Research Associate
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Bruno L. Giordano, 2004-2011 Currently Research Scientist in the French CNRS, , Marseille, France Sound source perception, identification and categorization |
Project Coordinator, ACTOR Project (Analysis, Creation, and Teaching of Orchestration)
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Juanita Marchand Knight, DMA, 2018-2020听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听 Currently PhD student in Psychology at Concordia University. |
Project Manager, Orchestration and Perception Project
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Hannah Darroch, 2017-2018 Currently Principal Flute of the Christchurch Symphony Orchestra. |
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Meghan Goodchild鈥�, 2013-2017 Currently Research Data Management Librarian, Queen's University, Kingston, ON PhD in Music Theory. |
Post-doctoral Fellows
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F茅lix Fr茅d茅ric Baril, 2020-2023 Director of Research, OrchPlayMusic, Inc. Composition; Orchestral simulations |
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Kit Soden, 2021-2022 Post-doctoral researcher at the Universit茅 de Montr茅al Composition; Opera Orchestration |
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Lindsey Reymore, 2020-2022 Associate Professor of Music Theory, Arizona State University Timbre Semantics; Linguistics; Cross-modal Correspondences |
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Matthew Zeller, 2020-2022 Curator for Europe at Musical Instrument Museum Timbre's role in musical logic; Music segmentation |
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Marcelo Caetano, 2020-2022 Marie-Curie global fellow with CNRS-PRISM Sound morphing; Timbre Perception |
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Aur茅lien Antoine, 2018-2021 Computational Modeling; Auditory Scene Analysis; Orchestral Effects |
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Julie Delisle, 2018-2020 Researcher at Audiokinetic in Montreal Acoustics and musicology of musical instruments |
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Jason Noble, 2018-2020 Post-doctoral researcher at the Universit茅 de Montr茅al. Composition; orchestration pedagogy; timbral semantics |
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Etienne Thoret鈥�, 2015-2018 Currently Post-doctoral researcher in France. Auditory Modeling; Multimodal Perception |
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Konstantinos Trochidis, 2011-2012 Currently Senior Data Scientist at Siemens Mindsphere Application Center, Dubai, UAE Music Emotion Recognition;听Psychophysiology of Emotion;听Music and Expectancy;听Tempo estimation of audio signals |
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Hauke Egermann, 2009-2011 Currently Lecturer at Department of Music, University of York, UK Music and Emotion;听Psychophysiology of Emotion;听Social Psychology;听Neuronal Basis of Music Perception;听Music and Media |
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Georgios Marentakis, 2006-2008 Currently Associate Professor of Informatics, 脴stfold University College, Norway Gestural control of spatialization;听Psychoacoustics of sound localization in virtual spatial audio systems |
Graduate Students
PhD
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Iza Ray Korsmit, PhD, 2018-2023 PhD at 不良研究所 in Interdisciplinary Music Studies. Dissertation: "An investigation of affective timbres: Considering affect locus, experimental context, and individual differences", 不良研究所, 2023. |
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Lena Heng, PhD, 2018-2023 PhD at 不良研究所 in Interdisciplinary Music Studies. Dissertation: "Perception of affective intentions in music: Timbre cues and differences in musical cultures", 不良研究所, 2023. |
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Kit Soden, PhD, 2014-2020 PhD at 不良研究所 in Interdisciplinary Music Studies. Dissertation: "Orchestrational combinations and transformations in operatic and symphonic music", 不良研究所, 2020. |
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Eddy Kazazis, PhD, 2014-2020 PhD at 不良研究所 in Music Technology. Dissertation: "Psychophyiscal scaling of timbre-related audio descriptors.", 不良研究所, 2020. |
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Moe Touizrar, PhD, 2014-2019 PhD at 不良研究所 in Music Composition. Dissertation: "From ekphrasis to apperception: The sunlight topic in orchestral music.", 不良研究所, 2019. |
