People

Current Members

Ève Poudrier
Principal Investigator (University of British Columbia)
	Ève is Assistant Professor of music theory at the School of Music of the University of British Columbia, where she teaches courses on compositional practice in Europe in the 18th and 19th centuries, techniques of graphic linear analysis, and music psychology. My research has been presented at interdisciplinary conferences in North America, Europe, and the Middle East, and published in Music Perception and Empirical Musicology Review. My current projects focus on empirical aesthetics, specifically the experience of listening to rhythmic polyphony and the aesthetics of complexity, combining methods of close study, computer-aided musicology, and behavioural experimentation.
Craig Stuart Sapp
Technical Director (PHI/CCARH/Stanford University)
	Craig is a researcher at the Center For Computer-Assisted Research in the Humanities of the Packard Humanities Institute at Stanford University as well as an adjunct professor at Stanford University. He is the technical director of the Josquin Research Project as well as the Tasso in MusicProject. He also collaborates with the Chopin Institute on open-source digitization projects including Chopin First Editions and Polish Music from 1600–1900.
Daniel Shanahan
Co-investigator (Northwestern University)
	Daniel is Associate Professor of music theory and cognition at Northwestern University. Previously, he served as director of the Cognitive and Systematic Musicology Lab at Ohio State University, and the Music Cognition and Computation Lab at Louisiana State University. Shanahan’s research interests include music and emotion, the diffusion of musical style, corpus studies, and the computational analysis of jazz and folk music. He has published articles or reviews in journals such as Music Perception, The Journal of Jazz Studies, Memory and Cognition, Music Analysis, Music Theory Spectrum, Music Theory Online, and Musicae Scientiae, among others, and has contributed chapters to the Routledge Companion to Music Cognition, The Routledge Companion to Music Theory Pedagogy, and Over and Over Again: Exploring Repetition in Popular Music.
Bryan Jacob Bell
Co-investigator (University of British Columbia)
	Bryan is a PhD student in music theory at the University of British Columbia. His research interests are in the perception and cognition of rhythm and meter, as well as digital, mathematical, and empirical approaches to music research. Bryan's research is motivated by the conception of music as one domain through which we can understand a broader array of human experiences, including emotion, creativity, memory, and the mind. He is originally from the United States, obtaining a bachelor’s degree in piano performance (with a minor in English) and a master’s degree in music theory. For my master’s thesis, he encoded the solo piano music of Alexander Scriabin and investigated his use of meter using a computational model.
Jason Yin Hei Lee (McGill University)
Co-investigator
	Jason is a PhD student in music theory at McGill University. His research interests include text-music relations, Schenkerian analysis, and Cantonese music. He has upcoming presentations at national conferences of the Society for Music Theory and the Royal Musical Association, among various regional and student conferences. In April 2022, he received the Best Student Paper Award at the College Music Society Northwest Regional Conference for his presentation titled “The Semantic Evolution of Chromatic Mediants: A Baroque Origin”. Before beginning his studies in Canada, Jason graduated from the Chinese University of Hong Kong under the supervision of Professor Su Yin Mak. When not working on his research or singing in a choir, Jason is most likely searching for the latest ice cream flavors around his neighborhood.

Past Contributors

Annelies Andries, PhD (music history), research assistant (metadata), 2012–2015

Austin Culler, BA (music scholarship), research assistant (metadata), 2017–2018

Lily Demet, MA (geography), graduate academic assistant (geographic information and technology), 2023

Natalie Dietterich, DMA (composition), transcriber (music data), 2012–2017

Meiying Ding, BS (statistics, computer science), research assistant (data analysis), 2019

Claudio de Freitas, DMA (composition), transcriber/editor (music data), 2020–2022

Marina Gallagher, PhD (music history), research assistant (metadata), 2015–2017

Aaron Graham, DMA (performance), transcriber/editor (music data), 2020–2021

Felicia Hartono, BA (music), research assistant (metadata), 2016

Nori Jacoby, collaborator (Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics, Frankfurt)

Rafael Laurindo, DMA (voice), transcriber/editor (music data, website, lyrics), 2020–2022

Melissa Liang, BA (music), research assistant (metadata, experimental design), 2018–2019

Kelsey Lussier, MA (music theory), research assistant (music data, metadata team leader), 2019–2021

Amita Mahey, BA, research assistant (metadata), 2017–2018

Alexandre Negri, PhD (music theory), transcriber (music data), 2019

Sarah Pratt, Dual BA (political science, computer science, applied music technology minor), research assistant (geocoding), 2017–2018

Ethan Tong, BA (music education), research assistant (metadata team leader), 2021–2022

George Tzanetakis, collaborator (University of Victoria)

Gabriella Vici, MA (music theory), editor (music data), 2021–2022

Xilin Wan, MGEM, graduate academic assistant (geographic information and technology), 2023

Walker Williams, DMA (composition), arranger/editor (music data, audio synthesis), 2020–2022

Anna Wright, MA (music history), research assistant (metadata), 2019–2020

Daniel Wright, MA (composition), arranger/editor (music data, audio synthesis), 2020–2022

Qianqian Wu, BUCS (business, computer science), research assistant (data analysis), 2017–2018

Jasper Yoo, BS (life science, statistics, earth, and environmental sciences), research assistant (metadata), 2017–2019

Isaac Zee, MA (composition), transcriber (music data), 2019–2020