Research Associate
Bruno L. Giordano, 2004-2011
Currently Research Scientist in the French CNRS, , Marseille, France
Sound source perception, identification and categorization
Project Coordinator, ACTOR Project
Juanita Marchand Knight, DMA, 2018-2020
Analysis, Creation and Teaching of Orchestration - ACTOR
Currently PhD student in Psychology at Concordia University.
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Project Manager, Orchestration and Perception Project
Hannah Darroch, 2017-2018
Currently Principal Flute of the Christchurch Symphony Orchestra.
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, 2013-2017
Currently Research Data Management Librarian, Queen's University, Kingston, ON
PhD in Music Theory.
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Post-doctoral Fellows
Andr茅s Guti茅rrez Mart铆nez, 2022-2025
Professor of Electroacoustic Composition; Gustav Mahler Privatuniversit盲t f眉r Musik in Klagenfurt, Austria
Composition; Sonic analogies and extended techniques
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Ben Duinker, 2022-2025
International Partnerships and Special Projects - 海角社区 School of Continuing Studies
Music Theory; Hip-hop music
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F茅lix Fr茅d茅ric Baril, 2020-2023
Director of Research, OrchPlayMusic, Inc.
Composition; Orchestral simulations
Kit Soden, 2021-2022
Post-doctoral researcher at the Universit茅 de Montr茅al
Composition; Opera Orchestration
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Lindsey Reymore, 2020-2022
Associate Professor of Music Theory, Arizona State University
Timbre Semantics; Linguistics; Cross-modal Correspondences
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Matthew Zeller, 2020-2022
Curator for Europe at Musical Instrument Museum
Timbre's role in musical logic; Music segmentation
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Marcelo Caetano, 2020-2022
Marie-Curie global fellow with CNRS-PRISM
Sound morphing; Timbre Perception
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Aur茅lien Antoine, 2018-2021
Computational Modeling; Auditory Scene Analysis; Orchestral Effects
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Julie Delisle, 2018-2020
Researcher at Audiokinetic in Montreal
Acoustics and musicology of musical instruments
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Jason Noble, 2018-2020
Post-doctoral researcher at the Universit茅 de Montr茅al.
Composition; orchestration pedagogy; timbral semantics
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Etienne Thoret鈥�, 2015-2018
Currently Post-doctoral researcher in France.
Auditory Modeling; Multimodal Perception
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Konstantinos Trochidis, 2011-2012
Currently Senior Data Scientist at Siemens Mindsphere Application Center, Dubai, UAE
Music Emotion Recognition; Psychophysiology of Emotion; Music and Expectancy; Tempo estimation of audio signals
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Hauke Egermann, 2009-2011
Currently Lecturer at Department of Music, University of York, UK
Music and Emotion; Psychophysiology of Emotion; Social Psychology; Neuronal Basis of Music Perception; 听 听 听 听Music and Media
Georgios Marentakis, 2006-2008
Currently Associate Professor of Informatics, 脴stfold University College, Norway
Gestural control of spatialization; Psychoacoustics of sound localization in virtual spatial audio systems
Graduate Students
PhD
Erica Ying Huynh, PhD, 2017-2023
PhD at 海角社区 in Interdisciplinary Music Studies.
Dissertation: "Categorization, Differentiation, and Learning of Atypically Combined Mechanical Components of Musical Instruments," 海角社区, 2023.
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Behrad Madahi, 2017-
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Iza Ray Korsmit, PhD, 2018-2023
PhD at 海角社区 in Interdisciplinary Music Studies.
Dissertation: "An investigation of affective timbres: Considering affect locus, experimental context, and individual differences," 海角社区, 2023.
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Lena Heng, PhD, 2018-2023
PhD at 海角社区 in Interdisciplinary Music Studies.
Dissertation: "Perception of affective intentions in music: Timbre cues and differences in musical cultures," 海角社区, 2023.
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Kit Soden, PhD, 2014-2020
PhD at 海角社区 in Interdisciplinary Music Studies.
Dissertation: "Orchestrational combinations and transformations in operatic and symphonic music," 海角社区, 2020.
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Eddy Kazazis, PhD, 2014-2020
PhD at 海角社区 in Music Technology.
Dissertation: "Psychophyiscal scaling of timbre-related audio descriptors," 海角社区, 2020.
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Moe Touizrar, PhD, 2014-2019
PhD at 海角社区 in Music Composition.
