Digital Music Lab

Huge congratulations to Dr. Jo Spyra for successful defending her PhD yesterday! 🎉

Good luck in what you do next. You'll surely be missed. ❤️

There is a free lunchtime concert at McMaster's L.R. Wilson concert hall tomorrow! Come and join us, register here:

Lunchtime Concert: Jeremy Huw Williams The School of the Arts invites you to a Lunchtime Concert performance by Visiting Artist Jeremy Huw Williams!

Team DML does ICMPC!
Welcome back to Jotthi Bansal, Jo Spyra, Konrad Swierczek, Kyle Gauder, and Director Matthew Woolhouse as they return from the 15th International Conference for Music Perception and Cognition held in Montreal, Quebec. The team successfully presented two talks and two research posters. Check out their interesting topics in the picture captions below:

The McMaster Digital Music Lab demonstrated the Dance for Parkinson's Dance for Parkinson's system to groups of young students from McMaster's Mini-University camp. Spreading the idea of using dance video games for motor rehabilitation and inspiring the next generation of brilliant researchers!

Dance Technology for People with Parkinson's

Here we come Montreal! DML members Jotthi Bansal, Jo Spyra, Konrad Swierczek, and Kyle Gauder have been accepted to present at the International Conference on Music Perception and Cognition in Montreal this July. The team was awarded over $2,600 in funding to support the mobilization of their research.

DML members Jotthi Bansal and Alex Zaranek demonstrated the Dance for Parkinson's (Xbox One Kinect) system at the McMaster President's Club Reception this weekend. The reception featured inspiring presentations of health technologies and projects in optimal aging research.

Location: David Braley Health Sciences Center
Date: October 1st, 2017

Congratulations to authors Michael Barone, Jotthi Bansal, and Matthew Woolhouse who have just published a new DML journal article in Frontiers of Psychology!

http://journal.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fpsyg.2017.00931/full?&utm_source=Email_to_authors_&utm_medium=Email&utm_content=T1_11.5e1_author&utm_campaign=Email_publication&field=&journalName=Frontiers_in_Psychology&id=251858

Acoustic Features Influence Musical Choices Across Multiple Genres Based on a large behavioral dataset of music downloads, two analyses investigate whether the acoustic features of listeners’ preferred musical genres influence their choice of tracks within non-preferred, secondary musical styles. Analysis 1 identifies feature distributions for pairs of genre-define...

Congratulations to one of our undergraduate thesis students, Brandon Wild, for his poster presentation at the McMaster Undergraduate Student Researcher Awards! Brandon showcased his summer 2016 research project entitled "Combining Models of Music Theory and Perception".

A big welcome back to all McMaster students!
The Digital Music Lab is always open to hardworking students who are interested in music, dance and psychology research. If you would like to inquire about the lab, or about joining our team, please feel to message DML right here on Facebook.

Good luck with classes and have a wonderful fall term!

DML is proud to introduce the Dance for Parkinson's project in collaboration with Hamilton City Ballet.

Dance for Parkinson's (D4P) is a technology-based dance system, developed for the Xbox Kinect, for people with Parkinson's Disease to use in the comfort of their own homes. This system utilizes the therapeutic effects of music and dance to alleviate symptoms of PD including motor dysfunction, depression, negative mood and anxiety, in an interactive game-like setting.

Using the D4P system, we plan to further investigate the long-term effects of music and dance for the palliative care of Parkinson's patients.

Check out this link to for a demo of how this cutting-edge system works: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7UYGoMrvozQ&feature=youtu.be

Dance for Parkinson's Demonstration

Welcome to the Digital Music Lab!

Founded and directed by Dr. Matthew Woolhouse of McMaster University, the DML undertakes interdisciplinary research into how music is used, embodied, and experienced by individuals and society. The lab's current research covers four main areas: (1) global music consumption, (2) prosocial effects of music, dance and entrainment, (3) music and dance for the palliative treatment of people with Parkinson’s Disease, and (4) musical pitch perception.

Our page will be a vessel to communicate research from the lab's team, and update our followers on trending news and new discoveries in music and psychology!

We invite you to share our page with anyone who is interested in the realm of research and the arts!