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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Virtually academic

So, yesterday’s MATLAB Virtual Conference was fun. The venue is still open, people are still hanging out there, filling in user surveys, downloading materials and chatting to each other. Can’t help but think that the people still around are those whose flights back home are later today…
As I said yesterday, this is, and [...]

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MATLAB Virtual Conference

Technology is awesome. The high point of geekism and nerdity of this year is the MATLAB Virtual Conference. This, I dare to predict, is The Future. As flying across the world is increasingly difficult to justify for environmental reasons, building virtual meeting places and having virtual gatherings and learning to work in online communities is [...]

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World Science Festival 2009: Snowball, the dancing cockatoo

Here’s Snowball, the sulphur-crested cockatoo that can dance to a beat.Prior to this, I had only seen the video of Snowball that’s on YouTube, and shorter snippets recorded by Ani Patel and his team who studied Snowball’s movements and measuring synchronisation with music. Previously, we thought that only humans could synchronise their movements with auditory [...]

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ESCOM – day 2 | Music and evolution

It seems that as the evenings are about socialising, the time for these daily posts is morning. This  hopefully means that what I write is better because it has been filtered through one night of sleep, but it could of course only mean that these are already out-of-date.
The second day started with two keynote addresses. [...]

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Tutkimuksen päivä ja Musiikki ja Tunteet -päivä

Laitoksella vietettiin perätysten kahta tutkimustulosten viestintään liittyvää päivää. Järjestyksessä toista Tutkimuksen päivää juhlittiin perjantaina 8. toukokuuta, ja lauantaina oli Brain Tuning -hankkeeseen liittyvän kansainvälisen Music & Emotion -tapahtuman vuoro.

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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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Suomen Kansan eSävelmät

Laitos oli taas tänään hienosti esillä Helsingin Sanomissa, kun Pirkko Kotirinta kertoo kulttuurisivujen jutussaan eSävelmät-tietokannasta ja sen käyttömahdollisuuksista.
Esavelmat on Ilmari Krohnin toimittama kokoelma digitalisoituna. Kokoelma on toiminut lähinnä musiikin sisältöhaun testimateriaalina, mutta nyt se on verkossa, ja vihdoin muodossa, jossa sitä voivat nyt helpommin hyödyntää myös esim. kansanmusiikintutkijat. Kokoelman digitaalisuus mahdollistaa monenlaiset kokoelmatason analyysit, joiden [...]

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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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Kulttuurikunto – EEG-diagnoosi

Huippuyksikkö esiintyi taas televisiossa, kun YLE:n Kulttuurikuntoklinikalla oli hoidettavana Henrik Forsgård. Hän kävi diagnosoitavana myös HY:n Musiikki ja Aivot -tutkimusryhmän luona. Vaikka tuo pätkä olikin varsin lyhyt, keskusteltiin ohjelmassa yleisesti paljon taiteesta ja tunteista, empatiasta ja mös musiikkimausta. Ohjelma on katsottavissa YLE Areenalla 18.12. asti.

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