The UCL Chamber Music Club are raising funds to replace the CMC practice room piano - and have a target of raising £3,000 by the end of March - please give generously! Thank you.
Friday, January 31, 2020
Wednesday, January 29, 2020
brain matter documentary
Dearest Friends,
We are thrilled to announce our Global Launch and kindly ask you to join us in getting the word of our free release and petition out into the world.
- Sign and share this petition: https://www.change.org/brainmatters
- Please watch, like, comment and share the film: http://bit.ly/WatchBrainMatters
To make it easy, we've prepared social media banners and flyers you can use:
https://drive.google.com/drive/u/0/folders/1YRNNkYLnb9qj6uzlPAT5KNibJw4Ec6Ld
Our recommended hashtags are: #firstyearsfirst #investingearlymatters #brainmattersfilm
For those who have already seen the film, we suggest you hit PLAY, let it run for 5 -10 seconds and then Like, Comment and Share the film.
Please remember that in "Settings", you can select any of the following subtitles: Arabic, Chinese (Mandarin), French, German, Russian and Spanish.
You can also share this information via email and/or publish it on your blog or newsletter.
If you need this information in Spanish or are part of an organization that cannot sign a change.org petition, please let me know. I'd be happy to send specific images and messaging for them as they can still help by sharing the film.
Thank you very much for your time and support!
Like a strong and healthy brain, it's best when all parts work together.
We could not do it without you!
All our best,
Brain Matters Team
Wednesday, January 22, 2020
Fwd: [DMRN-LIST] NIME 2020: Final Call
FINAL CALL FOR PARTICIPIATION: New Interfaces for Musical Expression 2020, Royal Birmingham Conservatoire, UK. DEADLINE FRIDAY 24TH JANUARY
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We would like to invite you to be part of NIME 2020 – The International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression. We welcome submissions of original research, both scientific and artistic. A non-exhaustive list of NIME-related topics is found below.
Topics
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Original contributions are encouraged in, but not limited to, the following topics:
Musical interfaces designed by/with disabled/neurodiverse musicians
Musical interfaces in/as education
Increasing musical choices for disabled musicians through new accessible interfaces
Easier/cheaper approaches to the design of bespoke accessible instruments (that can be adapted to a user's requirements), in a world dominated by mass production
Strategies that improve the reach and replicability of one-off accessible instrument projects, particularly those that are unlikely to have full commercial potential
Musical interfaces tailored to formally trained musicians
Novel controllers, interfaces or instruments for musical expression
Augmented, embedded and hyper instruments
Technologies or systems for collaborative music-making
Mobile music-making
Music-related human-computer interaction and mapping strategies
Sensor and actuator technologies, including haptics and force feedback devices
Explorations of relationships between motion, gesture and music
Evaluation and user studies of new interfaces for musical expression or commercially available "off the shelf" interfaces
Musical robotics
Interactive sound art and installations
Performance rendering and generative algorithms
Machine learning in musical performance
Artificial intelligence and new interfaces for musical expression
Web-based and/or telematic music performance
Software frameworks, interface protocols, and data formats, for supporting musical interaction
Historical, theoretical or philosophical discussions about designing or performing with new interfaces
Supporting cultural diversity through musical interfaces
Discussions about the artistic, cultural, and social impact of new interfaces
Pedagogical perspectives or reports on student projects in the framework of NIME-related courses
Practice-based research approaches/methodologies/criticism relating to the use of musical interfaces
Submissions can be made through the NIME submission portal: https://eur01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcmt3.research.microsoft.com%2FNIME2020%2FSubmission%2FIndex&data=02%7C01%7C%7C55f2ba44337449d123d508d79f1faa79%7C1faf88fea9984c5b93c9210a11d9a5c2%7C0%7C0%7C637152830661815398&sdata=sDVolXAY6FeXBgN3RqBgVWbi2Fws6ZnHGGKOuf%2FLzVU%3D&reserved=0
Paper templates can be downloaded from: https://eur01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fnime2020.bcu.ac.uk%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2019%2F12%2FNIME_Submission_Templates.zip&data=02%7C01%7C%7C55f2ba44337449d123d508d79f1faa79%7C1faf88fea9984c5b93c9210a11d9a5c2%7C0%7C0%7C637152830661815398&sdata=E3PVOYKn0ICTcZ7FBaDZj8v9t1CC3pg1f5GmRU0d3dI%3D&reserved=0
Important Dates
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24 January 2020: Paper, Poster, Music, Installation and Workshops submission deadline
31 January 2020: Final submission upload deadline (no extension)
15-22 March 2020: Notification of acceptances/rejections
22 March 2020: Early Bird Registration Opens
10 April 2020: Non-Paper Demo submission deadline
15 April 2020: Camera-ready submission and presenter registration deadline
30 April 2020: Early-bird registration deadline
21 July 2020: Pre-conference workshops
22-24 July 2020: The conference
25 July 2020: The unconference
More information about the conference can be found at nime2020.bcu.ac.uk
NIME 2020 Royal Birmingham Conservatoire Organising Committee
===============================================================================
We would like to invite you to be part of NIME 2020 – The International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression. We welcome submissions of original research, both scientific and artistic. A non-exhaustive list of NIME-related topics is found below.