Dissertation: "From ekphrasis to apperception: The sunlight topic in orchestral music.", 海角社区, 2019.
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Tanor Bonin, PhD, 2016-2019
PhD at 海角社区 in Music Technology.
Dissertation: "On the perception of musical form and the shouga of traditional Japanese music.", 海角社区, 2019.
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Jason Noble, PhD, 2013-2018
PhD at 海角社区 in Music Composition.
Dissertation: "Perceptual and semantic dimensions of sound mass.", 海角社区, 2018.
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, PhD, 2009-2017
Currently Research Data Management Librarian, Queen's University, Kingston, ON
PhD at 海角社区 in Music Theory.
Dissertation: "Orchestral gestures: Music-theoretical perspectives and emotional responses.", 海角社区, 2016.
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Cecilia Taher, PhD, 2012-2016
PhD at 海角社区 in Music Theory. Ceci is currently the flute and recorder teacher at the Suzuki Charter School in Edmonton, AB.
Dissertation: "Motivic similarity and form in Boulez's 础苍迟丑猫尘别蝉", 海角社区, 2016.
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Kai Siedenburg, PhD, 2012-2016
PhD at 海角社区 in Music Technology. Kai is currently a Postdoctoral Fellow (Signal Processing Group) in the Department of Medical Physics and Acoustics at the University of Oldenburg, Germany.听
Dissertation: "Perspectives on memory for musical timbre", 海角社区, 2016.
David Sears, PhD, 2009-2016
PhD at 海角社区 in Music Theory. David is currently a Post-doctoral Researcher in the Department of Computational Perception at Johannes Kepler University, Linz, Austria.
Dissertation: "The classical cadence as a closing schema: Learning, memory & perception", 海角社区, 2016.
Sven-Amin Lembke, PhD, 2009-2014
PhD at 海角社区 in Music Technology. Sven is currently a lecturer at De Montfort University - Leicester, UK.
Dissertation: "When timbre blends musically: Perception and acoustics underlying orchestration and performance", 海角社区, 2014.
Song Hui Chon, PhD, 2008-2013
PhD at 海角社区 in Music Technology. Song Hui is currently a visiting professor at the Electrical, Computer, and Telecommunications Department at Rochester Institute of Technology.
Dissertation: "Timbre saliency, the attention-capturing quality of timbre", 海角社区, 2013.
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Michel Valli猫res, PhD, 2007-2011
PhD at 海角社区 in Music Theory. Michel is currently a speech therapist for the Yukon Territory in Whitehorse, YK.
Dissertation: "Beginnings, middles, and ends: Perception of intrinsic formal functionality in the piano sonatas of W. A. Mozart", 海角社区, 2011.
Adrien Daniel, PhD, 2008-2011
PhD at Universit茅 Pierre et Marie Curie (Paris VI) in Brain, Cognition and Behavior. Adrien currently works for NXP Software.
Dissertation: "Spatial auditory blurring and applications to multichannel audio coding", UPMC, 2011.
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Susan Rogers, PhD, 2007-2010
Currently Associate Professor, Berklee College of Music, Boston, MA.
PhD at 海角社区 in Experimental Psychology
Dissertation: "The influence of sensory and cognitive consonance/dissonance on musical signal processing", 海角社区, 2010.
Nils Peters, PhD, 2006-2010
PhD at 海角社区 in Music Technology. Nils is currently a research scientist with QualComm in San Diego, CA.
Dissertation: "Sweet [re]production: Developing sound spatialization tools for musical applications with emphasis on sweet spot and off-center perception", 海角社区, 2010.
Bruno Gingras, PhD, 2005-2008
Currently University Assistant, Department of Psychology, Universit盲t Innsbruck, Austria
PhD at 海角社区 in Music Theory
Dissertation: "Expressive strategies and performer-listener communication in organ performance", 海角社区, 2008.
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MA
Corinne Darche, MA, 2021-2023
MA at 海角社区 in Music Technology.
Thesis: "Analysis of timbral augmentation in the Orchestration Analysis & Research Database (OrchARD)", 海角社区, 2023.
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Yifan Huang, MA, 2021-2023
MA at 海角社区 in Music Technology.
Thesis: "Affective qualities of sustained instrumental blends", 海角社区, 2023.
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Linglan Zhu, MA, 2020-2022
MA at 海角社区 in Music Technology.
