Fwd: [DMRN-LIST] Job opening: Research Assistant / Postdoctoral Research Assistant in machine learning and music, QMUL

Dear all, (with apologies for cross-posting)

We are recruiting for a Research Assistant / Postdoctoral Research Assistant in machine learning and music, as part of the project "Deep Learning Technologies for Multi-instrument Automatic Music Transcription". This is a 16-month position and the closing date for applications is 20 March. Please forward the information below to any colleagues who may be interested - further information can be found below.

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Research Assistant or Postdoctoral Research Assistant

School of EECS, Queen Mary University of London, UK
Annual Salary: 32,087-33,824 GBP (Research Assistant), 34,733-38,655 GBP (Postdoctoral Research Assistant)
Closing Date: 20 March 2022

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We are looking to appoint a Research Assistant or Postdoctoral Research Assistant in machine learning and music to work on the project "Deep Learning Technologies for Multi-instrument Automatic Music Transcription". The role involves investigating, developing and evaluating deep learning technologies for multiple-instrument automatic music transcription.

Applicants must hold a degree (PhD for postdoctoral level) in Computer Science, Electric/Electronic Engineering, Physics, or a related field. Able to work both independently and as part of a team, applicants will have experience with deep learning methods, music information retrieval or audio/speech processing together with strong programming skills in Python. Applicants should have experience with conducting research, understanding the research process and summarising findings.

We offer competitive salaries, pension scheme, 30 days' leave per annum (pro-rata for part-time/fixed-term), a season ticket loan scheme, staff networks and access to a comprehensive range of personal and professional development opportunities. In addition, we offer a range of work life balance and family friendly, inclusive employment policies, flexible working arrangements, and campus facilities including an on-site nursery at the Mile End campus.

The post is based at the Mile End Campus in London. It is a full-time, fixed term appointment for 16 months, with an expected start date in April 2022. For a Research Assistant the annual starting salary will be in the range of £32,087-£33,824; for a Postdoctoral Research Assistant it will be £34,733-£38,655. Salaries are inclusive of London allowance.

Queen Mary's commitment to our diverse and inclusive community is embedded in our appointments processes. Reasonable adjustments will be made at each stage of the recruitment process for any candidate with a disability. We have policies to support our staff throughout their careers, including arrangements for those who wish to work flexibly or on a job share basis, and we provide support for those returning from long-term absence. We particularly welcome applications from under-represented (BAME) groups, and from women in all stages of life, including pregnancy and maternity leave.

Informal enquiries should be addressed to Emmanouil Benetos at emmanouil.benetos@qmul.ac.uk.  Details about the School can be found at https://eur01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.eecs.qmul.ac.uk%2F&data=04%7C01%7Ce.himonides%40UCL.AC.UK%7C2318b433df974021b38308d9f6c49760%7C1faf88fea9984c5b93c9210a11d9a5c2%7C0%7C0%7C637812147088604226%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000&sdata=qWVcBqLCnrga1sPlcfnxh%2FI3wszGoBXhu2nbZh%2BtGxQ%3D&reserved=0.

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Dr Emmanouil Benetos
Senior Lecturer | Queen Mary University of London
Turing Fellow | The Alan Turing Institute
T + 44 (0) 20 7882 6206
emmanouil.benetos@qmul.ac.uk
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Fwd: music-data seminar Thursday 3/3

Our second seminar is in two weeks - Thursday 3/3 at 4pm. Email o.ben-tal@kingston.ac.uk if you wish to join.

Human Learning x Machine Learning

Atau Tanaka

Goldsmiths / Bristol Interaction Group / Maison des Sciences de l'Homme Paris Nord

I describe embodied musical performance in interaction with AI technologies. Performer gesture measured through muscle sensing is mapped to sonic granular synthesis through the mediation of  a neural network. The concert performance begins with an empty dataset - a tabula rasa. The composition consists of associating a series of corporeal postures with sonic grains. The signal feature space describing these body states are associated to corresponding audio meta-data and a training set is built up live in performance. Machine learning processes are laid bare in the performance dramaturgy, starting with empty data sets, finishing with trained regression models that create a multidimensional gesture-timbre information space. As much as the machine learns the states of the body it is trained on, the human performer learns the musical space created by the neural network, performing through at times unexpected mappings.

