Konrad Swierczek
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Researcher

I started working in music research in 2015 at the Digital Music Lab at McMaster University working on theories of tonal attraction. Since then, I’ve worked on the perception of diminished seventh chords, consonance and dissonance, key finding algorithms, music corpus analysis, evaluating predictions, and the influence of cannabis on musicians in live concerts.

Updates

PhD Defence: September 14th, 2026

Watch my defence on Zoom!

Konrad Swierczek
Sep 14, 2026

The biennial meeting of the Society for Music Perception and Cognition, 2026

July 22-24, 2026 at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois

Konrad Swierczek
Jul 25, 2026

Evaluating Musical Predictions with Multiple Versions of a Work

Available now in Music & Science (open access)

Konrad Swierczek
Nov 7, 2025

Klavierfest: The Sound of Innovation - How AI and Technology Impact Our Music, Minds, and Machines

A symposium at Bowdoin College discussing how music and AI intersect.

Konrad Swierczek
Oct 9, 2024

20nd Annual Neuromusic Conference

Thinking about the future of music neurosciene: looking back and looking forward

Konrad Swierczek
Oct 4, 2024

The biennial meeting of the Society for Music Perception and Cognition

July 25-27, 2024 at the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity

Konrad Swierczek
Jul 28, 2024

A Tale of Two Tones: Musical Dissonance in Perspective

A video I created for Science RendezVous 2022: an annual free family festival that takes science out of the lab and onto the street!

Konrad Swierczek
Apr 30, 2022
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