Fwd: PhD funding @kingston

Dear friends and colleagues

The Department of Performing Arts at Kingston University London invites expressions of interest from strong researchers to join our PhD Programme in October 2021. The department supports a lively research culture in music, dance and drama spanning both practice-based and written research.

Staff in music have particular interests in:

• Musicology - Music philosophy, Musical fan cultures, Popular Musicology, 20^th Century European Music (especially French)

• Music in multimedia - Film and television music, Gothic, horror, fantasy and science fiction music, Intercultural arts research, translation and transfer across media in contemporary music

• Creative practice research – composition in particular technology enabled modes

The department is host to the newly established Visconti Studio. Tapping into contemporary love of retro sounds, the Visconti Studio does not just revive objects but actively revives analogue practices. This venture combines questions around cultural nostalgia, heritage studies, and material culture with the concrete musical practices of composition, recording, and production. Further information on www.visconti-studio.co.uk
Funding is open to international applications

Further information on the AHRC/TECHNE funding programme can be found here:
http://www.techne.ac.uk

Guidelines for application, forms and deadlines:

https://www.kingston.ac.uk/research/research-degrees/funding/techne/

Please contact me -  o.ben-tal@kingston.ac.uk - for further information and questions. The deadline for an initial proposal is 22/11 the final deadline is January 17th 

Fwd: [DMRN-LIST] CFP - Digital Music Research Network (DMRN) Workshop 2020

*** CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS ***

 

    DMRN+15: Digital Music Research Network 1-Day Workshop 2020

Virtually on Zoom and/or Slack

Queen Mary University of London

 

Tue 15 December 2020

 

http://www.qmul.ac.uk/dmrn/dmrn15/

 

 

The Digital Music Research Network (DMRN) aims to promote research in the area of Digital Music, by bringing together researchers from UK and overseas universities and industry for its annual workshop. The workshop will include invited and contributed talks and posters. The workshop will be an ideal opportunity for networking with other people working in the area. 

 

This year, keynote talks will be given by Philippe Esling (IRCAM), Dorien Herremans (Singapore University of Technology and Design) and Mariana Lopez (University of York).

 

* Call for Contributions

 

You are invited to submit a proposal for a "talk" and/or a "poster" to be presented at this event.

 

TALKS may range from the latest research, through research overviews or surveys, to opinion pieces or position statements, particularly those likely to be of interest to an interdisciplinary audience. Due to the online format, we plan to keep talks to about 10 minutes each, depending on the number of submissions. Short announcements about other items of interest (e.g. future events or other networks) are also welcome.

 

POSTERS can be on any research topic of interest to the members of the network. Posters will be displayed virtually (probably as slides rather than a poster format) in an asynchronous poster session (probably on Slack, as at ISMIR 2020).

 

The abstracts of presentations will be collated into a digest and distributed on the day.

 

* Submission

 

Please prepare your talk or poster proposal in the form of an abstract (1 page A4, using the template available from the DMRN+15 web page). Submit it via email to dmrn@lists.eecs.qmul.ac.uk giving the following information about your presentation:

• Authors

• Title

• Abstract

• Preference for talk or poster (or "no preference").  

* Deadlines

16 Nov 2020: Abstract submission deadline

01 Dec 2020: Notification of acceptance

13 Dec 2020: Registration deadline

15 Dec 2020: DMRN+15 Workshop

 

For further information, visit:  http://www.qmul.ac.uk/dmrn/dmrn15/

Enquiries: Alvaro Bort (a.bort@qmul.ac.uk)

--   Simon Dixon  Centre for Digital Music  School of Electronic Engineering and Computer Science  Queen Mary University of London  Mile End Road, London, E1 4NS, UK  http://www.eecs.qmul.ac.uk/~simond

Fwd: NMTC 2021 Extended Deadline - Call for Abstracts

Dear all, 

Due to multiple requests, the Scientific Committee for the 10th Nordic Music Therapy Conference is delighted to announce that the deadline for abstract submissions has been extended to November 16, 2020. 

You can find the call for abstracts here: https://www.jyu.fi/hytk/fi/laitokset/mutku/en/research/conferences/10-nordic-music-therapy-conference/abstracts 

We kindly ask that you forward this updated information to your applicable networks and associations. 

Should you have any questions, please feel free to get in touch with our organising committee at nmtc2021@gmail.com. 

Kind regards, 

Mikaela Leandertz

PhD Student

Department of Music, Art & Culture Studies

University of Jyväskylä

Fwd: [DMRN-LIST] Doctoral Research in Music Technology at Royal Birmingham Conservatoire

Doctoral Research in Music Technology at Royal Birmingham Conservatoire

AHRC Midlands4Cities PhD funding for UK and International applicants

 

The AHRC-funded Midlands4Cities Doctoral Training Partnership (M4C) brings together eight leading universities across the Midlands to support the professional and personal development of the next generation of arts and humanities doctoral researchers. M4C is a collaboration between the University of Birmingham, Birmingham City University, University of Warwick, Coventry University, University of Leicester, De Montfort University, Nottingham Trent University and The University of Nottingham. 

