Seminars
Presentation of a paper (Bainbridge & Bertolo et al., 2020, Nature Human Behaviour) that finds that infants are sensitive to the cross-culturally consistent features of lullabies, in that they relax to them even when the songs are drawn from unfamiliar cultures and sung in unfamiliar languages by unfamiliar voices.
Date: 3 May 2022
Speaker: Mila Bertolo
The WASABI dataset: Cultural, lyrics and audio analysis metadata about 2 million popular commercially released songs; Music language models: A need for symbolic representations?
Date: 8 March 2022
Speaker: Michel Buffa and Albert Meroño Peñuela
The first appointment focuses on music perception and cognition, with Nicola Di Stefano (CNR, Italy), and on music similarity models, with Peter van Kranenburg (KNAW, Netherlands).
Date: 8 February 2022
Speaker: Nicola Di Stefano and Peter van Kranenburg