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. 

Our work has received awards from organizations including the Society for Music Perception and Cognition; Human Behavior and Evolution Society; Cultural Evolution Society; International Society for Music Information Retrieval; Association for Psychological Science; Japanese Minister for Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology; Royal Society Te Apārangi; and the Japanese Emperor.

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

• This Forbes piece about diversifying music science featuring our commentary in Nature Reviews Neuroscience. For more details, see our Oxford University Press chapter on the controversial history of comparative musicology; our proposals in MIT Press and Music Perception to improve diversity, equity, and inclusion; and examples of putting these in practice through our papers in Nature Human Behaviour and forthcoming in Science Advances jointly including over 100 authors from around the world.

• This Nautilus piece on music and biological evolution, universals, and social bonding featuring our articles in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Behavioral and Brain Sciences, and the SAGE International Encyclopedia of Music and Culture.

• 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 about the Global Jukebox, where you can listen to and analyze over 5,000 songs from around 1,000 societies around the world that have been coded using Cantometrics (details in our articles in PLOS ONE, Music & Science, and forthcoming in Nature Communications). 

• 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).

• 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.