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Interview – Daniel Müllensiefen
Daniel Müllensiefen studied Systematic Musicology, Historic Musicology and Journalism at the universities of Hamburg (Germany) and Salamanca (Spain). After his Masters he spent six years in the German music industry working as a project- and business development manager for PhonoNet GmbH, a technical subsidiary of the German Association of the Music Industry. He finished his PhD in music psychology in 2004. He then came to London in 2006 where he was employed as a Research Fellow in Goldsmiths’ Computing department at Goldsmiths. Since 2009 he is a lecturer in the Psychology department at Goldsmiths and co-director of the Master’s course in Music Mind and Brain at Goldsmiths. He is currently…
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Day 2 – Rhythm and Meter learning
Day 2 in Edinburgh began sunny and fresh. Dr Mullensiefen and I found a little cafe for breakfast that served a very reasonable and tasty bowl of Scottish oat porridge. Just the thing to keep your energy levels up for a long morning of fascinating talks! This cafe, just off the Royal Mile, (called ChocolateSoup ) would become the regular breakfast haunt for the majority of the MMB research group during the conference. Who needs an expensive and tired re-heated hotel breakfast!? The second day of the conference began with a keynote from Professor Alan Baddeley . I have to admit, dear reader, that I practically bounced to the conference…
