Research Associate
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Bruno L. Giordano, 2004-2011 Currently Research Scientist in the French CNRS, Institut de Neurosciences de la Timone, Marseille, France Sound source perception, identification and categorization |
Project Coordinator, ACTOR Project (Analysis, Creation, and Teaching of Orchestration)
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Juanita Marchand Knight, DMA, 2018-2020 Currently PhD student in Psychology at Concordia University. |
Project Manager, Orchestration and Perception Project
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Hannah Darroch, 2017-2018 Currently Principal Flute of the Christchurch Symphony Orchestra. |
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Meghan Goodchild, 2013-2017 Currently Research Data Management Librarian, Queen's University, Kingston, ON PhD in Music Theory. |
Post-doctoral Fellows
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Félix Frédéric Baril, 2020-2023 Director of Research, OrchPlayMusic, Inc. Composition; Orchestral simulations |
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Kit Soden, 2021-2022 Post-doctoral researcher at the Université de Montréal 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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Aurélien 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 Université de Montréal. Composition; orchestration pedagogy; timbral semantics |
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Etienne Thoret, 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; Music and Media |
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Georgios Marentakis, 2006-2008 Currently Associate Professor of Informatics, Østfold University College, Norway Gestural control of spatialization; Psychoacoustics of sound localization in virtual spatial audio systems |
Graduate Students
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Iza Ray Korsmit, PhD, 2018-2023 PhD at McGill University in Interdisciplinary Music Studies. Dissertation: "An investigation of affective timbres: Considering affect locus, experimental context, and individual differences", McGill University, 2023. |
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Lena Heng, PhD, 2018-2023 PhD at McGill University in Interdisciplinary Music Studies. Dissertation: "Perception of affective intentions in music: Timbre cues and differences in musical cultures", McGill University, 2023. |
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Kit Soden, PhD, 2014-2020 PhD at McGill University in Interdisciplinary Music Studies. Dissertation: "Orchestrational combinations and transformations in operatic and symphonic music", McGill University, 2020. |
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Eddy Kazazis, PhD, 2014-2020 PhD at McGill University in Music Technology. Dissertation: "Psychophyiscal scaling of timbre-related audio descriptors.", McGill University, 2020. |
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Moe Touizrar, PhD, 2014-2019 PhD at McGill University in Music Composition. Dissertation: "From ekphrasis to apperception: The sunlight topic in orchestral music.", McGill University, 2019. |
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Tanor Bonin, PhD, 2016-2019 PhD at McGill University in Music Technology. Dissertation: "On the perception of musical form and the shouga of traditional Japanese music.", McGill University, 2019. |
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Jason Noble, PhD, 2013-2018 PhD at McGill University in Music Composition. Dissertation: "Perceptual and semantic dimensions of sound mass.", McGill University, 2018. |
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Meghan Goodchild, PhD, 2009-2017 Currently Research Data Management Librarian, Queen's University, Kingston, ON Personal Homepage |
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Cecilia Taher, PhD, 2012-2016 PhD at McGill University 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 Anthèmes", McGill University, 2016. |
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Kai Siedenburg, PhD, 2012-2016 PhD at McGill University 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. Dissertation: "Perspectives on memory for musical timbre", McGill University, 2016. |
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David Sears, PhD, 2009-2016 PhD at McGill University 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", McGill University, 2016. |
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Sven-Amin Lembke, PhD, 2009-2014 PhD at McGill University 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", McGill University, 2014. |
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Song Hui Chon, PhD, 2008-2013 PhD at McGill University 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", McGill University, 2013. |
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Michel Vallières, PhD, 2007-2011 PhD at McGill University 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", McGill University, 2011. |
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Adrien Daniel, PhD, 2008-2011 PhD at Université 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 McGill University in Experimental Psychology Dissertation: "The influence of sensory and cognitive consonance/dissonance on musical signal processing", McGill University, 2010. |
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Nils Peters, PhD, 2006-2010 PhD at McGill University 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", McGill University, 2010. |
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Bruno Gingras, PhD, 2005-2008 Currently University Assistant, Department of Psychology, Universität Innsbruck, Austria PhD at McGill University in Music Theory Dissertation: "Expressive strategies and performer-listener communication in organ performance", McGill University, 2008. |
MA
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Corinne Darche, MA, 2021-2023 MA at McGill University in Music Technology. Thesis: "Analysis of timbral augmentation in the Orchestration Analysis & Research Database (OrchARD)", McGill University, 2023. |
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Yifan Huang, MA, 2021-2023 MA at McGill University in Music Technology. Thesis: "Affective qualities of sustained instrumental blends", McGill University, 2023. |
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Linglan Zhu, MA, 2020-2022 MA at McGill University in Music Technology. Thesis: "Comparison of perceived and imagined instrumental blend", McGill University, 2022. |
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Max Henry, MA, 2019-2021 MA at McGill University in Music Technology. Thesis: "A perceptual study of amplitude modulation vibrato", McGill University, 2021. |
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Julian Vanasse, MA, 2019-2020 MA at McGill University in Music Technology.
