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Kate

@musiciankate@hcommons.social
hometown 4.5.14+hometown-1.2.1
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PhD candidate in music theory with a specialization in music cognition at the University of Western Ontario

Avatar is a unicorn lion with big eyes and a ty tag (his name is Xavier).

Most of my posts auto-delete after 2 weeks.

356 Followers
502 Following
22 Posts
Joined November 08, 2022
Thesis project hashtag:
#VoiceDenumerability

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Kate @musiciankate@hcommons.social · May 13, 2026
Kate
@musiciankate@hcommons.social

PhD candidate in music theory with a specialization in music cognition at the University of Western Ontario Avatar is a unicorn lion with big eyes and a ty tag (his name is Xavier). Most of my posts auto-delete after 2 weeks.

hcommons.social

Are ear replacements a thing? :autismcreature:

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Kate @musiciankate@hcommons.social · May 07, 2026
Kate
@musiciankate@hcommons.social

PhD candidate in music theory with a specialization in music cognition at the University of Western Ontario Avatar is a unicorn lion with big eyes and a ty tag (his name is Xavier). Most of my posts auto-delete after 2 weeks.

hcommons.social

This week is sapping my hug quota for a full year.

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Kate @musiciankate@hcommons.social · May 07, 2026
Kate
@musiciankate@hcommons.social

PhD candidate in music theory with a specialization in music cognition at the University of Western Ontario Avatar is a unicorn lion with big eyes and a ty tag (his name is Xavier). Most of my posts auto-delete after 2 weeks.

hcommons.social

This is one of those major transition moments. This week marks the end of a life and the beginning of a new life stage. :blobheart:

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Kate @musiciankate@hcommons.social · Apr 29, 2026
Kate
@musiciankate@hcommons.social

PhD candidate in music theory with a specialization in music cognition at the University of Western Ontario Avatar is a unicorn lion with big eyes and a ty tag (his name is Xavier). Most of my posts auto-delete after 2 weeks.

hcommons.social
Replying to @musiciankate@hcommons.social
@pauamma I started looking, and there are t-shirts! Of this design and of many other designs by the same artist. https://www.teepublic.com/t-shirt/66064447-im-often-mistaken-for-an-adult-because-of-my-age-c?store_id=1251378
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Kate @musiciankate@hcommons.social · Apr 29, 2026
Kate
@musiciankate@hcommons.social

PhD candidate in music theory with a specialization in music cognition at the University of Western Ontario Avatar is a unicorn lion with big eyes and a ty tag (his name is Xavier). Most of my posts auto-delete after 2 weeks.

hcommons.social
Replying to @pauamma@mstdn.social
@pauamma I don't remember exactly where I found this, I just stumbled across it in a file on my computer, but the creator is Trendlory https://ko-fi.com/trendlory
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Kate @musiciankate@hcommons.social · Apr 28, 2026
Kate
@musiciankate@hcommons.social

PhD candidate in music theory with a specialization in music cognition at the University of Western Ontario Avatar is a unicorn lion with big eyes and a ty tag (his name is Xavier). Most of my posts auto-delete after 2 weeks.

hcommons.social
Replying to @MissConstrue@mefi.social
@MissConstrue Ah, yes. Very true!
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Kate @musiciankate@hcommons.social · Apr 28, 2026
Kate
@musiciankate@hcommons.social

PhD candidate in music theory with a specialization in music cognition at the University of Western Ontario Avatar is a unicorn lion with big eyes and a ty tag (his name is Xavier). Most of my posts auto-delete after 2 weeks.

hcommons.social
Replying to @moonrabbit@sunny.garden
@moonrabbit @IsabelB It’s me too. :blobcatnomcookie:
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Kate @musiciankate@hcommons.social · Apr 28, 2026
Kate
@musiciankate@hcommons.social

PhD candidate in music theory with a specialization in music cognition at the University of Western Ontario Avatar is a unicorn lion with big eyes and a ty tag (his name is Xavier). Most of my posts auto-delete after 2 weeks.

hcommons.social
Replying to @musiciankate@hcommons.social
@MissConstrue And cute. An accurate depiction of me as well as cute.
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Kate @musiciankate@hcommons.social · Apr 28, 2026
Kate
@musiciankate@hcommons.social

