Music theorist, practitioner, and cognitive scientist at MARCS Institute, Western Sydney University. @andytonality@mastodonapp.uk @andytonality.bsky.social
Joined July 2011
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9 Jun 2025
We are offering an exciting #CrossCultural #MusicScience PhD scholarship in Sydney, for our ARC project "Revealing Universal and Cultural Origins of Music-Induced Emotion": international field trips, music cognition experiments & Bayesian analyses!
westernsydney.edu.au/schools…
ALT On the left, a Papua New Guinean musician in ceremonial clothes is performing on the Kundu drum (a long hourglass-shaped wooden drum). In the background, members of the community are enjoying the show. On the right, in the background, are plots showing the results of computational analyses of the effects of different music-acoustical features on perceived music stability in several different communities. On the right, in the foreground, a young woman from PNG is wearing headphones and taking part in a music cognition experiment.
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Andrew Milne retweeted
26 May 2025
Here's a corrected link for more details and application form: westernsydney.edu.au/schools…
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25 May 2025
We are offering an exciting #MusicScience PhD scholarship in Sydney, for our ARC Discovery project Revealing Universal and Cultural Origins of Music-Induced Emotion: international field trips, music cognition experiments, & Bayesian analyses! Please share. westernsydney.edu.au/schools…
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26 May 2025
Here's a corrected link for more details and application form: westernsydney.edu.au/schools…
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Andrew Milne retweeted
25 May 2025
We are offering an exciting #MusicScience PhD scholarship in Sydney, for our ARC Discovery project Revealing Universal and Cultural Origins of Music-Induced Emotion: international field trips, music cognition experiments, & Bayesian analyses! Please share. westernsydney.edu.au/schools…
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Andrew Milne retweeted
25 May 2025
At least 3 bonuses: Andy is an amazing supervisor you’ll be working with the leading researchers in the field it’s a very exciting research project with lots of opportunities along the way!
25 May 2025
We are offering an exciting #MusicScience PhD scholarship in Sydney, for our ARC Discovery project Revealing Universal and Cultural Origins of Music-Induced Emotion: international field trips, music cognition experiments, & Bayesian analyses! Please share. westernsydney.edu.au/schools…
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11 Oct 2023
A new paper about how rhythmic structure affects tapping accuracy and temporal expectation. Participants tapped along with 91 highly syncopated rhythms, several in unusual time signatures. Some rhythms were performed well; some very poorly. doi.org/10.3758/s13414-023-0… (1/6)
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11 Oct 2023
In contradistinction to Povel and Essens' classic work, we find the edges of groups of cues are tapped with lower (not higher) probability. Instead, our findings show that taps to our unfamiliar and "difficult" rhythms are guided by rather crude and lossy heuristics. (6/6)
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20 Sep 2023
doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone… : This is the second article from our #musicscience field-research in Papua New Guinea and Sydney. We find that acoustical roughness is universally associated with musical consonance/dissonance (operationalized as “stability”). 1/11
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20 Sep 2023
In combination with the earlier article – the results show the relevance of specific universal and cultural mechanisms in mediating the effect of music on our emotions and feelings. 10/11
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20 Sep 2023
A huge thank you to our research assistants, hosts, and organisers from Towet, Yawan, and other villages in the Uruwa River Valley, for your warm welcome and keeping us safe, and your enthusiastic engagement with the research. Irot orogo! 11/11
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