An article is out from some of us who worked together at Queen Mary University of London: Stephen McGregor, myself, Karolina Rataj (well, not based at QMUL), Matthew Purver, and Geraint Wiggins. Our work is entitled, Re-Representing Metaphor: Modeling Metaphor Perception Using Dynamically Contextual Distributional Semantics.

Next week is the culmination of almost a year of planning and organizing: our Lorentz workshop on 'Music, Computing, and Health' will take place in Leiden, the Netherlands, from 4-8 March! (Organizers: Kat Agres, Rebecca Schaefer, Anja Volk, and Susan van Hooren)
We will focus on ideation and future creation of music technologies for healthcare and well-being, drawing from music cognition, computing, music information retrieval (MIR), music therapy, and medical technology. I'm very excited to see what this diverse group discusses and produces. :)

On Friday, 11th Jan, I'll be giving a talk at the Rehabilitation Research Institute of Singapore (RRIS) on 'Music-based medtech for emotion mediation, cognitive screening, and motor rehabilitation'. I'm looking forward to what I'm sure will be a lively and engaging discussion with the RRIS and TTSH teams!

A collaboration with Prof Ching-Hua Chuan from the U of Miami and Prof. Dorien Herremans from SUTD has just been accepted for publication in Springer's Neural Computing and Applications (impact factor = 4.213). The manuscript is entitled 'From Context to Concept: Exploring Semantic Relationships in Music with Word2Vec', and describes how a popular NLP model called word2vec can be used to capture meaningful musical structure in complex polyphonic pieces of music. A copy of the preprint is available on my Publications page.

Curious about why the music in horror films sounds so scary? Watch this!

Happy Halloween!

This evening I will be speaking at Science Café SG, held at the Good Beer Company (2 Science Park Drive) at 8:30pm.

Can you trust your senses? The science of auditory perception and illusion

Thanks to everyone who attended the first Music Research Symposium to take place in Singapore. More than 70 (!) researchers, scientists, professors, students, and musicians attended the event for a fun day of talks, music, and research discussions. Here are some of the speakers' slides for reference. And below are some lovely memories from the day (click post title to see photo slideshow):

How good is our memory for melodies? And why do we remember some aspects of music better than others? To discover some answers to these questions, check out my new paper entitled 'Change detection and schematic processing in music', now out in the journal Psychology of Music! The paper is available for download here.

I'm thrilled to be headed to Suzhou, China, soon for the 18th International Society for Music Information Retrieval (ISMIR) Conference.
I will be speaking on the Future of Music-IR Research Panel (Thursday, 12:40pm – 1:40pm), and my colleagues and I have two papers in the conference:
Cancino-Chacon, Grachten, and Agres (2017). From Bach to the Beatles: The simulation of human tonal expectation using ecologically-trained predictive models
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