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Work Experience Assistant Professor of Music, McMaster University (2009 - ) Director of the MAPLE lab, dedicated to exploring Music, Acoustics, Perception and LEarning Teach courses in music cognition as part of the music cognition specialization Actively participate in the McMaster Institute for Music and the Mind as a core member Director/conductor of the McMaster University Percussion Ensemble Director of Percussion Studies, Longwood University (2004 - 2009) Taught applied percussion at the undergraduate and graduate levels Created and taught a course offering an overview of music perception/cognition Directed/conducted the Longwood University Percussion Ensemble Also taught courses in World Music and percussion methods for instrumentalists and vocalists Performed several faculty recitals, appeared as a soloist with the Wind Ensemble, etc. Instructor in Percussion, Virginia Commonwealth University (2007 - 2009) Taught applied percussion for classical majors, jazz majors, music minors, and elective students Participated in the annual Festival of Winds and Percussion Education: University of Virginia, 2009 PhD in Cognitive Psychology Thesis: Crossmodal integration: The search for unity University of Virginia, 2007 Master of Arts in Psychology Thesis: Visual influence on auditory judgments reflects causal relationships Northwestern University, 2004 Master of Music in Music Technology and Percussion Performance Thesis: The role of visual information in music performance Pennsylvania State University, 2002 Bachelor of Science: Computer Science and Engineering Bachelor of Musical Arts: Percussion Performance Schreyer Scholar, graduating with honors in Computer Science and Music Thesis: Computer-aided analysis of post-tonal music Research Interests Music Perception and Cognition (specifically the role of visual information in music, timbre, and rhythm), Sensory Integration, Auditory Perception, Perception, and Cognition Publications (download publications here) Kubovy, M. & Schutz, M. (in press). Causality and objects in vision and audition. European Review of Philosophy. Armontrout, J. Schutz, M., & Kubovy, M. (2009). Visual determinants of a cross-modal illusion. Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics, 71, 1618-1627. Schutz, M. & Kubovy, M. (2009). Causality and cross-modal integration. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 35, 1791-1810 Schutz, M. & Kubovy, M. (2009). Deconstructing a musical illusion. Point-light representations capture salient properties of impact motions. Canadian Acoustics, 37, 23-28 [invited submission] Schutz, M. (2008). Seeing Music? What musicians need to know about vision. Empirical Musicology Review. 3, 83 – 108. [Invited submission] Schutz, M., Huron, D., Keeton, K., & Loewer, G. (2008). The Happy Xylophone: Acoustic affordances restrict an emotional palette. Empirical Musicology Review, 3, 126 – 135. Schutz, M. and Lipscomb, S. (2007) Vision influences perceived note length. Perception 36, 888 – 897. Schutz, M. (2002) Computer aided analysis of post-tonal music, Pittsburgh Undergraduate Review, 9 (1), 9 – 40. *** Winner of the Edythe Portz Prize for best overall submission of 2002 *** Manuscripts in Preparation Schutz, M., Stefanucci, J., Carberry, A. & Roth, A. Name that percussive tune: Tone Envelope Affects Memory. Schutz, M & Kubovy, M. Impossible Relationships –The role of tone envelope in sensory integration. Schutz, M. & Kubovy, M. Broadening the Notion of Privileged Binding in Sensory Integration. Educational/ Non-technical Publications Schutz, M. (2009). The Mind of the Listener: Acoustics, Perception and the Musical Experience. Percussive Notes, 5, 22-28 Schutz, M., & Kubovy, M. (2007). Seeing Music: Do we hear silent gestures? Invited lay-language version of technical paper presented at the 153rd meeting of the Acoustical Society of America. Available online at http://www.acoustics.org/press/153rd/schutz.html. Schutz, M. (2005). CrossTalk: Technology in the College Percussion Curriculum, Percussive Notes, 43 (3). Schutz, M. (2001). Princeton Marimba Festival, Percussive News (November, 2001). Conference Presentations (talks) Schutz, M. & Kubovy, M. (2009, October). Tone envelope: A cue for audio-visual unity [Abstract]. Acoustics Week in Canada. Niagra-on-the-Lake, Ontario. Schutz, M., Stefanucci, J., & Baum, S (2009, August). Remembering impact sounds: Tone envelope, timbre, and associative memory [Abstract]. Paper presented at the Society for Music Perception and Cognition conference. Indianapolis, IN. Schutz, M. & Kubovy, M. (2008, July) The effect of tone envelope on sensory integration: support for the 'unity assumption’ [Abstract]. