Friendly Reminder: SEMPRE Study Day- Abstract Submission Deadline 1 October 2025

Dear Friends and Colleagues,

This is a gentle reminder that the deadline for abstract submissions for the SEMPRE Student Study Day is fast approaching on 1 October 2025.

We warmly invite you to join this exciting event, which provides an excellent opportunity to showcase your work, engage with fellow doctoral and early career researchers, and connect with a dynamic community of colleagues and friends. Whether you're presenting your first paper or building on your research portfolio, this study day is designed to foster a supportive and collaborative atmosphere.

Full details, including submission guidelines and event information, can be found on our website:

SEMPRE Student Study Day

If you know of students or colleagues who may be interested, do feel free to share this reminder with them.

Thank you all. We look forward to receiving your abstracts and to sharing an engaging and welcoming day together.

Warm wishes,

Graham, Evangelos and Eunice

Album Release: Stonehenge – Luciana Hamond

Album Release: Stonehenge – Luciana Hamond

We are pleased to announce the release of the album Stonehenge by pianist and neoclassical composer, Luciana Hamond, professor in the undergraduate and graduate Music programs at the Federal University of Mato Grosso, in Cuiabá, Mato Grosso, Brazil. The album was made available on major digital platforms (Spotify, Amazon Music, Apple Music, Tidal, Deezer, Pandora, among others) on September 19, 2025.

Stonehenge brings together nine original solo piano compositions, conceived from improvisations created during Luciana's doctoral studies at University College London (UCL) – Institute of Education. These pieces emerged in moments of creative block, anxiety, and introspection, later transcribed and transformed into fully developed works. The result is an intimate and poetic record that inhabits the universe of neoclassical music, blending minimalism with the expressive depth of the piano tradition.

The tracks – Anguish and Peace, Blessed Day, Compassion, Sunflower, Echoes, I Am, Stonehenge, Procrastination, and Indecision – portray an aesthetic and existential journey where music becomes a space for healing, empowerment, and connection.

With this release, Luciana Hamond reaffirms her artistic trajectory marked by the integration of piano performance, academic research, and pedagogical innovation, consolidating her presence in both the national and international musical scenes.

Profa. Dra. Luciana Hamond

Coordenadora de Música - Licenciatura - FCA Departamento de Artes - UFMT 

Líder Grupo de Pesquisa Piano e Tecnologia, Coordenadora dos Projetos de Extensão Trilhas para Vídeos e Piano em Foco MT

CV Lattes completo: 

http://lattes.cnpq.br/2318740915392875 

Short CV in English: http://imerc.org/people/dr-luciana-hamond

piano music https://open.spotify.com/intl-pt/artist/4PQQDB0cgnHk2qxb0V0r1g?si=ZlmEWFCyTlyrFldfCK4oSw

The Jazz Promotion Network Freelance Project Manager Job Information

 FREELANCE PROJECT MANAGER- JOB INFORMATION. 

The Jazz Promotion Network (JPN) aims to advance and support professional development, information exchange and partnership opportunities for the UK & Irish jazz industry, artists and audiences. It is a collaborative network that enables the diverse UK & Irish jazz sector to thrive, innovate and inspire. You can find further information about our work on our website: https://jazzpromotionnetwork.org.uk/. 

We are looking for one or two freelance individuals to join our team and to work with us to support the jazz scene over a period of 14 months on the 'Routes into Jazz' (RiJ) jazz industry development pilot project, from October 2025 to November 2026. The Routes into Jazz scheme responds to the need for new, younger professionals to gain the skills to work in the jazz industry. Funding has now been confirmed from Creative Scotland and Arts Council England to run pilot years of the scheme in both England and Scotland, between the 2025 and 2026 JPN conferences. A small number of mentees in each country will visit a range of settings, such as key festivals and live events, record labels, radio production companies, agents and managers and jazz education projects. Their key industry mentor will help them decide on their chosen career direction, gain an understanding of the relevant networks and contacts required, and choose placements to provide deeper knowledge. Attendance at the JPN conferences will also provide useful wider contacts and help them gain confidence in networking. This process will result not only in significant benefits to each mentee of professionally guided support and active learning but also in a 'toolkit' and evaluation of the programme developed by the mentees, used to inform future editions of the scheme. You will have responsibility for managing one (or possibly both) of the pilots of the RiJ jazz industry development projects. Details of the work involved are given below. Subject to time availability, you may also assist with other JPN activities including preparation for JPN involvement in the 2026 edition of jazzahead in Bremen, the 2026 JPN Conference in Scotland, general admin and other projects. The workload involved is likely to include the following: 

