Fwd: Update - Call is closing on the 21st June

11th International Scientific Meeting for Sound, Music and Musical Instrument Studies

www.animusic.eu

 

Submissions update: till the 21^st of June

Information and proposals: congressorg2023.animusic@gmail.com

 

ONLINE OR IN PRESENCE

 

In-motion, with emotion: the belief in Art, Science and interdisciplinary knowledge.

 

Topics that we particularly welcome in the ANIMUSIC Congress 2023:

-musical instruments and their influence in the compositional styles (traditional and modern creations)

-reflections on wave equations (variability in sound materials)

-technology in the service of music and musical instruments

-imaging, 3D drawing and printing musical instruments

-past and future of sound production and industry

-acoustics of theaters, auditoriums and rooms for music processing – the sound of spaces (architecture)

-acoustics of instruments and sound tools

-ethnological diversity and similarities

-anthropological considerations about the evolution of music and sound tools

-archives and libraries - resources for the study of musical instruments

-biological interface (our body and sound production and perception)

-music and sound at the service of psychology and vice-versa

-gender, abnegation, survival, and glory

-the role of medicine in the ergonomic construction of musical instruments

-museums' difficulties and solutions in the conservation, restoration and exhibition of sound (related) objects

ANIMUSIC, with the Association Museum of Music of Coimbra, is promoting another special gathering from the 21st to the 24th of July. In 2023, we are having (confirmed) national and international guests, with topics that go from aartistic and ethnological marvels to the upfront of technology, with Artificial Intelligence. We are delving in some of the "shadowed" aspects of musicology (conspicuous absence and marginalization of women in the androcentric music industry, thanks to Dr Ragland) as well as acoustics (des-sound quality in theatres), and the psychological strength of musical performance, all in relation to sound, music, and musical instruments.

Moreover, an Exhibition of a singular collection, with some unique banjos and new inventions, will be shown at one of the emblematic buildings by a renown Portuguese architect, in the "Green Park" (yes, the dinner shall be served looking at the sunset over the river).

A strong highlight is the visit to the Seminario Maior (18th century); besides the splendid building which we shall visit, it has a fabulous organ in a circular, and extraordinary in many ways, church (we try to show with the pictures and a short improvised video at the website). Following Dr Paulo Bernardino, for us certainly at the summit of the Portuguese organists, we will then go to one of the oldest universities of the world (1290), and visit the superb baroque organ there. We shall enjoy mesmerizing performances in these organs, as well as front-rank virtuoso pianist Toni James at the Convent of S. Francisco, the Scottish Voices, lead by our favorite friend composer, Professor Graham Hair (Australia), and the amazing art of several musicians from Coimbra.

 

www.animusic.eu

Contact: congressorg2023.animusic@gmail.com

Greetings from the ANIMUSIC team

[LAUNCH] iMerc Research Seminar Newsletter

Dear Colleagues,

We are pleased to announce the launch of our Newsletter (compiled PDFs will be available on the official iMerc website soon).

The Newsletter includes the details of our May and June seminars, with the Zoom link attached. If you know anyone who's doing a PhD in music education at UCL, would you please forward this Newsletter to them and invite them to join us for the seminar? 

We hope you enjoy reading it. If you have any thoughts or suggestions about the newsletter or the community, feel free to let us know. And please be ready that we'll ask for more help/ collaboration in the future! 

Hope you are all enjoying the blue skies,

Graham, Evangelos and Eunice

Fwd: Cadenza Project: Participants needed for research into music listening with hearing loss

*** IMPROVING MUSICAL EXPERIENCES FOR PEOPLE WITH HEARING LOSS ***

 

Dear all,

 

We are conducting new research as part of the Cadenza Project (https://cadenzachallenge.org/), which seeks to develop measures of audio quality for music for people with hearing loss. The broader aim of using these measures is to develop novel signal processing strategies (methods that change the audio quality characteristics of music) that can be used in hearing aids and consumer devices to improve experiences of music. 

 

We are planning an online listening experiment that will take place in the coming months, in which participants will be asked to listen to many excerpts of music, and rate these in terms of their audio quality, using several attributes developed by hearing aid users. 

 

We are now looking to recruit potential research participants to this online listening experiment. Participation would involve being invited to have a hearing test, and listening in your homes to music excerpts for up to 5 hours in total; this duration of listening will be separated into smaller manageable blocks of time. You would be compensated for this time, and for travel costs for any hearing tests. 

 

To be eligible to take part, prospective participants should be: 

 

·        Bilateral hearing aid users 

·        Have a hearing loss in the range of mild to moderately severe in their better ear 

o   Please note: At this point in the process, we have recruited a number of participants to this study, many with a moderately-severe/borderline severe hearing loss. Ideally, to have a balance and representation of hearing loss levels across the mild to moderately-severe range for this study, we are now looking to recruit more participants with a mild or moderate hearing loss. 

·        Between the ages of 18 and 90 

·        Either: 

o   Able to attend a university site (Leeds, or Nottingham) for a hearing test, OR: 

o   Able to provide a recent audiogram (within the last 6 months) 

·        Have access to a computer at home, with internet connection 

 

Unfortunately, at this current stage and design of the research, there are some exclusion criteria that would prevent participation, including: 

 

·        Cochlear implant use, or use of other hearing interventions besides acoustic hearing aids 

·        Diagnosis of Meniere's disease, or hyperacusis 

·        Use of a programmable ventriculo-peritoneal (PVP) shunt 

·        Severe tinnitus that is affected by music, or that interferes with your listening to music 

 

If you are interested in potentially taking part, please feel free to complete a short Eligibility Questionnaire, found using the following link – https://universityleeds.fra1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_aW3GNlCCZ4XoCFg

 

You will be asked at the end of this questionnaire to provide your contact details to us if desired, so we can be in touch with further details about the online listener experiment. 

 

If you have any questions at all at this point, please do not hesitate to get in touch with us at musicandhearingaids@leeds.ac.uk 

 

Prof. Alinka Greasley & Dr Scott Bannister

 

This research has received ethical clearance from the University of Leeds Ethics Committee (Approval Reference: FAHC 21-125), and is funded by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (Grant Reference: EP/W019434/1). 

 

 

 

Prof. Alinka Greasley

Professor of Music Psychology

Director of Research and Innovation

School of Music | University of Leeds | Leeds, LS2 9JT, UK

Email: a.e.greasley@leeds.ac.uk | Phone: + 44 113 343 4560