LISTENING
Listening is the perceptual foundation for the complex social activity we call music. Listening also describes empathetic intercultural engagements, persistent digital surveillance, machine learning, and even neuroimaging techniques. "Who listens and what do they hear?" are research questions that require multiple modes of inquiry to answer. This area organizes MEL's work in psychology, technology, and cultural and media studies into three themes: Perceptual Listening, Cultural Listening, and Machine Listening.
PERCEPTUAL LISTENING
2023 Gurariy, G., R. Randall and A. S. Greenberg. Neuroimaging Evidence for the
Direct Role of Auditory Scene Analysis in Object Perception. Cerebral Cortex,
33(10), 6257-6272. https://doi.org/10.1093/cercor/bhac501
2021 Gurariy, G., R. Randall and A. S. Greenberg. Manipulation of Low-level
Features Modulates Grouping Strength of Auditory Objects. Psychological
Research, 85(6), 2256-2270. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00426-020-01391-4
2016 Randall, R. and A. S. Greenberg. Principal Components Analysis of the
Perception of Musicality in Pitch Sequences. In Proceedings of the 14th
International Conference on Music Perception and Cognition, 112-118.
https://doi.org/10.1184/R1/7121654.v1
2012 Randall, R, G. Sudre, Y. Xu, A. B. Bagic. Effects of Short-Term Experience
on Music-Related ERAN Responses. In (Eds) E. Cambouropoulos, C. Tsourgas, P.
Mavromatis, C. Pastiadis. Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on
Music Perception and Cognition and European Society for the Cognitive Sciences
of Music, 839-840.
CULTURAL LISTENING
Romani Drummers Project (Current)
This project documents, preserves, and celebrates the rich tradition of zurla
and tapan performance in North Macedonia. The study examines the significance of
zurla and tapan in the daily lives of Romani musicians. It draws attention to
the ever-evolving musical landscape, where genres like tallava have become
integral to Romani celebrations. This project seeks to develop positive Romani
representations by promoting their heritage as the traditional performers of
these instruments.
Below are interviews with three Romani musicians discussing their history and
connection to this tradition. The interviews are from a festival we organized in Ratevo, North Macedonia in 2022. The full video of the festival can be found in the
Providing section.
ABDI SULJUMANOV
Zurladjia from Stumica
SUARES SALI
Tapanjia from Veles
SAMIR KURTOV
Zurladjia from Petrich
2016 Purcell, R. and R. Randall, Eds. 21st Century Perspectives on Music,
Technology, and Culture: Listening Spaces. Palgrave Macmillan (Basingstoke, UK)
2013 Randall, R. Torture and Punishment Through Music. In J. Edmondson.
Music in American Life. (Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood).
MACHINE LISTENING
2022 McNeal, N. J. Huang, A. Umoren, S. Dai, R. Dannenberg, R. Randall, and T.S.
Lee. Relating Human Perception of Musicality to Prediction in a Predictive
Coding Model. arXiv preprint ar-Xiv:2210.16587
2017 Randall, R. Musical Affordance and the MP3. Boundary 2, 44(2), 127–143.
https://doi.org/10.1215/01903659-3826654
2016 Randall, R. and I-T. Liu. Predicting Missing Music Components with
Bidirectional Long Short-Term Memory Neural Networks. In Proceedings of the 17th
International Society on Music Information Retrieval Conference, 225-231.
2016 Randall, R. A Case for Musical Privacy. In (Eds.) R. Purcell and R.
Randall. 21st Century Perspectives on Music, Technology, and Culture: Listening
Spaces (pp. 120-133). Palgrave Macmillan.