Afghan Women’s Orchestra “Zohra”

Dear friends,

 

  I am writing to invite you to watch a streaming performance by the Afghan Women's Orchestra "Zohra," who will be performing the closing performance of the 2017 World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland on Friday, January 20, 2017 at 5:30 Swiss time, which is 11:30am EST. It will be streaming on www.weforum.org

 

   The closing performance at the Davos Congress Centre is attended by all the participants and attendees of the 2017 conference, which include several thousand world leaders and top business men and women from all around the world. The concert will be  broadcast on international media in over 70 countries. 

 

  I have had the honor of teaching and leading the Afghan Women's Orchestra "Zohra" this year as the Director of Orchestral Studies at the Afghanistan National Institute of Music. This concert features 31 young ladies from across Afghanistan. They are the very first large performing ensemble of all female musicians EVER in Afghanistan, which is still ranked among the top worst places in the world to be a woman, and where music and musicians are still targeted and suppressed. The orchestra contains both Western and traditional Afghan instruments. 

 

   The concert will feature 4 parts. The first part will feature small ensemble pieces by traditional Afghan instruments. The next three parts will feature the full orchestra, led by my two conducting students, Zarifa and Negin, and myself. These young ladies are the first female conductors EVER in Afghanistan. It is an important and symbolic gesture for a woman to take a public, leadership role in Afghanistan- and it is one that does not come without risks. All of our young ladies have been very brave and defied the odds against violence and poverty to come to school each day. Zarifa and Negin will lead the orchestra in a wide selection of Afghan music arranged for our unique ensemble.  I will get to conduct the orchestra myself in my own arrangement of the last movement of Beethoven's 9th Symphony, and a world premiere written for the orchestra by Sadie Harrison. Part of my job in Afghanistan has been to create written arrangements of Afghan folk music (a primarily aural tradition) for various ensembles, to help make sure that this centuries-old musical tradition is never at risk at again. 

 

  This concert kicks off a European tour, where we will then play concerts and participate in cultural exchanges and workshops in Geneva and Zürich (at the famous Zürich Tonhalle,) and then in Weimar and Berlin. 

 

  You can find various photos and videos on Facebook leading up to and during the tour by searching the hashtag #Zohratour.  There is also a lot of hype going around via the Associated Press, so you will see us a lot in the news in the coming weeks if you search "Afghan Women's Orchestra Zohra."

 

   I am also proud to announce that Naxos choose our Toccata Classics album "The Rosegarden of Light" as one of their top albums of 2016. This was last year's  project between the Afghan Women's Orchestra "Zohra," the Ensemble of Traditional Afghan Instruments, and our musical ensemble back in Connecticut, Cuatro Puntos.  With this album, and now again with this historic tour, I am honored to play a part in leading the Afghan Women's Orchestra "Zohra" toward redefining the image of Afghanistan, as well as serving a role in preserving Afghan music and making it available worldwide. 

 

  We hope you will hear us via the streaming performance at www.weforum.org

 

   Happy holidays!    Kevin Bishop

Director of Orchestral Studies- Afghanistan National Institute of Music

www.anim-music.org

Fwd: Computer Simulation of Musical Creativity 2017

Dear all,

We are happy to announce the second Conference on Computer Simulation
of Musical Creativity. The event will be held at the Open University
in Milton Keynes (UK) from 11 to 13 Sept 2017.

•Deadline for paper submission: 10 June 2017

Submissions can cover both theoretical and/or practical aspects of
the computer simulation of musical creativity. Interdisciplinary
proposals at the intersection of music, computer science, psychology
and philosophy are welcome. Topics of interest may include, but are
not limited to:

Computer Systems
• systems capable of generating music;
• systems capable of performing music;
• systems capable of (online) improvisation;
• systems capable of analysing music;
• music-robotic systems;
• systems implementing societies of virtual musicians;
• systems that foster and enhance the musical creativity of human users;
• music recommendation systems;
• systems implementing computational aesthetics, emotional responses,
novelty and originality;

Theory
• surveys of state-of-the-art techniques in the area;
• validation methodologies;
• philosophical foundations of creative music systems;
• mathematical foundations of creative music systems;
• evolutionary models for creative music systems;
• cognitive models for creative music systems;
• studies on the applicability of music-creative techniques to other
research areas;
• new models for improving creative music systems.

Peer-Review Process and Proceedings

All papers are double-blind peer reviewed by at least two
specialists. Proceedings will be published online. Extended versions
of selected papers will be published in a special issue of the Journal
of Creative Music Systems (http://jcms.org.uk/).

Paper Submission

Details of submission procedure and formatting can be found at
https://csmc2016.wordpress.com/instructions-for-authors/.

For enquiries, please contact Robin.Laney@open.ac.uk

Best Wishes,
Robin Laney
Steven Jan
Valerio Velardo


Publications: http://oro.open.ac.uk/view/person/rcl46.html

The Open University is incorporated by Royal Charter (RC 000391), an
exempt charity in England & Wales and a charity registered in Scotland
(SC 038302).

Fwd: Psychology of Music - New Editor Announcement

14-Dec-2016

Greetings to all in the Psychology of Music community,

I am honoured to have been appointed as the incoming Editor of
Psychology of Music. I am extremely fortunate to be taking over from
Alexandra Lamont who, alongside the Editorial Board and the team at
SAGE, has done a superb job over the past five years.

During the handover period Alexandra will continue to oversee papers
where she has already begun the editorial process. I will work
alongside her and gradually take over the role of Editor. My very
sincere thanks go to Alexandra, Paolo Ammirante and the team at SAGE
for their support and advice during the handover period which has
begun in this month of December.

