Fwd: [DMRN-LIST] Innovation in Music Conference 2022

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Call For Papers 

Innovation in Music 2022 will be held at the Royal College of Music, Stockholm, Sweden on 24 - 26 March 2022. A Routledge conference proceedings book will be published after the event.  

The theme remains wide for contributions, but with a titled theme of "Music Production: International Perspectives" 

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 production: past, present and future 

·         Music technology innovation 

·         Innovation in music business 

·         Innovation in music in the Nordic countries 

·         and the relationship to International innovation.  

·         Cross-disciplinary topics around music and innovation  

  

Abstracts of 300-500 words will be reviewed for inclusion in the conference programme. After the conference, presenting authors will be expected to submit a full paper for peer review and inclusion in the book of conference proceedings, published by Routledge. 

 

Abstracts should be submitted via Easychair by 01 September 2021. The InMusic22 Easychair submission portal can be accessed at the following web address: 

 

https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=inmusic22 

  

Innovation in Music are also welcoming proposals for innovative, interactive demonstrations and performances appropriate to the conference scope. If you are interested in being involved in any way, please contact us at the following email address: 

 

info@musicinnovation.co.uk 

  

Dates and Deadlines 

 

·         01 September 2021 - abstracts deadline 

·         01 November 2021 - acceptance of abstracts sent to authors 

·         15 January 2022 - early bird registration discount ends 

·         24 March 2022 - conference opens 

·         15 April 2022 - full chapters submitted for conference proceedings book with Routledge 

 

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Organisation 

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Conference Chair 

 

Professor Jan-Olof Gullö – Royal College of Music (KMH), Stockholm 

 

  

Conference Committee Sweden 

 

Conference Coordinator Elina Edblom – KMH 

  

Head of Academy Per-Henrik Holgersson, Academy of Music Education – KMH 

 

Head of Academy Anna Maria Koziomtzis, Academy of Classical Music, Composition, Conducting and Music Theory – KMH 

 

Head of Academy Bo Westman, Academy of Folk Music, Jazz and Music and Media Production – KMH 

 

 

Conference Committee UK 

 

Professor Justin Paterson – University of West London  

 

Russ Hepworth-Sawyer – MOTTOsound & York St John University 

 

Professor Rob Toulson – RT60 Ltd 

 

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Further Information 

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We will subsequently be confirming full conference details. 

 

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 

 

  

For any other enquiries please email: 

  

info@musicinnovation.co.uk 

 

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Equality and Diversity 

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All involved in the organisation of Innovation in Music are committed to encouraging fairness, equality and diversity throughout our event, in terms of the organisational structure, the invited participants and in the encouragement of presenters and paper authors. We welcome anyone interested in the conference themes to engage with us and join us in building a sustainable conference that can represent all corners of the music related industries. 

 

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Welcome to Stockholm & the Royal College of Music in March 2022! 

 

Jan-Olof Gullö 

Fwd: IC CIPEM 21 - Keynote speakers

Music and Social Inclusion: International Research and Practice in Complex Settings 21 June 2021, 3pm-5pm (UK time)

 

Music and Social Inclusion: International Research and Practice in Complex Settings

21 June 2021, 3pm-5pm (UK time)

 

Practice and research specialists will discuss social music projects from five countries and a study of Indigenous music at the 2nd workshop of The Arts of Inclusion (TAI) network http://tai.international/. This event will be online and free of charge. Contributors include Sergio Figueiredo (Brazil), Patricia González-Moreno (Mexico), Geoff Baker (UK), Lukas Pairon (Belgium), Shelly Coyne (UK), Daniel Mateos-Moreno (Spain) and Hector Vázquez (Mexico/Canada). They will draw on their contributions for a forthcoming Routledge book. TAI activities are supported by AHRC, RSE and SFC. The webinar will be co-chaired by Oscar Odena, TAI Principal Investigator at School of Education and School of Interdisciplinary Studies, and by Andrew Green, School of Culture and Creative Arts.

 

Further information and tickets available at: 

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/music-social-inclusion-int-research-and-practice-in-complex-settings-tickets-154383628589  

 

Fwd: ArCC research seminar (Kingston University; online 26/5) - Oded Ben-Tal Music AI

Dear colleagues, 

I am delighted to announce our next ArCC research seminar, this time organised by the Visconti Studio. On Wednesday 26 May at 4 pm, Oded Ben-Tal will be presenting his innovative research on music and artificial intelligence. An abstract and the Teams link are below.

