Fwd: DEADLINE EXTENSION: 1st Conference on Computer Simulation of Musical Creativity, Univ. of Huddersfield, June 2016

1st Conference on Computer Simulation of Musical Creativity

Complete CfP: https://csmc2016.wordpress.com/call-for-papers/
Deadline for paper submission: 22 March 2016
17-19 June 2016
University of Huddersfield, UK
Keynote speakers: Prof. Graeme Bailey (Cornell University), Prof. Geraint Wiggins (Queen Mary University of London)

Due to the large number of requests the programme committee has decided to extend the submission deadline until the 22nd of March.

Computational simulation of musical creativity is an emerging, exciting and significant area of research. In the last few years, numerous systems that compose, improvise and perform music have been developed. These systems pose several theoretical and technical challenges, and are the result of an interdisciplinary effort that encompasses the domains of  music, artificial intelligence, cognitive science and philosophy.

The main goal of this conference is to bring together scholars from different backgrounds, interested in virtual emulation of musical creativity, providing an interdisciplinary platform to promote, present and discuss their work.

Submissions can cover both theoretical and/or practical aspects of computer simulation of musical creativity. Interdisciplinary proposals at the intersection of music, computer science, psychology and philosophy are welcome.

Fwd: Musedelica: First symposium on psychedelic music - Final Call for Proposals

www.musedelica.co.uk

This the final call for an exciting new symposium taking place here at
Sussex this summer. The symposium is interdisciplinary and may be of
particular interest to those involved in music, psychology, sociology,
neuropharmacology, cultural studies, anthropology and other related
disciplines. The deadline to submit proposals is March 15th, 2016.

Best regards

Gemma Farrell

Musedelica: First symposium on psychedelic music
Call for Proposals:

The first Musedelica symposium will be held June 14-15th, 2016 at the
Sussex Humanities Lab, University of Sussex, Brighton, UK. The
symposium will bring together students, early career researchers,
independent researchers and music producers from the field of
psychedelic music and related areas.
The symposium focusses on psychedelic music, especially (but not
limited to) electronic dance music and other fields related to
psychedelic drugs and music. Proposals are welcome from researchers in
any field; see the list of topics below for more details.
In addition to giving students and early career researchers the chance
to present their research in an intimate and friendly academic
setting, Musedelica will bring together researchers from a range of
fields, facilitate the sharing and synthesis of new ideas, and help to
shape an exciting and interdisciplinary field of research.

The deadline to submit proposals is March 15th, 2016
(Notification of acceptance by March 31st, 2016)
To submit your proposal, please visit www.musedelica.co.uk and click
on 'submit proposal' at the top right corner of the page or email as
an attached document to G.L.Farrell@sussex.ac.uk. Proposals should be
around 300-500 words.

Presentations
20-30 mins. We are interested in submissions that address the topics
listed below. Proposals should outline how the work relates to one or
more of the conference themes. Please also provide a 150-word
(maximum) biography.

Performances/Demonstrations
10-20 mins. This could be a performance of a piece of psychedelic
music, perhaps incorporating a short talk about its psychedelic or
trance state-inducing elements. A demonstration of your composition
practice or performance practice would also be of interest. Proposals
should outline how the work relates to one or more of the conference
themes and should comprise: A description of the work (including
duration), 150-word (maximum) biography and a technical rider
(technical specifications of the venue are available on request).

Topics of interest
 Electronic dance music, the psychedelic experience and/or trance state
 Psychedelic music (of any genre) and the psychedelic experience
and/or trance state
 The embodied experience of composing, appreciating and/or dancing
to psychedelic music
 Music festivals and the psychedelic experience, including issues
surrounding well-being and harm reduction
 Psychedelic substances and the composition, perception and/or
appreciation of music
 Dancing and the trance state and/or psychedelic experience
 Music cultures and the psychedelic experience and/or trance state
 Music cultures and the prohibition of recreational drugs
 The process, practice and/or experience of composing psychedelic music.
 New methodologies/directions in the research of psychedelic music
 Other related topics: this is not a definitive list, so please
contact me with ideas.

Funding is being sought and I will know whether this has been
successful towards the end of March. If funding is obtained, the
symposium will be free of charge and participants will just need to
obtain funding from their own institution to cover the cost of travel
and accommodation. If the symposium does not attract funding, the cost
of registration will be around £40.
I look forward to receiving your proposal!

Fwd: FINAL REMINDER CFP: 1st Conference on Computer Simulation of Musical Creativity, Univ. of Huddersfield, June 2016

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

1st Conference on Computer Simulation of Musical Creativity

Complete CfP:https://csmc2016.wordpress.com/call-for-papers/
Deadline for paper submission: 15 March 2016
17-19 June 2016
University of Huddersfield, UK
Keynote speakers: Prof. Graeme Bailey (Cornell University), Prof. Geraint Wiggins (Queen Mary University of London)

Computational simulation of musical creativity is an emerging, exciting and significant area of research. In the last few years, numerous systems that compose, improvise and perform music have been developed. These systems pose several theoretical and technical challenges, and are the result of an interdisciplinary effort that encompasses the domains of  music, artificial intelligence, cognitive science and philosophy.