As incoming Editor my first priority is to maintain and build upon our
Journal's outstanding reputation as a platform for robust, innovative
and interdisciplinary perspectives in the field.

Psychology of Music is, of course, a testament to the international
expertise and outstanding professionalism represented amongst our
authors, reviewers and readers. I look forward to serving this
community and I hope you will all continue to support Psychology of
Music.

Andrea Creech, incoming Editor
Professeure en didactique instrumental
Chaire de recherche du Canada en Musique dans la Communauté
Faculté de Musique,
Université Laval,
Québec, Canada,
Andrea.creech@mus.ulaval.ca

Fwd: Call for Papers: 5th Occupational Voice Symposium

 

Call For Papers!

 

(We are having some problems with our servers so please accept our apologies if you have received this already!)

 

 

Dear Colleagues,

 

On behalf of Dr Ruth Epstein and the Speech-Language Therapy Department of the Royal National Throat Nose and Ear Hospital and the UCL Division of Surgery and Interventional Science I am pleased to announce the 5^th Occupational Voice Symposium! The symposium will take place on the 28^th and 29^th of March 2017 at University College London.

 

The programme will include keynote addresses by invited speakers, roundtable discussions and 15 minute free paper presentations on the following topics:

 

The role of  vocal hyperfunction in occupational voice disorders	Assessment of risk factors for voice problems
Absenteeism versus presenteeism in the workplace	Evaluation of the efficacy of vocal dosimeter devices
Preventative management for work-related voice disorders	Employer detection of dysphonia
Perceptual assessment tools for evaluating voice disorders	Socioeconomics of occupational voice disorders
Use of technology in managing occupational voice	Epidemiology and aetiology of occupational voice disorders

 

The submission deadline is 15^th JANUARY 2017.

 

Abstract submissions, updates and further details including how to register are found on our website: www.occupationalvoicesymposium.co.uk. Register before 10^th February to take advantage of our EARLY BIRD REGISTRATION SPECIAL!

 

For more information, please don't hesitate to contact Brian Saccente-Kennedy at brian.saccentekennedy@uclh.nhs.uk, or send a question through the website.

 

We look forward to seeing you in London in March!

 

 

 

 

Brian Saccente-Kennedy MRCSLT
Specialist Speech and Language Therapist

University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

The Royal National Throat Nose & Ear Hospital

330 Gray's Inn Road

London

WC1X 8DA

 

 

Fwd: PhD scholarships

> PhD scholarships
>
> AHRC-funded 3D3 Centre for Doctoral Training welcomes applications for doctoral scholarships to pursue a PhD at Plymouth University's Interdisciplinary Centre for Computer Music Research (ICCMR) in the UK.
>
> More information on ICCMR is available here: http://cmr.soc.plymouth.ac.uk
>
> Candidates wishing to apply should submit an Expression of Interest (EoI) by Jan 03, 2010 by 22:00.
>
> Instructions here: http://3d3research.co.uk/information/expressions-of-interest/
>
> ICCMR welcomes proposals to work on pioneering new technologies and approaches to computer-aided musical creativity including, but not limited to:
>
> (a) Unconventional Sound and Music Computing, in particular to develop interactive Bio-computing technology & n-AI (natural-Artificial Intelligence). More info & impact:
>
> http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-31655846
>
> https://www.theguardian.com/science/grrlscientist/2015/feb/09/slime-mould-and-researcher-set-to-play-piano-duet
>
>
> (b) Exploring the potential of Quantum Computing for music. More info & impact:
>
> https://www.wired.com/2016/07/quantum-computers-dont-make-sense-one-makes-music/
>
> http://magazine.viterbi.usc.edu/fall-2016/articles/superposition/
>
>
> (c) Evolutionary Computing modelling for musical creativity, in particular involving voice/singing. More info & impact:
>
> http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v474/n7349/full/474035a.html
>
> http://www.springer.com/gb/book/9781846285998
>
>
> Should you wish to discuss your EoI and/or other ideas before you submit it, please contact Prof Eduardo Miranda by e-mail:
>
> eduardo DOT miranda AT plymouth DOT ac DOT uk
>
>
> Small print: before you proceed, please note:
>
> a) UK citizens are eligible for full scholarship: fees + stipend (3 years).
> b) Non-UK EU citizens are eligible for full fees only (3 years) but in exceptional cases the university may fund an additional stipend to successful candidates (It is worth trying anyway).
> c)  Non-EU/UK citizens are not eligible for this scholarship.
>

cfp: 10th biennial International Symposium on the Sociology of Music Education

Call for Papers – one week to deadline



The organizing committee of the 10th biennial International Symposium
on the Sociology of Music Education and the Institute of Contemporary
Music Performance are pleased to announce a call for papers. We
welcome proposals from a broad range of perspectives, related to
sociology and music education. Colleagues are invited to submit
individual papers (twenty minutes, plus five minutes for discussion)
or panels of three to five presenters (50 minutes, plus 10 minutes for
discussion). Topics of particular interest include, but are not
limited to, sociological studies of music education that relate to:



· Communities of musical practice

· Music, multimedia, and online learning

· Transdisciplinary, hybrid and sound-based music

· Power and (symbolic) violence

· Aspiration and social mobility

· Social justice and citizenship

· Feminist, gender, queer and trans theories

· Punk, hip-hop and anarchist pedagogies

· Critical studies of creativity

· Practice-led and arts-based research methods

· Music making, leisure, cultural participation

· Intergenerational learning, health and creative aging

· Internationalization and globalization

· Neoliberalization of schooling and higher education

· Public–private partnerships

· Religion and spirituality

· An age of polarized politics

· An anti-intellectual age



We also welcome proposals for 60-minute performance/teaching workshops
that illustrate effective practical responses to social issues in
music. Please contact Gareth Dylan Smith with any informal enquiries
at gareth.smith@icmp.ac.uk.



