CogMIR 2019 Seminar Details

The seventh seminar on cognitively based music informatics (CogMIR) was held as a satellite event of SMPC 2019, on Thursday, August 8, 2019, at the Tow Center for the Performing Arts, Brooklyn College, Brooklyn, NY. The seminar highlighted research that integrated approaches derived from music cognition and music informatics.

CogMIR 2019 program available here!

Keynote speakers for CogMIR 2019:
Claire Arthur
Claire Arthur is an Assistant Professor in the School of Music at Georgia Tech where she leads the Computational and Cognitive Musicology lab. She received her Ph.D. in music theory and cognition from Ohio State, and spent two years as a postdoctoral fellow in music technology at McGill University. She is broadly interested in investigating the link between musical structure, musical expectations, and emotional response.  Her work is inherently interdisciplinary, relying on methodologies from statistics, computer science, music theory, and psychology. Her research has been published in leading journals and conference proceedings, including Music Perception, Musicae Scientiae, ICMPC, and ISMIR.

John Ashley Burgoyne
John Ashley Burgoyne is a Lecturer in Computational Musicology at the University of Amsterdam and researcher in the Music Cognition Group at the Institute for Logic, Language, and Computation. Cross-appointed in Musicology and Artificial Intelligence, he is interested in understanding musical behaviour at the audio level, using large-scale experiments and audio corpora. His McGill–Billboard corpus of time-aligned chord and structure transcriptions has served as a backbone for audio chord estimation techniques. His Hooked on Music project reached hundreds of thousands of participants in almost every country on Earth while collecting data to understand long-term musical memory.

Stephen McAdams
Stephen McAdams studied music composition and theory in California before turning to perceptual psychology at McGill (BSc, 1977). He then studied Hearing and Speech Sciences at Stanford University (PhD, 1984). In 1986, he founded the Music Perception and Cognition team at IRCAM-Centre Pompidou in Paris and organized the first conference on Music and the Cognitive Sciences in 1988. He was a research scientist in the French CNRS (1989-2004) and then returned to McGill to direct the Centre for Interdisciplinary Research in Music Media and Techology (CIRMMT, 2004-2009). He holds the Canada Research Chair in Music Perception and Cognition. He is currently interested in the perception of musical timbre applied to a psychological foundation for a theory of musical orchestration.

CogMIR 2019 Highlight

New Scholar Prizes: LUCID generously provided funds for this meeting to support prizes for new scholars (students, postdocs) for best paper and best poster presentations.

CogMIR 2019 Scientific Advisory Board

  • Kat Agres, National University of Singapore
  • Michael Casey, Bregman Media Labs, Dartmouth College
  • Blair Kaneshiro, CCRMA, Stanford University
  • Ji Chul Kim, Oscilloscape; Music Dynamics Laboratory, University of Connecticut
  • Daniel Müllensiefen, Department of Psychology, Goldsmiths, University of London
  • Marcus Pearce, Queen Mary University of London
  • Erik Schmidt, Pandora
  • Finn Upham, MARL, New York University
  • Geraint Wiggins, VUB, Artificial Intelligence Lab; Queen Mary University of London
  • Matthew Woolhouse, Digital Music Lab, McMaster University

Seminar Organizers
Naresh Vempala, Frank Russo, Johanna Devaney

Organizing Committee Volunteers

  • George Brunner
  • Richard So
  • Tanvi Namjoshi
  • Bahar Royaee
  • Michèle Duguay
  • Fran Copelli
  • Emily Wood