Music AI
Artificial Intelligence technology is developing rapidly and its application to creative tasks, such as painting, poetry and music, is certainly grabbing headlines. But while the public discourse around this research is dominated by human-vis-machine narrative, this talk will focus on an alternative view - the capacity of AI as a stimulator of, and assistant to, human creativity. I will discuss the application of cutting edge AI tools in the domain of folk music, its application for musical practices both within the music tradition and in other domains, and demonstrate how creative research offers insights as part of a collaborative research project.

Teams link is here

We hope to see many of you there. 

Best,

Isabella van Elferen

Fwd: RISE: Join us tomorrow for discussion about creating opera in (and about) the pandemic

Hello,



The RISE research-creation team is very excited to invite the Milieux,
LePARC and greater Concordia/Montreal community to the second research
critical-reflection session coming up this Wednesday May 12th at 10am.



The event will begin with a 15-minute viewing session followed by an
open discussion with RISE's creative and research crew about the opera
narrative and drama, cataclysms, collective fears, speculative
research-creation, scenario enactment, and more.



It is open to the public (with consent) and we would love to see you there!



What is RISE?


Reflective Iterative Scenario Enactments
Led by Dr. Eldad Tsabary and funded by Canada's Social Sciences and
Humanities Research Council (SSHRC), Reflective Iterative Scenario
Enactments (RISE) is a Le PARC based 5-year (2020-2025)
research-creation project designed to enact and investigate
cataclysmic scenarios in 10 mini-operas.

If you would like to know more about the RISE project, you can visit
https://riseopera.ca



Below is a video link to Personal Pandemic: A mini-opera-workshop,
which premiered February 24th 2021—the first RISE mini-opera (in
progress), which was followed by an open discussion. Created and
produced collaboratively under lockdown during recent months, Personal
Pandemic is an intimate mini-opera that enacts a personal
COVID-centric storyline in Montreal.

https://www.facebook.com/CU4thSpace/videos/4460142047336520/



If you are interested in attending/participating in the critical
reflection session this wednesday, please do get in touch at
info.riseopera@gmail.com and I will send over the consent form to look
over.



I look forward to seeing you there!



Best,

~Sheena Bernett

RISE Methodology RA

Fwd: OR online material for DCs - responsibility - creativity - optimization (@ IFORS)

Our materials is helpful -

OR Online Resources for Developing Countries --- regularly updated

The aim of the IFORS Developing Countries Online Resources page is to
offer the OR worker all publicly-available materials on the topic of
OR for Development. It also aims to provide a venue for people who are
working in the area to share their completed or in-process work, learn
from others, and stimulate comments and discussions on the work.
Regarding IFORS Developing Countries OR resources website, its regular
updates - and your possible submission of "free" (not copyright
protected) material, you might occasionally visit

http://ifors.org/developing_countries/index.php?title=Main_Page.

With this open resources page we aim to make research and application
results better accessible to the many friends in the Developing
Countries. We would be glad about interest.

Contributions from art and science, communication and education
sectors are warmly welcome by our community which has very little
access to emerging documents on arts and sciences, research, design
and development.

"Operational Research" (OR) is the discipline of applying advanced
analytical methods to help make better decisions. By using techniques
such as problem structuring methods and mathematical modelling to
analyze nontrivial situations, Operational Research gives executives
the power to make more effective decisions and build more productive
systems.

The International Federation of Operational Research Societies (IFORS;
http://ifors.org/) is an almost 60-year old organization which is
currently composed of 51 national societies. Regional Groups of IFORS
are: ALIO (The Latin American Ibero Association on Operations
Research), APORS (The Association of Asian-Pacific Operational
Research Societies), EURO (The Association of European Operational
Research Societies), NORAM (The Association of North American
Operations Research Societies). IFORS conferences are taking place
every three years. On IFORS 2021, Seoul, South Korea, August 22-27,
2021, please refer to http://www.ifors2020.kr/.

Thank you very much for your attention.

With kind regards,
best wishes

PS: Feedback is welcome via gerhard.weber@put.poznan.pl.

Fwd: [DMRN-LIST] Vacancy: Research Fellow on Machine Learning for Audio Captioning @ University of Surrey, UK

Applications are invited for a Research Fellow (RF) position for 22
months within the Centre for Vision Speech and Signal Processing
(CVSSP), University of Surrey, UK, to work in the area of machine
learning and acoustic signal processing.

The post is funded by British Council under Newton Institutional Links
Award, under a project titled "Automated Captioning of Image and Audio
for Visually and Hearing Impaired", which is a joint project between
the University of Surrey and the Izmir Katip Celebi University (IKCU),
Turkey, with project partners from charities and industrial sectors
working with the hearing and visually impaired.

