CREDENTIALS
- Assistant Professor, Music, McMaster University
- Director, MAPLE (Music, Acoustics, Perception, and LEarning) Lab
- Core Member, MIMM
RESEARCH INTERESTS
- Seeing Music:
- Computer Aided Analysis of Music
- Linguistic-musical parallels
- Tone envelope
- Pedagogical publications
- Rhythm and motion
RESEARCH GRANTS
- 2010 NSERC Discovery Grant ($95,000)
- 2009 Arts Research Board research grant, ($7,000)
- 2009 Arts Research Board travel grant ($1,142)
PUBLICATIONS
Kubovy, M. & Schutz, M. (2010). Causality and Objects in Vision and Audition. Review of Philosophy & Psychology.
Schutz, M. & Kubovy, M. (2009). Causality and cross-modal integration. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception & Performance, 35, 1791-1810.
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). 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 (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 (3), 126 – 135.
Schutz, M. and Lipscomb, S. (2007) Vision Influences Perceived Note Length. Perception 36 (6), 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
Schutz, M. (2009). The Mind of the Listener: Acoustics, Perception and the Musical Experience. Percussive Notes, 47, 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).