Friday, March 31, 2017

Fwd: Extended deadline 6 April - sIREN Conference Arts and Digital Practices

EXTENDED DEADLINE CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS: 6 APRIL

sIREN Conference 2017: Arts and Digital Practices

ECA – Edinburgh College of Art, Scotland, 30 – 31 May 2017

sIREN 'Arts and Digital Practices' Conference will explore digital practices and their social impact in contemporary artistic contexts. It seeks to create an interdisciplinary platform of communication among artistic practices, technologies, theory, artistic collaboration and digital media.

This conference will provide an arena for academics across disciplines for extending the debate of interdisciplinary practices and their appropriate methods as well as their potential. We welcome and encourage proposals for papers across a wide range of related subject areas – such as fine and digital media art, architectural design, music and sound studies, geography, anthropology, cultural and film studies. The themes of the conference are:

The intersection of art and science
Digital arts and urbanism
Data analysis in art practice
Computation and creative processes

Keynotes:

Celia Lury (Director of Centre for Interdisciplinary Methodologies, University of Warwick)
Nicolas Donin (IRCAM, Paris)
Peter Sinclair (Locus Sonus Sound Lab)
Jen Southern (CeMoRe, Lancaster University)

Workshops:

Trevor Wishart (Institute of Sonology) "Sound Loom / Composers Desktop Project" software tools for (non-realtime) sound sculpting.
Kristina Andersen (STEIM, Amsterdam) "Hypothetical Instruments" building non-functional instruments and other machines for creative expression.
Chris Speed (ECA, Design Informatics) "Re-imagining the city as a value platform" reimagine the city as a platform for smart contracts using GPS and the cryptocurrency Ether.

Deadline:
Please send a 300-word abstract to siren.conference@ed.ac.uk , with subject heading "sIREN Conference 2017: Arts & Digital Practices", by April 6th 2017.

Academic committee: Prof Richard Coyne, Prof Chris Speed, Prof Peter Nelson, Dr Jules Rawlinson, Dr Martin Parker, Dr Owen Green, Mr Yati Durant

For more information please visit http://www.siren.eca.ed.ac.uk/conference-2017/

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Wednesday, March 29, 2017

‘World class’ orchestra to open its own state free school

source: https://inews.co.uk/essentials/news/education/pupils-reading-ages-plummet-secondary-school/

The Halle orchestra is planning on opening its own free school

Richard Vaughan 1 month Thursday February 23rd 2017

Manchester's symphony orchestra, the Hallé, is to become the first in the world to open and run its own state music school, it has emerged.

The ensemble is planning on opening the Hallé Music Free School in Stoke on Trent that will cater for pupils aged between seven and 19.

The orchestra has partnered with a local academy sponsor, The City Learning Trust, and will expect students to spend at least 40 per cent of their time taking "specialist masterclasses" in music and singing.

Music at the heart

The school will benefit from classes delivered by members of the Hallé orchestra, as well as having a rotating "musician in residence", a feature more generally seen as a preserve for well-heeled private schools.

John Summers, Chief Executive of the Hallé, said the aim of the school was to try and place music and the arts at the very heart of what students do, alongside traditional academic studies.

"Everybody at the school will sing and play an instrument and that includes the teachers," Mr Summers said. "When I was at school at a grammar school music was a central part of what we did, and you often find that pupils who progress well in the arts and creative subjects, do well in other academic studies."

Mr Summers added that the 40 per cent of students' time spent on music and singing, would include extra-curricular lessons in learning an instrument, but added that "pupils would be likely to have a longer day".

It is hoped that students that have a serious ability in music will continue to study through sixth form, but all pupils will be encouraged to stay on to take their A-levels at the school.

If approved to open by the Department for Education, the school will follow in the footsteps of the East London Academy of Music, a specialist music free school set up by one half of the DJ duo Chase and Status.

'World class'

Ministers are committed to a target of opening 500 new free schools by 2020, as they look to increase the number of "good" school places in England.

But concerns have been raised about the free schools policy, after the National Audit Office revealed that the Government was spending billions of pounds on the new schools while existing school building were left to deteriorate.

