PhD Student in Music Technology
Supervisor: Prof. Marcelo M. Wanderley

• fMRI-Compatible Musical Interfaces
  • fMRI-Compatible Electroinc Piano Keyboard
  • fMRI-Compatible Electro-acoustic Cello
  • The Ballagumi: An Optically-Sensed Flexible Silicone Interface
• Optoelectronic Acquisition and Control Board
• Fungible Interfaces
• Novel self-contained electronic musical instruments
• Analog audio signal processing

• Email: avrum [dot] hollinger [at] mail [dot] mcgill [dot] ca
• Fax: +1 (514) 398-2962
• Phone: +1 (514) 398-4535 ext. 094846

* Rachel M. Brown, Joyce L. Chen, Avrum Hollinger, Virginia B. Penhune, Caroline Palmer, and Robert J. Zatorre. "Repetition Suppression in Auditory–Motor Regions to Pitch and Temporal Structure in Music." Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 25(2):313-328, (2013).

• Joseph Malloch, Stephen Sinclair, Avrum Hollinger and Marcelo M. Wanderley. "Input Devices and Music Interaction" In Jorge Solis and Kia Ng, eds. Musical Robots and Interactive Music Systems, Springer Verlag, 2011.

• Hollinger, A. (2008). Design of fMRI-compatible electronic musical interfaces. M.A. thesis, Music Technology, McGill University, Montreal.

• A. Hollinger and M. M. Wanderley. ”Optoelectronic Acquisition and Control Board for Musical Applications.” In Proc. of the 2012 International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression (NIME12), Ann Arbor, 2012.
• R. Brown, J. Chen, A. Hollinger, V. Penhune, C. Palmer, and R. Zatorre, “Neurological and behavioral basis for auditory-motor transformations in music performance,” in 11th International Conference on Music Perception and Cognition, August 2010.
• Avrum Hollinger, Joseph Thibodeau and Marcelo M. Wanderley. "An Embedded Hardware Platform for Fungible Interfaces". In Proceedings of the International Computer Music Conference (ICMC), pp. 56-59, New York, USA, 2010.
• R. Brown, J. Chen, A. Hollinger, V. Penhune, C. Palmer, and R. Zatorre, “Behavioral and neural basis for auditory-motor interactions in music performance,” in Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society, April 2010.
• Hollinger, A., V. Penhune, R. Zatorre, C. Steele, M. M. Wanderley. "fMRI-Compatible Electronic Controllers." In Proceedings of the 2007 International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression (NIME07), New York City, USA, pp. 246-249.