CMS computer room, Faculty of Music (11 West Road, Cambridge, CB3 9DP)


2024-04-23 17:00: Absolute pitch training for adults: How effective is the “Melody Triggers” method? (Sam Leak, University of Cambridge)

2024-04-30 12:00: Quantifying musical note usage in major pentatonic ragas (Achintya Prahlad, University of Cambridge)

2024-05-14 17:00: Musical groove: body-movement, pleasure and embodied cognition (Maria Witek, University of Birmingham)

2024-05-28 12:00: Ensemble timing: a theoretical model and practical demo of a virtual ensemble training tool (Alan Wing (University of Birmingham) and Min Li (University of Bristol))

2024-06-13 14:00: An interactive production approach to emotion perception in music (Annaliese Micallef Grimauld, Durham University)

2024-10-22 12:00: Exploring overlapping cognition in music making (Dr Neta Spiro (Research Fellow in Performance Science at the Royal College of Music))

2024-11-05 12:00: Acquiring music information: An incidental learning approach (Dr Claudio Iorio (Université de Bourgogne, Dijon))

2024-11-19 17:00: Automatic Identification of Samples in Hip-Hop Music via Deep Metric Learning and an Artificial Dataset (Huw Cheston (University of Cambridge))

2024-12-03 12:00: Decoding India’s earliest notation: quantitative approaches to a 7th-century inscription (Richard Widdess (SOAS University of London), Marcus Pearce (Queen Mary University, London), Alberto Alcala Alvarez (Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico), and Pablo Padilla (National University of Mexico))

2025-02-04 14:00: Trajectories and Revolutions in Western Popular Melody (Madeline Hamilton, Queen Mary University of London)

2025-02-25 14:00: Genetics of aesthetic and music reward sensitivity (Giacomo Bignardi, Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics)

2025-03-04 14:00: Developing digital tools to support and empower musicians (Akiho Suzuki, Institute for Music Physiology and Musicians' Medicine, Hanover University )

2025-03-18 17:00: Understanding music in the age of machine learning (Harin Lee (Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics))

2025-05-27 17:00: Caregivers of adolescents living with Down syndrome use infant-directed speech during a rule-based joint game (Juan Pablo Robledo (University of Lorraine))

2025-06-10 17:00: The social cognition of applause in classical concert audiences (Niels Christian Hansen (Royal Academy of Music Aarhus, Denmark and University of Jyväskylä, Finland))

2025-06-17 17:00: Playing By Ear: A Computational Approach (Seb Silas (Hanover Music Lab))

2025-10-28 17:00: Psycho-acoustic effects in church bells (Scott Orr (UCL Institute for Sustainable Heritage) and Bill Hibbert)

2025-11-11 17:00: Analyzing comparisons: Hans Keller’s theory of musical cognition (Nicky Swett (University of Cambridge))

2025-11-25 17:00: Measuring musicality in childhood (Franziska Degé (Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics))

2025-12-02 17:00: The effects of visual cues and notational features on sight-reading accuracy (David Duncan, Katya Ness, and Ian Cross (University of Cambridge))

2026-01-28 15:30: Reconstruction of degraded medieval music notation in Cambridge libraries with multispectral imaging and advanced data representation methods (Anna Breger (University of Klagenfurt))

2026-03-03 17:00: Understanding Eco-Music Listening: The Role of Musical Engagement in Ecological Orientation (Nicola Dibben (University of Sheffield))