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Education

Eastman School of Music

Ph.D. in Music Theory

2013-2021, Rochester, NY

Eastman School of Music

M.A. in Music Theory

2013-2016, Rochester, NY

Michigan State University

B.A. in Music

2009-2013, East Lansing, MI

Publications

"The evolution of syncopation in twentieth-century American popular music"

- 1st author with David Temperley

Journal of New Music Research (PDF)

2022

"In their own words: Analyzing the extents and origins of absolute pitch"

- 2nd author with Elizabeth West Marvin, and Joseph Chi-Sing Siu

Psychology of Music (PDF)

2019

Conference talks

"The Evolution of Syncopation in 20th-Century Popular Music"

– 1st author with David Temperley

Rhythm in Music since 1900 Conference

September 2023 (Montreal, Quebec)

"Syncopation and Syllabic Stress in 20th-Century Popular Music"

– 1st author with David Temperley

Society for Music Theory

November 2021 (virtual)

"BachDuet: A Deep Learning System for Human-Machine Counterpoint Improvisation"

– 2nd author with Christodoulos Benetatos and Zhiyao Duan

International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression (PDF)

July 2020, Birmingham, England

"Part-Invariant Model for Music Generation and Harmonization"

– 3rd author with Yujia Yan, Zhiyao Duan, and Ethan Lustig

Annual Meeting of the International Society for Music Information Retrieval (PDF)

August 2018, Paris, France

"Effects of Melody and Harmony on Contrastive Valence"

– 2nd author with David Temperley

Biennial Meeting of the Society for Music Perception and Cognition

August 2017, San Diego, CA

"Jazz chord roots"

Biennial Meeting of the Society for Music Perception and Cognition

August 2015, Nashville, TN

"On the generative/implicative nature of the harmonic root"

Eastman Music Theory Colloquium

April 2015, Rochester, NY

"Tonal Implication, Rootedness, and Tonal Centricity in Isolated Pitch Class Sets"

Eastman/Cornell/Buffalo Music Cognition Symposium

February 2015, Rochester, NY

"Voice-leading distribution and judgments of distance between tetrachords"

Biennial Meeting of the Society for Music Perception and Cognition

August 2013, Toronto, ON