Topics
---------
Original contributions are encouraged in, but not limited to, the following topics:
Musical interfaces designed by/with disabled/neurodiverse musicians
Musical interfaces in/as education
Increasing musical choices for disabled musicians through new accessible interfaces
Easier/cheaper approaches to the design of bespoke accessible instruments (that can be adapted to a user's requirements), in a world dominated by mass production
Strategies that improve the reach and replicability of one-off accessible instrument projects, particularly those that are unlikely to have full commercial potential
Musical interfaces tailored to formally trained musicians
Novel controllers, interfaces or instruments for musical expression
Augmented, embedded and hyper instruments
Technologies or systems for collaborative music-making
Mobile music-making
Music-related human-computer interaction and mapping strategies
Sensor and actuator technologies, including haptics and force feedback devices
Explorations of relationships between motion, gesture and music
Evaluation and user studies of new interfaces for musical expression or commercially available "off the shelf" interfaces
Musical robotics
Interactive sound art and installations
Performance rendering and generative algorithms
Machine learning in musical performance
Artificial intelligence and new interfaces for musical expression
Web-based and/or telematic music performance
Software frameworks, interface protocols, and data formats, for supporting musical interaction
Historical, theoretical or philosophical discussions about designing or performing with new interfaces
Supporting cultural diversity through musical interfaces
Discussions about the artistic, cultural, and social impact of new interfaces
Pedagogical perspectives or reports on student projects in the framework of NIME-related courses
Practice-based research approaches/methodologies/criticism relating to the use of musical interfaces
Submissions can be made through the NIME submission portal: https://eur01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcmt3.research.microsoft.com%2FNIME2020%2FSubmission%2FIndex&data=02%7C01%7C%7C55f2ba44337449d123d508d79f1faa79%7C1faf88fea9984c5b93c9210a11d9a5c2%7C0%7C0%7C637152830661815398&sdata=sDVolXAY6FeXBgN3RqBgVWbi2Fws6ZnHGGKOuf%2FLzVU%3D&reserved=0
Paper templates can be downloaded from: https://eur01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fnime2020.bcu.ac.uk%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2019%2F12%2FNIME_Submission_Templates.zip&data=02%7C01%7C%7C55f2ba44337449d123d508d79f1faa79%7C1faf88fea9984c5b93c9210a11d9a5c2%7C0%7C0%7C637152830661815398&sdata=E3PVOYKn0ICTcZ7FBaDZj8v9t1CC3pg1f5GmRU0d3dI%3D&reserved=0
Important Dates
---------------------
24 January 2020: Paper, Poster, Music, Installation and Workshops submission deadline
31 January 2020: Final submission upload deadline (no extension)
15-22 March 2020: Notification of acceptances/rejections
22 March 2020: Early Bird Registration Opens
10 April 2020: Non-Paper Demo submission deadline
15 April 2020: Camera-ready submission and presenter registration deadline
30 April 2020: Early-bird registration deadline
21 July 2020: Pre-conference workshops
22-24 July 2020: The conference
25 July 2020: The unconference
More information about the conference can be found at nime2020.bcu.ac.uk
NIME 2020 Royal Birmingham Conservatoire Organising Committee
Wednesday, January 15, 2020
Fwd: One week left: Call for Chapters for Edited Collection on Psychedelic Music
Dear all
I just wanted to highlight that the deadline for chapter proposals for this exciting new edited collection is 24th January (a week on Friday). If you would like to contribute, please see details below.
