Fwd: [DMRN-LIST] PhD in Machine Learning for Audio with Applications for Health and Wellbeing

We are recruiting for a fully-funded PhD studentship in Machine Learning for Audio with Applications for Health and Wellbeing, more details below. Please forward the information below to any potential applicants who may be interested.

I would particularly like to encourage applications from women, disabled and Black, Asian and minority ethnic candidates, since these groups are currently underrepresented in our area.

Many thanks,

Mark

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PhD in Machine Learning for Audio with Applications for Health and Wellbeing

The Surrey Institute for People-Centred Artificial Intelligence is offering a fully funded PhD in Machine Learning for Audio with Applications for Health and Wellbeing (https://eur01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.surrey.ac.uk%2Ffees-and-funding%2Fstudentships%2Fmachine-learning-audio-applications-health-and-wellbeing&data=05%7C01%7Ce.himonides%40UCL.AC.UK%7Ce472cfec889742af1f4d08da3eec1b21%7C1faf88fea9984c5b93c9210a11d9a5c2%7C0%7C0%7C637891481598399250%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=OlZSZZP7zRxyKQUzGMCiHYxhi2h%2Fpp%2B7bfQQFRMh5pc%3D&reserved=0).

The position will be hosted jointly in the University of Surrey's Centre for Vision, Speech and Signal Processing (CVSSP) and Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences (FHMS). You will also have an excellent opportunity to partake in the AI for Sound project (https://eur01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fai4s.surrey.ac.uk%2F&data=05%7C01%7Ce.himonides%40UCL.AC.UK%7Ce472cfec889742af1f4d08da3eec1b21%7C1faf88fea9984c5b93c9210a11d9a5c2%7C0%7C0%7C637891481598399250%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=dCroHnwBOFvIXX%2F0kPemaNX8YZ8FRI%2FPxsAdjQhX7jY%3D&reserved=0) at Surrey.

The PhD will be jointly supervised by Dr Ivan Kiskin, Lecturer in AI for Multimodal Health Monitoring, and Prof Mark Plumbley, Professor of Signal Processing and EPSRC Fellow in "AI for Sound".

Potential topics are not limited to, but may include:

 * Acoustic mosquito monitoring for malaria vector mapping and intervention
 * Analysing the role of audio and multimodal data on the effect of sleep; using audio to categorise sleep quality, and thus determine biomarkers for disease onset prediction
 * Bayesian deep learning for audio classification and event detection
 * The effect of audio compression on ML systems

To learn more about this opportunity and how to apply, please visit:
https://eur01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.surrey.ac.uk%2Ffees-and-funding%2Fstudentships%2Fmachine-learning-audio-applications-health-and-wellbeing&data=05%7C01%7Ce.himonides%40UCL.AC.UK%7Ce472cfec889742af1f4d08da3eec1b21%7C1faf88fea9984c5b93c9210a11d9a5c2%7C0%7C0%7C637891481598399250%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=OlZSZZP7zRxyKQUzGMCiHYxhi2h%2Fpp%2B7bfQQFRMh5pc%3D&reserved=0

Application Deadline: 22 July 2022 (early applications are encouraged).

Start Dates: July/October 2022

For informal enquiries, please contact Dr Ivan Kiskin (mailto:i.kiskin@surrey.ac.uk, https://eur01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.surrey.ac.uk%2Fpeople%2Fivan-kiskin&data=05%7C01%7Ce.himonides%40UCL.AC.UK%7Ce472cfec889742af1f4d08da3eec1b21%7C1faf88fea9984c5b93c9210a11d9a5c2%7C0%7C0%7C637891481598399250%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=O%2FskrWmhCb7e2qBok13ebMKYrvbdMe%2FFSf6wdHAEBKI%3D&reserved=0) in the first instance.

Kindest regards,

 Dr Ivan Kiskin
 Prof Mark Plumbley

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Prof Mark D Plumbley
EPSRC Fellow in AI for Sound
Professor of Signal Processing
Centre for Vision, Speech and Signal Processing
University of Surrey, Guildford, Surrey, GU2 7XH, UK
Email: m.plumbley@surrey.ac.uk

Fwd: Petros Singers - A Royal Occasion and More

We are delighted to let you know about our fast-approaching summer concert, and also whet your appetite for the packed programme of events planned for the next season, including a very special concert in July 2023. Further details can be found by clicking on the red concert titles.

A Royal Occasion

Saturday 18th June at 7:30pm

All Saints Lindfield, High Street, Lindfield RH16 2HS

Saturday 25th June at 7:30pm

Holy Trinity Sloane Square, Sloane Street, London SW1X 9BZ

In the month of the Queen's Platinum Jubilee, we will be celebrating 400 years of music written for and performed at the great royal coronations, weddings and funerals – full programme details can be found on our website. We are delighted to be joined by the three musicians who so memorably performed Handel's Eternal Source of Light Divine at the wedding of the Duke and Duchess of Sussex at Windsor Castle in 2018 – Elin Manahan Thomas (soprano), David Blackadder (trumpet) and Luke Bond (organ).

