Fwd: 4 Free-Improvising/Non-Idiomatic Improvising Musicians

4 Free-Improvising/Non-Idiomatic Improvising Musicians and Quantum/Particle Physicists wanted for a 5 day funded online research and development project taking place over July and/or September @ £120 per day.

Music of the Atoms is a piece by the UK based musician/composer Suzie Shrubb exploring the relationship between quantum theory and musical improvisation. This project brings together improvising musicians and scientists to explore this intersection, create music, document process, generate templates and create projects etc. This initial project will take place online, although my hope is to bring us together in an embodied space for one day if possible. This initial research and development project is part of a wider piece which will develop into recordings and live music performances in the embodied space and also aims to support the wider realm of working online. 

For musicians some form of experience with and enjoyment of non-idiomatic or free improvisation is essential. Documenting and reflection will be a part of this process so even if this is not part of your practice the invitation will be to do this over the course of the project in a way that works for you. 

I'm also always wanting to meet and talk with scientists and if you're a scientist then you don't need any experience of music at all. I'd love to hear from you.  This project is structured in a way that scientists can drop in and out of sessions- I know you're all super busy!

Musicians do not need to know anything about quantum physics although any knowledge is most welcome.  Please also get in touch even if the project interests you but you don't want to work online. Opportunities to play in the embodied space will be possible at some point and I would love to hear from anyone, musician or scientist who is interested in this project for the future, just make that clear in your application.

Scientists who are musicians are absolutely welcome to apply.

If you're a musician or a scientist/musician please apply by sending 200 words or a voice message of no more than 3 minutes to suzieshrubb@hotmail.com saying what excites or interests you about the project and include information about your relationship to and experience of free improvisation. Please email me if you have any questions. The deadline for applications is Monday 5th July.

If you're a scientist who is interested in offering your expertise and being a scientist in the space, or supporting my ongoing research or learning with a conversation or lesson or just because you're curious then please also get in touch. I'd love to hear from you.

And I'd love to hear from anyone who is interested! Space on this particular project is limited because this is an initial R & D phase funded by Arts Council England. But  I'm excited to hear from as many people as possible to feed into the development of this piece.

I'm a white British queer composer. My pronouns are she/her. I welcome applications from people belonging to groups who are underrepresented in the realms of music and science.

 

Fwd: Digital Libraries for Musicology (DLfM) 2021 -- Registration Now Open

DLfM 2021 -- Registration Now Open

Registration is now open for the 8th International Conference on Digital Libraries for Musicology.  The conference will be held from July 28th to July 30th in association with the International Association for Music Libraries (IAML), and will be entirely online.

Thanks to the generous support from Goldsmiths University of London, Georgia Institute of Technology, and the Royal Music Association, we are pleased to announce free registration for all participants and attendees. Advance registration is mandatory in order to receive links to conference events.

Please visit the link below to register:

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/8th-international-conference-on-digital-libraries-for-musicology-dlfm-21-tickets-156092070585

We are pleased to announce our preliminary conference schedule is now available: https://dlfm.web.ox.ac.uk/2021-programme 

For more details, please visit our conference website at https://dlfm.web.ox.ac.uk 

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Claire Arthur

Assistant Professor, School of Music

College of Design

Georgia Institute of Technology

claire.arthur[at]gatech.edu

Professor Graham Welch: research impact

https://bit.ly/2OUtlQ9

Optimising well-being and development through music

Professor Graham Welch and the music education research team at University College London have conducted extensive work to evaluate and document the benefits of music for children. Their research has included large-scale studies of music programmes sponsored by governments and charities. The outcomes of these studies have shown clear benefits of music in supporting optimal health, well-being and development in children. The science data indicate that music holds great potential to support human development and enhance social and emotional well-being.

PhD course in Non-Western Educational Philosophy

PhD course in Non-Western Educational Philosophy  

Greetings from Bergen, Norway.  

We are pleased to announce that once again we will be offering a new PhD course at Western Norway University of Applied Sciences on the topic Non-Western Educational Philosophy and Policy.  

Please think about whether you know someone who could benefit from this course, which will be offered entirely online in English, and is open to doctoral students from anywhere. Is there someone who might appreciate you telling them about this course?  