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Erica Huynh, MA, 2017-2019 MA at McGill University in Music Technology. Thesis: "Bowed plates and blown strings: Odd combinations of excitation methods and resonance structures impact perception", McGill University, 2019. |
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Rachel Hottle, MA, 2018-2019 Currently pursuing an MA in Music Theory at McGill under the supervision of Robert Hasegawa. |
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Lena Heng, MA, 2016-2018 MA at McGill University in Musicology. Thesis: "Timbre in the communication of emotion among performers and listeners from Western art music and Chinese music traditions", McGill University, 2018. |
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Rachel Kim, MA, 2015-2017 MA at McGill University in Music Technology. Thesis. "The effects of timbre on harmonic interval tuning and perception", McGill University, 2017. |
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Ian Lou, MA, 2015-2017 MA at McGill University in Music Technology. Thesis: "Timbre memory, familiarity and dissimilarity", McGill University, 2017. |
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Sarah Gates, MA, 2014-2015 MA at McGill University 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", McGill University, 2015. |
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Christopher Wood, MA, 2014-2015 MA at McGill University in Music Technology. Thesis: "Perception of timbre intervals", McGill University, 2015. |
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Chelsea Douglas, MA, 2012-2014 MA at McGill University in Music Technology. Thesis: "Perceived affect of musical instrument sounds", McGill University, 2015. |
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Yinan Tsao (Cao), MA, 2011-2014 MA at McGill University 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", McGill University, 2015.
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Finn Upham, MA, 2010-2011 MA at McGill University 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", McGill University, 2011. |
Visiting Graduate Research Trainees
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Amit Gur, 2020-2021, visiting graduate research trainee PhD, University of Antwerp, Belgium |
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Rasmus Høll 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, Université Pierre et Marie Curie (Paris VI), France |
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Indiana Wollman, 2011, visiting graduate research trainee PhD, Université Pierre et Marie Curie (Paris VI), France |
Undergraduate Students
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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 Bélanger, 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 McGill University in 2015. I recently returned to my alma mater to begin a Master’s 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 Grace is continuing her BSc/BA studies at McGill. |
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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 |
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Dominique Beauregard Cazabon, 2013-2014 Undergraduate student in Neuroscience 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. |
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Jocelyn Micallef, 2013-2014 Undergraduate honours student in Cognitive Sciences 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. |
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Béatrice Copps, 2012-2013 Undergraduate honours student in Psychology Béatrice is now a medical student at McGill. |
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Emily Wilson, 2012-2013 Auditory entrainment Undergraduate student in Cognitive Sciences |
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Jamie Webber, 2012-2013 Psychological foundations of orchestration Undergraduate student in Neuroscience and Composition
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Kyra Parker, 2012-2013 Timbre blending Undergraduate student in Cognitive Sciences |
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Lorraine Chuen, 2011-2013 Music and emotion/cultural aspects Undergraduate honours student in Psychology Lorraine is now a graduate student at McMaster University, Department of Psychology, Neuroscience & Behaviour. |
Previous Visiting Scholars:
Cogntive music theory
Fulbright Visiting Professor, 9/2006 — 4/2007