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BOOKS

Nothing but Noise: Timbre and Musical Meaning at the Edge. Oxford University Press, 2022.

The Relentless Pursuit of Tone: Timbre in Popular Music. (coedited with Robert Fink and Melinda Latour). Oxford University Press, 2018.

SELECTED ARTICLES & BOOK CHAPTERS

Wallmark, Z. (2022). Analyzing vocables in rap: A case study of Megan Thee Stallion. Music Theory Online, 28(2).

Tabak, B. A.*, Wallmark, Z.*, Nghiem, L. H., Alvi, T., Sunahara, C. S., Lee, J., & Cao, J. (in press). Initial evidence for a relation between behaviorally assessed empathic accuracy and affect sharing for people and music. Emotion.

Wallmark, Z., Nghiem, L. H., & Marks, L. E. (2021). Does timbre modulate visual perception? Exploring crossmodal interactions, Music Perception, 39(1), 1–20.

Wallmark, Z., & Kendall, R. A. (2021). Describing sound: The cognitive linguistics of timbre. In E. I. Dolan & A. Rehding (Eds.), Oxford handbook of timbre (pp. 579–608). Oxford University Press.

Wallmark, Z., & Allen, S. E. (2020). Preschoolers’ crossmodal mappings of timbre. Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics, 82(5), 2230–2236.

Wallmark, Z., Frank, R. J., & Nghiem, L. (2019). Creating novel tones from adjectives: An exploratory study using FM synthesis, Psychomusicology, 29(4), 188–199.

Wallmark, Z. (2019). A corpus analysis of timbre semantics in orchestration treatises. Psychology of Music, 47(4), 585–605.

Wallmark, Z. (2019). Semantic crosstalk in timbre perception. Music & Science, 2, 1–18.

Fink, R., Wallmark, Z., & Latour, M. (2018). Chasing the dragon: In search of tone in popular music. In R. Fink, M. Latour, & Z. Wallmark (Eds.), The relentless pursuit of tone (pp. 1–17). Oxford University Press.

Wallmark, Z. (2018). The sound of evil: Timbre, body, and sacred violence in death metal. In R. Fink, M. Latour, & Z. Wallmark (Eds.), The relentless pursuit of tone (pp. 65–87). Oxford University Press.

Wallmark, Z., Deblieck, C., & Iacoboni, M. (2018). Neurophysiological effects of trait empathy in music listening. Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience, 12(66).

Wallmark, Z., Iacoboni, M., Deblieck, C., & Kendall, R. A. (2018). Embodied listening and timbre: Perceptual, acoustical, and neural correlates. Music Perception, 35(3), 332–363.

            * Authors contributed equally