PhD candidate in music theory with a specialization in music cognition at the University of Western Ontario Avatar is a unicorn lion with big eyes and a ty tag (his name is Xavier). Most of my posts auto-delete after 2 weeks.

hcommons.social
Replying to @MissConstrue@mefi.social
@MissConstrue Is it? I just thought it was being true of me.
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Kate @musiciankate@hcommons.social · Apr 28, 2026
Kate
@musiciankate@hcommons.social

PhD candidate in music theory with a specialization in music cognition at the University of Western Ontario Avatar is a unicorn lion with big eyes and a ty tag (his name is Xavier). Most of my posts auto-delete after 2 weeks.

hcommons.social
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Kate @musiciankate@hcommons.social · Apr 16, 2026
Kate
@musiciankate@hcommons.social

PhD candidate in music theory with a specialization in music cognition at the University of Western Ontario Avatar is a unicorn lion with big eyes and a ty tag (his name is Xavier). Most of my posts auto-delete after 2 weeks.

hcommons.social
Replying to @mayintoronto@beige.party
@SarraceniaWilds @mayintoronto I usually forget about the wind. Mosquitoes and how it gets so cold that my cousins used to have to spend more time putting on the warm winter gear than it took them to walk across the street to their elementary school.
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Kate @musiciankate@hcommons.social · Apr 15, 2026
Kate
@musiciankate@hcommons.social

PhD candidate in music theory with a specialization in music cognition at the University of Western Ontario Avatar is a unicorn lion with big eyes and a ty tag (his name is Xavier). Most of my posts auto-delete after 2 weeks.

hcommons.social
Replying to @Alice@beige.party
@Alice I am here for your curmudgeon era. 🥳 :blobcatthumbsup:
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Kate @musiciankate@hcommons.social · Apr 14, 2026
Kate
@musiciankate@hcommons.social

PhD candidate in music theory with a specialization in music cognition at the University of Western Ontario Avatar is a unicorn lion with big eyes and a ty tag (his name is Xavier). Most of my posts auto-delete after 2 weeks.

hcommons.social
Replying to @JEmphatically@mstdn.ca
@JEmphatically Avi Lewis is also HERE! https://mstdn.ca/@avilewis/116404162414206154
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Kate @musiciankate@hcommons.social · Apr 12, 2026
Kate
@musiciankate@hcommons.social

PhD candidate in music theory with a specialization in music cognition at the University of Western Ontario Avatar is a unicorn lion with big eyes and a ty tag (his name is Xavier). Most of my posts auto-delete after 2 weeks.

hcommons.social
Replying to @mayintoronto@beige.party
@mayintoronto If I napped, now would be a great time for one. :blobcatsleep:
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Kate @musiciankate@hcommons.social · Apr 09, 2026
Kate
@musiciankate@hcommons.social

PhD candidate in music theory with a specialization in music cognition at the University of Western Ontario Avatar is a unicorn lion with big eyes and a ty tag (his name is Xavier). Most of my posts auto-delete after 2 weeks.

hcommons.social
Replying to @britt@mstdn.games
@britt Wow! Our highest high is 6C, and that’s Tuesday. Technically Sunday is a high of 0C with snow, but it’s not a negative number and it could still change . . . today is high of 2C, tomorrow is up to 5C, Saturday is 3C with chance of rain or snow.
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Kate @musiciankate@hcommons.social · Apr 09, 2026
Kate
@musiciankate@hcommons.social

PhD candidate in music theory with a specialization in music cognition at the University of Western Ontario Avatar is a unicorn lion with big eyes and a ty tag (his name is Xavier). Most of my posts auto-delete after 2 weeks.

hcommons.social

For the first time since fall, we have a full week weather forecast with all of the highs being above freezing. It might be a spring of deception, but I will take it! I am looking forward to being able to run on my favourite trail again without having to put most of my energy into footing and balance on a shifting terrain of snow and ice. #nlwx

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Kate @musiciankate@hcommons.social · Apr 03, 2026
Kate
@musiciankate@hcommons.social

