of large-scale online experiments studyin…

DataCamp will support our undergraduate Music and Science students with free data science classes over the 2021 Christmas holidays. Students will be taking classes in R and Python, learning fundamental programming and data analysis skills that will serve them very well for future research projects.Click here to learn more about the DataCamp for Cla…