The NAO report showed that the Department for Education was expected to spend around £2.5 billion just to acquire the land to build the new schools, and had already spent £836m on sites in the last five years.

But Carl Ward, chief executive of The City Learning Trust, a sponsor that runs around 10 academies and free schools in the area, said the school, which is aiming to open in 2020, will provide pupils with an opportunity to train with a "world class orchestra".

"The music free school curriculum will focus on skills transfer and career prospects, while stretching our students technical skills and encouraging their creative thinking," he said.

Toby Young, director of free school charity New Schools Network, said the move could lead to more arts-based organisations opening their own schools.

Promoting early bird MERYC17 registration

Dear friends and colleagues,

Please might you help MERYC17 be a wonderfully attended and successful conference. The local organising committee would be most grateful if you could promote the conference and the early bird rate in particular which ends on 31st March - after this the delegate rate rises considerably.

We want people to know about the early bird and to book on asap!

The link to book places is here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/creating-musical-spaces-origins-cultures-and-childhoods-tickets-28657625730

The fantastic conference programme is here: http://meryc.eu/MERYC17_Conference_Programme.pdf

Fwd: 2 opportunités de postdoc, Huddersfield Department of Music

The postdocs are now out, either could be of interest to some of your
finishing or recently graduated PhDs.

As you know the project is called Fluid Corpus Manipulation and has
successfully secured 5 years of ERC funding, which mean I am hiring 2
postdocs for that period. One is a DSP specialist with a strong
interest in FFT-processes, the other is a practice-based researcher in
creative coding, with a strong interest in dissemination.

Research Fellow in Real-Time Computer Music Systems - http://hud.ac/c5n

Research Fellow in Creative Coding Practice in Music - http://hud.ac/c5o

There is a website in progress, it should be live in the next days,
but all info is in the recruitment pack for each post above.

Friday, March 24, 2017

CFP Arts and Digital Practices Conference DEADLINE 30 MARCH

sIREN Conference 2017: Arts and Digital Practices

ECA – Edinburgh College of Art, Scotland

30 – 31 May 2017

Aims/objectives/description:

sIREN 'Art and Digital Practices Conference' will explore digital practices and their social impact in contemporary artistic contexts. It seeks to create an interdisciplinary platform of communication among artistic practices, technologies, theory, artistic collaboration and digital media.

Themes:

The intersection of art and science
Digital arts and urbanism
Data analysis in art practice
Computation and creative processes

Submission deadline: March 30th 2017
You will be notified if your submission has been successful by April 15th 2017

Please send your proposals to: siren.conference@ed.ac.uk

Papers/presentations and conference proceedings will be peer-reviewed and published online with DOIs.

Successful applicants will have the opportunity to attend hands-on workshops. There will also be a closing concert on the 31st.

Confirmed keynote speakers are:

Celia Lury (Director of Centre for Interdisciplinary Methodologies, University of Warwick), Nicolas Donin (IRCAM, Paris), Peter Sinclair (Locus Sonus Sound Lab) and Jen Southern (CeMoRe, Lancaster University).

Confirmed workshop leaders are:

Trevor Wishart (Institute of Sonology), Kristina Andersen (STEIM, Amsterdam) and Chris Speed (ECA, Design Informatics).

Please note that there are no charges for registration and attendance.
Lunch, coffee breaks and a closing drinks reception are included.

Academic committee:

Prof Richard Coyne, Prof Chris Speed, Prof Peter Nelson, Dr Jules Rawlinson, Dr Martin Parker, Dr Owen Green, Mr Yati Durant

Hosted by sIREN (student-led Interdisciplinary REsearch Network) team:
Eleni-Ira Panourgia, Katerina Talianni, Dara Etefaghi, Tina Krekels, Jack Walker, Roxana Karam

