Vanessa Yaremchuk

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

• Artificial Neural Networks
• Interaction of Image and Sound

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

• 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