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Arild Stenberg is Senior Research Associate for the Leverhulme-funded project Score design for music reading: Cognitive and artistic perspectives. The project team further includes two Research Assistants (Dr David Duncan, and a PhD student still to be selected), and is led by Prof. I. Cross, founder of the CMS, as Principal Investigator; it will run at the Faculty of Music —with collaborations from the Royal College of Music and the Conservatiore Royal de Bruxelles— from Jan 2023 to May 2026. Arild previously completed his PhD at the Faculty of Music, University of Cambridge, in 2019, supervised by Prof. Cross (music) and Prof. Sarah Hawkins (linguistics).

David Duncan is a research assistant on the Leverhulme-funded project Score Design for Music Reading, led by Ian Cross and Arild Stenberg. Since his PhD in composition (University of Glasgow) he has worked in music publishing and education. As an editor at Edition Peters, he prepared many contemporary pieces for performance, including works by James Dillon and Anders Hillborg, and he designed and edited an activity book for children based on the works of John Cage, Everything We Do is Music. After leaving Edition Peters he managed the publishing output of the London College of Music, where he played an active part in diversifying graded music curriculums, and he has recently worked in as a syllabus manager at RSL Awards, developing new vocational qualifications for schools and colleges. He is particularly passionate about widening access to music education.

 

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New paper: Artist identification using rhythm via machine learning

1 October 2024

We are excited to share our new paper appearing in the journal Royal Society Open Science, entitled “Rhythmic Qualities of Jazz Improvisation Predict Performer Identity and Style in Source-Separated Audio Recordings”. This was completed by Huw Cheston during his PhD at the CMS, and builds from two earlier publications...

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...