12:00 - 6:00 PM Registration

2:00 - 6:00 PM Peter Desain and Henkjan Honing: TUTORIAL Lisp Programming for Music Cognition.

6:00 - 9:00 Cocktail Reception and Concerts

6:00 Reception

7:00 First Concert: Evan Ziporan, Balinese Gamelan

8:15 Second Concert: Georg Ruckert, Sarod
 
 

FRIDAY, AUGUST 1, 1997

 
8:30 AM Registration

Continental Breakfast

9:00 - 10:20 Sessions IA and IB

9:00 - 9:20 Edward Burns: Perception of Harmonics of Pure and Complex Tones

9:20 - 9:40 Alexander Galembo and Lola L. Cuddy: String Inharmonicity and the Timbral Quality of Piano Bass Tones: Fletcher, Blackham, and Stratton (1962) Revisited

9:40 - 10:00 Einar Mencl: Auditory Stream Coherence as an Index of Timbre Similarity

10:00 - 10:20 Judith C. Brown: Computer Identification of Musical Instruments Using Pattern Recognition
 

9:00 - 9:20 Daniel Levitan: Pitch Memory and the A440 Scale

9:20 - 9:40 Julia C. Kuhn and Andrea R. Halpern: Long-Term Memory for Absolute Pitches of Unfamiliar Songs

9:40 - 10:00 Feierabend, J.M., Saunders, T.C., Holahan, J.M., & Getnick, P.E.: Song Recognition Among Preschool-Aged Children: An Investigation of Words and Music

10:00 - 10:20 Daniel J. Levitin and Ursula Bellugi: Musical Abilities in Individuals with Williams Syndrome
 

10:20 -10:40 Break

10:40 - 11:40 Sessions IIA and IIB
 

10:40 - 11:00 Geoffrey L. Collier: Rethinking Tempo

11:00 - 11:20 Justin London: Can You Hear Two Meters at Once? Metric Ambiguity, Metric Vagueness, and Music Theory

11:20 - 11:40 Aniruddh D. Patel: A Perceptual Method for the Study of Rhythmic Expectancy

10:40 - 11:00 René Van Egmond: Bottom-Up Versus Top-Down Processing: Expectancies in (Tonal) Music

11:00 - 11:20 Zohar Eitan: Melodic Implication and Pitch Direction

11:20 - 11:40 Ian Quinn and Panayotis Mavromatis: The Combinatorial Model of Contour Perception

11:45 - 12:40 Plenary Session

 
11:45 - 12:00 Nicholas Negroponte: Welcome to the Media Laboratory

Eugene Namour: Welcome to the SMPC ‘97 Conference

12:00 - 12:40 Steve Pinker: The View from Evolutionary Psychology

12:40 - 2:00 Break: Time to explore the local cafes

2:00 - 3:40 Sessions IIIA and IIIB

2:00 - 2:20 Rosalee Meyer and Caroline Palmer: Tempo and Tactus Effects in Music Performance and Perception

2:20 - 2:40 Edward W. Large and Caroline Palmer: Modeling The Perception of Meter in Music Performance

2:40 - 3:00 Bruno H. Repp: Melodic-Rhythmic Grouping and the Mental Time-Keeper

3:00 - 3:20 Harold E. Fiske: A Connectionist Model of Tonal-Rhythmic Categorization

3:20 - 3:40 Sylvie Herbert and Lola L. Cuddy: Figural and Metric Structures of Temporal Patterns

2:00 - 2:20 Gary S. Karpinski: A Perceptual Basis for Implementing a Solmization System

2:20 - 2:40 René Van Egmond & David Butler: The Use of Order in Tonal Melodies: Analyses of the Barlow & Morgenstern Themes

2:40 - 3:00 Peter Q. Pfordresher, Mari R. Jones & David Butler: Attentional Tracking of Melodies Using Joint Accent Structure

3:00 - 3:20 Topi Jarvinen: The Effect of Meter on the Use of Tones in Jazz Improvisation

3:20 - 3:40 Markwin J. van den Berg: A Formalism for Parallelism

 
3:40 - 4:00 Break

4:00 - 4:50 Media Laboratory Open House

5:00 - 5:40 Plenary Session

 
Marvin Minsky: The View from Society of Mind

 
Evening: Explore Boston Freely

SATURDAY, AUGUST 2, 1997

8:00 - 9:00 AM SMPC Board Meeting

 
8:30 AM Continental Breakfast
 

9:00 - 10:20 Sessions IVA and IVB and IVC

9:00 - 10:40 Panel: Cognitive Issues in Ethnomusicology

Mark DeWitt: Cajun Dance Tunes and Their Variants: A Study of Categorization in Oral Tradition

Cornelia Fales: What Do They Know About Timbre Perception?

Elizabeth Tolbert: Cultural Models or Cognitive Models?: Psychological Motivation and Processes of Meaning Construction in Music

Lawrence Zbikowski: What Stories Does Music Tell?

