The Oxford Handbook of Early Childhood Learning and Development in Music

https://academic.oup.com/edited-volume/55204?login=false

Margaret S. Barrett (ed.), Graham F. Welch (ed.)

Published: 15 November 2023

https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190927523.001.0001

Online ISBN: 9780190927554

Print ISBN: 9780190927523

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Fwd: [DMRN-LIST] Timbre Tools hackathon, 23-25 February 2024

On 23-25 February 2024, we'd like to invite you to take part in the first Timbre Tools Hackathon. This is a fun and informal event organised by the Communication Acoustics Lab at the Centre for Digital Music (C4DM) of Queen Mary University of London. 

Here are some details on the event: 

https://comma.eecs.qmul.ac.uk/timbre-tools-hackathon/ 

The basic idea is to spend a couple of days developing an interesting tool that supports the creative process of the digital instrument maker through a more sound-based, timbre-first practice. Aka a timbre tool!

Activities will take place at QMUL's Mile End campus but remote participation from anywhere in the UK and abroad is welcomed. 

This event is a great opportunity to collaborate with researchers at C4DM and the strong UK and international music and audio technology community in one place. Participants from all stages of practice and research are welcomed.

You can register here: 
https://forms.office.com/e/MRfVeSMSFn 

We have started putting together a living document of resources for working with and designing timbre: https://github.com/comma-lab/timbre-resources  

Community contributions via pull requests are welcomed.

If you have any comments or questions about the hackathon, please email c (dot) saitis (at) qmul (dot) ac (dot) uk. Please also feel free to forward these details to your networks or anyone you think may be interested.

Best wishes

Haokun, Jordie, Bleiz, and Charis

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Dr Charalampos Saitis
Lecturer (Assistant Professor), Queen Mary University of London

http://comma.eecs.qmul.ac.uk/  

c.saitis@qmul.ac.uk

iMerc Newsletter #3 (2023_11)

Fwd: Research Special - out now!

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Today - it's a research special! Our newest Inspiring Voices episode is a research special featuring an in depth conversation with Professor Graham Welch from University College London's Institute of Education. Listen to this fascinating research deep dive now.   Inspiring Voices is a great listen for teachers, school leaders, teaching students, community workers, music leaders, singing leaders, choir leaders, charity and mental health workers.   You can find our podcast on all of your favourite podcast platforms including - Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google Podcasts and Amazon Music. Videos are also available on our YouTube Channel.   Have a listen and let us know what you think - we'd love to hear from you! You can also leave our podcast a review on Apple or Spotify.   With best wishes, Celi Barberia Joint Head of Foundation Let's talk singing research Baz talks to leading researcher Professor Graham Welch about why humans sing, why and how it is good for our health and wellbeing, and how people involved in this work should become researchers themselves, to help increase our understanding.   Listen on Spotify Watch on YouTube More Inspiring Voices episodes   "If you can't say it, sing it" - Sophie Garner on the power of songwriting with young people.   "Co-creators in the same room" - Aga Serugo-Lugo on the magic of group singing and creating connection.   'Singing and music-making in secure settings' - Chris Morris on working in the most challenging settings.   "You couldn't go and have a war with someone you've been singing with" - Jane Wheeler on her international work.   Being real - the effective practitioner - Mark Bick on community music and working with vulnerable young people.   Listen to the whole series. Listen now on: Spotify: https://bit.ly/IVPodSpotify Apple: https://apple.co/45ZCVTx Amazon Music: https://amzn.to/3raZXrF Google: https://bit.ly/IVPodGoogle   Watch on: YouTube Playlist Watch the trailer below for a taste of the first season of Inspiring Voices Follow Us Sing Up Foundation, Gateshead Business Centre, Mulgrave Terrace, Gateshead NE8 1AN 0204 566 9666 Share on social Go to site

Everybody is musical, Professor Welch on the Sångfokus Podden

https://open.spotify.com/episode/2mMnfPfxZ0Y8g0cBiIgMJ5?si=QQI2g0NqSy6ayPz5d-XyhA

Cadenza Virtual Workshop - Improving Music Listening for Those with Hearing Loss

please see below details regarding a free online workshop held in December as part of the Cadenza Project.

 

Cadenza virtual workshop - Cadenza-2023: Improving music listening for those with hearing loss

 

Workshop will be held 8th December 2023, and it is free and online.