The main goal of this conference is to bring together scholars from different backgrounds, interested in virtual emulation of musical creativity, providing an interdisciplinary platform to promote, present and discuss their work.

Submissions can cover both theoretical and/or practical aspects of computer simulation of musical creativity. Interdisciplinary proposals at the intersection of music, computer science, psychology and philosophy are welcome.

Further information can be found on the conference website:

https://csmc2016.wordpress.com/

Fwd: FW: SIG NOTICE: Distinguished Lecture Series 2016

 

 IMR Distinguished Lecture Series 2016

 

Musical encounters: Studies in relational musicology

 

Nicholas Cook FBA

1684 Professor of Music, University of Cambridge

British Academy Wolfson Research Professor 2014-2017

 

May 12th, 19th, 26th, June 2nd

Senate Room, Senate House, University of London, 5.30-7pm

 

This lecture series borrows its title from Nicolas Bourriaud's 'relational aesthetics', the idea that some forms of art are best understood in terms of the social relationships they forge between its spectators. I see this idea as applicable to music in general, and understand such relationships as encompassing all musical events, whether face-to-face or distributed in time and space. Beginning with what I call the relational practices of music—such as its role in therapy and conflict transformation—I explore how music conditions social relationships and affords constructions of identity, in both historical and contemporary contexts and in both the real and virtual worlds. Particular areas that I explore from a relational perspective include cross-cultural interaction, examining ideas of encounter and influence from the Hindostannie air to Debussy and the gamelan; creativity, long thought of as an individual faculty but better understood as social process, whether in the real-time interactions of group performance or the symbolic interactions of compositional imagination; and the world of the Viennese classics, interpreted not in terms of the retrospective construction of individual subjectivity that gave rise to musicology as we know it, but rather from a social and relational perspective that renders even the most familiar of music unfamiliar.

 

May 12: 'Socialities'

 

May 19: 'Influences'

 

May 26: 'Creativities'

 

June 2: 'Classics'

 

 

Attendance by (free) registration only. Early registration is advised, as space is limited. Please go to https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/imr-distinguished-lecture-series-2016-tickets-22450510080.

 

In association with the School of Advanced Study.

 

 

Seminars for Research Students with Professor Nicholas Cook

 

Room 261, Senate House, 3-4.30pm

 

The lectures on May 19th, 26th, and June 2nd will be preceded by research seminars with Professor Cook. For further details, please follow the link below.

 

Research students wishing to participate are asked to sign up on a separate event/registration page, which can be accessed here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/imr-distinguished-lecture-series-2016-research-student-seminars-tickets-22492517726 

 

 

Institute of Musical Research

Senate House

Malet Street

London WC1E 7HU

E: imr@rhul.ac.uk

W: www.the-imr.uk

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Fwd: Call for Proposal, CDIME 2017

CDIME 2017 - Promoting Music Education in Nepal

First Call for Proposals

Cultural Diversity in Music Education International Conference (CDIME XIII)

March 29 - April 1st, Annapurna Hotel, Kathmandu, Nepal

The Cultural Diversity in Music Education (CDIME) conference has provided a platform for the exchange of practices, experiences, research and philosophies on cultural diversity in music education since 1992. In 2017, the CDIME XIII international conference will be held in Kathmandu, Nepal, jointly convened by the Nepal Music Center and the Sibelius Academy of the University of the Arts Helsinki, Finland. As the first music education conference to be held in Nepal, CDIME XIII will be a historic event. With various musics holding such important, and different roles in Nepali society, the context of the conference will set the stage for scholars to extend interdisciplinary discussions of music education and cultural diversity to new contexts, to critically attend to challenges and complexities at both local and global levels, and to envision new possibilities for music education in the future.

The conference will address various issues relevant to cultural diversity in music education. Contributions are sought from scholars, researchers and postgraduate students representing the fields of music education and related disciplines; musicians, music teachers, policymakers and practitioners; and those working for local, national or transnational music-related agencies with the aim of fostering cultural diversity.

Proposals for papers, symposia, performances, demonstrations and workshops are invited in line with one of the following strands:

1. What approaches can be developed in higher music education contexts to address the challenges that accompany change and cultural diversity?
2. In what ways do multi/intercultural practices of music education intersect with understandings of spirituality, class or gender? How are these interactions navigated by teachers and students in specific educational contexts?
3. What are the benefits and challenges of music education approaches that involve teachers and/or students crossing cultural and musical boundaries?
4. What role does new or social media play in the preservation, transmission or continuing development of traditional cultures?
5. How are specific decolonization processes or strategies employed in preventing internal and/or external colonialism in music education?
6. What is the relationship between governmental, institutional or local fundraising programmes and the valuing and sustainability of cultural diversity in music education?
7. In what ways do global policies (such as those by UNESCO) frame or limit the possibilities for sustaining diverse musical traditions on a local, practical level?
8. Other issues or practical examples relating to cultural diversity in music education.