Thesis: "Comparison of perceived and imagined instrumental blend", 海角社区, 2022.
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Max Henry, MA, 2019-2021
MA at 海角社区 in Music Technology.
Thesis: "A perceptual study of amplitude modulation vibrato", 海角社区, 2021.
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Julian Vanasse, MA, 2019-2020
MA at 海角社区 in Music Technology.
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Erica Huynh, MA, 2017-2019
MA at 海角社区 in Music Technology.
Thesis: "Bowed plates and blown strings: Odd combinations of excitation methods and resonance structures impact perception", 海角社区, 2019.
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Rachel Hottle, MA, 2018-2019
Currently pursuing an MA in Music Theory at 海角社区 under the supervision of Robert Hasegawa.
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Lena Heng, MA, 2016-2018
MA at 海角社区 in Musicology.
Thesis: "Timbre in the communication of emotion among performers and listeners from Western art music and Chinese music traditions", 海角社区, 2018.
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Rachel Kim, MA, 2015-2017
MA at 海角社区 in Music Technology.
Thesis. "The effects of timbre on harmonic interval tuning and perception", 海角社区, 2017.
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Ian Lou, MA, 2015-2017
MA at 海角社区 in Music Technology.
Thesis: "Timbre memory, familiarity and dissimilarity", 海角社区, 2017.
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Sarah Gates, MA, 2014-2015
MA at 海角社区 in Music Theory. Sarah is pursuing a PhD degree in Music Theory at Northwestern University.
Thesis: "Perceptual interactions of pitch and timbre: An experimental study on pitch-interval recognition with analytical applications", 海角社区, 2015.
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Christopher Wood, MA, 2014-2015
MA at 海角社区 in Music Technology.
Thesis: "Perception of timbre intervals", 海角社区, 2015.
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Chelsea Douglas, MA, 2012-2014
MA at 海角社区 in Music Technology.
Thesis: "Perceived affect of musical instrument sounds", 海角社区, 2015.
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Yinan Tsao (Cao), MA, 2011-2014
MA at 海角社区 in Music Technology. Yinan is pursuing a PhD degree in Experimental Psychology at Oxford University.
Thesis: "The dominance of haptics over audition in stabilizing wrist kinematics during striking movements", 海角社区, 2015.
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Finn Upham, MA, 2010-2011
MA at 海角社区 in Music Technology. Finn Upham obtained a PhD degree in Music Technology at NYU in 2018.
Thesis: "Quantifying Audience Responses to Music: methods for analyzing collections of emotional experience time series", 海角社区, 2011.
Visiting Graduate Research Trainees
Amit Gur, 2020-2021
visiting graduate research trainee
PhD, University of Antwerp, Belgium
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Rasmus H酶ll Nielsen, 2014
visiting graduate research trainee
PhD, Aarhus University, Denmark
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Eddy Kazazis, 2013
visiting graduate research trainee
MA, The Institute of Sonology, The Netherlands
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Philippe Esling, 2012
visiting graduate research trainee
PhD, Universit茅 Pierre et Marie Curie (Paris VI), France
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Indiana Wollman, 2011
visiting graduate research trainee
PhD, Universit茅 Pierre et Marie Curie (Paris VI), France
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Undergraduate Students
Skyler Aria, 2024-2025
Undergraduate student in Psychology.
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Bryana-Alexa Liberta, 2022-2023
Undergraduate student in Psychology.
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Zijiao Claire Wei, 2021-2022
Undergraduate student in Psychology.
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Alix Yok Tin Wong-Min, 2021-2022
Undergraduate student in Psychology.
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Emmanuelle Beauvais-Lacasse, 2020-2021
Undergraduate student in Cognitive Science and Linguistics.
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Michelle Nadon B茅langer, 05/2020-09/2020
Undergraduate student in Jazz and Anthropology.
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Navin Kumar, 05/2020-09/2020
Undergraduate student in Computer Science.
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Beatrice Lopez, 06/2018-12/2019
Undergraduate student in Computer Science.
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Manda Fischer, 2016-2018
Undergraduate honours student in Psychology.
Manda is pursuing a PhD degree in Psychology at the University of Toronto.
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Alistair Russell, 2016-2017
Full-stack Software Developer for the Orchestration and Perception Project.
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Henri Rabalais, 2015 & 2017
Undergraduate student in Cognitive Sciences, summer undergrad Research Assistant.