 

More info and to register: https://cadenzachallenge.org/cadenza2023-workshop/ 

 

We're pleased to announce our first workshop that will review the first ever machine learning challenge targeted to improve music for those with a hearing loss. It will include talks on what the challenge was, how entrants approached the problem, what our listening panel thought of the processed music, and guest lectures. You will also get a chance to input on our future challenges.

 

Hearing loss causes problems when listening to music. It can make picking out lyrics more difficult, with music becoming duller as high frequencies disappear. This reduces the enjoyment of music and can lead to disengagement from listening and music-making, reducing the health and well-being effects people otherwise get from music.

 

The Cadenza workshops are designed to stimulate the development of systems to improve music processing for people with a hearing loss.

 

The aim of this virtual workshop is to report on the First Cadenza Challenge. The challenge ran from March to August 2023, presenting two tracks: listening to music using headphones, and listening to music in a car.

 

PS we also have a live ICASSP 2024 challenge on a similar topic.

 

All the best,

 

Scott.

 

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Dr Scott Bannister (he/him)

Postdoctoral Research Fellow

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

Fwd: 27th International Conference on Digital Audio Effects (DAFx24) - Call for papers

Dear Music and Science List,

Apologies for cross-posting. Please see below the Call for Papers for DAFx24. 

Important Info

Full paper submission deadline: 20th March 2024

Conference dates: 3-7 September 2024

Location: Guildford, UK (35 minutes by fast train from London)

Website (work in progress): dafx24.surrey.ac.uk

Call for Papers

We are pleased to announce that the 27th International Conference on Digital Audio Effects (DAFx24) will be organised by the Institute of Sound Recording (IoSR) at the University of Surrey. 

The conference will be hosted on the university campus and will feature oral presentations, poster and demo sessions, keynote addresses, and tutorials. The social program – including a welcome reception, concert and banquet – will offer opportunities for more informal interaction.

This annual conference brings together research practitioners across the globe working with digital audio processing for music and speech, sound design, sound art, acoustics and related applications. Original contributions for DAFx24 are encouraged in, but not limited to, the following topics:

• Capture and analysis
  
• Representation, transformation and modelling
  
• Transmission and resynthesis
  
• Effects and manipulation
  
• Perception, psychoacoustics and evaluation
  
• Spatial sound analysis, estimation, coding and synthesis
  
• Source separation
  
• Physical modelling, virtual acoustic and analogue models
  
• Sound synthesis, composition and sonification
  
• Hardware and software design
  
• Music Information Retrieval and Intelligent Audio Engineering
  
• Sound for Virtual and Augmented reality
  
• Applications of digital audio effects
  
• Multisensory presentation and digital effects
  

This year we especially welcome submissions addressing:

• Synthesis for AR/MR/VR and spatial audio reproduction
  
• Machine Learning-based methods for all topics above
  

Prospective authors are invited to submit full-length papers, eight pages maximum, for both oral and poster presentations, by March 20th 2024.

Submitted papers must be camera-ready and formatted according to the templates and instructions available at the DAFx24 website. All papers have to be submitted through the EasyChair conference management system and are subject to peer review. Acceptance may be conditional upon changes being made to the paper as directed by the reviewers. Proceedings with the final versions of the accepted contributions will be made freely accessible on the DAFx website after the conference closure.

Volumes 2008 to 2023 of DAFx proceedings are now indexed in Scopus and this will apply similarly to DAFx24 proceedings. Extended versions of the best DAFx24 papers will be invited to submit for publication to an upcoming Special Issue of the Journal of the Audio Engineering Society.

Organising Committee

Enzo De Sena (IoSR, Surrey)

Annika Neidhardt (IoSR, Surrey)

Christos Chousidis (IoSR, Surrey)

Joshua D. Reiss  (QMUL)

Mark D. Plumbley (CVSSP, Surrey)

Randall Ali (IoSR,
Surrey)

Russell Mason (IoSR, Surrey)

Stefan Bilbao (Edinburgh)

Amal Emthyas (IoSR, Surrey)

Joshua Mannall (IoSR, Surrey)

Marcela Rada (IoSR, Surrey)

Matteo Scerbo (IoSR, Surrey)

Will J. Cassidy (IoSR, Surrey)

Best regards,

   Enzo

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Enzo De Sena

Associate Professor (Reader)

Director, Institute of Sound Recording

Department of Music & Media

University of Surrey

Stag Hill, University Campus, Guildford GU2 7XH, UK

Office: 08aBC03

Email: e.desena@surrey.ac.uk

URL: desena.org

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/enzodesena