For more: http://www.siren.eca.ed.ac.uk/conference-2017/

Fwd: Innovation In Music Conference 2017

Innovation In Music Conference 2017 06 – 08 September 2017 University of Westminster, Regent St, London, UK News:
* Talvin Singh OBE will give a special keynote talk and performance at InMusic 17
* Ken Scott confirmed as a participant on an esteemed Production Panel at InMusic 17
* Registration portal for InMusic 17 is now open http://bit.ly/InMusic17register
* Call for 300-500 word abstracts deadline: 31 March 2017. Other confirmed keynote speakers and panel members include:
* Imogen Heap – Grammy Award winning music artist, producer, engineer and innovator
* Peter Oxendale – Forensic musicologist and expert witness in copyright law
* Mandy Parnell – Grammy Award winning mastering engineer
* Jonathan Bailey – Chief Technical Officer of iZotope Full event details can be found at the conference website: http://www.musicinnovation.co.uk Gold Sponsor: iZotope www.izotope.com

=============== Call for Papers =============== Innovation in Music welcomes academics, creatives, producers, artists, industry professionals, technology developers and equipment manufacturers to come together and submit abstracts for consideration on a wide range of topics including:
* Innovative music creation and performance
* Music technology innovation
* Innovation in music business
* Music production: past, present and future Authors can choose to submit either a Full Paper or a short Abstract. Abstracts of 300 – 500 words will be reviewed for inclusion in the conference programme. After the conference, presenting authors will be given the option to prepare a Full Paper for inclusion in the conference proceedings. Authors may choose to submit a Full Paper of 6000 – 8000 words for the conference. Full Papers will be peer-reviewed by at least two referees. Papers must be of high quality, original, and not published elsewhere or submitted for publication during the review period. Abstracts and Papers should be submitted by 31 March 2017 by email to: submissions@musicinnovation.co.uk Innovation in Music are also welcoming proposals for innovative and interactive demonstrations appropriate to the conference scope. If you are interested in being involved in any way please contact us at the following email address: submissions@musicinnovation.co.uk

================ Conference Scope ================ Conference themes and topics include:
* Music production: past, present and future
* Performance and composition: human and beyond
* Innovation in music business
* Music consumer behaviour: the changing psychology and perceived value of music
* Technologies for remuneration and data management
* Platforms for music sale, streaming and broadcast
* Studio technology innovation
* Innovative music creation and songwriting
* Sound engineering: audio and acoustics
* Mastering commercial music
* Hi-res audio and future music formats
* Piracy in 2017 and beyond
* Post production innovation: plugins, workstations, automated mixing
* Sound design and music for video games
* Knowledge transfer between music industry and academia
* Cross-disciplinary topics around music and innovation

================ Keynote Speakers ================
2017's Keynote speakers include:
* Imogen Heap – Grammy Award winning music artist, producer, engineer and innovator
* Peter Oxendale – Forensic musicologist and expert witness in copyright law
* Mandy Parnell – Grammy Award winning mastering engineer
* Jonathan Bailey – Chief Technical Officer of iZotope Videos of the InMusic 2015 conference keynotes can be found at the Innovation In Music YouTube page: Tim Exile (Music Performance Keynote): https://youtu.be/jp_60_B7pNQ David Wrench (Music Production Keynote): https://youtu.be/mxmzjqTyZkM Peter Jenner (Music Industry Keynote): https://youtu.be/1ihzq1jOedI Mixing-Meets-Mastering Panel Discussion (featuring Mandy Parnell, Simon Gogerly, Gary Bromham, Bryan Martin, Russ Hepworth-Sawyer): https://youtu.be/otb0-4ffwLE
=================== Dates and Deadlines ===================
Submission of abstracts for consideration: Wednesday 31 March 2017 Authors notified if abstract accepted or rejected: Friday 14 April 2017 Programme and all accepted abstracts available on conference website: Monday 08 May 2017 Early registration – Authors expected to have registered and paid by: Friday 02 June 2017 Completed paper submission deadline for inclusion in proceedings: Monday 16 October 2017

=================== Register ===================
The early-bird discount fee is £260 per delegate registering by Friday 2 June 2017 and includes attendance at the conference banquet. From Saturday 3 June 2017, the conference attendance fee will be £295 per delegate. Registration is now open, book your place at http://bit.ly/InMusic17register

======== Location ========
Innovation In Music 2017 is hosted by the University of Westminster at their Regent St campus in Central London. London is at the heart of the UK and Europe's music industry, providing a thriving network of creative artists and technology innovators, as well as being the focal point of the music industry's business economy. Being hosted in London enables some of the world's most innovative individuals and organisations to engage with the conference and share discussions around innovation in music. The opening of Innovation In Music will be held in the historic and beautiful Fyvie Hall, which is part of the University of Westminster. The location for the Conference Banquet is to be confirmed, but will be held close to the Regent's Street campus in Central London. Full venue, accommodation and travel details are available at the Innovation In Music website.

