Staff profile

Annaliese is a Postdoctoral Research Associate at the Department of Computer Science at Durham University. Her research interests include digital skills for music research, music and emotions, and interactive systems, with a particular focus on the creation and use of interactive paradigms to assess how emotions are communicated in music.

Annaliese received her BA (Hons) in Music from the University of Malta (2014), where she specialised in music composition, and was rewarded her MMus in Creative Sound and Media Technology from Bath Spa University (UK), where she focussed her studies on electronic music and visual music (2015). She completed her PhD in Music Psychology at Durham University (2023) where she examined how altering structural and expressive cues of music affects the perceived emotion communicated through the music. To do so, she created a computer called EmoteControl, which allows users to change features of an instrumental musical piece as it plays in real-time. She also composed and validated a set of musical pieces, to be used as stimuli in music psychology studies.

Throughout her career, Annaliese has composed music for short films, dance, and live performances. She has worked in the Media Industry in Malta for over 10 years, being involved in local leading TV programmes and international events. Annaliese is also an avid piano player, and she has taught piano and music theory to students of all ages, as well as Music Psychology and Music and Science to Undergraduate students, during her time as a GTA at Durham University.

• Digital skills for music research
• Interactive production approaches
• Music and emotions

Conference Paper

• Micallef Grimaud, A., & Eerola, T. (in press). How to explore a large cue-emotion space in music? A comparison of two approaches for emotions expressed by music.
• Micallef Grimaud, A., Eerola, T., & Collins, N. (2019). EmoteControl: A System for Live-Manipulation of Emotional Cues in Music. In Proceedings of the 14th International Audio Mostly Conference: A Journey in Sound(AM’19). https://doi.org/10.1145/3356590.3356608

Journal Article

• Micallef Grimaud, A., & Eerola, T. (2022). Emotional expression through musical cues: A comparison of production and perception approaches. PLoS ONE, 17(12), Article e0279605. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0279605
• Micallef Grimaud, A., & Eerola, T. (2022). An interactive approach to emotional expression through musical cues. Music & Science, 5, 1-23. https://doi.org/10.1177/20592043211061745
• Micallef Grimaud, A., & Eerola, T. (2021). EmoteControl: An interactive system for real-time control of emotional expression in music. Personal and Ubiquitous Computing, 25(4), 677-689. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00779-020-01390-7

Presentation

• Micallef Grimaud, A. (2019, September). A recipe for emotion: Altering emotion perception through music parameters. (Short listed for Best Contribution Award). Paper presented at International Conference of Students on Systematic Musicology (SysMus'19), Berlin, Germany
• Micallef Grimaud, A. (2019, August). Deconstruction of perceived emotional expression in music. Paper presented at Biennial Meeting of the Society for Music Perception and Cognition (SMPC 2019), New York, USA
• Micallef Grimaud, A. (2019, July). Emotion manipulation through music. Poster presented at International Society for Research on Emotions Conference (ISRE), Amsterdam, The Netherlands