Do join us in Lindfield or Sloane Square for what promises to be a spectacular event, complete with trumpet fanfares!

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Christ's Nativity

Saturday 10th December at 7:30pm

St Peter's Church, Black Lion Lane, Hammersmith, W6 0BE

Our Christmas concert this year focuses on the birth of Jesus, from Mary's annunciation and Joseph's lineage through to Christmas night itself.

The programme includes music from Benjamin Britten's early song cycle, Christ's Nativity, with candlelight, mulled wine, mince pies and audience carols to get the festive season off to a great start.

 

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Looking ahead to 2023…

JS Bach B Minor Mass

Saturday 1st April 2023 at 7:30pm

St James's Piccadilly, 197 Piccadilly, W1J 9LL

This monumental work was likely never performed during the composer's lifetime, with the first complete public performance taking place more than 100 years after his death. Considered Bach's final great achievement, the B Minor Mass has since come to be regarded as the pinnacle of grand choral composition.

 

The Passing of the Years: 40^th Anniversary Concert

Saturday 1st July 2023 at 7:30pm

St Peter's Church, Black Lion Lane, Hammersmith, W6 0BE

We are delighted to be celebrating 40 years of making music together at our 'home' in St Peter's Hammersmith. With a concert featuring some old favourites, an exciting new work and a few surprises along the way, it promises to be a memorable evening. More details to be announced soon…

Do put these dates in your diary, and we very much hope you will be able to join us at one or more of our future performances. We look forward to welcoming you.

N.B. Should you wish not to receive further emails about our future events then please contact us by email. Thank you.

 

www.petrossingers.org

 

Fwd: Final CfP: HAID 2022 - International Workshop on Haptic and Audio Interaction Design - London, UK, 24-26 August 2022

HAID 2022 - 11th International Workshop on Haptic and Audio Interaction Design

24–26 August 2022, London, UK

https://haid2022.qmul.ac.uk/ 

The submission portal for Papers is now open:

https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/HAID2022/Submission/Index 

Please note that the final deadline for Paper submissions is 22 May 2022 (previously 13 May).

We have also extended the deadline for Demo and Work in Progress submissions to 26 June 2022.

HAID 2022 will be held 24–26 August at the Mile End Campus of Queen Mary University of London in the UK, and will be a hybrid event with in-person activities and online streaming sessions.

HAID 2022 is organised by the Centre for Digital Music (C4DM) in collaboration with the Centre for Advanced Robotics @ Queen Mary (ARQ). The workshop is supported by the Audio Engineering Society, IEEE Technical Committee on Haptics, EuroHaptics Society, and Springer.

Please stay tuned to all the latest news at:

* HAID 2022 webpage https://haid2022.qmul.ac.uk/ 

* HAID Google group https://groups.google.com/g/haid-community

* HAID Twitter page https://twitter.com/HAID_conference

See you in London!

The HAID 2022 Programme Chairs

Stefano Papetti and Charalampos Saitis

The HAID 2022 General Chairs

Charalampos Saitis and Ildar Farkhatdinov

Fwd: [DMRN-LIST] Online talk series on Algorithmic Patterns, May/June 2022

Dear DMRN,

Here's news of an upcoming series of free online talks on the 'algorithmic pattern' theme - exploring pattern structures, the rules behind them, and their place in the real world of technology.

The talks will take place during May and June 2022, starting next week. For dates/times in your local timezone, please see the website, clicking "view in my time":

  https://algorithmicpattern.org/events/

Laura Devendorf: Weaving algorithmic patterns with AdaCAD

Designed to be a drafting tool for weavers, AdaCAD could also be viewed as a visual programming language for making generative art within the extremely rich constraints of frame and jacquard looms. Laura will introduce ADACad and some of the projects created with it, and will take us through trying the software out for ourselves.

Laura Devendorf is an assistant professor in the ATLAS Institute and the Department of Information Science at the University of Colorado Boulder, where she directs the Unstable Design Lab, and holds a courtesy appointment in the Intermedia Arts Writing and Performance PhD Program.

Full info: https://algorithmicpattern.org/events/laura-devendorf/

Signup: https://forms.gle/uvwTH5M2zzin66bYA

Vernelle Noel: Wire bending in the Trinidad Carnival (title TBC)

Vernelle Noel is an artist, architect and design researcher, and directs the the Situated Computation + Design Lab at Georgia Tech. Dr. Noel will share her work in and around preserving the otherwise undocumented living heritage of wire-bending for the Trinidad Carnival, in the form of the Bailey-Derek shape grammar.