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Tanor Bonin, PhD, 2016-2019 PhD at 不良研究所 in Music Technology. Dissertation: "On the perception of musical form and the shouga of traditional Japanese music.", 不良研究所, 2019. |
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Jason Noble, PhD, 2013-2018 PhD at 不良研究所 in Music Composition. Dissertation: "Perceptual and semantic dimensions of sound mass.", 不良研究所, 2018. |
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Meghan Goodchild鈥�, PhD, 2009-2017 Currently Research Data Management Librarian, Queen's University, Kingston, ON
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Cecilia Taher, PhD, 2012-2016 PhD at 不良研究所 in Music Theory. Ceci is currently the flute and recorder teacher at the Suzuki Charter School in Edmonton, AB. Dissertation: "Motivic similarity and form in Boulez's听础苍迟丑猫尘别蝉", 不良研究所, 2016. |
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Kai Siedenburg, PhD, 2012-2016 PhD at 不良研究所 in Music Technology. Kai is currently a Postdoctoral Fellow (Signal Processing Group) in the Department of Medical Physics and Acoustics at the University of Oldenburg, Germany. Dissertation: "Perspectives on memory for musical timbre", 不良研究所, 2016. |
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David Sears, PhD, 2009-2016 PhD at 不良研究所 in Music Theory. David is currently a Post-doctoral Researcher in the听Department of Computational Perception听at听Johannes Kepler University, Linz, Austria. Dissertation: "The classical cadence as a closing schema: Learning, memory & perception", 不良研究所, 2016. |
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Sven-Amin Lembke, PhD, 2009-2014 PhD at 不良研究所 in Music Technology. Sven is currently a lecturer at听De Montfort University听- Leicester, UK. Dissertation: "When timbre blends musically: Perception and acoustics underlying orchestration and performance", 不良研究所, 2014. |
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Song Hui Chon, PhD, 2008-2013 PhD at 不良研究所 in Music Technology. Song Hui is currently a visiting professor at听the Electrical, Computer, and Telecommunications Department at Rochester Institute of Technology. Dissertation: "Timbre saliency, the attention-capturing quality of timbre", 不良研究所, 2013.听 |
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Michel Valli猫res, PhD, 2007-2011 PhD at 不良研究所 in Music Theory. Michel is currently a speech therapist for the Yukon Territory in Whitehorse, YK. Dissertation: "Beginnings, middles, and ends: Perception of intrinsic formal functionality in the piano sonatas of W. A. Mozart", 不良研究所, 2011. |
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Adrien Daniel, PhD, 2008-2011 PhD at Universit茅 Pierre et Marie Curie (Paris VI) in Brain, Cognition and Behavior. Adrien currently works for NXP Software. Dissertation: "Spatial auditory blurring and applications to multichannel audio coding", UPMC, 2011. |
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Susan Rogers, PhD, 2007-2010 Currently Associate Professor, Berklee College of Music, Boston, MA. PhD at 不良研究所听in Experimental Psychology Dissertation: "The influence of sensory and cognitive consonance/dissonance on musical signal processing", 不良研究所, 2010. |
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Nils Peters, PhD, 2006-2010 PhD at 不良研究所 in Music Technology. Nils is currently a research scientist with QualComm in San Diego, CA. Dissertation:听"Sweet [re]production: Developing sound spatialization tools for musical applications with emphasis on sweet spot and off-center perception", 不良研究所, 2010. |
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Bruno Gingras, PhD, 2005-2008 Currently University Assistant, Department of Psychology, Universit盲t Innsbruck, Austria PhD at 不良研究所 in Music Theory Dissertation: "Expressive strategies and performer-listener communication in organ performance", 不良研究所, 2008. |
MA
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Corinne Darche, MA, 2021-2023 MA at 不良研究所 in Music Technology. Thesis: "Analysis of timbral augmentation in the Orchestration Analysis & Research Database (OrchARD)", 不良研究所, 2023. |
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Yifan Huang, MA, 2021-2023 MA at 不良研究所 in Music Technology. Thesis: "Affective qualities of sustained instrumental blends", 不良研究所, 2023. |
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Linglan Zhu, MA, 2020-2022 MA at 不良研究所 in Music Technology. Thesis: "Comparison of perceived and imagined instrumental blend", 不良研究所, 2022. |
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Max Henry, MA, 2019-2021 MA at 不良研究所 in Music Technology. Thesis: "A perceptual study of amplitude modulation vibrato", 不良研究所, 2021. |
