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MAPLE (Music, Acoustics, Perception & LEarning) Lab at McMaster University
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Listen to Prof Michael Schutz on Ali Tocher's podcast!
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Professor of Music Cognition and Percussion, McMaster University
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Event Timing: March 31, 2026 Event Address: 422 Togo Salmon Hall McMaster University
Extra Readings
Evaluating Musical Predictions with Multiple Versions of a Work - Konrad Swierczek, Michael Schutz, 2025
Evaluating Musical Predictions with Multiple Versions of a Work - Konrad Swierczek, Michael Schutz, 2025
The widespread use of music content analysis tools illustrates the need for diverse evaluation techniques to ensure their accuracy, robustness, reliability, and...
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Acoustic Constraints and Musical Consequences
Acoustic Constraints and Musical Consequences
Emotional communication in music is based in part on the use of pitch and timing, two cues effective in emotional speech. Corpus analyses of natural speech ...
The Happy Xylophone
The Happy Xylophone
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MAPLE Lab Website
MAPLE Lab Website
Interpreting Bach's "Well Tempered Clavier" - MAPLE Lab
Interpreting Bach's "Well Tempered Clavier" - MAPLE Lab
ICMPC Links
MAPLE GitHub Repositories
MAPLE GitHub Repositories
MAPLE-Lab has 7 repositories available. Follow their code on GitHub.
References for ICMPC
References for ICMPC
References Anderson, C. J., & Schutz, M. (2022). Exploring historic changes in musical communication: Deconstructing emotional cues in preludes by Bach and Chopin. Psychology of Music, 50(5), 1424–1442. Battcock, A., & Schutz, M. (2019). Acoustically expressing affect. Music Perception, 37(1), 66...
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Undergraduate Training Opportunities
Undergraduate Training Opportunities
Research opportunities for undergraduate (McMaster) students: The lab hosts a number of undergraduate research projects each year, generally for credit through enrollment in MUSICCOG 2QQ3/3QQ3/4QQ3. If you are interested in working in the lab, please fill out this application form and email it to maplelab.assistant@gmail.com along… read more
Graduate Training Opportunities
Graduate Training Opportunities
Graduate opportunities in the MAPLE Lab consist of MSc and PhD degrees focused on specific projects supported by our funding . Click here for more details
Media appearances
SciAm - Making Alarms More Musical Can Save Lives
SciAm - Making Alarms More Musical Can Save Lives
New Atlas - Annoying hospital beeps are causing hundreds of deaths a year
New Atlas - Annoying hospital beeps are causing hundreds of deaths a year
Hospital workers hear up to 1,000 alarm noises per shift, and that sensory overload is costing hundreds of lives. New research suggests there's a fix that could make a significant difference – while also making key equipment far less annoying.
Interesting Engineering - Scientists pitch musical alternatives to killer beeping in hospitals
Interesting Engineering - Scientists pitch musical alternatives to killer beeping in hospitals
Hospital workers face fatigue from beeping noise. A new study proposes musical timbres that reduce annoyance without compromising alarms.
Yahoo News - Changing the Sound of Hospital Alarms Could Improve Patient Care,
Yahoo News - Changing the Sound of Hospital Alarms Could Improve Patient Care,
Breaking with common practice (Delle Grazie, Anderson, & Schutz, 2025)
Breaking with common practice (Delle Grazie, Anderson, & Schutz, 2025)
Major-minorness in tonal music (Eerola & Schutz, 2025)
Major-minorness in tonal music (Eerola & Schutz, 2025)
Research Spotlights
Major Theories of Emotion Causation and Their Applicability to MusicThe Case for Multi-Level Approaches
Major Theories of Emotion Causation and Their Applicability to MusicThe Case for Multi-Level Approaches
Emotions play a crucial role in music listening and may also have far-reaching implications for listeners’ well-being and health. However, it remains a
Characterizing music for sleep: A comparison of Spotify playlists
Characterizing music for sleep: A comparison of Spotify playlists
The Aversive Musical Experience Scale (AMES): Measuring individual differences in the intensity of music-evoked aversion
The Aversive Musical Experience Scale (AMES): Measuring individual differences in the intensity of music-evoked aversion
Impact of cross-modal priming using emotional music on facial emotion recognition among autistic children
Impact of cross-modal priming using emotional music on facial emotion recognition among autistic children
Effects of mobile music listening: Patterns of changes in focus of attention, environmental perception, and self-experience - Mia Kuch, Clemens Wöllner, 2024
Effects of mobile music listening: Patterns of changes in focus of attention, environmental perception, and self-experience - Mia Kuch, Clemens Wöllner, 2024
Building the AnticipationHow Variation in Tension Mediates Emotions in Music
Building the AnticipationHow Variation in Tension Mediates Emotions in Music