 

M4C is awarding up to 89 doctoral studentships for UK and International applicants for 2021 entry through an open competition and 21 Collaborative Doctoral Awards (CDA) through a linked competition with a range of partner organisations in the cultural, creative and heritage sector.

 

Royal Birmingham Conservatoire at Birmingham City University is inviting applications from students whose research interests connect with our fields of expertise, including Music Technology. Supervisory staff include Lamberto Coccioli and Simon Hall. Royal Birmingham Conservatoire hosts the Integra Lab and can support research in:

 

·         Electroacoustic and Live Electronic Music Composition and Performance

·         Musician-centred Interaction Design and Software Development

 

We are particularly interested in projects that focus on the design of novel music interaction paradigms, the development of the Integra Live software, the ethics of music technology and the sustainability of the live electronic music repertoire.

 

For details of the full range of Royal Birmingham Conservatoire staff and research specialisms offered, including for performance studies, music technology and musicology, please go to https://www.bcu.ac.uk/research/midlands4cities/music.

 

To develop an application for doctoral study at Royal Birmingham Conservatoire, please download the expression of interest form, which can be found at http://www.bcu.ac.uk/research/midlands4cities. This form, and any queries, should be sent to m4c@bcu.ac.uk by 30 November 2020.

 

The deadline for M4C funding applications is 13 January 2021 (noon), by which time applicants must have applied for a place to study and have ensured that two academic references are submitted using the Midlands4Cities online reference form. 

For full details of eligibility, funding, research supervision areas and CDA projects, and for dates of our November application writing workshops, please visit: https://www.midlands4cities.ac.uk/ or contact enquiries@midlands4cities.ac.uk

 

Fwd: Call for Submissions: Special Collection on the Role of Music Psychology Research in a Complex World

Call for Submissions

 

The Role of Music Psychology Research in a Complex World: Implications, Applications and Debates

A Music & Science Special Collection

Deadline: 31 December 2020

 

The study of the musical mind its associated behaviours has become increasingly socially conscious, with more emphasis on applications and values, and calls to reflect on music(king)'s capacity to afford (inter)subjectivity and empathy; to engage with music's global diversity, and to encourage interdisciplinarity communality. The special collection is particularly timely as recent years have seen rapid societal and cultural change on a global scale, which has impacted on priorities for the environment, education, community, wellbeing, politics, and social justice, as well as mounting concern about the rise of intolerance in an increasingly polarised society. This will be the first collection of papers in nearly a decade that (re)considers music psychology (in the broadest sense of the term) in light of current challenges, and seeks to foster discussion and debate about the role that music psychology might play in addressing them.

 

We invite submissions that address a wide variety of topics, methodologies, and questions, including (but not limited to):

 

•  (How) can music psychology understand and address current societal challenges?

•  What should a socially engaged music psychology look like today?

•  What are the urgent/difficult questions?

•  What new approaches to socially applicable research are there?

•  What key assumptions remain in the field and how might they be challenged?

•  Any paper that explicitly applies music psychological knowledge to address socially urgent research questions. 

 

The submitted manuscripts for this Special Collection will be peer-reviewed before publication.

 

More information can be found here: https://journals.sagepub.com/page/mns/special-collections/The-role-of-music-psychology-research-in-a-complex-world

 

Guest Editors: Prof. Karen Burland and Dr Emily Payne

 

Dr Emily Payne

Lecturer in Music

Assistant Editor, Music & Science

 

School of Music, University of Leeds, Leeds LS2 9JT, UK

https://ahc.leeds.ac.uk/music/staff/396/dr-emily-payne

A new guide to set up Jitsi Video Conferencing with high quality stereo audio playback is now available

A new guide to set up Jitsi Video Conferencing with High Quality Stereo Audio Playback is now available:

 

http://www.homepages.ucl.ac.uk/~rtnvrmp/JitsiStereo.html

 

High quality stereo playback is important when teaching or performing music via video conferencing. Jitsi Meet is a free, open source video conferencing tool which can be set up to facilitate the sending of high-quality audio in stereo. Unfortunately, Jitsi lacks the means of enabling these features from the standard web-based user interface. Instead, the initiator of a video call must append a series of configuration options to the Iitsi server address and room name as a ‘query string’. This technical note has been drafted in the hope that it might support musicians and teachers wishing to take advantage of these features of Jitsi. It is important to note that stereo sound using the steps outlined will only work with Firefox used on both the transmitting and receiving machines. This document is a work in progress and comments and corrections are welcome.