I completed my B.A.&Sc. in Cognitive Science with concentrations in Psychology and Neuroscience at 海角社区 in 2015. I recently returned to my alma mater to begin a Master鈥檚 Thesis in Music Technology. Presently, I am in the process of concluding a research project with Stephen McAdams concerning the effect of room acoustics on timbral blend.
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Grace Wang, 2015-2016
Undergraduate honours student in Cognitive Sciences
Program in Cognitive Sciences, 海角社区
Grace is continuing her BSc/BA studies at 海角社区.
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Sophia Metcalf, 2015-2016
Undergraduate student in Psychology and Music.
I worked with Stephen McAdams building a database of articles about timbre from journals outside Music Psychology (Ethnomusicology, Musicology, Music Theory, Popular Music).
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Jordana Saks, 2015-2016
Undergraduate student in Cognitive Sciences.
I worked with Stephen McAdams on timbre and emotions.
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Ayla Tse, 2015
Undergraduate student in Psychology, NSERC Undergraduate Research Awardee.
I worked on the role of information accumulation in learning to identify musical instruments.
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Charlene Zhang, 2015
Undergraduate student in Psychology, NSERC Undergraduate Research Awardee in the Auditory Cognitive Neuroscience program.
I worked on timbre salience in auditory stream segregation.
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Jack Tokarz, 2014-2015
Undergraduate student in Psychology, summer undergrad Research Assistant.
I worked with Stephen McAdams on the effect of timbral salience on the auditory pop-out effect and with Yinan Cao on the learning of sensory correlations in timbre
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Tudor Vrinceanu, 2014
Undergraduate student in Psychology.
I worked with Stephen McAdams on the orchestration and perception project and on timbre perception.
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Shrinkhala Dawadi, 2014
Undergraduate student in Cognitive Sciences.
I worked with Kai Siedenburg on effects of short-term memory for timbre.
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Jacob Spitzer, 2013-2014
Undergraduate honours student student in Psychology and Computer Science. I worked with David Sears studying the perception of closure in music as it relates to listener expectations. I wish I could play drums.
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Kiray Jones-Mollerup, 2013-2014
Undergraduate student in Psychology
Department of Psychology, 海角社区
I worked with Kai Siedenburg to study the perception of transformed and natural instrument timbres.
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Dominique Beauregard Cazabon, 2013-2014
Undergraduate student in Neuroscience
海角社区
I worked with Meghan Goodchild; we looked at the effect of timbre on the psychophysiological responses of orchestral music listeners.
Dominique is now a graduate student at McMaster University, Department of Psychology, Neuroscience & Behaviour.
Jocelyn Micallef, 2013-2014
Undergraduate honours student in Cognitive Sciences
Program in Cognitive Sciences, 海角社区
I worked with Prof. Stephen McAdams. Our project involved the study of the auditory associative learning between Indian spoken syllables and strokes on the Indian tabla.
B茅atrice Copps, 2012-2013
Undergraduate honours student in Psychology
Department of Psychology, 海角社区
B茅atrice is now a medical student at 海角社区.
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Emily Wilson, 2012-2013
Auditory entrainment
Undergraduate student in Cognitive Sciences
Program in Cognitive Sciences, 海角社区
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Jamie Webber, 2012-2013
Psychological foundations of orchestration
Undergraduate student in Neuroscience and Composition
海角社区
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Kyra Parker, 2012-2013
Timbre blending
Undergraduate student in Cognitive Sciences
Program in Cognitive Sciences, 海角社区
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Lorraine Chuen, 2011-2013
Music and emotion/cultural aspects
Undergraduate honours student in Psychology
Department of Psychology, 海角社区
Lorraine is now a graduate student at McMaster University, Department of Psychology, Neuroscience & Behaviour.
Kevin Schwartzbach
Tamara Lagrandeur-Ponce
Max Hartshorn
Gabe Nespoli
Rachel Busby
Corey Kereliuk
Daphne Tan
Nick Shortway
Caitlin Martinkus
Indiana Wollman
Mikaela Miller
Dieu-Ly Tran
Myles Gaulin
Jonathan Crellin
Sabrina Lytton
Jake Shenker
Previous Visiting Scholars:
Jina Xin Wang
Joseph Plazak
Fred Rees
Lawrence Zbikowski
Cogntive music theory
Richard Pastore
Edward Large
Fulbright Visiting Professor, 9/2006 鈥� 4/2007