Research Associate
Bruno L. Giordano, 2004-2011
Currently Research Scientist in the French CNRS, Institut de Neurosciences de la Timone, Marseille, France
Sound source perception, identification and categorization
Project Coordinator, ACTOR Project
Juanita Marchand Knight, DMA, 2018-2020
Analysis, Creation and Teaching of Orchestration - ACTOR
Currently PhD student in Psychology at Concordia University.
Project Manager, Orchestration and Perception Project
Hannah Darroch, 2017-2018
Currently Principal Flute of the Christchurch Symphony Orchestra.
Meghan Goodchild, 2013-2017
Currently Research Data Management Librarian, Queen's University, Kingston, ON
PhD in Music Theory.
Post-doctoral Fellows
Andrés Gutiérrez Martínez, 2022-2025
Professor of Electroacoustic Composition; Gustav Mahler Privatuniversität für Musik in Klagenfurt, Austria
Composition; Sonic analogies and extended techniques
Ben Duinker, 2022-2025
International Partnerships and Special Projects - McGill School of Continuing Studies
Music Theory; Hip-hop music
Félix Frédéric Baril, 2020-2023
Director of Research, OrchPlayMusic, Inc.
Composition; Orchestral simulations
Kit Soden, 2021-2022
Post-doctoral researcher at the Université de Montréal
Composition; Opera Orchestration
Lindsey Reymore, 2020-2022
Associate Professor of Music Theory, Arizona State University
Timbre Semantics; Linguistics; Cross-modal Correspondences
Matthew Zeller, 2020-2022
Curator for Europe at Musical Instrument Museum
Timbre's role in musical logic; Music segmentation
Marcelo Caetano, 2020-2022
Marie-Curie global fellow with CNRS-PRISM
Sound morphing; Timbre Perception
Aurélien Antoine, 2018-2021
Computational Modeling; Auditory Scene Analysis; Orchestral Effects
Julie Delisle, 2018-2020
Researcher at Audiokinetic in Montreal
Acoustics and musicology of musical instruments
Jason Noble, 2018-2020
Post-doctoral researcher at the Université de Montréal.
Composition; orchestration pedagogy; timbral semantics
Etienne Thoret, 2015-2018
Currently Post-doctoral researcher in France.
Auditory Modeling; Multimodal Perception
Konstantinos Trochidis, 2011-2012
Currently Senior Data Scientist at Siemens Mindsphere Application Center, Dubai, UAE
Music Emotion Recognition; Psychophysiology of Emotion; Music and Expectancy; Tempo estimation of audio signals
Hauke Egermann, 2009-2011
Currently Lecturer at Department of Music, University of York, UK
Music and Emotion; Psychophysiology of Emotion; Social Psychology; Neuronal Basis of Music Perception; Music and Media
Georgios Marentakis, 2006-2008
Currently Associate Professor of Informatics, Østfold University College, Norway
Gestural control of spatialization; Psychoacoustics of sound localization in virtual spatial audio systems
Graduate Students
PhD
Erica Ying Huynh, PhD, 2017-2023
PhD at McGill University in Interdisciplinary Music Studies.
Dissertation: "Categorization, Differentiation, and Learning of Atypically Combined Mechanical Components of Musical Instruments," McGill University, 2023.
Behrad Madahi, 2017-
Iza Ray Korsmit, PhD, 2018-2023
PhD at McGill University in Interdisciplinary Music Studies.
Dissertation: "An investigation of affective timbres: Considering affect locus, experimental context, and individual differences," McGill University, 2023.
Lena Heng, PhD, 2018-2023
PhD at McGill University in Interdisciplinary Music Studies.
Dissertation: "Perception of affective intentions in music: Timbre cues and differences in musical cultures," McGill University, 2023.
Kit Soden, PhD, 2014-2020
PhD at McGill University in Interdisciplinary Music Studies.
Dissertation: "Orchestrational combinations and transformations in operatic and symphonic music," McGill University, 2020.
Eddy Kazazis, PhD, 2014-2020
PhD at McGill University in Music Technology.
Dissertation: "Psychophyiscal scaling of timbre-related audio descriptors," McGill University, 2020.
Moe Touizrar, PhD, 2014-2019
PhD at McGill University in Music Composition.