●Working with JPN Trustees and other part time staff on announcement of scheme and recruitment of RiJ mentees and mentors.

●Attending the pre-JPN Conference meeting on November 5 2025 in Cardiff for bursary holders and potential RiJ mentees.

●Leading on organisations of interviews for the four RiJ Mentees along with JPNTrustees in mid-late November , and related communication after the meeting.

●Leading on identification of appropriate mentors for mentees, and organisations of dates for meetings.

●Leading on identification of appropriate placements in discussion with mentees and mentors, negotiating suitable visit dates in collaboration with placementhosts. Making in person visits to each placement.

●Choosing topics and trainers and dates for 3 online training sessions open to RiJmentees, JPN members and others. Marketing these via the JPN mailing list and elsewhere.

●Organising review meeting with mentors, mentees and JPN Trustees in summer2026.

●Preparing a Toolkit and report for be presented at the 2026 JPN Conference inScotland.

Other activities. 

Subject to time availability, the Project Manager may also assist with other JPN activities including preparation for JPN involvement In the 2026 edition of jazzahead in Bremen, the 2026 JPN Conference and other projects.

Line Management: 

The JPN Project Manager will report to the Chair or Vice-Chair of the JPN Board. 

Useful knowledge, experience and personal skills could include: 

●Good knowledge of the UK/Irish jazz scene as a whole and personal contacts with some key individuals within it.

●Experience of working with small/semi-professional organisations and volunteers, as well as larger scale bodies.

●Personal experience of mentoring/supporting less experienced colleagues.

●Excellent administrative and financial management abilities.

●Good face to face and written communication skills.

●Confidence in working without day-to-day support and using initiative to solve problems. 

Working location: 

The Project Manager will be expected to work from his/her own premises. The Project Manager coordinating the Routes into Jazz programme in Scotland (plus other activities) will be expected to be based in Scotland. The Project Manager coordinating the Routes into Jazz programme (and other activities) in England could be based in either Scotland or England but if based in Scotland would need in-depth knowledge of the English jazz scene. 

Those interested in applying should send a full CV and covering letter explaining what 

interests them in the position, and why they believe they would be the best candidate to appoint. Applications are also accepted as video files and audio recordings. Please state if you are interested in the Scottish position, English position, or both remits. The JPN is committed to promoting and maintaining an inclusive and supportive ethos and we welcome applications with equal enthusiasm regardless of race, colour, age, gender, sexual orientation, nationality or disability from across all the regional communities that we work with. 

Please direct enquiries and applications to comms@jazzpromotionnetwork.org.uk for the attention of Pauline Black, Chair, JPN. Closing date for applications will be midnight on 15th October 2025. Online Interviews are planned for 20th October 2025. The successful applicant will be expected to attend the JPN Conference in Cardiff on November 6/7. Expenses will be provided for this. 

Hours: 

Scottish position: 40 days @£200 per day, £8000 total 

English position: 40 days @£200 per day, £8000 total 

Contract type: Freelance Length of contract: 14 months total 

Jazz promotion network (JPN) bursary scheme

 JPN 2025 Bursary Scheme 

The 2025 JPN Showcase and Conference takes place in Cardiff from lunchtime on Thursday Nov 6 until 11 pm on Friday November 7 (https://jazzpromotionnetwork.org.uk), at the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama and Cardiff University. It is the UK's only dedicated conference for those involved in the jazz sector and provides an opportunity to see some of the most exciting bands working across the UK/Ireland and also contribute to conference sessions on common issues and challenges. It is a friendly event with under 200 delegates and previous bursary holders have found it an enjoyable experience (see below). 

