Monday, March 16, 2020

Fwd: Valuing and Evaluating Music Performance


 

We regret to announce that the Valuing and Evaluating Music Performance workshop scheduled for 17 – 19 April 2020 in Lugano, Switzerland has been postponed due to the escalating global situation.

 

We aim to host the workshop at a later date in the calendar year. Please watch this space and the workshop website for details of the new date when they become available.

 

With best wishes,

Hubert Eiholzer

Aaron Williamon

Anna Modesti

George Waddell

 

Tuesday, March 10, 2020

Fwd: Midlands New Music Symposium - Call for Proposals (deadline this Sunday 15/03/20)


Hi all, 


Just a quick reminder that the deadline for proposals for the Midlands New Music Symposium is this coming Sunday, 15th March.


Please see below for further information.


Kind regards, 


Duncan. 


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Midlands New Music Symposium - Call for Proposals (presentations; lecture-recitals; recitals; and workshops).

 

Midlands New Music Symposium (May 8-9), University of Nottingham

Deadline for the Proposals: Sunday 15 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 proposals that engage with the Nottingham New Music Weekend theme of Deep Sounds, namely low pitched instruments and/or electronics.

 

Proposal formats:

  • Papers (20 minutes)
  • Presentations (10 minutes)
  • Demonstrations (up to 20 minutes)
  • Workshops (up to 60 minutes)
  • Short recitals (15 minutes)
  • Lecture-recitals (30 minutes)

Details on the call and submission guidelines can be found online at: http://symposium.nottfar.org.uk 


Dr Duncan MacLeod

Assistant Professor of Music Composition


Department of Music, School of Humanities

University of Nottingham

University Park, Nottingham, NG7 2RD

nottingham.ac.uk/music | www.duncanmacleod.org 


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Monday, March 9, 2020

Call for papers for special two-part issue titled Women in Popular Music: Their Musical Education and Pedagogical Inspirations

Journal of Popular Music Education

Call for papers for special two-part issue titled Women in Popular Music: Their Musical Education and Pedagogical Inspirations, in Two Parts: (1) Women in WoPop (World Popular Music) and (2) Women in Popular Music across the Anglosphere

Guest Editor: Patricia Shehan Campbell

 

The aim of this two-part issue is to honor the voices of women in popular music across generations and cultures, their musical journeys from nascent to fully fledged or professional musicians, their ways of learning their craft, and their contributions in inspiring, influencing, and imparting to others the skills for engaging in popular music of various forms. Representations of women in popular music and related industries remain low, and the chronicling of the nature of their expressive practices has been minimal to almost entirely absent in scholarly journals in music and music education. The intent of the collected articles is to open wide issues of gender and inclusion, and to expand the present discourse on teaching and learning popular music by featuring research and scholarship on women in popular music from across different musical genres, performances, and cultural practices.  

 

The special issue will fall into two parts, with scholarly articles on (1) Women in WoPop (World Popular Music)—such as Umm Kulthum, Lila Downs, Teresa Teng, Oumou Sangare, Celia Cruz, Nana Mouskouri, and Sinead O'Connor (and others), and (2) Women in Popular Music across the Anglosphere of English-speaking cultures—such as Patsy (Cline), Aretha, Joni, Selena, Amy (Winehouse), Madonna, Celine, Taylor, and BeyoncĂ© (and others). Articles need not be artist-specific, but may well encompass topics and people who would likely not otherwise feature in the journal; international and cross-generational components are of interest as well. We welcome research and scholarship of various methodological emphases, and which address but are not limited to the following themes:

 (a) women's conceptions of and contributions to popular music within world communities and English-speaking cultures (such as the U.S., the UK, Australia, Canada, and New Zealand);

 (b) musical beginnings and developments of women popular music artists as children-to-youth via popular music experiences in the home/family, in the neighborhood, and via formal training/education;

(c) the nurturing by women popular music artists of a younger generation of aspirants via straight-ahead teaching/coaching and indirect-yet-effective means of motivating young musicians;

(d) the wider scape of women and girls in learning and 'doing' popular music, as aspirants, apprentices, and emerging artists.

 

The Journal of Popular Music Education is a peer-reviewed journal published by Intellect. It seeks to define, delimit, debunk, disseminate, and disrupt practice and discourse in and around popular music education. Popular music education takes place at the intersections of identity realization, learning, teaching, enculturation, entrepreneurship, creativity, a global multimedia industry, and innumerable instances of music making as leisure. Through drawing together diverse, rigorous scholarship concerning learning in, through and about popular music worldwide, JPME seeks to identify, probe and problematize key issues in this vibrant, evolving field. 

 

Scholarship from and across all relevant research methods and disciplines is welcome. Please submit manuscripts of approximately 6,000 words (double-spaced, Times New Roman, font size 12, including references) by December 1, 2020 for the attention of guest editor Patricia Shehan Campbell via the JPME website. Please refer to the Intellect style guide when preparing a submission. Less traditional format submissions are also welcomed for the Practices and Perspectives section of the journal.

Fwd: [DMRN-LIST] Call for Papers - WIMP2020 Workshop on Intelligent Music Production



6th Workshop on Intelligent Music Production Call for Papers

Friday 4th September 2020
Hosted by the Interdisciplinary Centre for Computer Music Research, University of Plymouth.

Venue: Jill Craigie Cinema, Roland Lowinski Building, University of Plymouth, Plymouth, UK
Submission deadline: Friday 17 July 2020
Notification of acceptance: Friday 31 July 2020

The production of music requires creativity, extensive knowledge of audio processing and exceptional listening skills. Many of these complex production processes have rules that could be made more intuitive, or managed by intelligent processes. The aim of the conference is to discover new music production techniques using state-of-the-art practices and techniques.

 

This event will provide an overview of the tools and techniques currently being developed in the field, whilst providing insight for audio engineers, producers and musicians looking to gain access to new technologies. The day will consist of presentations from leading academics, keynotes, posters and demonstrations. We welcome submissions on all aspects of Intelligent Music Production from researchers from any country at all stages of their careers.

 

Suggested topics include:

  • Automatic Mixing Technologies
  • AI for Music Production
  • Computer Music Generation
  • Melody Generation
  • Philosophical foundations of Music Production Systems
  • Improving Accessibility to Audio
  • Philosophical Foundations of Music Production Systems
  • Intelligent and Assistive Production Tools
  • Semantically powered mixing technology
  • Utilising novel Human Inputs for the Mixing Experience

 

As well as submissions in the following general areas:

  • Perception, psychoacoustics and evaluation
  • Source separation
  • Semantic audio processing
  • Musical similarity and structure analysis
  • Music generation
  • Sound Synthesis




Paper submissions are accepted in PDF format and should be between 2 and 4 pages, including references. Templates for submission are available for Word and LaTeX via the website. 
Accepted papers will be made available under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license (CC BY 4.0) 

Many thanks