Here are links to articles about this course from the very first time it was offered (just last year, 2020):  

http://sociomusicology.blogspot.com/2020/08/benefits-of-shifting-to-online-learning.html 

Here are links to publications developed through this course from the first time it was offered (published in the first half of 2021):  

https://journals.oslomet.no/index.php/nordiccie 

Please keep in mind that higher education in Norway is essentially free, and this course is for 5 transferable European (ECTS) credits, offered online October 11-22, 2021.  

 

Here are links for detailed information about (a) the PhD program in Norway, and its accessibility for individual courses, (b) the course Non-Western Educational Philosophy and Policy, and (c) the application portal (called Søknadsweb in Norwegian):  

 

(a) 

https://www.hvl.no/en/research/phd-programmes/apply-for-a-single-course-at-phd-level/admission-for-single-courses-phd-in-bildung-and-pedagogical-practices/ 

(b) 

https://www.hvl.no/en/studies-at-hvl/study-programmes/courses/phd911 

(c) 

https://fsweb.no/soknadsweb/velgInstitusjon.jsf 

 

Thank you very much.  

Best wishes,  

 

David Hebert 

Fwd: [DMRN-LIST] 1st Symposium on Quantum Computing for Musical Creativity

The 1st Symposium on Quantum Computing for Musical Creativity will take place on November 19-20, 2021. 


The symposium is organised by University of Plymouth's Interdisciplinary Centre for Computer Music Research (ICCMR), in collaboration with Cambridge Quantum Computing and IBM Quantum.  


The event will be primarily online.  An in-person component is planned at Cambridge Quantum Computing's premises in Oxford, UK, if the conditions permit. 


The envisaged programme comprises research talks, a hands-on introduction to programming quantum computers for musicians, and practical demonstrations. 


We welcome proposals for paper presentations. 


Selected papers will be considered for publication in an special issue of Contemporary Music Review.


For more information: https://eur01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Ficcmr-quantum.github.io%2F1st_isqcmc%2F&data=04%7C01%7C%7C337e89f394c444d27f9108d92bf67ada%7C1faf88fea9984c5b93c9210a11d9a5c2%7C0%7C0%7C637589161081989796%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000&sdata=CH5qCqI68AnR%2BBWRIVPUeqOHLLD061EeAYLMpBfUPxw%3D&reserved=0 

 

Fwd: Musical futures initiative - IAS/EI

MUSICAL FUTURES

The UCL Institute of Advanced Studies and the UCL European Institute are joining forces for Musical Futures, a one-year cycle of activities dedicated to thinking, writing and performing music. In the absence of a dedicated department of musicology, we want to bring together UCL academics working on and with music in a wide range of disciplines, in order to foster a new cluster of scholarship and creativity in this space. This could include research about music - be it in literature, history, philosophy, technology, law or elsewhere - as well as research qua creative or performative practice. In line with the general remit of both our Institutes, we will encourage critical interdisciplinary work on music, especially projects that aim to bridge the gap between humanistic approaches and the rapidly expanding work in cognitive science and neuroscience. Musical Futures will also aim to draw in musicians, composers and performers external to UCL, in order to explore with us the epistemologies of creative practice.

 
We are planning three distinct areas of activity:
 
1. A preparatory and a closing roundtable: The opening roundtable, held remotely on 24 June 10-11:30, will seek to give short glimpses into UCL research engaged with music, to bring out expertise in this field wherever it may be located at UCL, and to create a first community of interest at UCL. The year's cycle will then be closed by a second roundtable, looking into how the project can have a lasting impact. 
 
2. An open call for proposals, jointly funded by the IAS and the EI, which will seek to give support both to the very small and to the very big ideas, as long as they seek to explore, with a sense of sustainability, how work on music at and/or with UCL might develop in the future.

 
3. A curated series of three public performance-conversations and/or short film or creative projects, bringing together musicians and academics in a joint space of exploration - live, if pandemically possible. We will explore partnering for this element with one of London's established music and performance spaces.

If you would like to express your interest in this initiative, please get in touch!
 
Further details to follow.

Nicola Miller, IAS

Claudia Sternberg, EI

Uta Staiger, EI

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Nina Quach

Head of Programmes

UCL Grand Challenge of Global Health

UCL Grand Challenge of Human Wellbeing

Office of the Vice-Provost (Research) UCL

e: n.quach@ucl.ac.uk

 

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