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Andy Milne

@andytonality.bsky.social

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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 · 09/06/2025

We are offering an exciting #Cross-Cultural #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! www.westernsydney.edu.au/schools/grs/...

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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Andy Milne @andytonality.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

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

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