Twitter is the worst and my anxiety surrounding social media is always pretty high, but this is the one of the best ways I can engage with my colleagues and support/promote anti-racist scholarship. So don't be offended if I don't follow you back.

To be clear, I'm asking because 1) I'm not an artist, 2) white or translucent hands are usually used to when demonstrating hands interacting w/an object, and 3) I don't want to go grey and wind up with a Greendale Human Beings situation. No luck yet with stock images.

Anyone know of any resources for representing or drawing Black hands for figures in (presumably) greyscale-printed academic journals? I'm writing an article on fretboard gestures and it is critical that I do not whitewash the Black hands that made the music being analyzed.

Such an accessible and in-depth exploration of timbre that I asked LR if I could share it with my grad class last semester. It did not disappoint. Read this if you’re remotely interested in understanding instrument timbres!.

RT @RikerGoogling: did gilmore girls have gills.

Today I recalled that while a grad student at UMass I used to drive the 1.2k mile, almost 24-hour trip straight through from MA to Missouri by myself at least twice a year, if not more, with my kayak strapped to the roof of my shitty station wagon. Who was that person?.

RT @jacasiegel: Devastated to learn that if you are awarded grant money, you must actually complete the studies you proposed.

RT @genderoftheday: Today's gender is love and the sound of an orchestra tuning.

RT @DavidJohnBaker: If you have ever typed lmer() into your #rstats console, this is going to be a very, very helpful resource. Simulatio….

Hopefully everyone with concerns got a chance to watch! The Q&A is also being recorded. As someone who actively tries to do anti-racist corpus and cognition studies, I found Justin's lecture provided a sound methodological foundation for addressing pervasive biases.

The benefit of our lab being in an old hospital is that the experimenter and participant won't ever be in the same room! Our spaces are separated by a small hallway and the parties will interact remotely. Here's a pano of the desert as you walk out the door

Spent all morning prepping the ASU Music Cognition Lab to run experiments again! Super excited to kickstart our studies on the perception of time/timelessness (w/Kristina Knowles) and cross-style meter-harmony interactions (@chriswmwhite @DV_PhD @brynmdhughes).

RT @DavidJohnBaker: Good news that the Routledge Companion to Aural Skills Pedagogy is out featuring a chapter by yours truly (lots of diss….

RT @tonykchoi: Delaina Ashley Yaun, 33,.Paul Andre Michels, 54,.Xiaojie Tan, 49,.Daoyou Feng, 44.

My new skepticism is when the word corpus is thrown around, because what is rarely meant is “an empirically balanced sample that reflects the broader population” (i.e., Meyer & style) and instead meant is “a bunch of works I found that support my thesis.”.

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Has anyone tried to use the CHARM Sound File database recently? I haven't been able to download anything and I'm teaching Sonic Visualizer these next two weeks. Need open-source audio recordings if anyone has alternatives.

RT @actor_project: An ACTOR project on timbre semantics is up and running, and we invite you to participate!. The study takes 30–40 minutes….

Update: you can clearly see the segmentation by form.

Finally figuring out how to plot my data by formal zone in #rstudio. Very much a WIP. Rhythm guitar track of "Mistral Wind" by Heart