Fwd: [DMRN-LIST] fully funded PhD position at KTH

I am delighted to announce a fully funded PhD position at KTH for the project:

Sonic Interaction Design to Support Energy Efficiency Behaviour in the Household funded by Swedish Energy Agency.

To apply: https://www.kth.se/en/om/work-at-kth/lediga-jobb/what:job/jobID:375624/type:job/where:4/apply:1

Summary

Energy provides heating, lighting and more, but it affects the environment. In Europe, households account for 25% of the energy-related greenhouse gas emissions. Residential energy feedback could contribute to 5%–10% energy consumption reduction, but there are several barriers including those related to user behaviour. Visualisations of energy costs and savings are not enough: interventions must be tailored, frequent and engaging.

Our novel approach will employ sound. We will design, develop and evaluate real-time digital sonic interactions as augmentations of individual appliances and aggregated smart meters' outputs, which will promote energy efficiency in the household. Without adding to the myriad of "beeps" in our life, we will create new everyday sounds meant to be felt, implicitly understood, rather than listened to. Our procedural audio models, which can be embedded and personalized, will be based on our research on sound, interaction design, behavior change, and energy. The project benefits from access to high- resolution energy data of the KTH Live-in Lab (see https://www.liveinlab.kth.se) and its individual and shared spaces for testing.

See the team here: 

https://www.kth.se/hct/mid/research/smc/projects/sonic-interaction-design-to-support-energy-efficiency-behavior-in-the-household-1.1049087

Feel free to get in touch with me at pauletto@kth.se if you are interested about the post. 

Fwd: [Deadline extension] Special Issue on the Internet of Sounds @ JAES

Journal of the Audio Engineering Society
CALL for PAPERS
Special Issue on the Internet of Sounds
http://cimil.disi.unitn.it/JAES_SI_Internet_of_Sounds.pdf

Deadline extended to 29th of March



*** Apologies for cross-postings ***

We are pleased to announce a Special Issue of the Journal of the Audio
Engineering Society (http://www.aes.org/journal/) on the subject of
Internet of Sounds. Acknowledging the ever-rising importance of the
Internet of Things (IoT) in our environment, we believe that the time
has come to bring together researchers who are considering the use of
IoT components to pursue research in Sound and Music computing.
The Internet of Sounds (IoS) is an emerging research field positioned
at the intersection of the IoT, Sound and Music Computing and Semantic
Audio domains. IoS can also be seen as the union of two paradigms, the
Internet of Musical Things and the Internet of Audio Things, which
respectively address musical and non-musical domains in networked
contexts.
This Special Issue aims to present high-quality original research
reporting the current state of the art of IoS systems as well as their
interactions with end-users. We are interested in submissions covering
different aspects related to the use of sound and music processing in
relation to local or remote networks, including technological,
perceptual, and artistic perspectives.


Topics

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to the following areas:
• Wireless acoustic sensor networks
• Detection and classification of sounds in acoustic sensor networks
• Visualization and Sonification of acoustic sensor networks
• Ecoacoustics
• Privacy and security in acoustic sensor networks
• Networked music performances
• Smart Musical Instruments
• Musical haptics for the Internet of Musical Things
• Participatory live music performances
• Music education applications for the Internet of Musical Things
• Intelligent music production in Internet of Musical Things contexts
• Ubiquitous music
• Web Audio for the Internet of Sounds
• Spatial audio for the Internet of Sounds
• Sonification for Internet of Sounds applications
• Protocols and exchange formats for the Internet of Sounds
• Improving accessibility and inclusiveness within the Internet of Sounds
• Open audio databases for Deep Learning and Data Mining
• Challenges in the management and delivery of large audio databases
• Visualization, access and indexing of audio databases
• Cloud-based services for musical and audio applications


New deadline:

• Manuscript submission due: March 29th, 2021



Guest Editors

• Luca Turchet (Department of Information Engineering and Computer
Science, University of Trento)
• George Fazekas (Centre for Digital Music, Queen Mary University of London)
• Cristina Rottondi (Department of Electronics and Telecommunications,
Polytechnic University of Turin)
• Carlo Fischione (Department of Network and Systems Engineering, KTH
Royal Institute of Technology)


Author guidelines

Please submit complete 6 to 8-page papers by March 29th, 2021. All
submissions will be peer-reviewed according to standard JAES review
procedures. We welcome original research including revised and
expanded versions of "IWIS 2020" or AES conference papers addressing
the theme of this special issue. Please follow the Author Guidelines
found at: http://www.aes.org/journal/authors/guidelines/. Papers
should be submitted online at: http://www.aes.org/journal/submit/.
When submitting a paper, please choose the category "Special Issue
(Internet of Sounds)" rather than Research Paper or Engineering
Report.

