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Virtually academic

Posted in Conferences, General, research, tagged , , on Thursday, October 15, 2009 | 3 Comments »

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

Posted in General, research, tutkimus, tagged , , , on Wednesday, October 14, 2009 | 1 Comment »

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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ESCOM – day 2 | Music and evolution

Posted in Conferences, Debate, ESCOM, research, tagged , , , on Friday, August 14, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

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better because it has been filtered through one night of sleep, but it could of course only mean that these are already out-of-date.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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ESCOM 2009 – day 1

Posted in Conferences, ESCOM, tagged , , on Thursday, August 13, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

The conference started! The 300+ participants from 35 countries have arrived, the keynotes, spoken papers and poster sessions are now on the way.
The first keynote was given by professor David Huron. He talked about how important it would be for the cognitive scientists and ethnomusicologists to work together. There are many reasons why these two [...]

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ESCOM 2009

Posted in Conferences, ESCOM, General, tagged , on Wednesday, August 12, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

The seventh triennial conference of the European Society for the Cognitive Sciences of Music, or ESCOM2009 started today in Jyväskylä. We’ve got approximately 300 international guests, and 5 days of talks and networking ahead of us.
The conference delegates are now gathered at the Martti Ahtisaari -hall of the University of Jyväskylä. The first keynote of [...]

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Rhythmic Coordination in Dyads

Posted in powerpoint, research, tagged , , , , on Thursday, May 8, 2008 | 1 Comment »

I’m just back from Leipzig, where the lovely people at the Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences organised a workshop “Musical Movement and Synchronization” followed by a symposium “Rhythmic Coordination in Dyads”. I gave a talk in the latter and thoroughly enjoyed the whole weekend.
At the end of the symposium there was [...]

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