The So Strangely Podcast

Unmixer: Loop Extraction with Repetition, with Dr. Jordan Smith and Tim de Reuse

Music technology PhD Candidate Tim de Reuse recommends “Unmixer: An Interface for Extracting and Remixing Loops” by Jordan Smith,Yuta Kawasaki, and Masataka Goto, publish

Scale Degree Qualia in Context with Prof. Claire Arthur and Dr. David Baker

In western classical music, theorists have long argued (and mostly agreed) that individual notes of the major and minor scale have sensations associated, feelings often d

ISMIR 2019 Conference sampler

This episode brings recommendations from the 2019 ISMIR conference at TUDelft in the Netherlands. A number of contributors, old and new, highlighted papers that had caugh

Music Transformer and Machine Learning for Composition with Dr. Anna Huang

Finn interviews Composer and Machine Learning specialist Dr. Cheng-Zhi Anna Huang about the Music Transformer project at Google’s Magenta Labs. They discuss representatio

Systemic Racism and Whiteness in Music Education, with Dr. Juliet Hess and co-host Ethan Hein

Music Education doctoral candidate Ethan Hein recommends “Equity and Music Education: Euphemisms, Terminal Naivety, and Whiteness” by Juliet Hess, published in Action, Cr

Capturing the alignment between the movements of musicians and listeners with Dr. Alexander Demos

Host Finn Upham recommends “How Music Moves Us: Entraining to Musicians’ Movements” by Alexander Demos and Roger Chaffin, published in Music Perception, 2017. They interv

Differences in metrical entrainment and replication research with Sylvie Nozaradan and cohost Sarah Sauvé

Postdoctoral fellow Sarah Sauvé recommends “Individual differences in rhythmic cortical entrainment correlate with predictive behavior in sensorimotor synchronization” by

Episode 7: Society for Neuroscience 2018 Music Science Review

Four Music Science attendees of the 2018 meeting of the Society for Neuroscience join Finn to discuss their experience of the conference, their own projects, and other in

Episode 6: Relevance of vocals to music listener preferences, with Brian McFee and guest Andrew Demetriou

Music tech and data science professor Brian McFee recommends Vocals in Music Matter: The Relevance of Vocals in the Minds of Listeners by Andrew Demetriou, Andreas Jansso

Episode 5: Cross-culture variation in preferences for consonance, with Dan Shanahan and guest Josh McDermott

Music Theorist Daniel Shanahan recommends “Indifference to dissonance in native Amazonians reveals cultural variation in music perception” by Josh H. McDermott, Alan F. S

Episode 4: Development and Teleomusicality with Mariusz Kozak and guest Andrea Schiavio

Music Theorist Mariusz Kozak recommends “When the Sound Becomes the Goal. 4E Cognition and Teleomusicality in Early Infancy” by Andrea Schiavio, Dylan van der Schyff, Sil

Episode 3: Interactions of Metrical and Tonal Hierarchies with Bryn Hughes and guest Chris White

Music Theorist Bryn Hughes recommends Chris White's "Relationships Between Tonal Stability and Metrical Accent in Monophonic Contexts", published in the Empirical Musicol

Episode 2: Aligned Hierarchies and Segmentation with Vincent Lostanlen and guest Katherine Kinnaird

Data Scientist Vincent Lostanlen recommends Katherine Kinnaird's “Aligned Hierarchies: A Multi-Scale Structure-Based Representation for Music-Based Data Streams”, publish

Episode 1: Music Anhedonia and White Matter with Amy Belfi and guest Psyche Loui

Neuroscientist Amy Belfi recommends “White Matter Correlates of Musical Anhedonia: Implications for Evolution of Music” by Loui, Patterson, Sachs, Leung, Zeng, and Przysi

Episode 0: Introducing The So Strangely Podcast

A short introduction to The So Strangely Podcast on recent research in Music Science. **** Follow the podcast on Twitter @sostrangelypod Get in touch with the producer