Fwd: [DMRN-LIST] Fully Funded PhD Studentships in Music Computing Lab

The School of Computing and Communications at the Open University is offering a fully funded, full-time, three-year PhD studentship to start in October 2021. Studentships cover three years of fulltime study, including tuition fees and a stipend.

Please contact Dr Simon Holland (s.holland @ open.ac.uk) for an informal discussion and advice on developing or polishing a strong proposal.

Applications and enquiries are welcome in any of the following areas, or in any area related to Music and Computers.  Applicants are very welcome to devise their own topics.

New kinds of Musical Interaction
Computational Models of Music Perception
Physical, Gestural or Sensing Interfaces
Music and the Internet of Things
Music Technology for Rehabilitation and Therapy
New Musical Instruments
New approaches to traditional musical activities
Innovative approaches to technology for Music Education
Collaborative Music Interaction
Evolutionary and Biologically inspired Music Systems
Music Representation Tools
Tools that make new kinds of musical activity possible
Machine Learning for musical creativity and fluid interaction
New Tools for Live Coding
Any Aspect of Music and HCI

Those considering applying are encouraged to get in touch with Dr Holland for an informal discussion.  Enquiries and applications from those interested in part-time PhDs are welcome at any time.

Closing date: 15th March 2021.

Useful Links
The Music Computing Lab   https://eur01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fmcl.open.ac.uk%2Fmusiclab&data=04%7C01%7C%7Caf352cff370440d460a108d8cb692acf%7C1faf88fea9984c5b93c9210a11d9a5c2%7C0%7C0%7C637482999845972293%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C1000&sdata=g2cDCwAF71wvIvXmA6WU9h8u6u41lIFFLDpO5KL0IG8%3D&reserved=0


The Open University is incorporated by Royal Charter (RC 000391), an exempt charity in England & Wales and a charity registered in Scotland (SC 038302)

Fwd: Music, Sound, and Trauma: Interdisciplinary Perspectives, Online Conference, February 12-14, 2021: Registration Open & Program Available

Dear Colleagues,

We are pleased to announce that registration is open for the conference "Music, Sound, and Trauma Studies: Interdisciplinary Perspectives," taking place virtually February 12-14, 2021. Hosted at Indiana University's Jacobs School of Music, and subsidized through an IU Presidential Arts & Humanities grant, the conference is free and open to the public. 

This conference brings together scholars from a variety of disciplines to illuminate the current state of research on music and trauma, while also generating rich discussion of further avenues of interdisciplinary inquiry, activism, and collaboration. Featuring researchers from across the globe working at the intersections of music scholarship, sound studies, history, psychology, medical humanities, and other disciplines, this event centers around addressing three main questions: 

1) How can emerging knowledge from the humanistic discipline of trauma studies shape music- and sound-oriented fields such as musicology, ethnomusicology, music education, and sound studies? 

2) How might music and sound studies research that engages with trauma studies shape the landscape of research and teaching in the arts and humanities more broadly? 

3) Considering the many ways in which cultural trauma and social inequality have historically been linked, how might interdisciplinary research and pedagogy at the intersections of music, sound, and trauma inform knowledge, policy, and practice geared towards social justice within and beyond the academy?  

Keynote presenters include:  

• Maria Hamilton Abegunde (Indiana University, US) 

• Laura Brown (Seattle, WA, US) 

• Maria Cizmic (University of South Florida, US)  

• Lucy Dhegrae (National Sawdust, Brooklyn, NY, US)  

• Pacifica Quartet (Indiana University, US) and Shulamit Ran (University of Chicago, US)  

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For more information, including program, presenter, and registration information, please visit www.musicsoundtraumaconf2021.com or email musicsoundtraumaconf2021@gmail.com. 

Conference Organizers: Dr. Erin Brooks (SUNY-Potsdam), Jacqueline Fortier (Indiana University), Dr. Michelle Meinhart (Trinity Laban Conservatoire), and Dr. Jillian Rogers (Indiana University)