Seb Silas is a PhD Researcher at Hanover Music Lab, supervised by Reinhard Kopiez and Daniel Müllensiefen. He researches computational approaches to musical learning and memory, with a particular emphasis on learning melodies and playing by ear. He is an active music teacher and saxophonist, improviser and composer, most notably with the band Don’t Problem (see music website here). He draws upon his experience in these fields in his academic research.

He maintains the musicassessr and itembankr R packages and musical ability tests:

• Playing By Ear Test (PBET)
• Singing Ability Assessment (SAA)
• Sight Reading Test (SRT)
• Sight Singing Test (SST)
• Pitch Discrimination Test (PDT)