Previous SysMus Conferences
SysMus23 in Sheffield, UK
18-20 October, 2023
Keynote speakers: Julian Cespedes Guevara, Laurel Trainor, Maiko Kawabata
7-9 September, 2022
Keynote speakers: Psyche Loui, Mendel Kaelen, Rebecca Schaefer
SysMus23 director
Persefoni (Persa) Tzanaki
SysMus23 supervisor
Prof. Renee Timmers
SysMus22 director
Kelsey Onderdijk
SysMus22 supervisor
Edith Van Dyck
3-5 November, 2021
Keynote speakers: Nori Jacoby, Jonna Vuoskoski, Peter Vuust
SysMus21 director
Signe Hagner
Center for Music in the Brain & Aarhus Institute of Advanced Studies,
Aarhus University, Denmark
SysMus21 co-supervisors
Niels Christian Hansen, Jan Stupacher and Christine Arhends
Center for Music in the Brain & Aarhus Institute of Advanced Studies,
Aarhus University, Denmark
SysMus20 director
Diana Kayser
York Music Psychology Group, York University
10-12 September, 2019 @ SRH Hochschule der Populären Künste
Keynote speakers:
Helga de la Motte-Haber, Klaus Frieler
SysMus19 director
Isabell Bötsch
Department of Media Psychology, HDPK Berlin
SysMus19 supervisor
Richard von Georgi
Department of Media Psychology, HDPK Berlin
SysMus18 co-directors
Tairone Magalhães & Arícia Ferigato
Center for Studies on the Musical Gesture & Expression, School of Music of the Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil
SysMus18 co-supervisors
Center for Studies on the Musical Gesture & Expression, School of Music of the Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil
13-15 September, 2017
Keynote speakers:
Prof. Lauren Stewart, Prof. Aaron Williamon
A conference report was published in Music & Science by Emma Allingham and Christopher Corcoran.
8-10 June, 2016
Keynote speakers:
Prof. Mari Tervaniemi, Prof. Justin London, and Dr. Ralph Spintge
A conference report was published in Music & Science by Diana Kayser, Jessica Akkermans, and Pedro Douglass-Kirk.
SysMus17 director
Cognitive Aging and Auditory Neuroscience Lab, Memorial University of Newfoundland
SysMus17 supervisor
School of Electronic Engineering and Computer Science, Queen Mary University of London, UK
SysMus16 co-directors
Joshua Bamford & Susan Johnson
Department of Music, University of Jyväskylä, Finland
SysMus15 in Leipzig, Germany
17-19 September, 2015
Keynote speakers:
Dr. Daniela Sammler, Prof. Eric Clarke, and
The conference report by Natalie Kohler und Joshua Bamford was published in Psychomusicology: Music, Mind and Brain.
Keynote speakers:
Prof. Barbara Tillmann and Prof. John Sloboda
Conference reports by Laura Neumann and Anna-Katharina Bauer published on the website of the Gesellschaft für Musikforschung and in Psychomusicology: Music, Mind and Brain.
SysMus15 director
Laura Neumann
Department of Musicology, University of Leipzig, Germany
SysMus15 supervisor
Department of Musicology and Media Science, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany
SysMus14 supervisors
Music, Mind and Brain Group, Goldsmiths, London, UK
12-14 September, 2013
Keynote speakers:
Prof. Peter Keller and Prof. Frank Pollick
Conference report by Laura Neumann and Stefan Hindtsche published on the website of the Gesellschaft für Musikforschung
24-26 May, 2012
Keynote speakers:
Prof. J.-J. Nattiez, Prof. P.-M. Menger,
Prof. Serge Lacasse, and Nathalie Gosselin
Guest of honor: Prof. Richard Parncutt
5-7 October, 2011
Keynote speakers:
Prof. W. Tecumseh Fitch, Prof. Anthony Moore, Prof. Ricarda Schubotz and Jin Hyun Kim
Conference report by Janet Bourne published in Musica Humana
13-15 September, 2010
Keynote speakers:
Prof. Eric Clarke, Prof. Nicholas Cook and
Prof. Petri Toiviainen
Conference report by Nina Jukić, Mats Küssner and Li-Ching Wang published in Empirical Musicology Review
SysMus11 director
Julia Wewers
Institute of Musicology, University of Cologne, Germany
18-20 November, 2009
Keynote speakers:
Prof. Ian Cross and Prof. Marcelo Wanderley
Conference report by Manuela Marin & Gemma Turner published on the ESCOM website
14-15 November, 2008
Keynote speakers:
Prof. Gerhard Widmer, Silke Borgstedt and Werner Goebl
Conference report published in British Postgraduate Musicology by Rachel Foulds
SysMus08 director & SysMus co-founder
Department of Psychology, University of Innsbruck, Austria
SysMus08 supervisor & SysMus co-founder
Centre for Systematic Musicology, University of Graz, Austria