Education:
PhD, McGill University - 2011
Areas of Expertise:
Johanna's research seeks to understand the ways in which humans engage with music, particularly through performance, and how computers can be used to model and augment our understanding of this engagement. Primarily, she examines how recorded performances can be used to study performance practice and listener reception and develops computational tools to facilitate the automatic analysis of recorded music. Her work draws on the disciplines of music, psychology, and computer science.
Books and Publications
Devaney, J. An Empirical Evaluation of Note Segmentation and Automatic Pitch-Extraction Methods for the Singing Voice. Routledge Companion to Interdisciplinary Studies in Singing. Routledge. (Books and Publications: Forthcoming Publications) 2019
Devaney, J. and H. Léveillé Gauvin. 2019. Encoding music performance data in Humdrum and MEI. International Journal for Digital Libraries. 20 (1): 81-91. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 2019
Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums
Devaney, J. Elements of style: Developing computational systems for modeling musical style. Max
Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics. Frankfurt Germany. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2019
Devaney, J. How Might Listening Tests Help Us Understand our Data and Models, or Even
Improve Them? With a Particular Focus on the Singing Voice. Computational Methods for Melody
and Voice Processing in Music Recordings. Wadern, Germany. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2019
Devaney, J. Linking music encoding data across domains. Keynote. Music Encoding Conference.
Vienna, Austria. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2019
Devaney, J. Music Encoding. Cultural Heritage at Scale symposium. Nashville, Tennessee. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2019
Bittner, R., A. de Cheveigné, and J. Devaney. Tutorial on Fundamental Frequency Estimation in Music. International Society of Music Information Retrieval conference. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2018
Devaney, J. 2018. Workshop on Analzying Recorded Performances with the Automatic Music Performance Analysis and Comparison Toolkit (AMPACT). International Conference on Music Perception and Cognition. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2018
Devaney, J. Cover Songs for Musical Performance Comparison and Musical Style Transfer.
Woment in Music Information Retrieval (WiMIR) workshop. Paris, France. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2018
Professional Leadership
Co-Organizer, Cognitively-Informed Music Information Retrieval (CogMIR) Workshop (Professional Leadership: Organizational Leadership Position) 2019
Co-Organizer, North Eastern Music Information Special Interest Group (NEMISIG) Workshop (Professional Leadership: Organizational Leadership Position) 2019
Co-Organizer, Society for Music Perception and Cognition (SMPC) conference (Professional Leadership: Organizational Leadership Position) 2019
Specialty Chief Editor. Frontiers in Digital Musicology. (Professional Leadership: Organizational Leadership Position) 2018