Many thanks!
Gemma
Dr Gemma Farrell PhD, AFHEA
Associate Researcher
School of Media Film and Music
University of Sussex
Call for Chapters for Edited Collection on Psychedelic Music
This edited collection aims to bring together academic work on all kinds of psychedelic music, whether rock, folk, electronic or pop and would make an important contribution to an emerging field. For the purpose of this collection psychedelic music is conceptualized broadly: it can be music that imparts feelings of disorientation, temporal distortion, sensory overload or shift in perceptual frame, similar to those experienced with the use of psychoactive substances; music composed for the specific purpose of facilitating altered states; it can also be any music which accompanies and complements psychoactive substance use, whether widely considered psychedelic, or not.
Chapter proposals are welcome from researchers in any field; topics of interest may include:
§ Psychedelic music (of any genre) and the psychedelic experience
§ Psychoactive substances and their entanglement with musical genres
§ Altered states (whether reached by psychoactive substances or other means) and psychedelic music and/or sound
§ Electronic dance music and psychedelic experience
§ Contemporary folk music or non-Western music and altered/psychedelic states
§ The embodied experience of psychedelic music
§ Music festivals and the psychedelic experience
§ Psychedelic substances and the composition, perception and/or appreciation of music
§ Music cultures and the prohibition of psychoactive substances
§ New methodologies/directions in the research of psychedelic music
§ Other related topics: this is not a definitive list.
If you would like to contribute, please send a chapter proposal of around 300 words accompanied by a short bio, to G.L.Farrell@sussex.ac.uk by 24th of January 2020. Please indicate the basic structure and features of the chapter (e.g., introduction, argument summary, case studies, etc.). Authors of accepted proposals will be notified by 28th February 2020. A proposal will be made to the Ashgate Popular and Folk Music Series and if successful, full chapter drafts of 6000-8000 words will be due by 30 September 2020.
Kind regards,
Gemma
Dr Gemma Farrell PhD, AFHEA
Associate Researcher
School of Media Film and Music
University of Sussex
Thursday, January 9, 2020
Fwd: call for papers and music
2020 Joint Conference on AI Music Creativity (CSMC + MuMe)
Oct 22-24 @ KTH and KMH, Stockholm, Sweden.
The 2020 Joint Conference on AI Music Creativity brings together for the first time two overlapping but distinct research forums: The Computer Simulation of Music Creativity conference (est. 2016), and The International Workshop on Musical Metacreation (est. 2012). The principal goal is to bring together scholars and artists interested in the virtual emulation of musical creativity and its use for music creation, and to provide an interdisciplinary platform to promote, present and discuss their work in scientific and artistic contexts.
The three day program will feature two keynotes, several research paper presentations, discussion panels, and two concerts.
Keynote lectures will be delivered by Professor Emeritus Dr. Johan Sundberg (Speech, Music and Hearing, KTH) and Dr. Alice Eldridge (Music, Sussex University, UK).
Important dates
Paper submission deadline: 14 August 2020
Music submission deadline: 14 August 2020
Paper notification date: 18 September 2020
Music notification date: 18 September 2020
Camera-ready paper version: 2 October 2020
Conference dates: 22-24 October, 2020
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Dr. Oded Ben-Tal
Senior Lecturer, Music Technology
Kingston University
http://obental.wixsite.com/main
http://soundcloud.com/odedbental
Tuesday, January 7, 2020
Fwd: Kent Embodied Research Collective launch event - Feb 4
Kent Embodied Research Collective launch event
What I Mean When I Talk About Embodied Research
Tuesday Feb 4, 17:00-19:00
Forrest Studio, Eliot College, University of Kent
Join KERC members at our inaugural roundtable event as we share research perspectives and practices from across the disciplines. Meet and network with others at the reception to follow.
Confirmed participants:
Boyd Branch (Engineering)
Dr Amir-Homayoun Javadi (Psychology)
Dr Rocio von Jungenfeld (Digital Media)
Dr Sweta Rajan-Rankin (Social Work)
Prof Nicki Shaughnessy (Drama & Theatre)
Amelia Turrell (Psychology)
Dr Freya Vass-Rhee (Dance/Drama & Theatre, Chair)
The Kent Embodied Research Collective (KERC) draws together researchers from across the disciplines with interests in embodied ways of knowing and learning. We believe that the visceral-intellectual nature of embodied research offers enhanced means to approach knowledge acquisition and generation, while simultaneously questioning the ingrained dichotomies of body/mind and theory/practice. Our approaches range across historical, anthropological, cultural, political, psychological, technological, artistic, and spatial/ecological areas of inquiry. By bringing these into dialogue with one another and with extant research in phenomenology, philosophy, cultural and cognitive studies, somatic and artistic approaches, critical theories of the body, and other areas, we aim to ask and answer new questions and to develop innovative research methods and pedagogies.