Abstracts should be 300-350 words in length, and should be accompanied
by a 150-word biography for each presenter. Email submissions to
gareth.smith@icmp.ac.uk, including full name/s and institutional
affiliation/s. The closing date for submissions is 1 December 2016.
All submissions will be reviewed by the organizing committee: Dr Clare
Hall, Dr David Hebert, Dr Danielle Sirek and Dr Gareth Dylan Smith.
All presenters will be notified of acceptance by 1 January 2017. The
Symposium will be held at the ICMP's London campus, 11-14 June 2017.
Registration, and information regarding travel, accommodation and
scheduling, will be available (from spring 2017) via:
http://www.icmp.ac.uk/issme2017.



Action, Criticism, and Theory for Music Education will publish a
special Sociology of Music Education issue in early 2018, including
articles based on ISSME 2017 presentations, and guest edited by Gareth
Dylan Smith and Clare Hall. Submissions should meet ACT standards
(http://act.maydaygroup.org/submissions/) and will be subject to
double-blind peer review. Submissions to the guest editors will be due
by September 1, 2017.



Dr Gareth Dylan Smith BA, MA, MMus, PhD, LTCL, NCTM, SFHEA

Research Fellow
Editor, Journal of Popular Music Education
Vice President, Association for Popular Music Education
Chair, ISME Popular Music Education Special Interest Group

Direct: 020 7328 0222
Email: gareth.smith@icmp.ac.uk
Skype: garethdylansmith
Visit: www.icmp.ac.uk

The Institute of Contemporary Music Performance
Foundation House, 1A Dyne Road, London NW6 7XG

Fwd: Announcing the Open Multitrack Testbed

The Centre for Digital Music (C4DM) at Queen Mary University of London
is pleased to announce the launch of the Open Multitrack Testbed, an
online repository of multitrack audio, mixes or processed versions
thereof, DAW files and corresponding metadata.

http://multitrack.eecs.qmul.ac.uk/

Our aim is to provide a single, central resource for multitrack audio,
allowing easy browsing, filtering and searching for specific content
based on rich metadata associated with the content. We intend the OMTB
to be a valuable resource for audio researchers, students, and content
producers which enables users to retrieve all songs featuring a
particular instrument, or a track recorded using a specific
microphone, for example.
Much of our content is available under Creative Commons licenses, and
hosted or mirrored on our own servers whenever possible.

We're interested in comments, suggestions for features and bug reports
from users. If you have any feedback, please get in touch!

We're also always looking for new raw multitrack recordings, stems,
mixes and/or DAW files, especially those we can make available under
Creative Commons licenses. Let us know if you would like to
contribute.

Contact us at eecs-multitrack@qmul.ac.uk

________________________________________________

Brecht De Man
PhD Student in Audio Engineering
Centre for Digital Music
Queen Mary University of London

School of Electronic Engineering and Computer Science
Mile End Road
London E1 4NS
United Kingdom

www.brechtdeman.com
b.deman@qmul.ac.uk
Twitter | LinkedIn | Academia | GitHub

Fwd: SIG NOTICE: Call for papers: Musichildren'17 | Music for and by Children: Perspectives from Children, Composers, Performers and Educators

Call for papers: Musichildren'17 

1st International Conference: "Music for and by Children: Perspectives from Children, Composers, Performers and Educators"

October 19th to 21st  2017 | University of Aveiro, Portugal

 

The University of Aveiro, the Polytechnic Institute, Porto and INET-md (Institute of Ethnomusicology - Centre for Music and Dance Studies) will host the 1st International Conference: "Music for and by Children: Perspectives from Children, Composers, Performers and Educators", from October 19th to 21st  2017, at the University of Aveiro, Portugal. The keynote-speakers will be Jackie Wiggins (Oakland University) and Dai Fujikura (Royal College of Music).

The main goal of the musichildren'17 conference is to explore aspects of music for children, and music that is created by children. It aims to stimulate discussion, develop ideas, and disseminate research in the fields of Music Composition, Performance and Music Education. This 3 day event will host paper presentations, performances, workshops and discussions from around the world.

 

Main conference themes

 

1. Children as performers and audience: A forum that explores and presents research of processes that lead to music performed by children and the processes involved in performing to children.

 

2. Composing for children: A forum that aims to explore and present research and reflections on factors that contribute to widening repertoire for children and young audiences.

 

3. Children's music: A forum that aims to develop new understandings of children's creativity, and of the particular ways they create their own music, alone or in groups, in formal, non-formal and informal contexts.

 

Proposals for presentations compatible with the conference theme(s) are invited in any one of the following formats:

• Paper presentations (up to 20 minutes);

• Pre-formed Panel presentations. Please submit abstracts with each named speaker and their institutional affiliation (up to 90 minutes);

• Posters;

• Lecture-recitals (up to 35 minutes). Proposals submissions should specify exact length and be accompanied by a short curriculum of the presenter and links;

• Workshops (up to 60 minutes); Proposals submissions should specify exact length and be accompanied by a short curriculum of the presenter and links;

• Concerts involving children (up to 45 minutes). Proposals submissions should specify exact length and be accompanied by a short curriculum of the presenter and links.

 

Please note that active participation of children is encouraged in all presentation formats. Children must always be accompanied by an adult.

 

Authors should submit abstracts of up to 500 words using the online submission system Easy Chair. We recommend that submissions include information on context, theoretical background, methodology and results/findings.  

