John Hajda
Assistant Professor
Music and multimedia perception and cognition, Psychoacoustics
Director of Undergraduate Studies/Faculty Undergraduate Advisor
Music Building #2312
805-893-7505
Ethnomusicology Program
Theory Program
jhajda@music.ucsb.edu
Curriculum Vitae
Interests include: empirical musicology; music perception and cognition, especially film music cognition; psychoacoustics, especially musical timbre; systematic musicology. Dr. Hajda completed his doctoral dissertation, "The Effect of Time-Variant Acoustical Properties on Orchestral Instrument Timbres," at UCLA under the direction of Professors Roger Kendall, Edward Carterette, Tim Rice and Ali Jihad Racy. He has presented his research at numerous national and international conferences, including an invited paper at the 16th International Congress on Acoustics and 135th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America. Most recently, Dr. Hajda convened and chaired a panel on "Music and Media" at the 9th International Conference on Music Perception and Cognition, where he also presented a paper on his most recent work on the salience of musical and visual components in the perception of opening credits for feature films.
First-author publications include "Methodological issues in timbre research" in Perception and Cognition of Music (Deliege & Sloboda, Eds., Psychology Press, 1997) and "The effect of dynamic acoustical features on musical timbre" in Sound of Music: Analysis, Synthesis, and Perception of Musical Sounds (Beauchamp, Ed., Springer-Verlag, 2006).
John M. Hajda is Assistant Professor in Music at UCSB. He is co-convener of the Music as Media Research Focus Group through the UCSB Interdisciplinary Humanities Center (http://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/research/media.html) and is an Affiliate with the UCSB Cognitive Science Emphasis Program
(http://www.geog.ucsb.edu/cogsci/). Dr. Hajda is also treasurer and board member of the UCSB Center for the Study of Interdisciplinary Music (CISM).