Dissertation: "From ekphrasis to apperception: The sunlight topic in orchestral music.", McGill University, 2019.
Tanor Bonin, PhD, 2016-2019
PhD at McGill University in Music Technology.
Dissertation: "On the perception of musical form and the shouga of traditional Japanese music.", McGill University, 2019.
Jason Noble, PhD, 2013-2018
PhD at McGill University in Music Composition.
Dissertation: "Perceptual and semantic dimensions of sound mass.", McGill University, 2018.
Meghan Goodchild, PhD, 2009-2017
Currently Research Data Management Librarian, Queen's University, Kingston, ON
PhD at McGill University in Music Theory.
Dissertation: "Orchestral gestures: Music-theoretical perspectives and emotional responses.", McGill University, 2016.
Cecilia Taher, PhD, 2012-2016
PhD at McGill University in Music Theory. Ceci is currently the flute and recorder teacher at the Suzuki Charter School in Edmonton, AB.
Dissertation: "Motivic similarity and form in Boulez's Anthèmes", McGill University, 2016.
Kai Siedenburg, PhD, 2012-2016
PhD at McGill University in Music Technology. Kai is currently a Postdoctoral Fellow (Signal Processing Group) in the Department of Medical Physics and Acoustics at the University of Oldenburg, Germany.
Dissertation: "Perspectives on memory for musical timbre", McGill University, 2016.
David Sears, PhD, 2009-2016
PhD at McGill University in Music Theory. David is currently a Post-doctoral Researcher in the Department of Computational Perception at Johannes Kepler University, Linz, Austria.
Dissertation: "The classical cadence as a closing schema: Learning, memory & perception", McGill University, 2016.
Sven-Amin Lembke, PhD, 2009-2014
PhD at McGill University in Music Technology. Sven is currently a lecturer at De Montfort University - Leicester, UK.
Dissertation: "When timbre blends musically: Perception and acoustics underlying orchestration and performance", McGill University, 2014.
Song Hui Chon, PhD, 2008-2013
PhD at McGill University in Music Technology. Song Hui is currently a visiting professor at the Electrical, Computer, and Telecommunications Department at Rochester Institute of Technology.
Dissertation: "Timbre saliency, the attention-capturing quality of timbre", McGill University, 2013.
Michel Vallières, PhD, 2007-2011
PhD at McGill University in Music Theory. Michel is currently a speech therapist for the Yukon Territory in Whitehorse, YK.
Dissertation: "Beginnings, middles, and ends: Perception of intrinsic formal functionality in the piano sonatas of W. A. Mozart", McGill University, 2011.
Adrien Daniel, PhD, 2008-2011
PhD at Université Pierre et Marie Curie (Paris VI) in Brain, Cognition and Behavior. Adrien currently works for NXP Software.
Dissertation: "Spatial auditory blurring and applications to multichannel audio coding", UPMC, 2011.
Susan Rogers, PhD, 2007-2010
Currently Associate Professor, Berklee College of Music, Boston, MA.
PhD at McGill University in Experimental Psychology
Dissertation: "The influence of sensory and cognitive consonance/dissonance on musical signal processing", McGill University, 2010.
Nils Peters, PhD, 2006-2010
PhD at McGill University in Music Technology. Nils is currently a research scientist with QualComm in San Diego, CA.
Dissertation: "Sweet [re]production: Developing sound spatialization tools for musical applications with emphasis on sweet spot and off-center perception", McGill University, 2010.
Bruno Gingras, PhD, 2005-2008
Currently University Assistant, Department of Psychology, Universität Innsbruck, Austria
PhD at McGill University in Music Theory
Dissertation: "Expressive strategies and performer-listener communication in organ performance", McGill University, 2008.
MA
Corinne Darche, MA, 2021-2023
MA at McGill University in Music Technology.
Thesis: "Analysis of timbral augmentation in the Orchestration Analysis & Research Database (OrchARD)", McGill University, 2023.
Yifan Huang, MA, 2021-2023
MA at McGill University in Music Technology.
Thesis: "Affective qualities of sustained instrumental blends", McGill University, 2023.
Linglan Zhu, MA, 2020-2022
MA at McGill University in Music Technology.
Thesis: "Comparison of perceived and imagined instrumental blend", McGill University, 2022.