=============== Conference Fees ===============
Conference attendance fees are to be confirmed and the registration portal will go live soon. Early registration fees will be in the region of £250 per delegate, which includes attendance at the conference banquet.

============ Organisation ============
General Conference Chair: Professor Rob Toulson – University of Westminster, UK Co-Chairs and Innovation In Music Steering Committee: Dennis Collopy – University of Hertfordshire, UK Russ Hepworth-Sawyer – MOTTOsound & York St John University, UK Dr Jay Hodgson – Western University, Ontario, Canada Professor Justin Paterson – London College of Music, University of West London, UK

============================ International Programme Committee ============================
Dr Liz Dobson – University of Huddersfield Dr Ruth Dockwray – University of Chester Professor Paul Ferguson – Edinburgh Napier University Sally Gross – University of Westminster Dr Simon Hall – Birmingham City University Dr Kirsten Hermes – University of Westminster Andrew Horsburgh – Southampton Solent University Dr Marion Leonard – University of Liverpool Richard Lightman – University of Kent Dr Mariana Lopez – University of York Kallie Marie – New York University Dr Mark Marrington – York St John University Bryan Martin – McGill University Dr Josh Reiss – Queen Mary University London Professor Robert Sholl – The Royal Academy Professor Darren Sproston – University of Chester Dr Nikos Stavropoulis – Leeds Beckett University Professor Catherine Tackley – University of Liverpool

=================== Further Information ===================
Please visit the conference website for regular updates and conference details as they are confirmed: http://www.musicinnovation.co.uk You can also follow @InMusicConf on Twitter for communications and updates, as well as visit our Facebook page at: https://www.facebook.com/InnovationInMusic To unsubscribe or for any other enquiries please email: info@musicinnovation.co.uk Please feel free to share this Call For Papers with your colleagues and networks.

Monday, March 20, 2017

Fwd: CFP: DataAche - DRHA2017

DATA ACHE

10-13 September 2017

The 21^st annual Digital Research in the Humanities & Arts (DRHA) conference

hosted by The Arts Institute at the University of Plymouth

"We're drowning (not waving) in a sea of data – with data, data everywhere, but not a drop of information." (US National Security Agency Website)

This major international transdisciplinary conference explores the use and misuse of data in the digital arts and humanities: in particular, the material, practical and theoretical challenges imposed by data and the digital turn; and the tensions, difficulties and creative potentials that data provokes.

The conference will explore the bittersweet pain of the scholar in search of absent data, groaning under the weight of vast data-sets or grappling with and cleansing dirty data; the possibilities of networked communities, relationships and identities, mediated through data storage and transmission technologies; the manipulative power to process text and image; the seemingly unlimited opportunities for media and culture made accessible, and sharable, and malleable through its status as data.

We are now accepting proposals for papers, panels, workshops, screenings, performances, installations and roundtables on the theme of DATA ACHE. You can also propose artistic research for a group exhibition in a local gallery open to the public or a performance for our Immersive Vision Theatre.

The conference programme will be organised in 5 distinct strands: Digital arts, design and performance; Digital humanities; Creative and cultural industries; Digital libraries and archives; and Digital cities and urban commons.

As significantly, DATA ACHE will create a space for conversations and collaborations across disciplines. The conference will feature 'long tables', performances, a reception, and a conference meal at the National Marine Aquarium. There will also be a session on multi-media PhD theses, arising from a project hosted by the British Library and EThOS. A selection of papers will be developed into a transdisciplinary collection, edited by the organisers, following the conference.

