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Unmixer: Loop Extraction with Repetition, with Dr. Jordan Smith and Tim de Reuse
Music technology PhD Candidate Tim de Reuse recommends “Unmixer: An Interface for Extracting and Remixing Loops” by Jordan Smith,Yuta Kawasaki, and Masataka Goto, published in the proceedings of ISMIR 2019.
Scale Degree Qualia in Context with Prof. Claire Arthur and Dr. David Baker
In western classical music, theorists have long argued (and mostly agreed) that individual notes of the major and minor scale have sensations associated, feelings often described in terms of tension, motion, sadness, and stability.
ISMIR 2019 Conference sampler
This episode brings recommendations from the 2019 ISMIR conference at TUDelft in the Netherlands. A number of contributors, old and new, highlighted papers that had caught their attention. Note: At ISMIR,
Music Transformer and Machine Learning for Composition with Dr. Anna Huang
Finn interviews Composer and Machine Learning specialist Dr. Cheng-Zhi Anna Huang about the Music Transformer project at Google’s Magenta Labs. They discuss representations of music for machine learning, algorithmic music generation as a compositional ...
Systemic Racism and Whiteness in Music Education, with Dr. Juliet Hess and co-host Ethan Hein
Music Education doctoral candidate Ethan Hein recommends “Equity and Music Education: Euphemisms, Terminal Naivety, and Whiteness” by Juliet Hess, published in Action, Criticism & Theory for Music Education, 2017. Ethan and Finn interview Dr.
Capturing the alignment between the movements of musicians and listeners with Dr. Alexander Demos
Host Finn Upham recommends “How Music Moves Us: Entraining to Musicians’ Movements” by Alexander Demos and Roger Chaffin, published in Music Perception, 2017. They interview Dr Demos about this study and adjacent issues.
Differences in metrical entrainment and replication research with Sylvie Nozaradan and cohost Sarah Sauvé
Postdoctoral fellow Sarah Sauvé recommends “Individual differences in rhythmic cortical entrainment correlate with predictive behavior in sensorimotor synchronization” by Sylvie Nozaradan, Isabelle Peret, and Peter E. Keller,
Episode 7: Society for Neuroscience 2018 Music Science Review
Four Music Science attendees of the 2018 meeting of the Society for Neuroscience join Finn to discuss their experience of the conference, their own projects, and other interesting research presented. PhD Candidates Avital Sternin, Andrew Chang, Dr.
Episode 6: Relevance of vocals to music listener preferences, with Brian McFee and guest Andrew Demetriou
Music tech and data science professor Brian McFee recommends Vocals in Music Matter: The Relevance of Vocals in the Minds of Listeners by Andrew Demetriou, Andreas Jansson, Aparna Kumar, and Rachel M. Bittner, published in the 2018 ISMIR proceedings.
Episode 5: Cross-culture variation in preferences for consonance, with Dan Shanahan and guest Josh McDermott
Music Theorist Daniel Shanahan recommends "Indifference to dissonance in native Amazonians reveals cultural variation in music perception" by Josh H. McDermott, Alan F. Schultz, Eduardo A. Undurraga, and Ricardo A. Godoy,