The focus at Surrey will be to develop machine learning and signal
processing algorithms for information extraction from audio data,
recognize audio classes (i.e. tags and labels), and generate text
description of audio content. This work is built on the recent
contributions of CVSSP in the area of acoustic scene analysis, audio
event detection, environmental sound recognition, and audio tagging,
together with some latest results on audio captioning. The algorithms
developed will be integrated by the partner university IKCU into a
smartphone app to prototype and demonstrate the concept.

The post-holder is expected to have a PhD degree (or equivalent) in
the area of machine learning, acoustic signal processing, audio
engineering, or a related area in electronic engineering, applied
mathematics, computer science, artificial intelligence, and
statistics. The post-holder is expected to have good analytical
skills, and programming skills in Python, Matlab or C/C++. Preference
will be given to those who have experience on audio classification,
audio tagging, audio captioning, or cross modal translations (such as,
audio<->texts, image<->texts, or audio<->video), but candidates who
have experience in machine learning and audio are welcome to apply.

The post-holder will be based in CVSSP, and work under the direction
of the Principal Investigator Prof Wenwu Wang, with co-supervision by
Prof Sabine Braun, Director of the Centre for Translation Studies, at
University of Surrey, and in collaboration with Dr Volkan Kilic, from
the IKCU, Turkey.

CVSSP is an International Centre of Excellence for research in
Audio-Visual Machine Perception, with over 150 researchers, a grant
portfolio of £24M (£17.5M EPSRC) from EPSRC, EU, InnovateUK, charity
and industry, and a turnover of £7M/annum. The Centre has
state-of-the-art acoustic capture and analysis facilities and a Visual
Media Lab with video and audio capture facilities supporting research
in real-time video and audio processing and visualisation. CVSSP has a
compute facility with 120 GPUs and >1PB of high-speed secure storage.

This post is available to start immediately, or as soon as possible.

To apply online, please visit the following page:

https://jobs.surrey.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx?ref=015821-R


Many thanks.

Best wishes,

Wenwu



--
Professor Wenwu Wang
Centre for Vision Speech and Signal Processing
Department of Electronic Engineering
University of Surrey
Guildford GU2 7XH
United Kingdom
Phone: +44 (0) 1483 686039
Fax: +44 (0) 1483 686031
Email: w.wang@surrey.ac.uk
http://personal.ee.surrey.ac.uk/Personal/W.Wang/

Research in Teacher Education (RiTE) 10th Anniversary Event

On 16 June from 5pm-7:30pm, the Research in Teacher Education (RiTE) 10th Anniversary event will be taking place. 

We invite you to join us in celebrating our 10th anniversary of UEL's journal,  Research in Teacher Education.

The event will feature many of the guest writers who have contributed to the journal, including Meg Maguire, Stephen Ball, Louise Archer, Graham Welch, Ian Menter, Pat Sikes, Kari Smith, Martin Fautley, Ann MacPhail and Jean Murray. On the night, we will launch a bumper edition of RiTE in which we include all 20 Guest Articles published over the last ten years with each author adding an updated 'post-script' critically reflecting on their original articles. Come join us on 16 June at 5.00pm and pose questions to some of the biggest national and international names in teacher education.  You can access the journal here. 

Registration Link: 

https://www.uel.ac.uk/events/2021/06/research-in-teacher-education-10th-anniversary-event

Fwd: New PhD studentship opportunity

·       Applications are now open for the 2021-22 AHRC-funded Collaborative PhD studentship 'Sounds and Silences in the Archives of Empire'. The studentship will embed a composer at The National Archives to explore the records of Empire through the creation and public dissemination of a portfolio of new music and multimedia works, aiming to recontextualise collections. Working with Colonial Office (CO) material, the student will reinterpret and challenge the official records of the British Empire in three principal ways:

·        

·       i) Using Machine Learning to uncover core themes and biases,
ii) Sonification of data and generation of new texts to inform original musical compositions,
iii) Engagement within communities impacted by this research, whose voices are often absent in the official record.

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·       It is co-supervised by Dr Sam Salem (PRiSM Lecturer in Composition, Royal Northern College of Music) Christopher Day (Head of Modern Domestic Records, The National Archives) Professor Emily Howard (Professor of Composition and Director of PRiSM, Royal Northern College of Music) and Dr Juliette Desplat (Head of Modern Collections, The National Archives).

This fully-funded studentship offers a unique and exciting opportunity to focus on diverse histories and records while completing a flexible project which can be shaped by the student's own interests and experiences. 

 

We want to encourage the widest range of potential students to apply for our CDP studentships and are committed to welcoming students from different backgrounds to apply. We particularly welcome applications from people from Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic backgrounds as they are currently underrepresented at this level in this area. 

 

Hear about our other studentships by following us on Twitter. 

 

See the posting for more information.