Presentations for the Pre-formed Panel consist of a set of integrated spoken papers relating to a theme. Abstracts submitted in this format should be up to 300 words each. The Chair must also submit an overview, a proposal of 200 words including a general description of the session that includes the purpose, motivation, and justification for the session.

All full submitted papers will be published on the PROA-UA platform (revista.ua.pt).

 

Deadlines

Abstracts must be received by 26th March 2017.

Presenters will be notified by 2nd May 2017.

Deadline for the full papers submission is 10th September 2017.

 

General enquiries

General enquiries about registration, travel, lodging should be sent to musichildren@ua.pt

More information

Site: http://musichildren.web.ua.pt 

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/musichildren 

 

 

Organising committee 

Sara Carvalho, Clarissa Foletto and Ana Veloso

 

--

Clarissa Foletto Postdoctoral Fellow  INET-md, DeCA University of Aveiro,Portugal https://clarissafoletto.wordpress.com

 

 

Fwd: Call for papers Musichildren'17 | Music for and by Children: Perspectives from Children, Composers, Performers and Educators

Call for papers: Musichildren'17 

1st International Conference: "Music for and by Children: Perspectives from Children, Composers, Performers and Educators"

​October 19th to 21st  2017 | University of Aveiro, Portugal

The University of Aveiro, the Polytechnic Institute, Porto and INET-md (Institute of Ethnomusicology - Centre for Music and Dance Studies) will host the 1st International Conference: "Music for and by Children: Perspectives from Children, Composers, Performers and Educators", from October 19th to 21st  2017, at the University of Aveiro, Portugal. The keynote-speakers will be Jackie Wiggins (Oakland University) and Dai Fujikura (Royal College of Music).

The main goal of the musichildren'17 conference is to explore aspects of music for children, and music that is created by children. It aims to stimulate discussion, develop ideas, and disseminate research in the fields of Music Composition, Performance and Music Education. This 3 day event will host paper presentations, performances, workshops and discussions from around the world.

Main conference themes

1. Children as performers and audience: A forum that explores and presents research of processes that lead to music performed by children and the processes involved in performing to children.

2. Composing for children: A forum that aims to explore and present research and reflections on factors that contribute to widening repertoire for children and young audiences.

3. Children's music: A forum that aims to develop new understandings of children's creativity, and of the particular ways they create their own music, alone or in groups, in formal, non-formal and informal contexts.

Proposals for presentations compatible with the conference theme(s) are invited in any one of the following formats:

• Paper presentations (up to 20 minutes);

• Pre-formed Panel presentations. Please submit abstracts with each named speaker and their institutional affiliation (up to 90 minutes);

• Posters;

• Lecture-recitals (up to 35 minutes). Proposals submissions should specify exact length and be accompanied by a short curriculum of the presenter and links;

• Workshops (up to 60 minutes); Proposals submissions should specify exact length and be accompanied by a short curriculum of the presenter and links;

• Concerts involving children (up to 45 minutes). Proposals submissions should specify exact length and be accompanied by a short curriculum of the presenter and links.

Please note that active participation of children is encouraged in all presentation formats. Children must always be accompanied by an adult.

Authors should submit abstracts of up to 500 words using the online submission system Easy Chair. We recommend that submissions include information on context, theoretical background, methodology and results/findings.  

Presentations for the Pre-formed Panel consist of a set of integrated spoken papers relating to a theme. Abstracts submitted in this format should be up to 300 words each. The Chair must also submit an overview, a proposal of 200 words including a general description of the session that includes the purpose, motivation, and justification for the session.

All full submitted papers will be published on the PROA-UA platform (revista.ua.pt).

Deadlines

Abstracts must be received by 26th March 2017.

Presenters will be notified by 2nd May 2017.

Deadline for the full papers submission is 10th September 2017.

General enquiries

General enquiries about registration, travel, lodging should be sent to musichildren@ua.pt

More information

Site: http://musichildren.web.ua.pt 

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/musichildren 

Organising committee 

Sara Carvalho, Clarissa Foletto and Ana Veloso

--

Clarissa Foletto Postdoctoral Fellow  INET-md, DeCA University of Aveiro,Portugal https://clarissafoletto.wordpress.com

--

Clarissa Foletto Postdoctoral Fellow  INET-md, DeCA University of Aveiro,Portugal https://clarissafoletto.wordpress.com

Fwd: FW: December concerts at St George's Bloomsbury

Saturday 3rd December 8:00pm



A Wayfarer's Winter Prayer



Nigel Shaw (flutes, electric piano, ancient and ethnic instruments)

Carolyn Hillyer (hand drums, vocals)



A candlelit winter concert by two renowned Dartmoor
musicians/composers who will wrap their music around the quietening of
the year and the deepening of our collective journeys into the
darkness.



"We will share an honouring to the frosted land, the chill waters, the
incubating earth and the fires that warm winter dreams. We will spin
together music and songs from new and recent work, perform with some
strange and ancient instruments and share a simple ritual that will
bless all our footsteps as we follow the trails of winter and rest
inside the cold months. Featuring music from the new album BONES, as
well as songs from THE WYCHED WOMBE, NOCTURNES and WEAVING THE LAND.
You are very warmly invited to join us for an evening of gentle
wayfaring."



