Cyber Cypher
The Cyber Cypher is a research project aimed to preserve and study the artistry of hip hop and develop the next generation of technology for producers and listeners. We are creating a dataset of annotated recordings of original rap, which can support a variety of research projects. At the same time, we make sure the contributing rappers get paid and can use their recordings in their own music.
If you are a rapper in the Atlanta area, you can navigate here to find more information and sign up for a Cyber Cypher recording session.
Contributors: Nat Condit-Schultz, Joycelyn Wilson, Alexey Voronin, Peyman Salimi, and Angela Branchek
Project milestones
- The Cyber Cypher project was initially funded by a gift from Dolby.
- The first round of Cyber Cypher recording sessions took place in Fall 2025.
humdrumR
HumdrumR is a software package we are developing for computational music analysis. HumdrumR is a package for the R programming language, designed to read, analyze, and manipulate musical data encoded in the humdrum syntax. Check out the humdrumR website.
Contributors: Nat Condit-Schultz, Claire Arthur, Sile Yin, and Robert Kimelman
Project milestones
- In 2019, Nat presented an early version of humdrumR at the International Society for Music Information Retrieval conference in Delft, Netherlands.
- In 2021, we were awarded a Digital Humanities Advancement Grant by the USA's *National Endowment for the Humanities*.
- In 2023, we hosted a humdrumR workshop with invited scholars from around the world.
The Coordinated Corpus of Popular Music
The Coordinated Corpus of Popular music is a dataset of symbolic transcriptions of Anglo-American popular music.
Contributors: Claire Arthur, Nat Condit-Schultz, and Hubert Léveillé Gauvin
Project milestones
- In 2023, Claire will present CoCoPops at the International Society for Music Information Retrieval conference in Tokyo, Japan.
The Effect of Dynamic Range Compression on the Perception of Mix Quality
Read about the project here.
Contributors: Rosa Westfall and Nat Condit-Schultz
Project milestones
- In 2022, Rosa presented at the SMPC national conference!
Harmonic Similarity Based on a Markov Model
Read about the project here.
Contributors: Jiaying Li and Nat Condit-Schultz
Project milestones
- In 2022, Jiaying presented at the SMPC national conference!
A Cross-cultural Examination of Raga Perception and Time-of-day
Read about the project here.
Contributors: Rhythm Jain and Claire Arthur
Project milestones
- In 2022, Rhythm presented at the SMPC national conference!
Going With the Flow: Can Sound Design Keep Players Immersed in Video Games
Read about the project here.
Contributors: John McNamara and Claire Arthur
Project milestones
- In 2022, John presented at the SMPC national conference!
A Statistical Model for Melody Reduction
Read about the project here.
Contributors: Tianxue Hu and Claire Arthur
Project milestones
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