Martin Rohrmeier

Martin studied philosophy, mathematics and musicology in Bonn, Germany. He continued with an MPhil in Musicology at Cambridge, in 2004-05. He currently works in Cambridge towards a PhD under the supervision of Dr. Ian Cross.

Main research topics are music cognition, implicit learning on music & language, music informatics. Other interests lie in issues of philosophy of music and music sociology. He co-organised an international and interdisciplinary conference on Language and Music as Cognitive Systems with Prof. John Hawkins, Dr. Ian Cross and Dr. Patrick Rebuschat, which happened in Cambridge, May 2007. His MPhil thesis was based on computational statistical analyses of harmony progressions in Bach’s chorales, and further presented a probabilistic model of key induction in short harmony excerpts. In his PhD research he currently focuses on musical acquisition and enculturation, in particular, performing experimental and computational approaches to implicit learning of musical structure. Recently, he co-organised a symposium on "Music Cognition: Learning and Processing" at the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (CogSci 2009) together with Dr. Patrick Rebuschat.

Besides his academic involvements, Martin performs notated, not-yet-notated, unnotatable music on the piano at various concerts around Cambridge, and other sunny places, such as the FIMU festival at Belfort. In a vocal Jazz duo, he accompanies Vee Barbary on the piano. He is a passionate Argentinian Tango dancer www.tangoberlin.de www.tangofestival.dk and varsity chess player.

Publications

• Rebuschat, P., Rohrmeier, M., Cross, I., Hawkins (forthcoming 2009, under contract) eds. Language and Music as Cognitive Systems. Oxford University Press
• Rohrmeier, M., Rebuschat, P. & Cross, I. (submitted). Incidental and online learning of melodic structure.
• Rebuschat, P. & Rohrmeier, M. (in preparation). Implicit learning of an artificial grammar in language and music. Cross-domain comparisons.
• De Haas, B., Rohrmeier, M., Veltkamp, R. & Wiering, F. (2009 in press). Modeling Harmonic Similarity Using a Generative Grammar of Tonal Harmony. In Goto et al. (eds.), Proceedings of the 10th International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference (ISMIR 2009).
• Salamon, J. & Rohrmeier, M. (2009 in press). A Quantitative Evaluation of a Two Stage Retrieval Approach for a Musical Query by Example System. In Goto et al. (eds.), Proceedings of the 10th International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference (ISMIR 2009).
• Rohrmeier, M. & Cross, I. (2009 in press). Tacit tonality: Implicit learning of context-free harmonic structure. In Louhivuori et al. (eds.), Proceedings of the 7th Triennial Conference of the European Society for the Cognitive Sciences of Music.
• Rohrmeier, M. (2009). Learning on the fly. Computational analyses of an unsupervised online learning effect. In Howes et al. (eds.), Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Cognitive Modeling.
• Rohrmeier, M. & Cross, I. (2008). Statistical Properties of Harmony in Bach's Chorales. In Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Music Perception and Cognition (ICMPC 2008), Sapporo, Japan.
• Woolhouse, M. & Rohrmeier, M. (2008). Is there a relationship between pitch attraction and generative grammar in Western tonal music? In Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Music Perception and Cognition (ICMPC 2008), Sapporo, Japan.
• Rohrmeier, M. (2008), Implizites Lernen in musikalischen Kontexten. Konzepte und gegenwärtige Forschungstendenzen. (Implicit learning in musical contexts. Concepts and current research) cognition. In Proceedings of the Kongress der Gesellschaft für Musiktheorie, Weimar.
• Cross, I. & Rohrmeier, M. (2007), Comments on "Facilitation and Coherence Between the Dynamic and Retrospective Perception of Segmentation in Computer-Generated Music,“ by Freya Bailes and Roger T. Dean. Empirical Musicology Review, 2 (4).
• Rohrmeier, M. (2007) A generative grammar approach to diatonic harmonic structure. In Spyridis, Georgaki, Kouroupetroglou, Anagnostopoulou (Eds.), Proceedings of the 4th Sound and Music Computing Conference, pp. 97-100
• Rohrmeier, M. (2007) Modelling dynamics of key induction in harmony progressions. In Spyridis, Georgaki, Kouroupetroglou, Anagnostopoulou (Eds.), Proceedings of the 4th Sound and Music Computing Conference, pp. 82-89
• Rohrmeier, M. (2005) Towards modelling movement in music: Analysing properties and dynamic aspects of pc set sequences in Bach's chorales. MPhil Thesis. University of Cambridge, 2005. Published as Darwin College Research Reports 04
• Rohrmeier, M. (2004). Über Musik in einer sich beschleunigenden Welt. In Hartmut Rosa (Ed.), fast forward - Essays zu Zeit und Beschleunigung. Standpunkte junger Forschung. Hamburg