Research

In collaboration with preeminent scholars in fields ranging from dance to genetics, ACE participates in and promotes analysis of expressive culture, through systems of study such as Cantometrics (measures of music), Choreometrics (measures of dance), and Parlametrics (measures of speech).

 

Cantometrics

The Global Jukebox: A public database of performing arts and culture
Anna L. C. Wood, Kathryn R. Kirby, Carol R. Ember, Stella Silbert, Sam Passmore, Hideo Daikoku, John McBride, Forrestine Paulay, Michael J. Flory, John Szinger, Gideon D’Arcangelo, Karen Kohn Bradley, Patrick E. Savage

PLOS One

Cantometrics

Global musical diversity is largely independent of linguistic and genetic histories
Sam Passmore, Anna L. C. Wood, Chiara Barbieri, Dor Shilton, Hideo Daikoku, Quentin D. Atkinson & Patrick E. Savage

Nature Communications

Cantometrics

Song Style Analysis Then and Now 
Michael Flory

 

Cantometrics

Deep Learning for Sound Recognition
Michael Frishkopf, University of Alberta