Emerging info: https://algorithmicpattern.org/events/vernelle-noel/

Signup: https://forms.gle/18xmTEJTyx2m1Uj5A

Ron Eglash: The End of Innocence for Craft Grammars: why we need Decolonial Computing

At one time, simulations of crafts were rare, and practitioners could claim a kind of innocence. With the MetaVerse, AI, and other computational invasions of every aspect of life, a decolonial approach to craft grammars is desperately needed.
Ron Eglash is a Professor in the School of Information at University of Michigan. He received his B.S. in Cybernetics, his M.S. in Systems Engineering, and his PhD in History of Consciousness, all from the University of California. His work includes the development of ethnocomputing, the technology appropriation framework, and generative justice.

Full info: https://algorithmicpattern.org/events/ron-eglash/

Signup: https://forms.gle/pBtDCQamSjq6uNw27

Manjunath B C: Konnakol (title TBC)

Manjunath B C is a highly accomplished musician touring performances worldwide, including of the mridangam percussion instrument. On-line, he is perhaps best known as a strong proponent of Konnakol, the Carnatic tradition of reciting intricate vocal rhythms, via his (often viral) videos demonstrating the topic. This online talk will take the form of a live discussion with algorithmic musician and pattern researcher Alex McLean, exploring some of the time-twisting and indeed mind-bending structures of Konnakol.

Emerging info: https://algorithmicpattern.org/events/manjunath-b-c/

Signup: https://forms.gle/vsFG3M1cj2nKis2G7

Sarah Groff Hennigh-Palermo: Live coding patterns

Sarah GHP is a video artist and javascript developer based between Brooklyn and Berlin. She often takes her algorithmic visual art to the stage, creating it live with her handmade javascript framework La Habra, including as part of the audio/visual live coding band Codie.

For the fifth instalment of the series, Sarah, a dialogue aficianado, will be joined by Alex McLean for an interview-style chat about her work and ideas — including what analog video art has taught her about approaching the digital; historic video cruft; and the perfection of imperfection.

Full info: https://algorithmicpattern.org/events/sarah-ghp/

Signup: https://forms.gle/pnn3vZzJJKkqTPadA

Bekah Smith: Juggling 'siteswap' patterns (title TBC)

Among her multiple talents, Bekah Smith is a professional juggler with 20 years experience, including touring and teaching around the world and co-founding her own circus. Passing juggling patterns is her speciality, using the siteswap juggling notation system to generate and experiment with new patterns from mathematical formalisms. In this hands-on talk, Bekah will introduce us hands-on to juggling siteswaps, and give insights into some of the mathematical, creative constraints that underlie them

Emerging info: https://algorithmicpattern.org/events/bekah-smith/

Signup: https://forms.gle/tHmCCssasahPJy9PA

More info: https://algorithmicpattern.org/events/

Hope you can join us!

This talk series is funded as part of a UKRI fellowship, grant number MR/V025260/1.

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Alex McLean

Blog: http://slab.org/
Research Fellow at Then Try This: https://thentrythis.org/about/alex-mclean/

The Music Education Council is sad to announce the passing of Angela Ruggles

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The Music Education Council is sad to announce the passing of Angela Ruggles. Angela is widely known across the sector for her tireless commitment to music education as a civil servant, at MEC and ISME. We join together to send our condolences to her family at this difficult time.

Richard Hallam MBE, former Chair of MEC, writes:

"Angela Ruggles was passionate about the importance of music education. She was caring, supportive of those she worked with, conscientious, hard-working and totally committed.

In her role as a senior civil servant, she ensured that many important and life-changing government policies were developed and enacted. She had a passion for social fairness and a vast knowledge of music, in part from being a clarinettist herself. Her contribution to improving the music education of literally millions of young people through taking forward government policy is beyond measure.

She had many areas of responsibility in addition to music education, but always worked tirelessly to ensure that all children had the opportunity to receive equal and fair access to the best possible music education in school, as part of the national curriculum, through instrumental and vocal tuition, and through out of school activities. She worked tirelessly to ensure the implementation of policies that would work in practice, even in the face of opposition. Her aim was always to achieve the best possible outcomes for all young people.

Although Angela had the ear of Secretaries of State and Ministers of Education, she always found time to listen to and meet with music educators from across the sector. Her interest went beyond her professional responsibilities. She genuinely cared about and appreciated the work of music educators and wanted to facilitate this in whatever ways she could.

On retiring from the civil service, she continued to work in key roles to support the UK Music Education Council (MEC) and the International Society for Music Education (ISME), bringing her significant skills to further promoting the cause of music education throughout the world.

Overall, her contribution to music education has been immense. She leaves a significant legacy. She will be greatly missed by all who had the privilege to work closely with her and by those who were lucky enough to know the truly wonderful, caring person that she was."

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