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Constance Bainbridge - Curriculum Vitae

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E-mail: con.bainbridge@gmail.com

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Work experience

January 2018-Present: Research Assistant, The Music Lab, Harvard University;

May 2018-Present: Lab Manager, Evolutionary Psychology Lab, Harvard University

August 2016-Present: Private violin teacher: classical, contemporary, and improvisation

May 2015-January 2018: Teuscher Chocolates of Switzerland: luxury retail

December 2010-Present: Mei Ohara: vocalist, electric violinist, composer (registered with ASCAP), manager

January 2015-May 2015: Museum of Science, Living Laboratory Intern

June 2012-January 2015: Research Assistant, Computational Perception and Cognition team (PI: Aude Oliva) at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (MIT CSAIL)

April 2012-July 2015: First Violinist for Siagel Productions String Trio

2011-2012: Violin teaching assistant at Boston Youth Symphony Orchestras Intensive Community Program (BYSO ICP)

2012: January-June: Volunteer with Boston Hassle musician and concert reviews

2011 (April 30th-May 1st): Tarisio Violin Auctions

2008-2012: Production Assistant at Boston University

2007: Art Apprentice at the Levine School of Music Summer Music and Arts Camp

 

Abstracts & Papers

Papers

2015: Bainbridge, C. M., Bainbridge, W. A., Oliva, A. (2015). “Quadri-stability of a spatially ambiguous auditory illusion.” Frontiers in Human Neuroscience.

Bylinskii, Z., Isola, P., Bainbridge, C.M., Torralba, A., & Oliva, A. (In revision). ”Intrinsic and Extrinsic Effects on Image Memorability.” Vision Research.

Borkin, M., Bylinskii, Z., Kim, N. W., Bainbridge, C. M., Yeh, S. C., Borkin, D., Pfister, H., Oliva, A. “Beyond Memorability: Visualization Recognition and Recall. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (Proceedings of InfoVis 2015).

Posters

2018: Bainbridge, C. M., Atwood, S., Xing, F., Bertolo, M., Lopez, K., Bitran, A., Youngers, J., Mehr, S. A. (Submitted). Infant responses to foreign lullabies differ from responses to other foreign songs. SRCD 2019.

2014: Bainbridge, C. M., Oliva, A. "Perceptual Biasing of a Continuous Auditory Quadri-stable Illusion." Journal of Vision, 14 (10), 435. VSS (Vision Sciences Society).

2013: Bainbridge, C. M., Bainbridge, W. A., & Oliva, A. "Introducing a Quadri-stable Auditory Spatial Illusion: Imagining Objects Moving Through Space."  Journal of Vision, 13 (9), 1074. VSS (Vision Sciences Society).

Bainbridge, C. M., Bainbridge, W. A., & Oliva, A. "Tricking the Ear: Using a Quadri-stable Auditory Illusion to Influence Sound Localization." Poster in the Auditory Perception, Cognition, and Action Meeting (APCAM), as part of the Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society.

 

Education

2008-2012: Boston University, Completed Bachelor of Music in Violin Performance

2010 (Fall Term): Royal College of Music in London, United Kingdom

2007 (Summer): Boston University Tanglewood Institute

2000-2007: Levine School of Music


 

Technical Skills

Audio/Music

  • Experienced in audio manipulation, production, and analysis programs including but not limited to: Pro Tools, Reason, Audition, Ableton, Audiosculpt, Audacity, Fruity Loops, and Acid Pro Foundry

  • Experience with hardware and analog audio, including live and studio rigs (stereo and multi-channel)

  • Creation of auditory illusions (quadri-stable spatial illusions: transverse, circling; tri-stable tritone illusion)

  • Intensive musical theory and ear training

  • Experience notating in MuseScore and Finale

Still/Motion Graphics

  • Editing and designing graphics and stimuli in Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator

  • Basic 3D modeling, rigging, and animation in Blender

  • Video editing in Adobe Premiere and iMovie

Computer/Web

  • Experienced with Microsoft Office, Keynote

  • Familiarity working on statistics in Stata, SPSS, MATLAB, and Excel

  • Familiarity with HTML, CSS, JsPsych, and Javascript

  • Building surveys and experiments in Qualtrics

  • Programming experiments in Psychopy

Research Lab/Office

  • Assistant experience in fMRI studies

  • Experience with methods in experimental psychology (vision, audition, memory)

  • Running eye-tracking studies/eye calibrations with Eyelink 1000

  • Annotating images/graphics/text using LabelMe

  • Gaze and affect coding in Datavyu

  • Recruiting and running experiments on adult and infant populations

  • Bookkeeping for lab petty cash (including submitting RFPs and journal vouchers to accounts payable), expense reports, other administrative skills

 

Scholarships

2008-2012: Boston University Grant & Music Department Performance Award

2005-2006: Levine School of Music, Tuition Waiver Scholarship

2004: WPAS (Washington Performing Arts Society) Scholarship Award

International Music Festival held at Bryn Mawr College, $500 Tuition Aid


 

Awards

2007:  Winner of the Composition Competition in Honor of Alma Grayce Miller

        National Symphony Orchestra (at the Kennedy Center) Young Associate, selected as one of the twenty outstanding instrumentalists (six violinists) in greater Washington Metropolitan area

2006:  Prize Winner, Jack Weaver Memorial String Competition

2005: International Music Festival held at Bryn Mawr College, awarded as one of the Best Five Chamber Players

2004:  WPAS (Washington Performing Arts Society) Feder String Competition, Judge’s Award

        Cogen Concerto Competition, First Prize

2003: WPAS Feder String Competition, Second Prize

2002: WPAS Feder String Competition, First Prize