Welcome to the CompMusic Lab for comparative and computational musicology! We study the science of the world's music with the aim of promoting cross-cultural diversity and understanding. 

For an accessible introduction to our research, check out the following:

• This Undark piece about diversifying music science featuring our publications in Science Advances, Nature Human Behaviour, and Nature Reviews Neuroscience jointly including over 100 authors from over 50 countries. For more details and context, see our Oxford University Press chapter on the controversial history of comparative musicology.

• These New York Times and Nautilus pieces on music, language, biological evolution, universals, and social bonding featuring our articles in Science Advances, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, and Behavioral and Brain Sciences.

• This Discover Magazine piece about the cultural evolution of music featuring our articles in Current Biology and Evolution and Human Behavior.

• This New York Times piece and Radio New Zealand interview about the Global Jukebox, where you can freely listen to over 5,000 annotated songs from around 1,000 societies around the world and compare them with linguistic, genetic, and other kinds of cross-cultural data (as we have done in Nature Communications and elsewhere). 

• This Radio New Zealand interview about applying music science to copyright disputes featuring our paper published in Transactions of the International Society for Music Information Retrieval.

• Our MUTEK keynote lecture/concert "Hearing Music Evolve", which includes our live performances of traditional Japanese, Ainu, and Amami Island music that are then remixed with samples from music around the world (The HU, Sonah Jobarteh, Baka Gbiné, Timbaland, and Queen).