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Music - 11.09.2023
The science behind playing music in sync
Music is a collective experience that binds people together. From orchestral play to audiences handclapping, synchronization lays the foundation for all musical interactions.

Campus - Music - 18.07.2023

Social Sciences - Music - 17.04.2023
Cultural and outdoor activities: a growing gap within the Canadian population
Sociology professor Stéphane Moulin believes a generation gap as well as an urban-rural gap are emerging in Canada around how people do things like watch movies and exercise.

Innovation - Music - 14.03.2023

Music - Campus - 23.02.2023

History / Archeology - Music - 27.01.2023
'Putting people front and centre': Historian Anna Shternshis keeps Holocaust survivors' stories alive
’Putting people front and centre’: Historian Anna Shternshis keeps Holocaust survivors’ stories alive
For University of Toronto historian Anna Shternshis , understanding the past means connecting with people's stories - or, in the case of her research, their songs.

Music - 11.08.2022
Learning about listening: Researcher explores how people perceive sound
Learning about listening: Researcher explores how people perceive sound
The University of Toronto's  Christina Vanden Bosch der Nederlanden remembers the moment she became interested in how humans perceive sound.

Music - 20.07.2022
Out of tune: when words get in the way
In a series of listening experiments, an UdeM postdoc finds that having lyrics in a song-or even meaningless syllables that change-makes it more difficult to hear when the singer's not in key. Ever notice when someone's singing out of key? Like when you're in a karaoke bar and your best friend belts out her favorite Adele track but woefully misses the mark? Ever wonder how you know right away she's singing flat? Well, Michael Weiss might have an answer for you.

Social Sciences - Music - 01.06.2022

Environment - Music - 17.05.2022
The dawn chorus: To connect with nature, students combine morning birdsong with music
The dawn chorus: To connect with nature, students combine morning birdsong with music
Each spring as early as 4 a.m., a choir of tweeting and chirping birds known as the "dawn chorus" produces a musical wake-up call - in more ways than one.

Music - Social Sciences - 16.05.2022
Post-doc scholar explores hip hop influence on Inuit youth 
Known as 'Qamani'tuaq' in Inuktitut, Baker Lake in Nunavut is home to Indigenous hip hop artists who are the subjects of post-doc researcher Raj Singh's study.

Music - 25.03.2022
Erin Gee unites mind and body through music
Erin Gee unites mind and body through music
An artist and UdeM doctoral candidate in music explores how emotional and physical responses and feminist theory can be translated into musical composition.

Music - Politics - 09.02.2022

Life Sciences - Music - 17.11.2021
Mapping ’the magic’ of music, movement and the brain
Jessica Grahn is a 2021 recipient of an E.W.R.

Music - Linguistics / Literature - 12.05.2021