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On November 18th, Maxwell and Joyce will be presenting their posters at the NeuroMusic Conference held at McMaster University. Maxwell’s poster is titled “MAESTRO: A new tool for sound synthesis and observation” based on the auditory software he worked on over the summer. Joyce is presenting “The impact of timing on musical emotion”. Her study investigates how performer manipulations of tempo affect listener perception of conveyed emotion. |
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On October 25th, Maxwell Ng presented a poster titled “MAESTRO: A new tool for sound synthesis and observation” at McMaster University based on his work as an NSERC USRA student over the summer of 2017. MAESTRO stands for MAPLE Lab Auditory Exploration Suite for Teaching, Research, and Observation and it aims to provide students and researchers with an opportunity to create and manipulate sounds. If you are interested in using this software, simply visit our pedagogy page for instructions on installing and using this valuable tool. |
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Maxwell co-authored a presentation titled “Seeing Sound: A New Tool for Teaching Music Perception Principles.” Lab alumna Jess co-authored a presentation titled “Surveying the sounds used in auditory perception research: Journal of the Acoustical Society of America.” Both presentations happened in Guelph, ON for Acoustics Week in Canada on October 11th to 13th. For more information on the lab’s recent publications and presentations, visit our Publications page! |  |
From July 30th to August 3rd, several members of the MAPLE Lab went to San Diego, California to present talks and posters at the 2017 Society for Music Perception and Cognition Meeting.
Aimee Battcock presented a talk titled, “The importance of musical structure in listener perception of emotion.”
Anna Siminoski presented a talk titled, “Ancillary gestures as tools for inter-performer communication.”
Noah Little presented two posters which are titled, “Shared musical experiences and altruistic behaviour: An exploratory study” and, “Exploring the positive benefits of festival attendance for adolescent development.”
Dr. Schutz presented a talk titled, “A comprehensive survey of auditory perception stimuli.”
Aimee Battcock
Anna Siminoski
Noah Little
Dr. Schutz
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Dr. Schutz presented a talk titled “Exploring unintentional coordination in Steve Reich’s Drumming: A case study of expert musicians attempting joint desynchronization” at RPPW 2017 in Birmingham UK. The conference brought together researchers from a range of disciplines to engage in discussions about the scientific study of rhythm, and took place on Birmingham City University’s City Centre Campus. Note: Interactive visualization presented during talk now available online at www.maplelab.net/reich Talk image to left courtesy of tweet from Dawn Rose (@dawnidrums) |
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Last week the MAPLE Lab headed to Niagara Falls to the 46th annual Lake Ontario Visionary Establishment Conference. Noah Little, Anna Siminoski, Erica Huynh, and Maxwell Ng all presented posters showcasing their recent research findings. Their topics ranged from musician interactions to pro-social benefits of music to new tools for music cognition research.
Click here for more information about the LOVE Conference.
Noah Little
Anna Siminoski
Erica Huynh
Maxwell Ng
Here are some photos of us at the LOVE Conference!
Aimee Battcock, Anna Siminoski, and alumnus Kyle Gauder will be presenting posters at the 12th Annual NeuroMusic Conference hosted by The McMaster Institute for Music and the Mind. Our colleagues at the SMART Lab will also debut a new collaborative project.
Anna’s poster explores how ancillary gestures affect ensemble cohesion and the portrayal of expressivity in musicians. Her stimuli consist of excerpts from Brahms’ Clarinet Sonata No. 1 in F minor. Aimee will be presenting her poster on how pitch, modality, and timing cues contribute to the perception of emotional expressivity in music.
Kyle will debut a new knowledge mobilization tool designed during his NSERC USRA award. This tool visualizes the rhythmic evolution of Steve Reich’s classic piece Drumming as performed by renowned NEXUS percussionists Russell Hartenberger and Bob Becker.
Additionally, Fran Copelli, Paolo Ammirante, and Frank A. Russo (Ryerson) will also discuss a new collaboration exploring the neural effects of practice in expert percussionists. This will be the first presentation of a project begin during Dr. Schutz’s work as a Visiting Professor at Ryerson while on sabbatical during 2015-16.
The conference will be held on November 19th from 9:00 am – 10:00 pm at the McMaster Innovation Park in Hamilton, Ontario. This year’s theme is “The Therapeutic Nature of Music Across the Lifespan” and several prominent Music Cognition researchers will be giving talks to related to this topic throughout the day. To find out more information about this conference, click here.
Aimee Battcock
Anna Siminoski
Kyle Gauder
Several MAPLE Lab members flew to San Francisco for the 14th International Conference for Music Perception & Cognition. Notably, these lab members presented a talk or a poster (or both) on topics ranging from rhythm perception and movement to music performance choices to emotion in music.
The conference was held from July 5-9 and featured numerous talks and poster presentations on all things music cognition related: Click here for more information about the conference.
Fiona Manning
Aimee Battcock
Anna Siminoski
Raven Hebert-Lee
Five lab members presented posters at the LOVE Conference in Niagara Falls: Fiona Manning, Annilee Baron, Kimberly Germann, Anna Siminoski, and Aimee Battcock discussed new findings on a variety of topics, ranging from movement and emotion to timing to sound shapes.
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Fiona Manning
Annilee Baron
Kimberly Germann
Anna Siminoski
Aimee Battcock
Through a partnership with the Scholarly Research Committee, we ran testing stations at PASIC (Percussive Arts Society International Convention) in 2013 and 2014 as part of a large-scale project exploring the effects of musical training on music perception. Across these years, lab members tested over 150 percussionists, and engaged in an outreach effort to explain the relevance of lab projects for performing musicians, educators, composers, and scholars alike.
We presented some of the preliminary results of these tests at PASIC 2015 to share our insights with the PAS community – many of whom ran in our previous experiments. Through this process we have gained a better understanding of the complex relationship between movement, training, and perception, and we were pleased to share these insights with a musical community well positioned to make practical use of them. The talk took place at 2pm on Thur, Nov 11th in room 217. Click here to read the Percussive Notes “preview article”.