Colloquium: Sensory Dissonance Models

The Colloquium for Interdisciplinary Music Research has started again. We have currently two sub-colloquia, one for empirical music research and another that focuses on music and emotion.
The Empirical Colloquium convened last Thursday to discuss Tuukka Tervo’s work on sensory dissonance models. Sensory dissonance is the sensation of roughness or discord that we can have when [...]

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Music & Emotions – methodological issues

(Apologies for the delay in posting this…) At last week’s colloquium we talked about studying music and emotions. To guide us through some of the conceptual thickets and around methodological potholes concerning music and emotions, Jonna Vuoskoski had prepared a presentation. The presentation (see below) did start a lively discussion, some of the topics can [...]

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Music and consumer behaviour

The theme of this Thursday’s Empirical Music Research Colloquium was Music and Consumer Behaviour. We had a presentation by Sam Down (his brief below) and also progress reports by Sanna Toivola and Saara Kuukka.

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Empirical Music Research Colloquium – first meeting

There’s an earlier post in Finnish about this new colloquium, but perhaps a brief intro in English is in place. The theme of this colloquium, empirical music research, is almost all-encompassing. In fact, one can argue that there is no other kind of music research. The aim, however, is to focus on sources of empirical [...]

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