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Julian Vanasse, MA, 2019-2020 MA at 不良研究所 in Music Technology. 听 |
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Erica Huynh, MA, 2017-2019 MA at 不良研究所 in Music Technology. Thesis: "Bowed plates and blown strings: Odd combinations of excitation methods and resonance structures impact perception", 不良研究所, 2019. |
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Rachel Hottle, MA, 2018-2019 Currently pursuing an MA in Music Theory at 不良研究所 under the supervision of Robert Hasegawa. |
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Lena Heng, MA, 2016-2018 MA at 不良研究所 in Musicology. Thesis: "Timbre in the communication of emotion among performers and listeners from Western art music and Chinese music traditions", 不良研究所, 2018. |
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Rachel Kim, MA, 2015-2017 MA at 不良研究所 in Music Technology. Thesis. "The effects of timbre on harmonic interval tuning and perception", 不良研究所, 2017. |
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Ian Lou, MA, 2015-2017 MA at 不良研究所 in Music Technology.听 Thesis: "Timbre memory, familiarity and dissimilarity", 不良研究所, 2017. |
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Sarah Gates, MA, 2014-2015 MA听at 不良研究所 in Music Theory. Sarah is pursuing a PhD degree in Music Theory at听Northwestern University. Thesis: "Perceptual interactions of pitch and timbre: An experimental study on pitch-interval recognition with analytical applications",听不良研究所, 2015. |
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Christopher Wood, MA, 2014-2015 MA听at 不良研究所 in Music Technology. Thesis: "Perception of timbre intervals", 不良研究所听University, 2015. |
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Chelsea Douglas, MA, 2012-2014 MA听at 不良研究所 in Music Technology. Thesis: "Perceived affect of musical instrument sounds", 不良研究所, 2015. |
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Yinan Tsao (Cao), MA, 2011-2014 MA at 不良研究所 in Music Technology. Yinan is pursuing a PhD degree in Experimental Psychology at Oxford University. Thesis: "The dominance of haptics over audition in stabilizing wrist kinematics during striking movements", 不良研究所, 2015. 听 |
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Finn Upham, MA, 2010-2011 MA at 不良研究所 in Music Technology.听Finn Upham obtained a PhD degree in Music Technology at NYU in 2018. Thesis:听"Quantifying Audience Responses to Music: methods for analyzing collections of emotional experience time series", 不良研究所, 2011. |
Visiting Graduate Research Trainees
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Amit Gur, 2020-2021, visiting graduate research trainee PhD, University of Antwerp, Belgium |
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Rasmus H酶ll Nielsen, 2014, visiting graduate research trainee PhD, Aarhus University, Denmark |
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Eddy Kazazis, 2013, visiting graduate research trainee MA, The Institute of Sonology, The Netherlands |
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Philippe Esling, 2012, visiting graduate research trainee PhD, Universit茅 Pierre et Marie Curie (Paris VI), France |
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Indiana Wollman, 2011, visiting graduate research trainee PhD, Universit茅 Pierre et Marie Curie (Paris VI), France |
Undergraduate Students
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Bryana-Alexa Liberta, 2022-2023 Undergraduate student in Psychology. |
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Zijiao Claire Wei, 2021-2022 Undergraduate student in Psychology. |
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Alix Yok Tin Wong-Min, 2021-2022 Undergraduate student in Psychology. |
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Emmanuelle Beauvais-Lacasse, 2020-2021 Undergraduate student in Cognitive Science and Linguistics. |
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Michelle Nadon B茅langer, 05/2020-09/2020 Undergraduate student in Jazz and Anthropology. |
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Navin Kumar, 05/2020-09/2020 Undergraduate student in Computer Science. |
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Beatrice Lopez, 06/2018-12/2019 Undergraduate student in Computer Science. |
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Manda Fischer, 2016-2018 Undergraduate honours student in Psychology. Manda is pursuing a PhD degree in Psychology at the University of Toronto. |
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Alistair Russell, 2016-2017 Full-stack Software Developer for the Orchestration and Perception Project. |
