Budhaditya Bhattacharyya
@ragameister.bsky.social
Hindustani Raga Musician. Early Career Ethnomusicologist/Music Historian of Senses and Citizenship in Bengali Britain at the University of Durham. Part-time Fountain Pen Collector. Part-time Art Enthusiast. Passionate Cook.
Check out this article, hot off the press, by fellow Dunelmian, centre-staging NICM rhythms in a cross-cultural ecology. Also, another step towards shunning WEIRD biases.
Excited to share my latest paper with Martin Clayton and @tuomaseerola.bsky.social on cross-cultural differences in rhythm pattern perception, focusing on Hindustani (North Indian) musical rhythms.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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@musicpsychologylab.bsky.social
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
#musicpsych
@musicpsychologylab.bsky.social
The Effect of Rhythm Cycle Length, Cultural Familiarity, and Musicianship on Learning and Recall of North Indian Rhythmic Patterns
The study explores the effect of the length of rhythmic cycles, familiarity, musicianship, and rhythmic structure on the perception of long rhythmic cycles of North Indian Classical Music (NICM). W...
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November 17, 2025 at 9:50 PM
Check out this article, hot off the press, by fellow Dunelmian, centre-staging NICM rhythms in a cross-cultural ecology. Also, another step towards shunning WEIRD biases.
Good to see this out finally. Happy to have played a teeny-tiny part in it!
Delighted to share our latest research on consonance. We asked participants from India and UK to rate how “tense” different harmonic intervals sound. We found that musicians across both cultures agreed almost perfectly on which intervals feel tense or relaxed, however, ....
November 17, 2025 at 9:41 PM
Good to see this out finally. Happy to have played a teeny-tiny part in it!
Please join us on the 4th of February (1300-1400 h GMT) in Durham or via Zoom if you're not in town.
*Good tidings, one and all*
RASAD will host its second-ever in-person event (also on Zoom; see link later in this post) on 4 February 2025 (1-2pm GMT) at the Concert Room, Divinity House, Department of Music, Durham.
RASAD will host its second-ever in-person event (also on Zoom; see link later in this post) on 4 February 2025 (1-2pm GMT) at the Concert Room, Divinity House, Department of Music, Durham.
January 28, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Please join us on the 4th of February (1300-1400 h GMT) in Durham or via Zoom if you're not in town.
2025: bring it on!
Good New Year's Day!
Wanderer above the Sea of Fog by Caspar David Friedrich 1818
Oil on Canvas
(Hamburger Kunsthalle)
Wanderer above the Sea of Fog by Caspar David Friedrich 1818
Oil on Canvas
(Hamburger Kunsthalle)
January 1, 2025 at 12:43 PM
2025: bring it on!
Reposted by Budhaditya Bhattacharyya
I'm proud to announce a new textbook for #musicscience titled "Music and Science: A Guide to Empirical Research". It covers methods in music psychology, empirical research, #openresearch & music computation in 298 pages. For details, see doi.org/10.4324/9781.... Codes at tuomaseerola.github.io/emr/
November 25, 2024 at 12:47 PM
I'm proud to announce a new textbook for #musicscience titled "Music and Science: A Guide to Empirical Research". It covers methods in music psychology, empirical research, #openresearch & music computation in 298 pages. For details, see doi.org/10.4324/9781.... Codes at tuomaseerola.github.io/emr/
Friends, RASAD, a student-run music society at Durham University is making a comeback on 3 Dec at 12:30 pm GMT. I’ll be going myself with a demonstration on ragas bearing the same scale. Please spread the word and give the newborn account a follow! 🙏🏼💐
Dear all,
After a long hiatus, we are excited to announce the re-launch of our monthly events, starting with our first session (online via Zoom) on December 3rd, from 12:30 to 1:30 PM GMT.
After a long hiatus, we are excited to announce the re-launch of our monthly events, starting with our first session (online via Zoom) on December 3rd, from 12:30 to 1:30 PM GMT.
November 29, 2024 at 5:11 PM
Friends, RASAD, a student-run music society at Durham University is making a comeback on 3 Dec at 12:30 pm GMT. I’ll be going myself with a demonstration on ragas bearing the same scale. Please spread the word and give the newborn account a follow! 🙏🏼💐
Cheers to last evening’s unplanned mini SOAS reunion!
Had a lovely Friday evening attending Prof Rachel Harris’ RAI Blacking lecture on ways of listening and maqam across borders. Enjoyed watching some wonderful musical fusion between Turkish baglama and Uyghur dotar & satar, and seeing some friends i havent seen in a while!
November 16, 2024 at 10:46 AM
Cheers to last evening’s unplanned mini SOAS reunion!