Ph.D. Music Technology
Supervisor: Prof. Marcelo M. Wanderley

• Artificial Neural Networks
• Music and Gesture
• Interaction of Image and Sound

• B.Sc. (Computing Science) - University of Alberta (Canada)
• M.Sc. (Computing Science) - University of Alberta (Canada)

• Yaremchuk, V. (2010) An Analysis Of Internal Representations For Two Artificial Neural Networks that Classify Musical Chords. In Discoveries and Breakthroughs in Cognitive Informatics and Natural Intelligence. Advances in Cognitive Informatics and Natural Intelligence series. Ch 26. Wang, Yingxu Ed.; IGI Global.
• Yaremchuk, V. & Dawson, M.R.W. (2008). Artificial neural networks that classify musical chords. International Journal of Cognitive Informatics and Natural Intelligence, 2(3), 22-30.
• Yaremchuk, V., & Dawson, M.R.W. (in press). Musical judgments in major key contexts by artificial neural networks. Pattern Analysis & Applications. (10 pages, accepted for publication September 26, 2006)
• Yaremchuk, V., Willson, L.R., Spetch, M.L., & Dawson, M.R.W. (2005). The implications of null patterns and output unit activation functions on simulation studies of learning: A case study of patterning. Learning & Motivation, 36, 88-103.
• Yaremchuk, V. and M. R. W. Dawson (2005). “Chord classifications by artificial neural networks revisited: Internal representations of circles of major thirds and minor thirds.” Artificial Neural Networks: Biological Inspirations - Icann 2005, Pt 1, Proceedings 3696: 605-610.
• Bowers, J. M. and Yaremchuk, V. (2007) The Priority of the Component , or In Praise of Capricious Circuitry. Artist's statement submitted to the Leonardo Music Journal, Volume 17, Noises Off: Sound Beyond Music
• Photographic work in Hinkis, T. and Lapidus, K. (eds) Hack n' Snack. New York: Ignivomous

Vanessa Yaremchuk
Input Devices and Music Interaction Laboratory - IDMIL
Centre for Interdisciplinary Research in Media Music and Technology - CIRMMT
Schulich School of Music - McGill University
555, Sherbrooke Street West
H3A 1E3 Montreal, Qc, Canada

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