Tickets: £13 / children £7 / concessions available for benefits and low income

From Seventh Wave Music 01822 880301 or info@seventhwavemusic.co.uk

Online booking: www.seventhwavemusic.co.uk







Thursday 8th December 7:00pm

Misi Boros - piano



Hungarian Christmas Concert by Misi Boros - child prodigy



The Hungarian Cultural Centre presents the Christmas concert of the
amazing child prodigy Misi Boros

during his first ever UK appearance. Misi won a major talent show, the
'Virtuosos' in Hungary, and he is

now touring all around the world. This year the 13-year-old prodigy
has also won the first prize of Concours Musical de France in the
Junior Excellence section. At his concert in St George's he will play
both Hungarian and international classical pieces.



The event will be free, but registration is required at bookings@hungary.org.uk







Friday 9th December 7:30pm

University of London Chamber Choir



Christmas Carols for Choir and Audience



An evening with the University of London Chamber Choir.



More information at www.ulchamberchoir.co.uk



£10/£5 tickets available on the door







Wednesday 14th December 6:30pm (reception) 7:30pm (concert)



HealthProm fundraising concert

Cello recital in memory of Rostropovitch



Violoncello: Laura van der Heijden

Piano: Peter Limonov



Shaporin: Five Pieces Op. 25

Myaskovsky: Cello Sonata No.2 Op. 81 in A minor

Prokofiev: Cello Sonata in C Op. 119



Donations: £60 (or £100 for two)

Payment by cheque: send to Liz Kuda, HealthProm, Finfuture, 225-229
Seven Sisters Rd London N4 2DA

Book online: http://campaign.justgiving.com/charity/health-prom/healthpromchamber
recital2016







Saturday 17th December 7:30pm



Renaissance Singers

Director: David Allinson



Shepherds, what have you seen? A Flemish Christmas



Join us for an evening of seasonal 16th century music that centres on
the nativity scene, and upon the humble shepherds who were among the
first to see the baby Jesus. Our programme features works by Jacob
Clemens and his Franco-Flemish contemporaries. Clemens's music is
polyphonic perfection: unlike most northern European composers of the
time he never travelled to Italy; he revels in relatively conservative
close-worked counterpoint and sonorous chording. His Missa Pastores
quidnam vidistis moves seamlessly between moods of contemplative
reverence and joyful dancing. All is crowned by a rapturous Agnus Dei
in which the texture is enriched by an extra voice. The setting of the
Mass will be interspersed with seasonal motets by Gombert, Verdelot,
Josquin, Willaert and Clemens himself. Mulled wine and mince pies will
be available at the interval. Vrolijk kerstfeest!



Tickets:

In Advance: £12/ £10 Concessions (Students, Senior Citizens, Children, etc.)

On the door: £14/ £12 Concessions (Students, Senior Citizens, Children, etc.)









For full details please go to www.stgeorgesbloomsbury.org.uk

If you wish to be taken off our mailing list please reply to Mark
Summerbell at this email address

Fwd: Funding for Postgraduate Degrees in Music at Durham University

The Department of Music invites applications for postgraduate degrees
starting in October 2017. Durham offers an excellent environment for
music research: we were ranked in the top three music departments in
REF 2014, and offer a range of specialist research facilities and
collections. Details of areas of supervisory expertise, further
details of funding schemes and other information can be found at

https://www.dur.ac.uk/music/postgraduate/funding/

1. MA Bursaries
The Faculty of Arts and Humanities offers up to ten MA bursaries
annually to outstanding applicants to its Taught and Research Masters
programmes. The deadline for receipt of applications is 5pm on Monday
23 January 2017.

Applicants are required to write a 750-word outline of a proposed
research project that they propose to undertake, formulated in
accordance with Departmental guidelines.

2. PhD studentships through the AHRC-funded Northern Bridge
Doctoral Training Partnership
We invite applications for fully-funded PhDs through the AHRC-funded
Northern Bridge Doctoral Training Partnership (NBDTP). The NBDTP
offers high-quality supervision and exceptional resources, as well as
the expertise of a broad portfolio of Strategic Partners for the
training and development of outstanding postgraduate Music
researchers. The awards cover tuition fees and provide a maintenance
grant at the RCUK national rate for UK applicants. They cover tuition
fees only for EU students; institutional funds permitting, however, we
also expect to make maintenance awards to EU students.

3. PhD studentships through the Durham Doctoral Studentships scheme
We invite international applications for fully-funded PhDs through the
Durham Doctoral Studentships (DDS) competition. Prospective students
from anywhere in the world are eligible to apply. The award includes
tuition fees at the overseas rate and a maintenance allowance at the
RCUK national rate.

If you wish to be considered for either Northern Bridge or DDS funding
for a PhD in Music, you must have made an on-line application for a
PhD place at Durham by 5pm on Monday 11th January 2017. We would
expect that you have already had discussions with appropriate
potential supervisor(s) before formal application.


Tuomas Eerola
Professor of Music Cognition

Department of Music | Durham University | Palace Green | Durham | DH1 3RL
Tel: +44 (0) 191 334 3150 | Mobile: +44 (0) 780 808 7918
Email: tuomas.eerola@durham.ac.uk | http://www.dur.ac.uk/tuomas.eerola