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, Paris, 123, 3412. Schutz, M. & Kubovy, M. (2007, November) Privileged Binding in Sensory Integration [Abstract]. Paper presented at Auditory Perception, Cognition, and Action Meeting. Long Beach, CA. Schutz, M. & Kubovy, M. (2007, June) Vision Influences Judgments of Acoustic Duration [Abstract]. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, Salt Lake City, UT, 121, 3133. Schutz, M. & Kubovy, M. (2007, July) Seeing Music: Visual influence on music performance is dependent upon inter-modal relationship [Abstract]. In M. Schutz (Chair), Music: A Multi-Modal Experience. Symposium conducted at meeting of the Society for Music Perception and Cognition. Montreal, Québec. Schutz, M. & Kubovy, M. (2006, July) Seeing Music: The percussionists’ strategic use of gesture in live performance. Paper presented at the meeting of the Second International Conference on Music and Gesture, Manchester, UK. Schutz, M., & Kubovy, M. (2005, May). Seeing music, hearing gestures [Abstract]. Journal of Vision, 5 (8), http://journalofvision.org/5/8/649/, doi:10.1167/5.8.649. Schutz, M., & Lipscomb, S. (2004, August). Perception of marimba stroke type: Investigation of the McGurk effect in marimba performance. In S. Lipscomb (Chair), Music and cross-modal interaction. Symposium conducted at the 8th International Conference on Music Perception and Cognition. Schutz, M. (2003, March) Cumulative Benefits of Computer Assisted Musical Analysis. Paper presented at the 7th Annual Midwest Graduate Music Consortium Evanston, IL. Schutz, M. (2002, September) Computer Aided Analysis of Post-Tonal Music: Benefits of automating music analysis. Paper presented at the 2002 Association for Technology in Music Instruction, Kansas City, MO. Conference Presentations (posters) Schutz, M. & Kubovy, M. (2008, November) Broadening the notion of cross-modal causality [Abstract]. Poster presented at Auditory Perception, Cognition, and Action Meeting. Chicago, IL. Schutz, M. Huron, D., & Keeton, K (2008, July). The Happy Xylophone: Parallels between the communication of emotion in speech and music [Abstract]. Poster session presented at the Conference on Music, Language, and the Mind, Boston, MA. Armontrout, J. Schutz, M. & Kubovy, M. (2007, November) How visible motion paths influence perceived duration of percussive sounds [Abstract]. Poster session presented at the Auditory Perception, Cognition, and Action Meeting. Long Beach, CA. Schutz, M., Stefanucci, J., Carberry, A. & Roth, A. (2007, November). Name that (percussive) gtune: Tone envelope affects learning [Abstract]. Poster session presented at the Auditory Perception, Cognition, and Action Meeting. Long Beach, CA. Schutz, M., & Kubovy, M. (2007, May). Musical use of visual gesture : The importance of contextual information in sensory integration [Abstract]. Journal of Vision. http://journalofvision.org/7/9/306. Schutz, M. & Kubovy, M (2006). Visual gestures: Perceptual costs and benefits in the performance of live music [Abstract]. Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Music Perception & Cognition (ICMPC9), Bologna, Italy, 1551. Schutz, M. (2006). Music perception understanding is a prerequisite to implementing computer aided musical analyses [Abstract]. Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Music Perception and Cognition (ICMPC9), Bologna, Italy, 350. Invited Talks (non-conference) 2008 Acoustics, Perception and the Musical Experience. Goucher College, co-sponsored by Psychology and Music departments, Baltimore, MD. 2008 The Mind of the Listener: Music Perception and Performance. Virginia/DC Day of Percussion. Oakton, VA. 2007 KTH (Royal Institute of Technology) Sound and Music Computing summer workshop. Stockholm, Sweden. 2007 The Mind of the Listener. Penn State University Department of Music. State College, PA. Guest Lectures (university courses) 2008 Parallels in Language and Music. Guest lecture for Cognitive Science. University of Virginia. Charlottesville, VA. Invitation from: Dennis Proffitt 2007 Introduction to Pitch and Timbre. Guest lecturer for Introduction to Perception. University of Virginia. 