Criteria for acceptance of paper presentations will be based on peer review of submitted abstracts. Abstracts of approximately 400 words should be written in English, clearly identifying the strand that your proposal aligns with. Proposals for performances, demonstrations and workshops will be assessed on the basis of quality, engagement and relevance to the strands. Conference presenters will be invited to submit their revised manuscripts for an anthology to be published after the conference.

Conference review committee:

Associate Prof. Eva Saether (Malmö Academy, Sweden)

Associate Prof. Kathryn Marsh (University of Sydney, Australia)

Dr. Alexis Kallio (Sibelius Academy, University of the Arts Helsinki, Finland)

Principal Iman Bikram Shah (Nepal Music Center, Nepal)

Conference site organizing committee:

Santosh Sharma (Nepal Music Center)

Iman Bikram Shah (Nepal Music center)

Stuti Sharma (Nepal Music Center)

Bijeta Pradhan (Nepal Music Center)

Rizu Tuladhar (Nepal Music Center)

John Shrestha ( Nepal Music Center)

Kushal Karki (Nepal Music Center)

Heidi Westerlund (University of the Arts Helsinki, Sibelius Academy)

Please submit your abstracts through the homepage in the CDIME XIII website by July 15, 2016 Conference website: 

http://www.nepalmusiccenter.com/cdime-home.html

For further details please contact: Stuti Sharma in sttuti.shr@gmail.com

Conference address: Annapurna Hotel,

Durbar Marg 44600, P.O Box 140

Kathmandu, Nepal

Email: info@annapurna.com.np Web: www.annapurna-hotel.com.np

Stuti Sharma

Nepal Music Center Trust

Tel: (977 1)4465463 

Email: nmc@nepalmusiccenter.com

Web: www.nepalmusiccenter.com

Fwd: FW: 12th International Voice Symposium Salzburg "Brain & Voice"

12th International Voice Symposium Salzburg „Brain & Voice"
2nd Announcement

Dr. Josef Schlömicher-Thier und Dr. Matthias Weikert
Voice Symposium 2014

We are pleased to welcome and inform you
about the 12th Voice Symposium in Salzburg under the title

„Brain & Voice"
Friday, 26th of August to Sunday, 28th of August

 

Attached you can find our latest flyer and the temporary program.

For further information or registration refer to www.voicesymposium.com
or just send an Email to voicesymposium@sbg.at.

We are happy to see you in Salzburg in 2016.
For the AVI (Austrian Voice Institute)
Dr. Josef Schlömicher-Thier

 

Fwd: Musedelica: First symposium on psychedelic music - Call for Proposals

The first Musedelica symposium will be held June 14-15th, 2016 at the Sussex Humanities Lab, University of Sussex, Brighton, UK. The symposium will bring together students, early career researchers, independent researchers and music producers from the field of psychedelic music and related areas.
The symposium focusses on psychedelic music, especially (but not limited to) electronic dance music and other fields related to psychedelic drugs and music. Proposals are welcome from researchers in any field; see the list of topics below for more details.
In addition to giving students and early career researchers the chance to present their research in an intimate and friendly academic setting, Musedelica will bring together researchers from a range of fields, facilitate the sharing and synthesis of new ideas, and help to shape an exciting and  interdisciplinary field of research.

The deadline to submit proposals is March 15th, 2016
(Notification of acceptance by March 31st, 2016)
To submit your proposal, please visit www.musedelica.co.uk and click on 'submit proposal' at the top right corner of the page or email as an attached document to G.L.Farrell@sussex.ac.uk. Proposals should be around 300-500 words.

Presentations
20-30 mins. We are interested in submissions that address the topics listed below. Proposals should outline how the work relates to one or more of the conference themes.  Please also provide a 150-word (maximum) biography.

Performances/Demonstrations
10-20 mins. This could be a performance of a piece of psychedelic music, perhaps incorporating a short talk about its psychedelic or trance state-inducing elements. A demonstration of your composition practice or performance practice would also be of interest. Proposals should outline how the work relates to one or more of the conference themes and should comprise: A description of the work (including duration), 150-word (maximum) biography and a technical rider (technical specifications of the venue are available on request).

Topics of interest
    Electronic dance music, the psychedelic experience and/or trance state
    Psychedelic music (of any genre) and the psychedelic experience and/or trance state
    The embodied experience of composing, appreciating and/or dancing to psychedelic music
    Music festivals and the psychedelic experience, including issues surrounding well-being and harm reduction
    Psychedelic substances and the composition, perception and/or appreciation of music
    Dancing and the trance state and/or psychedelic experience
    Music cultures and the psychedelic experience and/or trance state
    Music cultures and the prohibition of recreational drugs
    The process, practice and/or experience of composing psychedelic music.
    New methodologies/directions in the research of psychedelic music
    Other related topics: this is not a definitive list, so please contact me with ideas.

Funding is being sought and I will know whether this has been successful in March. If funding is obtained, the symposium will be free of charge and participants will just need to obtain funding from their own institution to cover the cost of travel and accommodation. If the symposium does not attract funding, the cost of registration will be around £40.
I look forward to receiving your proposal!

Best regards

Gemma Farrell