               
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Dr. Oded Ben-Tal
Senior Lecturer, Music Technology
Kingston University

PI Datasounds, datasets and datasense research network (2022/23)
http://obental.wixsite.com/main
http://soundcloud.com/odedbental

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Oded & Federico

Fwd: CFP: Digital Libraries for Musicology '22

CFP: 9th International Conference on Digital Libraries for Musicology (In Association with IAML 2022), July 28-29, 2022, Prague    CALL FOR PAPERS AND POSTERS    DLfM welcomes contributions related to any aspect of digital libraries and musicology, including topics related to musical archiving and retrieval, cataloguing and classification, musical databases, special collections, music encodings and representations, computational musicology, or music information retrieval (MIR).    The conference this year will welcome papers related to the 'FAIR principles' in Digital Libraries for Musicology and covering topics associated to making data - but also tools and services - findable, accessible, interoperable and reusable. In a world where technologies rapidly multiply, and where user needs and expectations as well as digital risks change extremely quickly, we consider these principles to be essential in the development of digital libraries tailored to musicology research. What tools, practices, or perspectives can help us navigate these constantly fluctuating needs and technologies while still prioritizing accessibility and sustainability?    The conference strongly encourages papers and posters that address this year's theme, however, we welcome all papers addressing all traditional topics that fall under the scope of DLfM. Specific examples of topics traditionally covered at DLfM can be found at https://dlfm.web.ox.ac.uk.    Proceedings of the DLfM 2022 are expected to be published in ACM ICPS as an Open Access publication as in previous years. Like last year, we are fortunate that in 2022 we again will be able to offer authors an open access proceedings paper without passing on the cost to authors.     IMPORTANT DATES (AoE)    * Paper (full paper and short paper) submission deadline: Monday, March 21, 2022  * Notification of paper acceptance: Monday, May 9, 2022  * Poster submission deadline: Monday, May 23, 2022  * Camera-ready submission deadline (full and short papers): Monday, June 13, 2022  * Conference registration deadline: TBC  * Conference: Thursday-Friday, July 28-29, 2022, at the Municipal Library in Prague    SUBMISSIONS    Paper submissions    * Paper length: We invite full papers (up to 8 pages excluding references) or short papers (up to 4 pages excluding references).  * Submissions: work is submitted to DLfM via EasyChair (https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=dlfm2022).  * Format: Submissions must be in English, formatted according to the appropriate ACM template (see template below), in PDF format, and A4 size. Authors will need to follow ACM's instructions for formatting carefully. Assistance will be provided from the proceedings chair.  * Templates: Authors must use either the LaTeX template (https://www.acm.org/binaries/content/assets/publications/consolidated-tex-template/acmart-primary.zip), the LaTeX + Overleaf template (https://www.overleaf.com/gallery/tagged/acm-official#.WOuOk2e1taQ) (use the ACM Conference Proceedings template), or the MS Word template https://www.acm.org/binaries/content/assets/publications/word_style/interim-template-style/interim-layout.docx. Historically, LaTeX versions have been easier to process into camera-ready versions. Therefore, we encourage all authors to use the LaTeX (or LaTeX + Overleaf) template if possible.  * Page limits for submitted papers apply to all text, excluding the bibliography (i.e., references can be included on pages over the specified limits).    Poster submissions    * Submission: The initial poster submission consists of an abstract which outlines both the scholarly content and broad details of the proposed layout in 500 words or fewer.  * Format: Posters will be formatted in A0 specifications. A template will be sent closer to the conference date to authors of accepted poster abstracts. All accepted posters will also be required to submit before the conference date a digital copy to be shared publicly on the conference web page.    Review and Ethics    Papers (long and short) will be double blind peer reviewed by 2-3 members of the programme committee. For accepted paper submissions, at least one author must register for the conference (as a presenter) by the conference registration deadline.    DLfM conforms to the usual conventions for publication ethics. For instance, we endeavour to provide an effective double blind reviewing process that is fair to all submissions, with reviews from experts in the subject area. In turn, we expect authors to ensure anonymity in the original submission as far as practically possible, (for instance by not uploading the submission to public website and/or removing any currently public unpublished preprints while it is under review) and that submissions to DLfM are not under active consideration by another conference of journal.     Submission link: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=dlfm2022  Contact email: dlfm2022@easychair.org    CONTINGENCY    We recognize that even in July 2022, in-person conferencing may still not be possible given the constantly changing landscape of the pandemic, and that we may have to revert to an online-format once again.    We also recognize that the pandemic has affected people unevenly, and we will consider individual situations on a case-by-case basis. For now, please simply submit your work with the assumption that at least one author will present in person. We will endeavour to work out any issues later (for instance through a limited amount of hybrid participation where possible and absolutely necessary).    CONFERENCE ORGANISATION    Programme Chair  Laurent Pugin, RISM Digital Center / University of Bern    General Chair  Claire Arthur, Center for Music Technology, Georgia Tech    Proceedings and Publicity Chair  David John Baker, University of Amsterdam