Fwd: CfP: RMA Annual Conference 2017

>
> CALL FOR PAPERS: Royal Musical Association 53rd Annual Conference, Department of Music, University of Liverpool.
>
> Thursday 7th to Saturday 9th September 2017.
>
> The programme committee invites proposals for themed sessions (90 minutes), individual papers (20 minutes), lecture-recitals (30 minutes) and posters (A1 display sheet). For themed sessions, any format—including sound installations, performance-based presentations, composition workshops, and so on—may be proposed, as long as it fits into a 90-minute slot. The committee welcomes proposals from leading scholars and practitioners as well as early-career researchers. It also encourages poster displays, with or without scheduled question-and-answer sessions, on current projects of all kinds. The aim is to represent the entire scope of current scholarly and creative musical research.
>
> See the full call for proposals and submit yours online at https://www.liverpool.ac.uk/music/rma2017.
>
> Deadline: 17.00 (GMT), Friday 25th November 2016
>
> The Edward Dent lecture will be given by Mark Katz (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) and the Peter Le Huray lecture by Andrea Lindmayr-Brandl (Universität Salzburg). Read more about our keynote speakers.
>
> Our website will also contain booking details, as well as information about some of the social events around the conference schedule that will celebrate our partnerships with the city's cultural institutions such as the Tate Liverpool, The Royal Liverpool Philharmonic and The Beatles Story. More will be announced when our programme goes live.
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> Dr. Katy Hamilton
> Membership Development Officer
> Royal Musical Association
> www.rma.ac.uk

Fwd: Update: 3rd Web Audio Conference, 21-23 August 2017, Queen Mary University of London

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shared boundaries of science and music. This list was previously
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hello again (my apologies if you get this email more than once)



i thought i would update you with some news about the conference.

the first is that i am very pleased and proud to announce that one of
our keynote speakers is prof chris chafe who is the director of CCRMA
at stanford university. chris has been in audio over the web for
nearly 2 decades and we are really lucky that he will come to london
next august.

other news is that we are expecting to offer a small number of student
bursaries to reduce the cost for a few students. fuller details will
follow.

and lastly, our call for papers will come out next week, and we will
also release the url of the conference web site.


thanks


mark




--
professor mark sandler, FREng
FIEEE, FAES, FIET
royal society wolfson research merit award holder

director of the centre for digital music (c4dm) & qMedia

school of electronic engineering and computer science
queen mary university of london

mark.sandler@qmul.ac.uk
+44 (0)20 7882 7680; +44 (0)7775 016715

twitter: @markbsandler,
follow the FAST-IMPACt Programme Grant @semanticaudio

Fwd: Call for Papers: SysMus17 13-15 September in London

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Dear colleagues:


We are pleased to share with you the first Call for Papers for the
International Conference of Students of Systematic Musicology 2017, or
SysMus17. See details below, and please circulate to anyone you think
may be interested!


Thank you, and take care,
The SysMus17 Committee
Sarah Sauvé
Peter Harrison
Katie Rose Sanfilippo
Pedro Kirk
Marcus Pearce

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Call for Papers

SysMus enters its 10th year!

Come celebrate with us in London! SysMus17 is coming September
13th-15th 2017 and will be hosted by the Music Cognition Lab at Queen
Mary, University of London.



We invite presentations in the form of live spoken papers, virtual
spoken papers and poster presentations. Please see details below.



WHAT TO SUBMIT:

Please submit two abstracts via the submission system (see below):

1. Short Abstract

· The short abstract should be no more than 150 words in
length, and concisely summarise the work that you wish to present.
This is what will go into the abstract book.

2. Extended Abstract

· The extended abstract gives you more opportunity to describe
the motivations for your work and the methodology used, as well as
providing more detailed results and conclusions. This abstract should
use the template provided on the SysMus17 website, and be submitted in
.doc or .docx format (word limit: 300 words; maximum file size: 3 MB).
This is what will go into the proceedings, should you not wish to
submit a paper.



Abstracts should be no more than 150 words (short) or 300 words
(extended) in length, be written in English, and address one of the
conference topics listed below. All submissions will be considered for
both spoken paper (live or virtual) and poster presentation
categories. However, the author can indicate a preference for either
spoken (live or virtual) or poster presentation in the submission
form. All abstracts will be submitted via an online system (see
below). Submissions are due February 28th, 2017.


Researchers should avoid referring to their own names within the
submitted abstracts, as acceptance will be determined by anonymous
peer review. Researchers may submit only one abstract.



All accepted presenters are invited to submit a 4-6-page proceedings
article that will be published online. The deadline for submitting
this proceedings article is June 30th, 2017.



Topics

SysMus is dedicated to including a broad range of topics within its
conferences, representative of the great diversity within systematic
musicological study. Submissions addressing any of the following
subjects are particularly welcome:


· Systematic musicology

· Music perception

· Music cognition

· Music psychology

· Music therapy

· Music modelling

· Music information retrieval

· Music sociology

· Music education

· Music technology

· Music and culture

· Musical acoustics

· Music philosophy

· Music theory and analysis



Live and virtual paper presentations

Oral presentations will be allocated slots of 20 minutes, with 12
minutes for the presentation, 5 minutes for discussion (via Skype for
virtual), and 3 minutes to prepare for the next talk.



Poster presentations

Poster presentations will have designated time slots and presentation
spaces that will not overlap with any other activity.



A quick summary of what you need to know:



What: International Conference of Students of Systematic Musicology



When: September 13th-15th, 2017



Where: Queen Mary, University of London



When are the abstracts due? February 28th 2017



How do I submit my abstract? Via the submission system – click on this link here



For more information, check out our website: https://sysmus17.qmul.ac.uk



Facebook: SysMus17



Twitter: @SysMus17

Fwd: Interdisciplinary Doctoral Research at Birmingham Conservatoire

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the Society for Education and Music Psychology Research (sempre), and
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managed by the Institute of Musical Research. **

MESSAGE FOLLOWS:

Dear all,
Birmingham City University (which includes Birmingham Conservatoire)
have a number of fully-funded doctoral scholarships for cross-faculty,
interdisciplinary projects, starting in February 2017. Full details
are available at:
http://www.bcu.ac.uk/research/research-students/opportunities/overview

Applications are particularly welcome in the fields of:
- Music education
- Music technology

And for the following specific projects:
- Music information retrieval for musical performance and creation
- New Materials and Innovative Design in Brasswind Instruments

Please note that the deadline for applications is 23.59 on Sunday 13th
November 2016.