Conference keynotes:

· Oreet Ashery – interdisciplinary artist and Lecturer in Fine Art (Goldsmiths, University of London), showing and discussing her film work on death, disappearance and digital afterlives

· Tim Davies – co-founder of Open Data Services Co-operative and affiliate of Harvard Berkman Center for Internet and Society, working to secure civic impacts from open data

· Eduardo Reck Miranda – Professor of Computer Music (University of Plymouth) who composes with and for biosensors.

· Jussi Parikka – Professor in Technological Culture & Aesthetics (Winchester School of Art, University of Southampton) whose most recent publications include Digital Contagions: A Media Archaeology of Computer Viruses (2^nd edition) and Across and Beyond – a transmediale Reader on Post-digital Practices, Concepts and Institutions.

· Jane Winters – Professor of Digital Humanities (School of Advanced Study, University of London) who has led a range of projects including Big UK Domain Data for the Arts and Humanities and Born Digital Big Data

Proposals must be emailed to drha2017@gmail.com by 31st March 2017.

Further information about the submission process and general information (including proposal forms, details of studio spaces, etc) can be found at: drha2017.com

Dr Duncan Williams
Research Fellow in Music with Artificial Intelligence

Interdisciplinary Centre for Computer Music Research (ICCMR)
School of Humanities & Performing Arts (Faculty of Arts)
University of Plymouth
Hepworth House 003, Drake Circus
Plymouth, Devon
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Friday, March 17, 2017

Standing Together for the Arts

We learned today that the Trump administration's proposed FY2018 budget eliminates the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA), the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), the Institute for Museum and Library Services (IMLS), the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB), 21st Century Learning Centers, and many other vital federal programs and agencies. While it's important to recognize that this is just the beginning of a long budget negotiation, the National Guild stands together with our members, the arts community, and our cross-sector partners in calling on Congress to maintain funding for arts and culture.

Looking at the NEA, there are innumerable stories of how the agency has both transformed individual lives while creating economic opportunity for all Americans. Through its long-standing support for Guild members—which has far exceeded 1.5 million dollars since May 2016—the NEA has made possible programs that deliver free dance training in the Ferguson School District, trauma therapy to hospital patients, and, ultimately, life-altering creative experiences to hundreds of thousands of Americans. From an economic perspective, the NEA generates more than $600 million annually in additional matching funds and helps to shape a $730 billion arts and culture industry that represents 4.2% of the nation's GDP and supports 4.8 million jobs.

What Can be Done?

Below are just some of the ways that you can take action to defend our country's commitment to arts and culture:

Join the National Guild in attending Arts Advocacy Day, March 20-21 in Washington D.C., and read the Congressional Arts Handbook, which includes comprehensive advocacy resources
Tell your representative to #SavetheNEA through the Voter Voice portal or through the Performing Arts Alliance
Join the National Guild in signing your organization on to the Afterschool Alliance's letter to Congress in support of 21st Century Learning Centers
Learn how to most effectively talk about saving the NEA
Learn about this year's upcoming advocacy opportunities from League of American Orchestras
Use the hashtags #SavetheNEA and #MyNEAStory to build social media momentum

As artists and arts administrators, now is the time to stand together in support of our students, our communities, and our field. We at the National Guild will be standing with you.

Sincerely,

Jonathan Herman | Executive Director
National Guild for Community Arts Education

Copyright © 2017 National Guild for Community Arts Education, All rights reserved.
Learn more about the National Guild at www.nationalguild.org.

Our mailing address is:

National Guild for Community Arts Education

520 8th Ave, Ste. 302

New York, NY 10018

Add us to your address book

Monday, March 13, 2017

World Premiere Beat Boxing without a voice box

World Premiere Beat Boxing without a voice box.

Shout at Cancer and UCL proudly announce the FREE event, featuring MarvRadio (Beatboxer), La Verne Williams (Opera Singer) and our participants who had their voice box surgically removed (Laryngectomy). We will be performing together with a number of young people from East London.