JPN is offering bursaries to enable a limited number of interested people across the UK and Ireland to attend the conference. With support confirmed from the four UK Arts Councils we are able to offer a limited number of bursaries for applicants from any of these countries, though the number possible in each case differs according to the grant awarded. Some of these will offer partial support for travel and accommodation costs and others will offer support for all costs. Priority will be given to new attenders and those under 35 interested in gaining a deeper understanding of the jazz industry as a possible source of employment (as artist, promoter, educator, manager, broadcaster etc). 

Comments from some of our bursary holders over the past few years have included: 

It was a great opportunity to meet others from around the UK and Irish jazz scene, the majority having never met previously. It was inspiring to hear representatives of the Five Nations talk about their sectors' own trials and tribulations of restarting after the past two years and the successes that people have built on over their careers. 

For those interested in broadening their contact list in the UK jazz scene it is a great opportunity to meet others in your niche field. I feel it would be a great opportunity for young musicians and promoters who haven't had the experience or chance to meet those who've been there and done it. 

The network membership as a whole was very welcoming and generous with their time, which helped me to understand how my work as a promoter fits into the wider British and Irish scene. 

This was my first time attending JPN as well as my first time in the beautiful city of Belfast. I wasn't sure what to expect from the conference and was worried it might be quite a "dry" experience to attend as an artist. These expectations were unfounded as I had a wonderful time and made connections with some amazing musicians and creators on the Irish music scene. 

The JPN conference is an invaluable and unique opportunity to engage and share ideas with industry figures from across the UK and Ireland, and through attending this year's event in Birmingham I was able to strengthen existing connections (including meeting several e-mail only connections in person for the first time) as well as make new ones which will benefit not only my own career but those of the other artists I work with. 

Assessment Criteria 

Decisions on your application will be made by a 5 nations industry panel including members of the JPN board and will be assessed according to the criteria below. 

To be eligible for a bursary you must be: 

- Over 18 

- Working in jazz and improvised music or keen to explore this as a career option 

- Based in England, Scotland, Wales, Ireland or Northern Ireland 

- Available to attend the JPN Conference in Cardiff from November 6-7 2025. 

- Able to arrange and book your own travel and accommodation (The JPN Team can offer advice for anyone with particular access needs). 

We will take the following factors into account, when making decisions: 

- The positive impact attending the JPN conference will have on the applicant's career 

- Applicants U35 will be given priority, as potential future mentees in our Routes into Jazz industry development scheme. 

- The cost of travel in comparison to other applicants 

- Whether the applicant has previously been supported by JPN's bursary scheme. Priority will be given to new applicants. 

JPN will prioritise applications which promote a fair and diverse representation of applicants across all participating nations. 

How to Apply You need to complete a short google form. We will ask you for some factual information in addition to the following assessment questions: 

1. How will a bursary help you to attend the JPN conference? 

2. Please tell us your estimated travel and accommodation costs for the conference (please use journey planners, advanced tickets and budget accommodation to make this estimate) 

3. Tell us why attending the JPN Conference is important to the development of your career and what you hope to gain 

4. Let us know of any access needs you may have if attending the conference. 

The deadline to apply is 5 pm Friday September 26. Apply at THIS LINK. 

Performance Science^25

Dear friends and colleagues, 

The 2025/26 academic year marks 25 years of performance science at the Royal College of Music. 

Performance Science^25 is a series of events celebrating of the College's leadership in the field of performance science, highlighting the innovative (and often unconventional) perspectives and partnerships that have fuelled our research, teaching and knowledge exchange activities. 

I am delighted to invite you to the following roundtable discussion on 1 October: 

LEARNING IN THE SPOTLIGHT 

17:15-18:15 | 1 October 2025

RCM Performance Hall 

Exploring the very latest developments in performance education, from advancements in training to state-of-the-art technologies underpinning performance simulation, followed by a reception and tours of the RCM Performance Laboratory. 

