Date/Time
Date(s) - 22/10/2021 10:30 am - 11:30 am
Spark Talks: The Emotional Piano Project by Dr. Michael Schutz (Oct 22, 2021)
Description: The quest to understand music’s emotional power has long fascinated philosophers and acousticians —not to mention the composers, performers and educators entrusted with its transmission. Modern computational power is making that understanding possible. McMaster’s MAPLE Lab is working on a large-scale project combining analyses of scores and audio files with perceptual experiments, using advanced statistical techniques to “unweave” the cues for musical emotion.
