Future Directions of Music Cognition

The last Future Directions of Music Cognition event took place on May 31, 2021. We hope you had a wonderful experience, whether you took part in the 2-day conference, 15-week speaker series, proceedings journal, or a combination of these! The organizing team is in awe of how compassionate and curious the Future Directions community is and we wish you all the best of luck in your future. Please do stay in touch with us and with each other. We’re all stronger together.

You can find all the Future Directions materials below:

• Closing comments and impact statements
• All talks from the speaker series
• All talks from the conference
• “Alt-Ac” (alternative to academia) career panel resources
• Proceedings journal

Our awards committee, chaired by Amy Belfi, has announced the student award winners. Congratulations all!!

• 1st place: A New Auditory Theory and Its Implications for the Study of Timbre (Braden N. Maxwell. Johanna B. Fritzinger, Laurel H. Carney)
  
• 2nd place: Social Music: Investigating the Link Between Personal Liking and Perceived Groove (Douglas Kowalewski, Taylor Kratzer, Ronald Friedman)
• 3rd place: A Statistical Model for Melody Reduction (Tianxue Hu, Claire Arthur)
• Honorable mentions: 
  • Stimulus Accessibility and Music Theory/Therapy (Anna Yu Wang)
  • Timbre’s ​F​unction in the Perception ​of ​Affective ​Intents (Lena Heng, Stephen McAdams)
  • Effect of Metrical Primes on Perceived Complexity of 2:3 and 3:4 Polyrhythms (Zachary Lookenbill, Leigh VanHandel)

All of our conference materials (talk videos, posters/lightning talks, PowerPoints, transcripts, etc.) are now available online on our conference OSF! See all the links below for access:

• Conference OSF (all materials)

• Opening Comments: Video

• Opening Comments: Transcript

• Talks from March 6 (embedded by author name/title)

• Talks from March 7 (embedded by author name/title)

• Posters/Lightning Talks (embedded by author name/title)

 

The two-day March conference is just a week away! The links below give more information about what’s coming up.

• Registration (same as speaker series registration)
• Program (all times in EST)
• Student awards
• Social events & networking
• Proceedings articles (will be released on March 6)

Although the in-person Future Directions conference was postponed, we are thrilled that it has turned into a semester-long conference/speaker series. We have the dream team of speakers lined up! All talks will be free, virtual, and open to the public!

Check out the schedule at this link.

Earlier, we communicated to you that we were postponing the conference until further notice. At the time, we were hoping that it might still be possible to have some kind of traditional face-to-face meeting this summer, but we now realize that this is impossible. While the details of what we will ultimately do are still uncertain, we wanted to send you an email as soon as possible to let you know that we are still considering options and we hope to provide some sort of substitute for a traditional conference in a virtual format. Plans are starting to materialize, and we hope to send a poll later this summer to gauge your interest and availability in alternate formats. Thanks for your patience!

Many thanks and all the best,

Future Directions organizers

Dear Future Directions Participants,

We are writing to provide an update on the current situation with COVID-19. The health and wellbeing of our community is our primary concern, and we have been monitoring the situation, attempting to figure out how best to plan for a conference in May. Most conferences have been canceling through the end of this semester, so it has been unclear what that would mean for a conference held outside of the semester. Unfortunately, we will be postponing Future Directions of Music Cognition until further notice. This is because of a number of factors, including the advice of our funding agency, the closure of the university campus, and the travel restrictions of many (if not most) conference attendees.

At this moment, we are working on rescheduling the conference for some time in August, but this will require a number of adjustments that have yet to be made, including the reconfirmation of speakers and the securing of the venue. Please let us know if you have any questions or concerns. We will be happy to work with you in any way necessary.

Many thanks and all the best,

Future Directions organizers

As of Wednesday, Feb. 26, 2020, there is a form available to accept your status as a presenter of a talk/poster at Future Directions! Please respond no later than Monday, March 2.

This form also contains information on how to apply for student travel awards. 

CLICK HERE for the form.

Please reach out to us if you have any questions.

We’re happy to announce that the abstract decisions for Future Directions were sent out on Wednesday, Feb. 19, 2020. The decisions were sent via email. The “sender” will appear in your inbox from “Microsoft CMT,” so keep an eye out!

We will be sending out information about student travel award applications very soon. We greatly appreciate your patience.

Please feel free to contact the program director, Josh Albrecht, with questions about the program or the conference directors with any other questions or comments!

Hi all! We’re excited to announce that registration for Future Directions of Music Cognition is now open.

Please see the registration page for details.

We will post more about student travel grants within the upcoming weeks.