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Dear all,

A reminder that today, Friday 9th December at 1:30pm, Justin London will 
present the tutorial 'Basic aspects and concepts of musical rhythm' and 
the seminar 'The effect of self-motion on judgments of musical tempo'.

The tutorial is expected to last around 90 and 120 minutes and will be 
followed by the seminar. All are welcome to attend.

The talks will take place in room BR 3.01 in the Computer Science 
building, Queen Mary University of London, Mile End Road, London E1 4NS. 
Directions on how to access the building can be found at 
http://www.eecs.qmul.ac.uk/about/campus-map.php. If you experience 
problems entering, the lab phone number is +44 (0)20 7882 5343 and if I am 
not available, anyone else in the lab should be able to help. If you are 
coming from outside Queen Mary, please let me know, so I can make sure 
no-one is stuck outside the doors. Details of future seminars can be found 
at http://www.eecs.qmul.ac.uk/newsevents/researchgroupevents.php?i=12.

If you wish to be added to / removed from our mailing list, please send me 
an email and I'll be happy to do so.

Friday's tutorial and seminar (9th December, 1:30pm-4:00pm):

Tutorial title:

Basic aspects and concepts of musical rhythm

Tutorial topics:

* Distinction between rhythm and meter
* Beats and beat Entrainment
* Tempo
* Psychological aspects of rhythm perception and motor behavior
* Rhythm terminology, both musical and psychoacoustic
* Rhythmic coherence

Seminar title:

The effect of self-motion on judgments of musical tempo

Speaker:

Justin London

Seminar abstract:

Converging evidence from neuroscience (Chen, Penhune, & Zatorre 2009; 
Grahn and McAuley 2009) and behavioral studies (Repp 2005) points to an 
intimate link between rhythm perception and production.  This presentation 
will report on recent experiments in which listeners tapped at two 
different rates (relative to the tactus) to melodies and percussive 
patterns presented at a wide range of tempos.  It was found that tapping 
rate affects tempo judgment for some listeners; there is also an 
interaction between musical training, movement rate, and perceived tempo. 
These results are compared with those of Boltz (1998, 2011) regarding the 
effect of melodic structure, and Grahn & McAuley (2009) regarding 
neurological differences which may be related to differences in rhythmic 
sensitivity.  More broadly, we posit that listening to a melody engages 
our mechanisms for tracking auditory objects in a way that a purely 
percussive pattern does not, and that our sense of the speed of a musical 
passage may depend in part in our sense of how fast we have to move in 
order to move with it.

Bio:

JUSTIN LONDON is Professor of Music at Carleton College in Northfield, MN, 
USA, where he teaches courses in Music Theory, The Philosophy of Music, 
Music Perception and Cognition, and American Popular Music. Trained as a 
classical guitarist, he holds the Ph.D. in Music History and Theory from 
the University of Pennsylvania where he studied with Leonard Meyer.  He 
has written articles and reviews on a wide range of subjects, from humor 
in Haydn to the perception of complex meters. His book Hearing in Time 
(Oxford University Press, 2004) is a cross-cultural exploration of the 
perception and cognition of musical meter.  In 2005-2006 he was a visiting 
scholar at the Centre for Music and Science of Cambridge University under 
the auspices of a UK Fulbright Foundation grant. He has given many talks 
and symposia, including the Mannes Institute for Advanced Studies in Music 
Theory (New York, 2005), the International Orpheus Academy for Music & 
Theory (Ghent, Belgium, 2007), and the Interdisciplinary College (IK) in 
cognitive science (Günne, Germany, 2009 & 2010). He served as President of 
the Society for Music Theory in 2007-2009.



Future C4DM seminars:

Geraint Wiggins - QMUL
Wed 25th January 2012
(Seminar details tbc)



C4DM Website : http://www.elec.qmul.ac.uk/digitalmusic/index.html




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Peter Foster
Postgraduate Research Student
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Centre for Digital Music
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