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Edited Volume

Hamilton, A., & Pearson, L. (Eds.), (2020). The Aesthetics of Imperfection in Music and the Arts: Spontaneity, Flaws and the Unfinished. London: Bloomsbury Academic. ISBN:  9781350106055

Journal Articles and Book Sections

Pearson, L. (under review). Adjusting to the Other: Audiencing Through Gesture in Karnatak Vocal Lessons.

Pearson, L., Nuttall, T., & Pouw, W. (preprint). Landscapes of coarticulation: The co-structuring of gesture-vocal dynamics in Karnatak vocal performance. OSF. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/npm96

Nuttall, T., Serra, X., & Pearson, L. (2024). Svara-forms and coarticulation in Carnatic music: An investigation using deep clustering. Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Digital Libraries for Musicology. https://doi.org/10.1145/3660570.3660580

Pearson, L., & Manickavasakan, B. (2023). Annotating Karnataka Music: Encounters Between a Musical Tradition and Computational Tools. In F. Bonini Baraldi (Ed.), Second Symposium of the ICTM Study Group on Sound, Movement, and the Sciences (SoMoS) (pp. 23–27). https://zenodo.org/records/10423805

Pearson, L. and Ramanujacharyulu, T.K.V. (2023). Handwritten Notation in Karnatak Music: Memory and the Mediation of Social Relations. In, Federico Celestini und Sarah Lutz (Eds.), Musikalische Schreibszenen / Scenes of Musical Writing, Paderborn: Wilhlem Fink Verlag (Theorie der musikalischen Schrift, 4). https://doi.org/10.30965/9783846767146_012

Plaja-Roglans, G., Nuttall, T., Pearson, L., Serra, X., & Miron, M. (2023). Repertoire-Specific Vocal Pitch Data Generation for Improved Melodic Analysis of Carnatic Music. Transactions of the International Society for Music Information Retrieval, 6(1) (pp. 13-26). https://doi.org/10.5334/tismir.137

Nuttall, T., Plaja-Roglans, G., Pearson, L., & Serra, X. (2022). In Search of Sañcāras: Tradition-informed Repeated Melodic Pattern Recognition in Carnatic Music. In Proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on Music Information Retrieval (ISMIR), Bengaluru, India. http://hdl.handle.net/10230/54155

Pearson, L. (2022). A Social Aesthetics and Ethics of Imperfection: Insights from Karnatak Music, Jazz and Free Improvisation. In P. Cheyne (Ed.), Imperfectionist Aesthetics in Art and Everyday Life. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003251361-9

Pearson, L., & Pouw, W. (2022). Gesture–vocal Coupling in Karnatak Music Performance: A Neuro–bodily Distributed Aesthetic Entanglement. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences. https://doi.org/10.1111/nyas.14806

Pearson, L. (2022). Inscription, Gesture, and Social Relations: Notation in Karnatak Music. In E. Payne & F. Schuiling (Eds.), Material Cultures of Music Notation: New Perspectives on Musical Inscription. Abingdon: Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429342837-13

Nuttall, T., Plaja, G., Pearson, L., Serra, X. (2021) The Matrix Profile for Motif Discovery in Audio - An Example Application in Carnatic Music. In, Proceedings of the 15th International Symposium on CMMR, Online (pp. 109-118). https://cmmr2021.github.io/proceedings/pdffiles/cmmr2021_13.pdf

Wald-Fuhrmann, M., Pearson, L., Roeske, T., Grüny, C., & Polak, R. (2021). Music as a trait in evolutionary theory: A musicological perspective. Behavioral and Brain Sciences,44, E93. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0140525X20001193

Pearson, L. (2021). “Improvisation” in Play: A View through South Indian Music Practices. In A. Bertinetto & M. Ruta (Eds.), The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy and Improvisation in the Arts (pp. 446-461). Abingdon: Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003179443-35

Pearson, L. (2021). A Socially Situated Aesthetics: Arguments from Anthropology and Neuroaesthetics. Proceedings from First Symposium of the ICTM Study Group on Sound, Movement, and the Sciences (pp. 32-34). https://zenodo.org/record/5514167#.YhfPo5PMLOQ

Pearson, L. (2021). Cultural Specificities in Carnatic and Hindustani Music: Commentary on the Saraga Open Dataset. Empirical Musicology Review, 16(1), 166-171. http://dx.doi.org/10.18061/emr.v16i1.7974

Pearson, L. (2021). »Die Sozialisation der Sinne« Ästhetik, Kultur und Kontext. Musik Und Ästhetik, 100, 87–93. https://www.musikundaesthetik.de/content/pdf/99.120205/mu-25-4-76.pdf

Pearson, L. (2020). A Socially Situated Approach to Aesthetics: Games and Challenges in Karnatak Music. In A. Hamilton & L. Pearson (Eds.), The Aesthetics of Imperfection in Music and the Arts: Spontaneity, Flaws and the Unfinished (pp. 61-72). London: Bloomsbury Academic. https://doi.org/10.5040/9781350106086.0016

Jacoby, N., Margulis, EH, Clayton, M., Hannon, E., Honing, H., Iversen, J., Klein, TR, More, SA, Pearson, L., Peretz, I., Perlman, M ., Polak, R., Ravignani, A., Savage, PE, Steingo, G., Stevens, CJ, Trainor, L., Trehub, S., Veal, M., & Wald-Fuhrmann, M. (2020) , Cross-cultural work in music cognition. Music Perception, 37 (3), 185-195. https://doi.org/10.1525/mp.2020.37.3.185

Pearson, L. (2018). Cultural Heritage, Sustainability and Innovation in South Indian Art Music. In B. Norton and N. Matsumoto (Eds.), Music as Heritage: Historical and Ethnographic Perspectives . Aldershot: Routledge. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781315393865-12

Pearson, L. (2016). Coarticulation and Gesture: An Analysis of Melodic Movement in South Indian Raga Performance. Music Analysis , 35 (3), 280-313. https://doi.org/10.1111/musa.12071

Pearson, L. (2013). Gesture and the Sonic Event in Karnatak Music. Empirical Musicology Review, 8 (1), 2-14. https://doi.org/10.18061/emr.v8i1.3918 

PhD Thesis

Pearson, L. (2016). Gesture in Karnatak Music: Pedagogy and Musical Structure in South India. (PhD), University of Durham. http://etheses.dur.ac.uk/11782/

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