Max Henry, MA, 2019-2021
MA at McGill University in Music Technology.
Thesis: "A perceptual study of amplitude modulation vibrato", McGill University, 2021.
Julian Vanasse, MA, 2019-2020
MA at McGill University in Music Technology.
Erica Huynh, MA, 2017-2019
MA at McGill University in Music Technology.
Thesis: "Bowed plates and blown strings: Odd combinations of excitation methods and resonance structures impact perception", McGill University, 2019.
Rachel Hottle, MA, 2018-2019
Currently pursuing an MA in Music Theory at McGill under the supervision of Robert Hasegawa.
Lena Heng, MA, 2016-2018
MA at McGill University in Musicology.
Thesis: "Timbre in the communication of emotion among performers and listeners from Western art music and Chinese music traditions", McGill University, 2018.
Rachel Kim, MA, 2015-2017
MA at McGill University in Music Technology.
Thesis. "The effects of timbre on harmonic interval tuning and perception", McGill University, 2017.
Ian Lou, MA, 2015-2017
MA at McGill University in Music Technology.
Thesis: "Timbre memory, familiarity and dissimilarity", McGill University, 2017.
Sarah Gates, MA, 2014-2015
MA at McGill University in Music Theory. Sarah is pursuing a PhD degree in Music Theory at Northwestern University.
Thesis: "Perceptual interactions of pitch and timbre: An experimental study on pitch-interval recognition with analytical applications", McGill University, 2015.
Christopher Wood, MA, 2014-2015
MA at McGill University in Music Technology.
Thesis: "Perception of timbre intervals", McGill University, 2015.
Chelsea Douglas, MA, 2012-2014
MA at McGill University in Music Technology.
Thesis: "Perceived affect of musical instrument sounds", McGill University, 2015.
Yinan Tsao (Cao), MA, 2011-2014
MA at McGill University in Music Technology. Yinan is pursuing a PhD degree in Experimental Psychology at Oxford University.
Thesis: "The dominance of haptics over audition in stabilizing wrist kinematics during striking movements", McGill University, 2015.
Finn Upham, MA, 2010-2011
MA at McGill University in Music Technology. Finn Upham obtained a PhD degree in Music Technology at NYU in 2018.
Thesis: "Quantifying Audience Responses to Music: methods for analyzing collections of emotional experience time series", McGill University, 2011.
Visiting Graduate Research Trainees
Amit Gur, 2020-2021
visiting graduate research trainee
PhD, University of Antwerp, Belgium
Rasmus Høll Nielsen, 2014
visiting graduate research trainee
PhD, Aarhus University, Denmark
Eddy Kazazis, 2013
visiting graduate research trainee
MA, The Institute of Sonology, The Netherlands
Philippe Esling, 2012
visiting graduate research trainee
PhD, Université Pierre et Marie Curie (Paris VI), France
Indiana Wollman, 2011
visiting graduate research trainee
PhD, Université Pierre et Marie Curie (Paris VI), France
Undergraduate Students
Skyler Aria, 2024-2025
Undergraduate student in Psychology.
Bryana-Alexa Liberta, 2022-2023
Undergraduate student in Psychology.
Zijiao Claire Wei, 2021-2022
Undergraduate student in Psychology.
Alix Yok Tin Wong-Min, 2021-2022
Undergraduate student in Psychology.
Emmanuelle Beauvais-Lacasse, 2020-2021
Undergraduate student in Cognitive Science and Linguistics.
Michelle Nadon Bélanger, 05/2020-09/2020
Undergraduate student in Jazz and Anthropology.
Navin Kumar, 05/2020-09/2020
Undergraduate student in Computer Science.
Beatrice Lopez, 06/2018-12/2019
Undergraduate student in Computer Science.
Manda Fischer, 2016-2018
Undergraduate honours student in Psychology.
Manda is pursuing a PhD degree in Psychology at the University of Toronto.
Alistair Russell, 2016-2017
Full-stack Software Developer for the Orchestration and Perception Project.
Henri Rabalais, 2015 & 2017
Undergraduate student in Cognitive Sciences, summer undergrad Research Assistant.
I completed my B.A.&Sc. in Cognitive Science with concentrations in Psychology and Neuroscience at McGill University in 2015. I recently returned to my alma mater to begin a Master’s Thesis in Music Technology. Presently, I am in the process of concluding a research project with Stephen McAdams concerning the effect of room acoustics on timbral blend.