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Invitation from: Dennis Proffitt 2006 The Role of Visual Information in Music. Guest lecturer for Science of Vision and Audition. Harrisonburg, VA. Invitation from: Martin Van den Berg 2004 Common chord modulations. Guest lecture for Music Theory IV. Northeastern Illinois University. 2002 Allocation of Virtual Memory. Guest lecture for Operating Systems Design. Pennsylvania State University. State College, PA. Teaching Experience Instructor/creator, Psychology of Music (400 level seminar), University of Virginia (Summer, 2008) Instructor/creator, Science of Music Seminar, Longwood University (Fall, 2007) Instructor, Introduction to World Music, Longwood University (Spring 2006 – Spring 2007) Instructor, Percussion Methods for Non-percussionists, Longwood University (2005 – present) Director, Longwood University Percussion Ensemble (2004 – present) Instructor, Applied percussion, undergraduate/graduate level for majors & minors, (2004 – present) Teaching Assistant, Research Methods and Data Analysis I, University of Virginia (Fall, 2008) Teaching Assistant, Introduction to Perception, University of Virginia (Fall, 2007) Teaching Assistant, Research Methods and Data Analysis II, University of Virginia (Spring, 2007) Teaching Assistant, Computer Programming for Musicians, Northwestern University (2004) Faculty, Blue Lake Fine Arts Camp (2003, 2004) Preparing Future Faculty Program, Northwestern University (2002-2003) Teaching Intern, Department of Computer Science, Pennsylvania State University (2001-2002) Music Instructor, McHenry County Youth Orchestra (2002-2003) English Instructor, Cross-Cultural Solutions program in Shanghai, China (2002) Music Instructor, Lake Braddock Secondary School (1997-2002) Workshops NSF Workshop on Art, Creativity, and Learning. Arlington, VA (June, 2008). Sound and Music Computing Summer School. Stockholm, Sweden (July, 2007) Motion Capture and Data Exchange. Montreal, Canada (July, 2007) Awards/ Honors: Edythe Portz Prize for outstanding publication in Fall 2002 issue of Pittsburgh Undergraduate Review Computer Aided Analysis of Post-Tonal Music, Penn State Honors Thesis, 2001-2002 Research Grants from Penn State University totaling $1200, Penn State University, 2001 – 2002 Northwestern Eckstein Grant for graduate study, (2002 - 2004), $26,000 2001 Brewster Scholarship Recipient (first ever recipient in the category of Music Technology), $9000 Professional Affiliations Phi Beta Kappa Honors Fraternity Pi Kappa Lambda Music Fraternity Tau Beta Pi Honors Engineering Fraternity Vision Sciences Society Acoustical Society of America Society for Music Perception and Cognition Percussive Arts Society Delta Omicron Music Fraternity Golden Key Honor Society National Society of Collegiate Scholars Service Coordinator, Symposium Music: a Multi-modal Experience at the 2007 meeting of the Society for Music Perception and Cognition. Speakers included Dan Levitin, David Huron, Scott Lipscomb, Frank Pollick, and Zohar Eitan. Cognitive Area meetings co-coordinator (2007) Coordinator for David Huron guest lecture/visit (2007) Author, Simkins Lecture Series Grant (2007), Longwood University Ad-hoc reviewer, Canadian Acoustics Relevant Work Experience University of Virginia, Research Assistant, 7/04-9/05 (Charlottesville, VA) Supported by NIDCD R01 DC 005636 (Michael Kubovy, PI). Design and implement variety of auditory perception/ sensory integration experiments Train and supervise undergraduate research assistants Business Logic Corporation, Java Programmer, 6/03-9/03 (Chicago, IL) Refactored Java code for subsequent release Updated and maintained Java Server Pages (JSP) Multimedia Cognition Software Development, assistant to NU Professor Scott Lipscomb, 2002-2003 Used Macromedia Director, learned Lingo scripting Assisted in requirements planning IBM Corporation, Software development intern, 5/01-8/01 (Research Triangle Park, NC) Internationalized command line interface to provide multi-lingual capability Created and integrated context sensitive help tools with command line interface Engenia Software, Software development intern, 5/00-8/00, (Reston, VA) Updated and expanded graphical user interface (XML, HTML, JavaScript) Evaluated and upgraded underlying system architecture Computer Skills Programming Languages: Fluency with: R, Java, C++, Javascript, HTML, MIDI, Pascal, Motorola 68xxx assembly language Exposure to: MAX/ MSP, SuperCollider, Lingo, Ruby, Prolog, Standard ML, SQL, XML Download in pdf format |
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