This event is free. Please register at
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/kent-embodied-research-collective-launch-event-what-i-mean-when-i-talk-about-embodied-research-tickets-88571161729
Email contact: f.vass-rhee@kent.ac.uk
KERC blog: https://blogs.kent.ac.uk/kerc/
Monday, January 6, 2020
[London] Family friendly science & music event from School of Noise at Cafe Oto
Happy New Year list :)
This Sunday 12th Jan (2pm - 4.30pm) there's a School of Noise event (SoN run experimental sound workshops for children and young people) at Cafe Oto to celebrate their 5th birthday. Prof Sophie Scott is giving a talk, Sarah Angliss is doing a musical set and there'll be scientific and musical equipment to play on (including Sarah's theremin which people can use with headphones as inexperienced thereminists are fairly unmelodious) and Jarvis Cocker will be DJing.
It's a family-friendly event and tickets are £10 in advance or £12 on the door (£8 members).
@SchoolOfNoise's tweet, the page on their website and the page on Cafe Oto's site (where you can get tickets).
Best wishes
Jo
This Sunday 12th Jan (2pm - 4.30pm) there's a School of Noise event (SoN run experimental sound workshops for children and young people) at Cafe Oto to celebrate their 5th birthday. Prof Sophie Scott is giving a talk, Sarah Angliss is doing a musical set and there'll be scientific and musical equipment to play on (including Sarah's theremin which people can use with headphones as inexperienced thereminists are fairly unmelodious) and Jarvis Cocker will be DJing.
It's a family-friendly event and tickets are £10 in advance or £12 on the door (£8 members).
@SchoolOfNoise's tweet, the page on their website and the page on Cafe Oto's site (where you can get tickets).
Best wishes
Jo
--
I work on Monday and Tuesday.
I work on Monday and Tuesday.
Jo Brodie
Public Engagement Co-ordinator, CS4FN (QMUL, EECS)
- supporting computing teachers in London through CS4FN and Teaching London Computing resources
CogSci
School of Electronic Engineering and Computer Science
Queen Mary University of London
10 Godward Square
E1 1FZ
j.brodie@qmul.ac.uk
https://www.qmul.ac.uk/
Call for Proposals - Midlands New Music Symposium (May 8-9)
Midlands New Music Symposium - Call for Proposals
Midlands New Music Symposium (May 8-9), University of Nottingham
Deadline for the Call for Proposals will be Sunday 8th March, 2020 (23.59 GMT).
Details of the call and how to submit can be found here: http://symposium.nottfar.org.uk
Keynote Speaker: Simon Emmerson
Nottingham Forum for Artistic Research (NottFAR) are delighted to announce a Call for Proposals for the inaugural Midlands New Music Symposium (May 8-9) and accompanying Nottingham New Music Weekend (May 7-10).
The symposium seeks to explore and celebrate the diversity of current contemporary music and creative sound practices in the fields of composition, performance, and technology. The two-day symposium will include a series of presentations, lecture-recitals, discussions, workshops, and concerts.
The symposium themes are open to let practitioners and scholars set the agenda. As such, the committee invites a broad range of proposals (outlined below) from individuals in and outside of academia. Moreover, we welcome submissions that engage with the Nottingham New Music Weekend theme of Deep Sounds, namely works for low pitched instruments and/or electronics.
Proposal formats:
- Papers (20 minutes)
- Presentations (10 minutes)
- Demonstrations (up to 20 minutes)
- Compositions (up to 10 minutes) for solo flute, clarinet, trombone, double bass as well as electroacoustic/acousmatic works that will be performed as part of the New Music Weekend.
- Sound Installations (up to 20 minutes)
- Workshops (up to 60 minutes)
- Short recitals (15 minutes)
- Lecture-recitals (30 minutes)
Details on the call and how to submit can be found here: http://symposium.nottfar.org.uk
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