Grace Wang, 2015-2016
Undergraduate honours student in Cognitive Sciences
Program in Cognitive Sciences, McGill University
Grace is continuing her BSc/BA studies at McGill.
Sophia Metcalf, 2015-2016
Undergraduate student in Psychology and Music.
I worked with Stephen McAdams building a database of articles about timbre from journals outside Music Psychology (Ethnomusicology, Musicology, Music Theory, Popular Music).
Jordana Saks, 2015-2016
Undergraduate student in Cognitive Sciences.
I worked with Stephen McAdams on timbre and emotions.
Ayla Tse, 2015
Undergraduate student in Psychology, NSERC Undergraduate Research Awardee.
I worked on the role of information accumulation in learning to identify musical instruments.
Charlene Zhang, 2015
Undergraduate student in Psychology, NSERC Undergraduate Research Awardee in the Auditory Cognitive Neuroscience program.
I worked on timbre salience in auditory stream segregation.
Jack Tokarz, 2014-2015
Undergraduate student in Psychology, summer undergrad Research Assistant.
I worked with Stephen McAdams on the effect of timbral salience on the auditory pop-out effect and with Yinan Cao on the learning of sensory correlations in timbre
Tudor Vrinceanu, 2014
Undergraduate student in Psychology.
I worked with Stephen McAdams on the orchestration and perception project and on timbre perception.
Shrinkhala Dawadi, 2014
Undergraduate student in Cognitive Sciences.
I worked with Kai Siedenburg on effects of short-term memory for timbre.
Jacob Spitzer, 2013-2014
Undergraduate honours student student in Psychology and Computer Science. I worked with David Sears studying the perception of closure in music as it relates to listener expectations. I wish I could play drums.
Kiray Jones-Mollerup, 2013-2014
Undergraduate student in Psychology
Department of Psychology, McGill University
I worked with Kai Siedenburg to study the perception of transformed and natural instrument timbres.
Dominique Beauregard Cazabon, 2013-2014
Undergraduate student in Neuroscience
McGill University
I worked with Meghan Goodchild; we looked at the effect of timbre on the psychophysiological responses of orchestral music listeners.
Dominique is now a graduate student at McMaster University, Department of Psychology, Neuroscience & Behaviour.
Jocelyn Micallef, 2013-2014
Undergraduate honours student in Cognitive Sciences
Program in Cognitive Sciences, McGill University
I worked with Prof. Stephen McAdams. Our project involved the study of the auditory associative learning between Indian spoken syllables and strokes on the Indian tabla.
Béatrice Copps, 2012-2013
Undergraduate honours student in Psychology
Department of Psychology, McGill University
Béatrice is now a medical student at McGill.
Emily Wilson, 2012-2013
Auditory entrainment
Undergraduate student in Cognitive Sciences
Program in Cognitive Sciences, McGill University
Jamie Webber, 2012-2013
Psychological foundations of orchestration
Undergraduate student in Neuroscience and Composition
McGill University
Kyra Parker, 2012-2013
Timbre blending
Undergraduate student in Cognitive Sciences
Program in Cognitive Sciences, McGill University
Lorraine Chuen, 2011-2013
Music and emotion/cultural aspects
Undergraduate honours student in Psychology
Department of Psychology, McGill University
Lorraine is now a graduate student at McMaster University, Department of Psychology, Neuroscience & Behaviour.
Manuela Marin
Kevin Schwartzbach
Tamara Lagrandeur-Ponce
Max Hartshorn
Gabe Nespoli
Rachel Busby
John McDonnell
Corey Kereliuk
Rebecca Fiebrink
Daphne Tan
Nick Shortway
Caitlin Martinkus
Indiana Wollman
Mikaela Miller
Dieu-Ly Tran
Myles Gaulin
Jonathan Crellin
Sabrina Lytton
Jake Shenker
Previous Visiting Scholars:
Jina Xin Wang
Leigh VanHandel
Joseph Plazak
Fred Rees
Ira Braus
Lawrence Zbikowski
Cogntive music theory
Richard Pastore
Edward Large
Fulbright Visiting Professor, 9/2006 — 4/2007