Fwd: CFP: Computer Creativity in music performance, improvisation, composition

Computer Creativity in
music performance, improvisation, composition
aesthetics, ethics, performance practice, musical creativity

May 26 – 29, 2022, Ascea, Italy

~ call for papers ~

Computer systems have been used in some capacity within most areas of the arts. In some cases the use of computer systems in music, as well as in visual arts, provoke claims of 'computer creativity' and/or 'computational creativity'. Are such claims justified? Is the judgement of 'creativity' in a computer system a binary question, or may there be gradations? And how can such judgements be supported – by evidence, or subjective experiential narrative, or in some other manner? What are the effects of such 'computer creativity' in music and/or in other art forms on aesthetics, ethics, performance practice, musical creativity and/or other related fields? How does the inclusion of a computer system change musical performance practice? Does the inclusion of computer systems change the aesthetic result in principle, or can the listener rely on musical experience as a phenomenon? Can a computer system take ethical responsibility for its musical or artistic output? In relation to music especially: are aesthetics computable? Are ethics computable?

The XIIth International Wassard Elea Symposium, held in Ascea, Southern Italy, invites musicologists, computer scientists, musicians, philosophers and other interested parties to submit papers on the topics of this year's theme. Sessions of 90 min. include speaker, commentator and open discussion (40/20/30). Participants whose papers are accepted are expected to also prepare a commentary on another presentation at the meeting. All suitable contributions are published in our journal, Wassard Elea Rivista.

Deadline for submissions: April 20, 2022.

There is no registration fee; participants will receive details about accommodation rates in due course.

Inquiries are very welcome. Full papers (attached in Word format) should be sent directly to the organizers:
Dr. René Mogensen, Birmingham City University, UK: Rene.Mogensen@bcu.ac.uk, or
Prof. Lars Aagaard-Mogensen, Italy: wassardelea@gmail.com.

Wassard Elea
Refugium for writers, artists, composers, and scholars in Southern Italy
Wassardelea.blogspot.it

NOTICE: At this time you are additionally invited to submit chapters, original work, to the forthcoming anthology: Improvisation and Creativity: Music, Arts, and Computers. Please send works, proposals, etc., to Dr. René Mogensen, The Royal Conservatoire, Birmingham City University, UK: Rene.Mogensen@bcu.ac.uk.

Fwd: PhD Studentships for October 2022

Music@Kingston is welcoming application for studentships available through the University. The university will offer some fully funded and some partial studentships. Please see details online:

https://www.kingston.ac.uk/research/research-degrees/funding/phd-studentships-2022/

The deadline for applications is 6 March.

Don't hesitate to contact Dr. Oded Ben-Tal if you have questions o.ben-tal@kingston.ac.uk

               
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Dr. Oded Ben-Tal
Senior Lecturer, Music Technology
Kingston University

PI Datasounds, datasets and datasense research network (2022/23)
http://obental.wixsite.com/main
http://soundcloud.com/odedbental