Saturday 8 April 2017, 4-5 pm, Timber Lodge Café – 1A Honour Lea Avenue- Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park, London E20 1DY

the audience ticket booking is now open here:
http://tinyurl.com/jx9sldl

a nice video teaser:
https://vimeo.com/208119035

Fwd: Call for Contributions: Arts and Digital Practices Conference DEADLINE 30 MARCH

sIREN Conference 2017: Arts and Digital Practices

ECA – Edinburgh College of Art, Scotland

30 – 31 May 2017

Aims/objectives/description:

Themes:

The intersection of art and science
Digital arts and urbanism
Data analysis in art practice
Computation and creative processes

Submission deadline: March 30th 2017
You will be notified if your submission has been successful by April 15th 2017

Please send your proposals to: siren.conference@ed.ac.uk

Papers/presentations and conference proceedings will be peer-reviewed and published online with DOIs.

Successful applicants will have the opportunity to attend hands-on workshops. There will also be a closing concert on the 31st.

Confirmed keynote speakers are:

Confirmed workshop leaders are:

Trevor Wishart (Institute of Sonology), Kristina Andersen (STEIM, Amsterdam) and Chris Speed (ECA, Design Informatics).

Please note that there are no charges for registration and attendance.
Lunch, coffee breaks and a closing drinks reception are included.

Academic committee:

Prof Richard Coyne, Prof Chris Speed, Dr Jules Rawlinson, Dr Martin Parker, Dr Owen Green, Mr Yati Durant

Hosted by sIREN (student-led Interdisciplinary REsearch Network) team:
Eleni-Ira Panourgia, Katerina Talianni, Dara Etefaghi, Tina Krekels, Jack Walker, Roxana Karam

For more: http://www.siren.eca.ed.ac.uk/conference-2017/

Wednesday, March 8, 2017

Fwd: SIG: Research Network Administrator, RCM

Research Network Administrator

Job reference number: 500-17

Founded in 1882, the Royal College of Music (RCM) is a world-leading music conservatoire with a prestigious history and contemporary outlook. Our 800 undergraduate and postgraduate students come from over 60 countries and are taught in a dynamic environment, leaving the RCM to become the outstanding performers, conductors and composers of the future. In 2016, the RCM was named by the QS World University Rankings as the top conservatoire in the UK and third in the world for the Performing Arts.

In partnership with the International Centre for Community Music at York St John University, the Royal College of Music has been awarded an AHRC Research Network grant. The purpose of the grant is to establish a new group of scholars engaged in a broad variety of research that focusses on musicians who provide active interventions within the fields of music therapy, community music therapy, community music, music education, music and health, music and wellbeing, and music and rehabilitation. The aim of the Network is to critique the current definitions that steer music interventions through an exploration of a series of research questions in order to foster debate, inspire dialogue and create new discourses surrounding excellence and inclusion within music interventions that can support and inform both research and practice. We are seeking to engage a Research Network Administrator to provide organisational and administrative support to the network convenors, and to curate and monitor participation in the network activities.

· You should be an early career researcher, a recent doctoral graduate or nearing completion of a doctoral degree.

· You will be engaged in scholarship in the fields of Music Education and/or Community Music.

· You should have experience of events organization.

· You should understand the synergies between research and practice within your field of scholarship.

This position is Part Time (0.1FTE) Fixed Term for 18 months available from 01 May 2017.

For further details of this position and to download our Application and Equal Opportunities Monitoring forms please visit the RCM website at http://www.rcm.ac.uk/about/jobs/.

Please send your completed forms to Isabella Enstrom, HR Assistant, Royal College of Music, Prince Consort Road, London, SW7 2BS or by e-mail to: recruitment@rcm.ac.uk. CVs without an application form will not be accepted. Please ensure that you include the Job Reference Number when submitting your application.

Closing date for receipt of applications is 12pm on Friday 17 March 2017.

Interviews will be held on Thursday 23 March 2017.

The Royal College of Music is an equal opportunities employer.

Dr Jennie Henley MMus PhD

Area Leader for Music Education

Royal College of Music

Prince Consort Road

London

SW7 2BS

020 7591 4740

07976 885635

Office hour (Personal Advising): Fridays, 1-2pm

Please note: I work away from the office on a Tuesday and Wednesday. I can be contacted on my mobile number above on those days.