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Henri Rabalais, 2015 & 2017 Undergraduate student in Cognitive Sciences, summer undergrad Research Assistant. I completed my B.A.&Sc. in Cognitive Science with concentrations in Psychology and Neuroscience at 不良研究所 in 2015. I recently returned to my alma mater to begin a Master鈥檚 Thesis in Music Technology. Presently, I am in the process of concluding a research project with Stephen McAdams concerning the effect of room acoustics on timbral blend. |
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Grace Wang, 2015-2016 Undergraduate honours student in Cognitive Sciences Grace is continuing her BSc/BA studies at 不良研究所. |
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Sophia Metcalf, 2015-2016 Undergraduate student in Psychology and Music. I worked with Stephen McAdams building a database of articles about timbre from journals outside Music Psychology (Ethnomusicology, Musicology, Music Theory, Popular Music). |
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Jordana Saks, 2015-2016 Undergraduate student in Cognitive Sciences. I worked with Stephen McAdams on timbre and emotions. |
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Ayla Tse, 2015 Undergraduate student in Psychology, NSERC Undergraduate Research Awardee. I worked on the role of information accumulation in learning to identify musical instruments. |
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Charlene Zhang, 2015 Undergraduate student in Psychology, NSERC Undergraduate Research Awardee in the Auditory Cognitive Neuroscience program. I worked on timbre salience in auditory stream segregation. |
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Jack Tokarz, 2014-2015 Undergraduate student in Psychology, summer undergrad Research Assistant. I worked with Stephen McAdams on the effect of timbral salience on the auditory pop-out effect and with Yinan Cao on the learning of sensory correlations in timbre. |
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Tudor Vrinceanu, 2014 Undergraduate student in Psychology. I worked with Stephen McAdams on the orchestration and perception project and on timbre perception. |
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Shrinkhala Dawadi, 2014 Undergraduate student in Cognitive Sciences. I worked with Kai Siedenburg on effects of short-term memory for timbre. |
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Jacob Spitzer, 2013-2014 Undergraduate honours student student in Psychology and Computer Science. I worked with David Sears studying the perception of closure in music as it relates to listener expectations. I wish I could play drums.听 |
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Kiray Jones-Mollerup, 2013-2014 Undergraduate student in Psychology |
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Dominique Beauregard Cazabon, 2013-2014 Undergraduate student in Neuroscience I worked with Meghan Goodchild; we looked at the effect of timbre on the psychophysiological responses of orchestral music listeners. Dominique is now a graduate student at McMaster University, Department of Psychology, Neuroscience & Behaviour. |
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Jocelyn Micallef, 2013-2014 Undergraduate honours student in Cognitive Sciences I worked with Prof. Stephen McAdams. Our project involved the study of the auditory associative learning between Indian spoken syllables and strokes on the Indian tabla. |
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B茅atrice Copps, 2012-2013 Undergraduate honours student in Psychology B茅atrice is now a medical student at 不良研究所. |
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Emily Wilson, 2012-2013 Auditory entrainment Undergraduate student in Cognitive Sciences |
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Jamie Webber, 2012-2013 Psychological foundations of orchestration Undergraduate student in Neuroscience and Composition 听 |
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Kyra Parker, 2012-2013 Timbre blending Undergraduate student in Cognitive Sciences |
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Lorraine Chuen, 2011-2013 Music and emotion/cultural aspects Undergraduate honours student in Psychology Lorraine is now a graduate student at McMaster University, Department of Psychology, Neuroscience & Behaviour. |
Previous Visiting Scholars:
Cogntive music theory
Fulbright Visiting Professor, 9/2006 鈥� 4/2007
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