Music Cognition Group

Website

The website of the Music Cognition Group has an unusually long history. Dating back to 1994, it served as the website of the Music, Mind, Machine (MMM) project until 2003. After 2003 it became the website of the Music Cognition Group (MCG) at the University of Amsterdam, online from 2003 till 2023. The current website incorporates most information of both former websites, build on up-to-date technology that will make it more sustainable.

Visual identity

Logos

Wordmarks

Software

This website is built using many open source tools — notably, Gatsby — but also required development of custom software. This has been publicly released as well (MIT license):

gatsby-source-publications: A Gatsby source plugin that pulls publications from various sources, such as ORCID, BibTeX or DOIs. This plugin was developed for the Music Cognition Group website, and powers the publication page.
gatsby-source-blogger-posts: A Gatsby source plugin that fetches blogposts from Blogger, also developed for this site specifically.