PhD candidate in music theory with a specialization in music cognition at the University of Western Ontario Avatar is a unicorn lion with big eyes and a ty tag (his name is Xavier). Most of my posts auto-delete after 2 weeks.

hcommons.social
Replying to @musiciankate@hcommons.social
@Klara@drupal.community There is a lot of evidence that timbre differences make it easier to separate musical “streams” or “objects,” and I am curious to see *how much* easier it makes this task.
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Kate @musiciankate@hcommons.social · Apr 03, 2026
Kate
@musiciankate@hcommons.social

PhD candidate in music theory with a specialization in music cognition at the University of Western Ontario Avatar is a unicorn lion with big eyes and a ty tag (his name is Xavier). Most of my posts auto-delete after 2 weeks.

hcommons.social
Replying to @Klara@drupal.community
@Klara@drupal.community Great question, I left that part out but it is a key part of my study. The instruments are not identical because the range of the musical excerpts is too wide, but I tried to make the timbres similar enough to seem the same. I used fugues by Bach and Musescore MIDI instrument sounds for five different instrument timbres, and in this experiment all of the instruments in a given trial were the same general instrument timbre. My follow up study will have the same musical examples but mix up the timbres, so that no two instruments in a given trial have the same instrument timbre.
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Kate @musiciankate@hcommons.social · Apr 03, 2026
Kate
@musiciankate@hcommons.social

PhD candidate in music theory with a specialization in music cognition at the University of Western Ontario Avatar is a unicorn lion with big eyes and a ty tag (his name is Xavier). Most of my posts auto-delete after 2 weeks.

hcommons.social
Replying to @musiciankate@hcommons.social
Very preliminary data analysis seems to be showing that people, regardless of musical training, are able to count up to 3 pretty well, and accuracy drops considerably for 4 and even more for 5, and it drops a bit less for people with musical training than those without. #VoiceDenumerability
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Kate @musiciankate@hcommons.social · Apr 03, 2026
Kate
@musiciankate@hcommons.social

PhD candidate in music theory with a specialization in music cognition at the University of Western Ontario Avatar is a unicorn lion with big eyes and a ty tag (his name is Xavier). Most of my posts auto-delete after 2 weeks.

hcommons.social
Replying to @musiciankate@hcommons.social
I feel like I should be feeling really energetic and motivated right now because of how well this research is coming. In truth, I feel tired and weary. It’s been a long road to get here, and there is still a lot of work to go. A lot more data analysis, a lot a lot of writing, finishing designing the follow-up experiment, run that and analyse that data, more writing, rewriting, revisions, before I can get to a thesis defense or a graduation. I’m excited about the project, but I guess the stress is catching up to me.
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Kate @musiciankate@hcommons.social · Apr 03, 2026
Kate
@musiciankate@hcommons.social

PhD candidate in music theory with a specialization in music cognition at the University of Western Ontario Avatar is a unicorn lion with big eyes and a ty tag (his name is Xavier). Most of my posts auto-delete after 2 weeks.

hcommons.social

I have collected data from 60 participants over the last two days, and the preliminary data analysis looks really good. Overall, participants are performing as hypothesized or better. I suspected that the study I am basing this study on underestimated the ability of people without musical training to do this task (or a similar one), and it appears that I was right! They’re doing even better than I expected.

#VoiceDenumerability

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Kate @musiciankate@hcommons.social · Apr 03, 2026
Kate
@musiciankate@hcommons.social

PhD candidate in music theory with a specialization in music cognition at the University of Western Ontario Avatar is a unicorn lion with big eyes and a ty tag (his name is Xavier). Most of my posts auto-delete after 2 weeks.

hcommons.social
Replying to @musiciankate@hcommons.social
This experiment is looking at how many instruments people can count when they are playing together—for example, if listening to a recording of a string quartet, how well can people tell if it is 1, 2, 3, or 4 instruments playing at any given moment, and how readily can they identify when the number changes (one or more start or stop). My musical examples go up to 5 instruments (or musical “voices”). The hypothesis is that trained musicians would be able to identify 1-3 quite well, and then that accuracy and ability to identify changes would go down fairly rapidly with textures of more than 3 voices, and that people without musical training would perform less well than those with musical training. #VoiceDenumerability
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