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Funding from the Centre for Digital Humanities

7 April 2022

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...

New paper 'REPP: A robust cross-platform solution for online sensorimotor synchronization experiments'

14 February 2022

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...

Silas Sanders contributes to musical maths training project

24 January 2022

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...

Peter Harrison presents to Goldsmiths Master's students

20 January 2022

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...

Part II student research projects

2 December 2021

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-...

DataCamp supports the CMS with free data science classes

1 December 2021

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...

Ian Cross's farewell seminar

19 October 2021

Today we hosted a farewell for Prof. Ian Cross in recognition of his long tenure as the Centre's director. A great number of former and current students, colleagues, and collaborators came together to share their experiences with Ian and to thank him for their times together. Transcripts from several of the speeches are...

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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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Funding from the Centre for Digital Humanities

New paper 'REPP: A robust cross-platform solution for online sensorimotor synchronization experiments'

Silas Sanders contributes to musical maths training project

Peter Harrison presents to Goldsmiths Master's students

Part II student research projects

DataCamp supports the CMS with free data science classes

Ian Cross's farewell seminar

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