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Human and Sound Informatics Lab
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A lab that explores how people relate to music and sound through informatics.
AboutAbout the lab
Exploring how people relate to music and sound.
The Human and Sound Informatics Lab conducts research in interdisciplinary fields centered on sound and music, including sound synthesis, cognition, emotion, and sound environments.
Associate Professor Hiroko Terasawa conducts research on the cognition of timbre and music, analysis of the singing voice, and data sonification.
Assistant Professor Nami Iino specializes in music informatics and knowledge representation, and conducts research on instrumental performance.
Undergraduate thesis students join from the College of Media Arts, Science and Technology, and graduate students join from the Degree Programs in Informatics.
Key terms
- Music informatics
- A field that treats music as information and analyzes and processes it with computers
- Knowledge representation
- Expressing knowledge in a form that computers can handle, such as symbols
- Data sonification
- Converting data such as numerical values into sound so that it can be understood by listening
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The lab carries out research that analyzes music and sound themselves, as well as research on how people relate to music and sound. The faculty introductions mention research on the cognition of timbre and music, analysis of the singing voice, and studies of knowledge and symbols in instrumental performance.
*Illustrative imageCognition of Timbre and Music, and Analysis of the Singing Voice
Associate Professor Hiroko Terasawa conducts research on the cognition of timbre and music, analysis of the singing voice, data sonification, hearing impairment and music, and musical emotion.
*Illustrative imageResearch on Knowledge in Instrumental Performance
Assistant Professor Nami Iino conducts research on knowledge and symbols, with instrumental performance as the subject. The specialties are music informatics and knowledge representation.
MembersFaculty
The members of the Human and Sound Informatics Lab consist of faculty and staff, graduate students, undergraduate students, and research students.As of 2026
- Associate ProfessorHiroko Terasawa
- Assistant ProfessorNami Iino
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The top and research theme images are illustrative and were not taken at the lab. They are cropped from Wikimedia Commons images. Cropped CC BY-SA images are provided under the same CC BY-SA license as the original (version shown on each line).
- Top image: “Diversity Sounds recording studio in Ratingen, Germany” Xalo Mustafa / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Cognition of Timbre and Music, and Analysis of the Singing Voice: “Sapporo Concert Hall Kitara-20091013-RM-122400” Ermell / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Research on Knowledge in Instrumental Performance: “Violinist performing with The Grand Stars Orchestra” @innervision.stage / CC BY 4.0 (cropped)
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