PUBLICATION

MUSIC ART TECHNOLOGY

PUBLICATIONS:

Books:

  1. Cohen, S. (2011). Music and Creation in a Computerized Environment - 10767. The Open University. Writing and developing 14 study units, including the coursebook (687 pages).

Refereed articles:

  1. Cohen, S., Azaryahu L., Broza O., Hershkovitz, S., Adi-Japha, E. The Contribution of Technology to Understanding Shared Phenomena in Math and Music. International Journal for Technology in Mathematics Education, Volume 30, Number 4, December 2023, pp. 265-270(6). https://doi.org/10.1564/tme_v30.4.9
  2. Gordon I., Gilboa E., Gilboa A., Cohen S., Kivity Y. Catching That Playful Beat: Social Anxiety and Synchronous Group Functioning. J Nonverbal Behav (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10919-023-00436-7
  3. David M. Greenberg, Nir Milstein, Avi Gilboa, Shai Cohen, Nir Haimovich, Shahar Siegman, Shay Pinhasi, Ilanit Gordon  (2023). Improvised herding: Mapping biobehavioral mechanisms that underlie group efficacy during improvised social interaction http://doi.org/10.1111/psyp.14307
  4. Azariahu, L., Broza, O., Cohen, S., Hershkovitz, S., Adi-Japha, E. Development of Creative Thinking Patterns via Math and Music. (2022). Thinking Skills and Creativity, 2022-11 | Journal article DOI: 10.1016/j.tsc.2022.101196
  5. Cohen, S., (2022). Entanglement for conductor and interactive 2D point map. Peimot, Issue No. 5 Journal of Music and Culture, "RESLING" an Israeli academic publishing house. 
  6. Ornoy E., Cohen S., (2021). Tool for a Real-Time Automatic Assessment of Vocal Proficiency. The Journal of Music, Technology & Education (JMTE). https://doi.org/10.1386/jmte_00034_1
  7. Ornoy E., Cohen S., (2021). Back to the present: Assimilation of late 19th century performance features among currently active violinists. Journal of New Music Research. https://doi.org/10.1080/09298215.2022.2029496
  8. Ornoy E., Cohen S., (2021). The Effect of Mindfulness Meditation on the Vocal Proficiencies of Music Education Students. Psychology of Music. https://doi.org/10.1177/03057356211062262
  9. Gordon I., Gilboa, A., Cohen, S., Kleinfeld T., (2020). The relationship between physiological synchrony and motion energy synchrony during a joint group drumming task. Physiology & Behavior Volume 224, 1 October 2020, 113074. DOI:10.1016/j.physbeh.2020.113074
  10. Gordon I., Gilboa, A., Cohen, S., Milstein N., Haimovich N., Pinhasi S., Siegman S. (2020). Physiological and Behavioral Synchrony Predict Group Cohesion and Performance. Scientific Reports. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-65670-1
  11. Sandak B., Cohen S., Gilboa A., Harel D. (2019). Computational elucidation of the effects induced by music making. PLoS ONE 14(3): e0213247. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0213247
  12. Ornoy E., Cohen S., (2018). Analysis of contemporary violin recordings of 19th century repertoire: identifying trends and impacts. Frontiers in Psychology. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2018.02233
  13. Cohen, S., (2017). Musical creativity resulting from dyslexia in reading score. Between the words, art therapy, Kibbutzim College of Education. Issue 14, 2018.
  14. Cohen, S., (2017). Music Composition and real-time improvisation with mobile technology. Proceedings of the 13th Chais Conference for the Study of Innovation and Learning Technologies: Learning in the Technological Era, Raanana: The Open University of Israel, pp. 214-219.

Works in Progress:

  1. Azariahu, L., Broza, O., Cohen, S., Hershkovitz, S., Adi-Japha, E. (2023). Development of Creative Thinking via Fractions and Rhythm Corresponding Author. Thinking Skills and Creativity. (in review)
  2. Cohen, S., Azariahu, L., Broza, O., Hershkovitz, S., Adi-Japha, E. Music & Math: Computerized Tasks for Collecting Multidisciplinary Data (in review).

AWARDS, GRANTS, & HONORS:

  • 2022 - Menachem Avidom Prize Achievement Award for the piece “Darkness” - An ACUM Prize. Society of Authors, Composers and Music Publishers in Israel.
  • 2021 - “Understanding the inter-personal neural mechanisms of synchronization in young adults with ASD: Employing dyadic drumming as a platform for a multimodal investigation of social function”. The Israeli Science Foundation Jerusalem (ISF).
  • 2021 - Grant of Excellence in Teaching, Bar-Ilan University.
  • 2021 - The Royal Academy of Fine Arts San Carlos has held the V International Music Composition Competition Royal Academy of Fine Arts of San Carlos, endowed with a single prize of 4,000 euros. In an open call to composers of any nationality, and with no age limit, the winning work has been Remez, whose author is Shai Cohen.
  • 2020 - “Interpretation and Performance of Violins for the Graphic Notation Method: Interdisciplinary Observation - Music, Sociology, Literacy, and Mathematics”. The President's Fund, Levinsky College of Education.
  • 2020 - "Darkness" for cello, electric guitar, percussion, Live electronics, fixed media, and video. Mifal HaPais, Council for the Culture and Arts grant.
  • 2018 - Outstanding lecturer at Bar Ilan University, Israel.
  • 2018 - Bar Ilan University rector grant, towards forming a research group and a conference on music, creativity, and technology.
  • 2017 - Research grant in the framework of the President's Fund, Levinsky College of Education.
  • 2017 - The President's scholarship for planning and developing an innovative teaching-learning course, Levinsky College of Education, Composition, and improvisation in real-time.
  • 2011 - Aberdeen Music Prize for "Circles of Time" for Trumpet string quartet members of the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra in the University of Aberdeen Music Prize.
  • 2011 - Ministry of Culture and Sport, The Prime Minister's Prize for Music Achievement.
  • 2010 - Menachem Avidom Prize Achievement Award for the piece “Echoes of Eternity, Fantasia for violin solo and orchestra” - An ACUM Prize

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES:

  • 2012-17, 2019-     Chairman of the Israel Composers' League
  • 2015-2017            Member of the Prime Minister's Prize for Composition Committee
  • 2018-                    Member of the Board of Trustees of the Composers' Award 
  • 2017-                    Israel's Ministry of Education, Curriculum Committee for High School        

ORGANIZATION OF SCIENTIFIC CONFERENCES:

  • Cohen, S.  (January 16, 2020).  An international conference on contemporary music for early instruments. Composition, technology, and aesthetics - The well-tempered detune, Israel.
  • Cohen, S.  (November 29 - Dec 1, 2017).  An international conference on research in music and creativity, pushing the boundaries of musical expression. IRMaM, The Center for Interdisciplinary Research in Music and Mind, Israel.