Best wishes,
Carrie

Fwd: CFP: Aural Skills Pedagogy: What is to be done?

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MESSAGE FOLLOWS:

Please see the CFP below.

Aural Skills Pedagogy: What is to be done?
A one-day symposium at the Royal Academy of Music, London
7 April 2017

Aural skills pedagogy forms the backbone to much instrumental / vocal / compositional training across the Higher Education sector. Conservatoires and universities have included various forms of aural skills training in degree / diploma programmes, most often positioning it within core compulsory modules, and much store is set in how far the student develops their aural skills; no musician can claim seriously to have "good enough" ears.

But the nature of aural skills training and delivery varies widely across the sector, and there are conflicting views about the underlying purposes of such training: for example, whether it is to service the student's general listening ability (whatever that might be), whether it is to develop specific skills (e.g. dictation) of immediate relevance to live physical performance, and so on. And the relationship of aural skills training to instrumental training is often unspoken, even though much goes on in instrumental lessons that can be classed vicariously as being a matter of 'aural skills training'.

This symposium seeks to discuss some of these issues. The intention is to open up debate to a wide spectrum of views on the nature, purpose, and content of aural skills pedagogy. Polemics are welcome.

Presentations addressing questions such as the following are encouraged, though all proposals on the symposium topic will be considered:
What is the role of testing?
What is the relationship between teaching and learning?
What are the core skills?
What are the most productive modes of delivery of teaching? In cohorts or individually?
Why teach aural skills? What does teaching develop?
How does aural skills training relate to training in e.g. analytical skills?
What role is played by musical canons and key / set repertoire?
Should aural skills training be limited to tonal repertoire?
Is self-directed learning possible?
Does aural skills training develop employability skills?
Should aural skills be taught by discipline or by cohort?
Could the delivery of aural skills teaching include practical work on instruments?
Could aural skills teaching be delivered as distance / online learning?
What is the relation between dictation and musical performance?
Should aural skills training be dropped from specialist musical training?

Presentations may take the form of conventional papers (20 mins + 10 mins questions), or may take a more practical form, e.g. demonstrations. Abstracts should be submitted to chris.atkinson@ram.ac.uk by 31 December 2016. If a demonstration is proposed, then specific requirements must be included. Abstracts are welcome from across the HE sector, including research students. Abstracts should be c. 350 words long, and should not include the author's name or affiliation. The programme will be announced on 13 January 2017.



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Dr Evangelos Himonides FBCS CITP
Reader in Technology, Education and Music
University College London

Fwd: EPSRC CASE PhD in Semantic Audio and Music Informatics at Queen Mary Centre for Digital Music

[Please forward as appropriate]

This PhD is fully funded for 3.5 years and is in collaboration with
Roli (https://roli.com) one of the music tech sector's most exciting
and dynamic companies. The stipend is for in excess of £22,000 p.a.
(and fees are covered too).

The focus of the research will be on novel, low level signal
processing to extract musical features from audio. The novelty here
will be to focus on finer time resolution than is normally possible.

For further details, download an information sheet from:
http://tinyurl.com/hy2hjr8

Eligibility: for this position, the funders have strict eligibility
criteria. The grant can only be offered to those who have UK
residence. Details on how to check this are on the information sheet.

thank you


mark


--
professor mark sandler, FREng
BSc (Hons), PhD, CEng, FIEEE, FAES, FIET
royal society wolfson research merit award holder

director of the centre for digital music (c4dm)and qMedia

school of electronic engineering and computer science
queen mary university of london

mark.sandler@qmul.ac.uk
+44 (0)20 7882 7680
+44 (0)7775 016715
twitter: @markbsandler,
follow the FAST-IMPACt Programme Grant @semanticaudio

deadline extended to 27 Nov 2016: 3rd International Conference of Dalcroze Studies (ICDS3)

CALL FOR PROPOSALS

3rd International Conference of Dalcroze Studies (ICDS3)

'The living moment: Exploring improvisational practice'



30 July – 03 August 2017, Université Laval, Quebec City, Canada



www.dalcroze-studies.com



The conference

The aim of ICDS3 is to present the best of current research and
practice within Dalcroze Studies and related fields. ICDS is a global,
transdisciplinary forum, open to viewpoints from education, the arts
and humanities, and the social, health and life sciences. We welcome
practitioners and scholars alike. This year our theme is improvisation
in music, dance, somatic practices, theatre and therapy, with a
special focus on the relationships between music/sound and movement.



Keynotes (confirmed)

Ruth Alperson, Dean, Hoff-Barthelson Music School, USA

Ruth Gianadda, Professor, Institute Jaques-Dalcroze, Geneva, Switzerland

Karin Greenhead, Director of Studies, Dalcroze UK

Reto W. Kressig, Professor and Chair of Geriatrics, University Center
for Medicine of Aging Basel (UAB), Felix-Platter Hospital, University
of Basel, Switzerland

Raymond MacDonald, Professor of Music Psychology and Improvisation,
University of Edinburgh, Scotland

Max van Manen, Professor Emeritus, University of Alberta, Canada

Lisa Parker, Director, Longy Dalcroze Institute, Longy School of Music
of Bard College, USA



Call for proposals

We welcome presentations on improvisation, as it relates to Dalcroze
Eurhythmics and music, movement and the mindful body more broadly. We
embrace a wide range of disciplines and areas, and invite
practitioners and researchers to share their knowledge, experience and
scholarship on this theme. Conference topics include, but are not
limited to:



Music-movement improvisation

Descriptions and theories of improvisation

Improvisation and embodiment

Improvisation in culture and improvisation as culture

Improvisation as social relationship or dialogue

Improvisation as process, as product, as means

Interdisciplinary and intermedial approaches to improvisation

Teaching improvisation

The role of improvisation in pedagogy, performance, therapy and research

Teaching as an improvisational practice

Assessing and evaluating improvisation

Developing curricula and educational material on improvisation

Improvisation and the professional development of teachers

The interaction of technology and improvisation

Improvisation and wellbeing

Personal and social development through improvisation

Improvisation and ethics (empowerment, social justice)

Improvisation and community

The historical development and transmission of improvisational
practice in Dalcroze Eurhythmics and related fields



Types of presentation

Paper, workshop, symposium, roundtable, informal daytime performance,
evening performance, poster, presentation to host ICDS5 in 2021



Deadline

Submit your proposal at www.dalcroze-studies.com by Sunday 27 November
2016 23:59 (BST)

Job opportunity: University of Hull, Research Assistant (Music)

The School of Arts at the University of Hull is advertising for a
Research Assistant in the Music subject area as part of an externally
funded research project during the Hull City of Culture year in 2017.
The school has recently benefited from a multi-million pound
investment into facilities that include a refreshed concert hall,
practice rooms, and new industry standard music studios, all in
preparation for City of Culture. This role has been created to
evaluate the New Music Biennial and supporting residencies and school
workshops and is funded by the Paul Hamlyn Foundation, via The
Performing Rights Society Foundation in association with Sound and
Music.

The post is for a Research Assistant at band 6 for 14 months and is
part-time (0.5 of full time). The successful applicant will either
have completed or be near to completing a PhD in either Music
Education or Music Psychology; full details can be found on the job
description.

To discuss this role informally, please contact Dr Andrew King, Tel:
01482 465370, a.king@hull.ac.uk

More details can be found here:

https://jobs.hull.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx?ref=FA0201

SIMMposium2 2017

SIMM-POSIUM: 2nd Research Symposium on Social Impact of Making Music (SIMM) 2017

Guildhall School of Music & Drama, London, 8-9 July, 2017

Closing date for proposals and expressions of interest: 15 February, 2017

This symposium will bring together researchers, practitioners
interested in research, and policymakers concerned with social
welfare, to build and strengthen a network of professionals wishing to
deepen rigorous and evidence-based understanding of how active
participatory music making may be used to bring measurable social
benefits to groups of individuals in diverse situations.

This network is one strand of activity of the newly formed
International Centre for Social Impact of Making Music, directed from
the University of Ghent, Belgium, but intended to involve
institutional partners in various countries, which will support a
programme of collaborative research training and development under the
guidance of international experts in the field.

In order to preserve a lively and fully participatory dialogue, the
number of participants will be restricted to 60, based on written
expressions of interest. There will be provision in the programme for
up to 30 brief (10-15 minute) presentations of research or
research-related work in progress (or critical reflections on
research), which will be curated into thematic panels of four to five
presentations followed by a plenary discussion.

Presentations on any aspect of making music's social impact will be
welcome, but we hope to include sessions on the following topics:

- Making music in the complex social ecology of the metropolis:
opportunities and challenges for London and other mega-cities
- Experiences from the global south: impact of context and culture
- The role of conservatoires and other higher education institutions
in delivering social impact of making music

A keynote address will be given by Samuel Araujo, Ethnomusicology
Laboratory, Federal University of Rio De Janeiro.

The programme will be overseen by a scientific committee whose members are:

Geoffrey Baker Royal Holloway / Institute of Musical Research
Susan Hallam UCL Institute of Education
Jennie Henley Royal College of Music
Francois Matarasso Writer and Researcher
Lukas Pairon SIMM Centre, University of Gent
John Sloboda Guildhall School of Music & Drama

For further details about submission and registration, please go to

http://www.gsmd.ac.uk/about_the_school/research/whats_on/simm_posium_2017/

Fwd: [FREE London talk] The Sound of {Music} Computing at QMUL

FREE event aimed at secondary school students (but all welcome!)

Dear colleagues

The IET and QMUL are jointly hosting "The Sound of {Music} Computing"
a Christmas lecture for schools and families to be given by Andrew
McPherson on Thursday 1 December 2016, at the People's Palace, Mile
End. Nearest tube is Stepney Green with 25/205 buses stopping next to
the venue (Mile End station is not far away).

Homepage | Eventbrite tickets (free) | Event flyer (PDF)

Mathematics and computer science are behind today's technological wizardry…

Let Andrew McPherson, both scientist and musician be your guide into
the world where computing and traditional musical instruments collide.

This is a free talk about augmented musical instruments, which use
digital technology to extend the creative possibilities of familiar
musical instruments. Augmented instruments build on centuries-old
designs like the piano and violin, but they also use electronic
sensors, actuators and computers to transform and enhance the sound of
the instrument as it is played. For example, we could build a piano
which can sustain forever and play vibratos and pitch bends like a
violin, or we could make an electronic violin that always stays in
tune no matter where you place your fingers.

This special one-off Christmas event – co-hosted by the School of
Electronic Engineering and Computer Science at Queen Mary, and The
Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) – will be a fun-filled
evening full of surprises.

The evening is aimed at secondary school aged students, but with
surprises to be unveiled for both adults and young people alike. All
are welcome so if you have a curious mind, book your (free) tickets
below quickly as places are vanishing fast!

Programme:

17:00 Registration
17:15 Seating
17:30 Start of lecture
18:30 Drinks and mince pies
19:00 Close

Best wishes,
Jo