Morwaread Mary Farbood

Education

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Harvard College

Professional Experience and Research

New York University (2010 - )

New York University (2007 - 2010)

Current Research

Publications

Conference Presentations and Invited Talks

Society for Music Theory Annual Meeting (October, 2011). "Computational approaches to music theory and analysis" with C. Ariza and M. Cuthbert (MIT), P. Mavromatis (NYU), R. Plotkin (Buffalo), and K. Shaffer (Yale).

Society for Music Perception and Cognition Conference (August, 2011). "The effect of scale degree qualia on short-term memory for pitch." Co-author: Panayotis Mavromatis. Rochester, NY.

Brain rhythms and cortical computation consortium (May, 2011). "An exploration of the temporal dynamics of music processing using gap insertion." Co-authors: Oded Ghitza, Jess Rowland, David Poeppel. NYU Center for Neural Science.

Panelist for Music | MACHINES: 50 Years of Music and Technology at MIT (February, 2011): "Music, Mind, and Meaning" with Marvin Minsky, Teresa Marrin Nakra, and Michael Hawley and "Music, Emotion, and Health" with Robert Rowe, Adam Boulanger, and Gottfried Schlaug.

International Conference on Music Perception and Cognition (August, 2010). "Working memory and the perception of hierarchical tonal structures." Seattle, Washington.

International Conference on Music Perception and Cognition (August, 2010). "The effect of structure and rate variation on key-finding." Seattle, Washington.

Society for Music Theory Annual Meeting (2009). "The Influence of Time and Memory Constraints on the Cognition of Hierarchical Tonal Structures." Montreal, Canada.

Society for Music Perception and Cognition Conference (2009). "Determining Feature Relevance in Subject Responses to Musical Stimuli." Indianapolis.

Society for Music Perception and Cognition Conference (2009). "The Influence of Time and Memory Constraints on the Cognition of Hierarchical Tonal Structures." Indianapolis.

International Conference on Mathematics and Computation in Music (2009). "Determining Feature Relevance in Subject Responses to Musical Stimuli." Yale University.

New York University, Music Technology Research Group (2009). "The Cognition of Hierarchical Tonal Structures."

College of New Jersey, Music Technology Symposium (2009). "Sketching Music with Hyperscore."

New York University, Research Collegium (2008). "Music Cognition and Computation."

International Conference on Music Perception and Cognition (2008). "A Global Model of Musical Tension." Sapporo, Japan.

German-American Frontiers of Science Symposium (2008). "Computational Modeling of High-Level Musical Concepts." Potsdam, Germany.

New York University, Symposium on Music Technology (2008). "Hyperscore: A Tool for Graphical Computer-Assisted Composition."

Radcliffe Institute, Harvard University, Music and Computing Symposium (2008). "Computational Modeling of High-Level Musical Concepts."

International Computer Music Conference (2007). "Composing with Hyperscore: An Intuitive Interface for Visualizing Musical Structure." Denmark, Copenhagen.

SIGGRAPH Computer Graphics Conference, Emerging Technologies Exhibit (2003). "Hyperscore." San Diego.

International Computer Music Conference (2001). "Analysis and Synthesis of Palestrina-Style Counterpoint Using Markov Chains." Havana, Cuba.

Professional Activities

Northeast Music Cognition Group (NEMCOG). Co-founder and Executive Committee member (2010-current).

International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference (ISMIR). Paper reviewer (2009-2012).

International Conference on Music Perception and Cognition (2012). Scientific Advisory Board; paper reviewer.

Journal of New Music Research. Article reviewer (2012).

Music, Mind, and Invention Workshop (2012). Program Committee; paper reviewer.

Psychomusicology. Article reviewer (2011).

Current Psychology Letters. Article reviewer (2011).

International Conference of Mathematics and Computation in Music. Program Committee member (2009, 2011).

Society for Music Theory. Program Committee member (2010); Demographics Committee (2011).

Mathematics and Music Workshop, McGill University Bellairs Institute (2009, 2011). Invitation-only workshop.

Music Theory Society of New York State, Program Committee (2011).

Communications of the ACM. Article reviewer (2010).

Mannes Institute for Advanced Studies in Music Theory (2009). Topic: Music Cognition.

International Computer Music Conference. Paper reviewer (2009).

Journal of Mathematics and Music. Article reviewer (2008).

Audio Engineering Society. Paper reviewer (2007-2008).

Teaching

Current courses at NYU

Keyboard Performance

Awards and Honors

Harpsichord performance website