Multisensory alarm to benefit alarm identification and decrease workload: a feasibility study - Journal of Clinical Monitoring and Computing
Multisensory alarm to benefit alarm identification and decrease workload: a feasibility study - Journal of Clinical Monitoring and Computing
The function of timbre in the perception of affective intentions: Effect of enculturation in different musical traditions - Lena Heng, Stephen McAdams, 2024
The function of timbre in the perception of affective intentions: Effect of enculturation in different musical traditions - Lena Heng, Stephen McAdams, 2024
The major-minor mode dichotomy in music perception
The major-minor mode dichotomy in music perception
Reverberation Time and Musical Emotion in Recorded Music Listening
Reverberation Time and Musical Emotion in Recorded Music Listening
From structural listening to daydreaming: Listening modes influence the individual experience in live concerts
From structural listening to daydreaming: Listening modes influence the individual experience in live concerts
Reducing medical device alarms by an order of magnitude: A human factors approach
Reducing medical device alarms by an order of magnitude: A human factors approach
A cross-cultural study in Chinese and Western music: Cultural advantages in recognition of emotions
A cross-cultural study in Chinese and Western music: Cultural advantages in recognition of emotions
Music-Evoked ThoughtsGenre and Emotional Expression of Music Impact Concurrent Imaginings
Music-Evoked ThoughtsGenre and Emotional Expression of Music Impact Concurrent Imaginings
Anti-Colonial Strategies in Cross-cultural Music Science Research
Anti-Colonial Strategies in Cross-cultural Music Science Research
The Whole is Not Different From its PartsMusic Excerpts are Representative of Songs
The Whole is Not Different From its PartsMusic Excerpts are Representative of Songs
Exploring Mode Identification in Irish Folk Music with Unsupervised Machine Learning and Template-Based Techniques
Exploring Mode Identification in Irish Folk Music with Unsupervised Machine Learning and Template-Based Techniques
An emotion-based personalized music recommendation framework for emotion improvement
An emotion-based personalized music recommendation framework for emotion improvement
The perception of emotion in music by people with hearing loss and people with cochlear implants | Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
The perception of emotion in music by people with hearing loss and people with cochlear implants | Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
Episode model: The functional approach to emotional experiences of music
Episode model: The functional approach to emotional experiences of music
Capturing the attentional response to clinical auditory alarms: An ERP study on priority pulses
Capturing the attentional response to clinical auditory alarms: An ERP study on priority pulses
Examining Emotion Perception Agreement in Live Music Performance
Examining Emotion Perception Agreement in Live Music Performance
The impact of musicking on emotion regulation: A systematic review and meta-analysis
The impact of musicking on emotion regulation: A systematic review and meta-analysis
The promise of music therapy for Alzheimer's disease: A review
The promise of music therapy for Alzheimer's disease: A review
Exploring the relation between fundamental frequency and spectral envelope in the perception of musical instrument sounds
Exploring the relation between fundamental frequency and spectral envelope in the perception of musical instrument sounds
Masking Between Reserved Alarm Sounds of the IEC 60601-1-8 International Medical Alarm Standard: A Systematic, Formal Analysis - PubMed
Masking Between Reserved Alarm Sounds of the IEC 60601-1-8 International Medical Alarm Standard: A Systematic, Formal Analysis - PubMed
Differential effects of familiarity and emotional expression of musical cues on autobiographical memory properties
Differential effects of familiarity and emotional expression of musical cues on autobiographical memory properties
Nurses’ alarm fatigue, influencing factors, and its relationship with burnout in the critical care units: A cross-sectional study
Nurses’ alarm fatigue, influencing factors, and its relationship with burnout in the critical care units: A cross-sectional study
Effective dealing with alarm fatigue in the intensive care unit
Effective dealing with alarm fatigue in the intensive care unit
Music at McMaster
Matthew Lau: IDENTITY(McMaster SOTA Visiting Artist Series)
Matthew Lau: IDENTITY(McMaster SOTA Visiting Artist Series)
Music | School of the Arts | McMaster University
Music | School of the Arts | McMaster University
Percussion Ensemble Performances
Percussion Ensemble Performances
Michael Schutz is Professor of Music Cognition/Percussion at McMaster University in Canada. Designated University Scholar in recognition of his work bridging music performance and music research, he conducts the Percussion Ensemble, freelances throughout the Southern Ontario, and is active in the Percussive Arts Society. Read more PerformanceI have given solo, chamber, and large ensemble performances
McMaster Percussion Ensemble INFO
McMaster Percussion Ensemble INFO
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