Tuesday, March 7, 2017

Fwd: Digital Humanities at Oxford Summer School: Digital Musicology Workshop

WORKSHOP: INVITATION TO REGISTER AND APPLY FOR BURSARIES

Digital Musicology: Applied computational and informatics methods for
enhancing musicology

<http://www.dhoxss.net/digital-musicology>

Dates: 3–7 July 2017

Registration now open: <http://www.dhoxss.net/register>
until 18 June
Discounted registration ends 30 April

** Deadline for Bursary applications: 31 March **

A wealth of music and music-related information is now available
digitally, offering tantalizing possibilities for digital
musicologies. These resources include large collections of audio and
scores, bibliographic and biographic data, and performance ephemera --
not to mention the 'hidden' existence of these in other digital
content. With such large and wide ranging opportunities come new
challenges in methods, principally in adapting technological solutions
to assist musicologists in identifying, studying, and disseminating
scholarly insights from amongst this 'data deluge'.

This workshop provides an introduction to computational and
informatics methods that can be, and have been, successfully applied
to musicology. Many of these techniques have their foundations in
computer science, library and information science, mathematics and
most recently Music Information Retrieval (MIR); sessions are
delivered by expert practitioners from these fields and presented in
the context of their collaborations with musicologists, and by
musicologists relating their experiences of these multidisciplinary
investigations.

The workshop comprises a series of lectures and hands-on sessions,
supplemented with reports from musicology research
exemplars. Theoretical lectures are paired with practical sessions in
which attendees are guided through their own exploration of the topics
and tools covered. Laptops will be loaned to attendees with the
appropriate specialised software installed and preconfigured.

Participants also attend morning lectures and masterclasses with
participants from other workshops, these sessions cover topics including
using face and pattern recognition on photo archives, computer vision and
machine learning for image collections, researching and teaching the
legislative history of formal negotiations, creative computing and
experimental humanities (Ada Lovelace), and Wikipedia's sister projects
as platforms for Digital Humanities.

There will also be optional evening events (some at additional cost),
including a guided tour of Oxford, an evening drinks and poster session
at the Weston Library, the TORCH lecture, and an evening at Exeter
College. Participants are invited to submit posters for the welcome
reception at the Weston Library by Wednesday 19th April.

Please note that numbers for this workshop are limited, and we cannot
guarantee that places will still be available towards the end of the
registration period.

Summer School site: <http://dhoxss.net>
Contact: <events@oerc.ox.ac.uk>

BURSARIES

The Summer School organisers offer a small number of bursaries for
attendance to students and early-career researchers. One of these is
available specifically for participants in the Digital Musicology
workshop.

The deadline for applications is NOON on Friday 31st March.

Applicants for the bursaries can come from any institution and must
be either :

* a doctoral, MPhil, masters' or undergraduate student in full-time
or part-time education, or

* an early-career researcher in a higher or further education institution
not more than 3 years past receipt of their PhD (i.e. passed the viva
examination in April 2014 or later)

In addition they must:

* Not have already registered for DHOxSS 2017

* Not have received a bursary to attend DHOxSS in previous years

Applicants will be asked to provide:

* Full name, e-mail address and affiliation

* Career stage

* Preferred workshop strand

To assist the selection process, applicants will also be asked for two
short supporting statements (at most 250 words each):

* A short statement of your intended use of digital techniques in your
area of research and the benefits you expect from attending DHOxSS
2017.

* A statement on how you would share what you have learned at the summer
school within your institution or the wider Digital Humanities community
eg a blog, workshop, presentation, report, social media posts or
podcast/video. If you are intending to use social media, please specify
the tools you would use. The Oxford e-Research Centre and DHOxSS will
assist with dissemination to the wider community if you do not have
networks/links already in place.

Preference will be given by the judging panel to applicants who demonstrate
the most benefit from attending and the most effective dissemination methods.

Unsuccessful applicants will be given the opportunity to register for the
conference at a reduced rate.

Applicants will be notified of the judging panel's decision by Thursday 13th
April 2017.

To apply, please visit <http://www.dhoxss.net/bursaries>