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Andy Milne

@andytonality.bsky.social

Music theorist, practitioner, and cognitive scientist at MARCS Institute, Western Sydney University. #MusicScience #Bayesian #Cognition #CausalInference

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Andy Milne@andytonality.bsky.social · 5mo ago

I am writing to announce a 5-year Research Fellowship in Music Science at the MARCS Institute, Australia. You will design and lead research projects that use mathematical and computational approaches to investigate music and its cognition. Further details: jobs.smartrecruiters.com/WesternSydne...

Research Fellow in Music Science

Job Description: * 5-year Fixed-Term Contract, Full-time position at Academic Level B. * Based at the MARCS Institute with flexible working arrangements. * Salary: $120,908 – $142,769 per annum, plus ...

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Ceren Ayyildiz@cerenayyildiz.bsky.social · 12mo ago

The first study from my PhD project is now available! 🎉 "Micro-variations in timing and loudness affect music-evoked mental imagery" Supervised by wonderful @steffenherff.bsky.social @andytonality.bsky.social and @muireannirish.bsky.social. Read here: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Micro-variations in timing and loudness affect music-evoked mental imagery - Scientific Reports

Scientific Reports - Micro-variations in timing and loudness affect music-evoked mental imagery

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The MARCS Institute@marcsinstitute.bsky.social · 2y ago

We were thrilled to welcome Prof George Williams AO, Vice Chancellor of Western Sydney University to MARCS Institute! The VC chatted to our researchers about the exciting work in child development, neuromorphic research, biomedical engineering, & music science. Thanks for your support & insights!

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Andy Milne@andytonality.bsky.social · 2y ago

I am very happy to report that our ARC Discovery project – Revealing Universal and Cultural Origins of Music-Induced Affect – has been funded ($915,000 over 4 years). The team is amazing, and the project has unprecedented scope for multicultural music cognition field experiments. #MusicScience

Project ID: DP250101116. Investigators: Associate Professor Andrew Milne; Professor Roger Dean; Professor Emery Schubert; Dr Catherine Ingram; Dr Hannah Sarvasy; Professor Tuomas Eerola. Summary: Revealing Universal and Cultural Origins of Music-Induced Affect. Across almost all human cultures, music has a remarkable capacity to communicate different affects (emotions and feelings). However it is unknown which, if any, associations between music-acoustical features and affects are universal, and which are cultural. In a music cognition field-research program of unprecedented scope, we aim to estimate how tones in melodic, polyphonic, harmonic, and rhythmic contexts influence affective responses, and the extent to which these effects are mediated by cultural mechanisms (familiarity and association). The findings will have profound implications for the use of sound and music in therapeutic applications and will help identify ways to bridge cultural divides through intercultural musical appreciation. Announced: 26/11/2024. Admin Organisation: Western Sydney University. Primary FOR: 3603. Funding Awarded: $914,548.00
ARC Tracker@arc-tracker.bsky.social · 2y ago

Yesterday was an improvement for Discovery Projects. An extra ~$110 million was invested compared to last year (which was a low point). It replaces rapid loss in last 2 years & aligns investment with the last 12 years (adjusted for inflation). Not enough, but a start!

Bar graph (blue bars) showing the funding invested in the ARC’s Discovery Projects scheme each year since 2002, including yesterday’s outcomes for 2025. There’s a red line showing the success rate (number of applications approved divided by the number submitted). Data compiled here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1AyITNrCVt7pdLiUzyvC99q7l_X99rCS68r8_3i3h85s/edit?usp=sharing.
Taya Collyer@tayacollyer.bsky.social · 3y ago

I'm so thrilled that Adrian's pioneering work on randomising grant outcomes is gaining traction internationally. We need an organisation here in Australia willing to give it a go... #statsky #biostats

Ingo Rohlfing@ingorohlfing.bsky.social · 3y ago

The British Academy runs a multiyear trial on randomizing grant allocation among proposals that exceed quality threshold www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/news/promisi... Looks like a lottery increases diversity of recipients on many dimensions. 1/

Eline Smit@elineadrianne.bsky.social · 3y ago

New platform, new paper! 🎵 doi.org/10.1371/jour... The second article from our #musicscience field-research in Papua New Guinea and Sydney is out! We find that acoustical roughness is universally associated with musical consonance/dissonance (operationalized as “stability”)!

Evidence for a universal association of auditory roughness with musical stability

We provide evidence that the roughness of chords—a psychoacoustic property resulting from unresolved frequency components—is associated with perceived musical stability (operationalized as finishe...

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