9:00 - 9:20 Elizabeth West Marvin and Alexander R. Brinkman: The Effect of Modulation and Formal Disruption on Perceived Tonal Closure

9:20 - 9:40 Bigand, E., Tillmann, B. & Pineau, M.: Effects of Global Context on Harmonic Expectancy: Spreading Activation Versus Music-Discourse Based Explanations

9:40 - 10:00 David Huron, Mei Yen Ch'ng, Kim Rasmussen, and Sarah Stockwell: The Perceptibility of Four Music-Rhetorical Types

10:00- 10:40 Vijay Iyer: Cognition of Musical Rhythm and Form in African-Derived Musics

9:00 - 10:40 Poster Session : Music Cognition Group Poster Session: Current Research in Music Cognition and Aural Training Steve Larson and Helen Brown Organizers

Individual Participants:

Rita Aiello and Marco Rapetti: Memorizing Piano Music: What Concert Pianists Describe

Philip C. Baczewski and Rosemary N. Killam: Modeling Music Transcription: A Comparison of Graduate, Undergraduate, and Junior College Students’ Perceptual Strategies

David Butler and René Van Egmond: Re-mapping the Diatonic Sets

Steve Larson: To Be Continued: Results of Last Year’s Contest

Sheryl Skifstad: Aural Analysis Requires Prior Knowledge

Scott Spiegelberg: Pre-concert Lectures and Aesthetic Response: Thematic Structures
 

10:20 -10:40 Break

10:40 - 11:40 Sessions VA and VB and VC
 

10:40 - 11:00 Laura-Lee Balkwill & William Forde Thompson: The Communication and Perception of Emotions in North Indian Ragas: A Cross-Cultural Investigation

11:00 - 11:20 Richard Ashley: As Time Goes By: Learning and Melodic Expressiveness in Jazz Ballad Performance

11:20 - 11:40 Peter Desain and Henkjan Honing : Structural Expression Component Theory (SECT), and a Method for Decomposing Expression in Music Performance

10:40 - 11:00 Martin F. McKinney and Bertrand Delgutte: A Possible Neurophysiological Basis of the Octave Enlargement

11:00 - 11:20 David Huron: Making Sense of Sensory Dissonance

11:20 - 11:40 Peter Cariani: Temporal Strategies for Neural Representation of Pitch and Rhythm

11:00 - 11:20 Virginia Williamson and Panayotis Mavromatis:Similarity in Atonal Music Theory: A Perceptual Study

11:20 - 11:40 Carole Gubernikoff: Listening and Electro-Acoustics: Composition and Musical Analysis

11:45 - 12:30 Plenary Session: SMPC Business Meeting

12:30 - 2:00 Break: Time to explore the local cafes

2:00 - 3:20 Sessions VIA and VIB and VIC
 

2:00 - 2:20 Paul E. Dworak: Nonlinear Dynamics in the Microstructure of Pitches Produced by Instruments and Voice

2:20 - 2:40 Gregory Sandell and Michael Chronopoulos: Perceptual Constancy of Musical Instrument Timbres; Generalizing Timbre Knowledge Across Registers

2:40 - 3:00 Roger A. Kendall & Edward C. Carterette: Communicating Performer Intent Through Musical Performance: Mapping Performer Intent Through Acoustical Analyses and Perception

3:00 - 3:20 Pieter Jacobs and Daniel Bullock: A Two-Process Model for the Low-Level Control of Legato Across a Wide Range of Tempi During Piano Performance

2:00 - 2:20 Bruce Pennycook and Tang-Chun Li: Automatic Temporal Segmentation of Music Audio Data

2:20 - 2:40 Adam Lindsay: Multimodal Interaction in the Perception of Musical Interpolation

2:40 - 3:00 Keith D. Martin and Eric Scheirer: Automatic Transcription of Simple Polyphonic Music: Integrating Musical Knowledge

3:00 - 3:20 David Temperley and Daniel Sleator: An Algorithm for Harmonic Analysis

2:00 - 3:20 David Huron: Sound, Music and Emotion: An Introduction to the Experimental Research

3:20 - 3:40 Break

3:40 - 4:20 Plenary Session

 
Sue DeVale: The View from Ethnomusicology

 
4:20 - 5:20 Sessions VIIA and VIIB

 
4:20 - 4:40 Warren Brodsky and John A. Sloboda: The Effects of Whole Body Acoustic Stimulation on Subjective Relaxation, Verbalization, and Visual Imagery

4:40 - 5:00 Warren Brodsky and Avishai Henik: Demonstrating Inner Hearing Among Musicians

5:00 - 5:20 Mark Orr and Leon Miller: Aesthetic Response to MusicGenre and Training Effects

4:20 - 4:40 Alexandra Hettergott: On the Perception of Contemporary Music --- Between Phenomenology and Psychoacoustics

4:40 - 5:00 David Temperley: Music Cognition and Music Theory: The Question of Purpose

5:00 - 5:20 Dominique Richard: The Possible/ Real and the Virtual/Actual in Music
 

5:30 Busses Depart for Dinner
 

6:00 - 10:00 Dinner at the Kennedy Library and Museum, Boston

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