Huw Cheston | Centre for Music and Science

Huw Cheston completed his PhD at the Centre for Music and Science (2021-2025), where he developed large-scale annotated jazz corpora and computational methods for studying musical style, rhythm, coordination, and generative modelling in improvised music.

Projects

Jazz →

Selected Publications

Cheston, H., Bance, R., & Harrison, P. M. C. Deconstructing jazz piano style using machine learning arXiv (2025)
Cheston, H., Schlichting, J. L., Cross, I., & Harrison, P. M. C. Jazz Trio Database: Automated timing annotation of jazz piano trio recordings processed using audio source separation Transactions of the International Society for Music Information Retrieval (2024)
Cheston, H., Schlichting, J. L., Cross, I., & Harrison, P. M. C. Rhythmic qualities of jazz improvisation predict performer identity and style in source-separated audio recordings Royal Society Open Science (2024)
Cheston, H., Cross, I., & Harrison, P. M. C. Trade-offs in coordination strategies for duet jazz performances subject to network delay and jitter Music Perception (2024)