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. 2023. Audio processing tools for music corpus studies. Oxford Handbook of Music and Corpus Studies. (Books and Publications: Book Chapter) 2023
Bauer, C. and J. Devaney. Constructing gender in audio: Exploring how the curation of the voice in music and speech influences our conception of gender identity. Medial konstruierte Stimmen. (Books and Publications: Book Chapter) 2022
Trevor, Caitlyn, J. Devaney, and D. Huron. Musicians can reliably discriminate between string register locations on the violoncello. Music Perception: An Interdisciplinary Journal. 40(1): 27-38. (Books and Publications: Article (Peer-reviewed)) 2022
Devaney, J. Beyond chord vocabularies: Exploiting pitch-relationships in a chord estimation metric. In Proceedings of the Late-Breaking Demo Session, ISMIR. (Books and Publications: Article (Other)) 2021
Cumming, J., J. H. Lee, B. McFee, M. Schedl, J. Devaney, C. McKay, E. Zangerle, and T. de Reuseeds. Proceedings of the 21st International Society for Music Information Retrieval (ISMIR) Conference. (Books and Publications: Book (Edited)) 2020
Devaney, J. An Empirical Evaluation of Note Segmentation and Automatic Pitch-Extraction Methods for the Singing Voice. Routledge Companion to Interdisciplinary Studies in Singing. Volume 1: Development. Ed. F. A. Russo, B. Ilari, and A. J. Cohen, 136-48: Routledge. (Books and Publications: Book Chapter) 2020
Devaney, J. Evaluating note-level parameter accuracy in fundamental frequency estimation. In Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP). 531-5. (Books and Publications: Article (Peer-reviewed)) 2020
Devaney, J. Using music encoding to facilitate interdisciplinary research on human engagement with music. Transactions of the International Society for Music Information Retrieval. 3(1), 205-217 (Books and Publications: Article (Peer-reviewed)) 2020
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: Article (Peer-reviewed)) 2019
Devaney, J. Eugenics and musical talent: Exploring the influence of the Seashore 'Measures of Musical Talent' tests on the practice and conception of musical performance. American Music Review (Books and Publications: Article (Peer-reviewed)) 2019
Awards, Honors and Fellowships
National Science Foundation, Directorate for Computer and Information Science and Engineering, EAGER grant: Learning with less data: Capitalizing on formal pedagogies and human performance to incorporate domain knowledge into deep learning models. (Grants and Fellowships) 2022
National Endowment for the Humanities, Digital Humanities Level II Grant: Automatic Music Performance Analysis and Comparison Toolkit (AMPACT) (Grants and Fellowships) 2021
Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums
Devaney, J. 2022. Automatic Music Performance Analysis and Comparison Toolkit (AMPACT). International Musicology Society conference. Athens, Greece. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Contributed Talk) 2022
Devaney, J. Broadening Diversity and Inclusion in MIR. International Society for Music Information Retrieval (ISMIR) conference. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2021
Devaney, J. Why Performance Matters in Musical Audio. Warner Music Group. New York, NY. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2021
Devaney, J. Women in Music Information Retrieval. IndabaX Nigeria (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2021
Devaney, J., D. Sears, and D. Shanahan. Scales, Chords, and Cadences, Practical Music Theory for MIR Researchers. International Society of Music Information Retrieval (Tutorial) (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2021
Devaney, J. Aural Identity and expression in vocal performance: A case study of Rihanna's "ANTI". Society for American Music. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2020
Devaney, J. Extracting Performance-Related Data from Musical Audio. Audio Developer Conference. London, UK (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2020
Devaney, J. Performance Matters: Beyond the current conception of musical performance in MIR. WiMIR Keynote. International Society for Muisc Information Retrieval (ISMIR) conference. Montreal, QC (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2020
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
Saitis, C and J. Devaney. 2019. There's more to timbre than musical instruments: a meta-analysis of timbre semantics in singing voice quality perception. Society for Music Perception and Cognition conference. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 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
Journal of New Music Research - Co-Editor in Chief (Professional Leadership: Organizational Leadership Position) 2022
Commission Mixte, RILM (Professional Leadership: Committee Service) 2021
Society for Music Theory - Program Committee (Professional Leadership: Committee Service) 2021
Co-Chair, Society for Music Perception and Cognition (SMPC) conference (Professional Leadership: Organizational Leadership Position) 2019
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
Specialty Chief Editor. Frontiers in Digital Musicology. (Professional Leadership: Organizational Leadership Position) 2018