Contributors to include

Roger Kneebone, Professor of Surgical Education and Engagement Science, Imperial College London 

Sarah Ranchev-Hale, Head of Imperial Enterprise Lab, Imperial College London 

George Waddell, Performance Research and Innovation Fellow, Royal College of Music 

Chair

Diana Salazar, Director of Programmes, Royal College of Music 

You can book free tickets for the event here: https://rcm.ac.uk/events/details/?id=3461548 

Details of other events will follow later in the year. 

With best wishes,

Aaron Williamon 

 
 
Aaron Williamon 
Professor of Performance Science 
 
CENTRE FOR 
PERFORMANCE SCIENCE  
 
The CPS is a partnership of 
Royal College of Music | Imperial College London 
 
www.PerformanceScience.ac.uk 

[new book] Seasoned Musicians Playing Beyond the 5th Decade; A Case Study on Symphony Orchestra Lifestyle and Ageing

[sent on behalf of Dr Warren Brodsky]

more information available here: https://global.oup.com/academic/product/seasoned-musicians-playing-beyond-the-5th-decade-9780198956471?cc=gb&lang=en&

Just Published (August 14th 2025) by Oxford University Press:

Seasoned Musicians Playing Beyond the 5th Decade; A Case Study on Symphony Orchestra Lifestyle and Ageing.

480 Pages. 6 Figures. 50 Tables. ISBN: 9780198956471

By: Warren Brodsky

This investigation into the vicissitudes of ageing and the orchestral community suggests there is a more positive and successful process of ageing than previously imagined. The book is based on over 50 interviews, a tapping study, two music performance studies, and a think-aloud protocol during deliberate practice. The participants were with full-time contract professional Symphony Orchestra musicians from the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra and the Halle Orchestra (UK), the Jerusalem Symphony Broadcasting Orchestra and the Israel Sinfoneitta Orchestra (Israel), and the Freiburg Philharmonic Orchestra (Germany).

PART I. Background and Foreground

1:Rationale, Methodology, and Book Outline

2:On Becoming and Being an Orchestra Musician

PART II. The Interview Study

3:Mental Considerations for Positive Ageing Among Orchestra Players

4:Motor Considerations for Positive Ageing Among Orchestra Players

5:Emotional Considerations for Positive Ageing Among Orchestra Players

6:Music Performance Considerations for Positive Ageing Among Orchestra Players

7:Environmental and Organizational Considerations for Positive Ageing Among Orchestra Players

Part III. Performance Analysis

8:Psychomotor Tapping

9:Performing Music, Part A: Think Aloud Protocols

10:Performing Music, Part B: Music Performance Evaluation

Part IV. Seasoned Musicians

11:Positive Ageing and Creative Resilience

12:Looking Back from Retirement

13:Finale: Musical Gerontivity

Appendix A. Music Score Notation

Appendix B. Keele Assessment of Auditory Style

References

Index

Fwd: CFP Extension - BFE/RMA Research Students' Conference 2026

MESSAGE FOLLOWS:

BFE and RMA Research Students' Conference 2026 
6th-8th January 2026, Royal Birmingham Conservatoire, UK
Website: https://www.bcu.ac.uk/conservatoire/research/rsc2026
Email: rsc2026birmingham@bcu.ac.uk

Deadline extension: following a request from the Musici Trust, we have decided to extend the deadline for proposals by one week to Thursday 25th September. Submissions are welcome involving the study of any type of music, but we draw particular attention to the Musici Trust's new prize for the best paper on music written before 1600. Full details are available on the conference website: https://www.bcu.ac.uk/conservatoire/research/rsc2026

Fwd: Music AI: concert+discussion

An opportunity to listen to joint improvisation between human pianists and an AI-inspired system. We will be streaming a concert from the MPI for Empirical Aesthetics next Wednesday 17/9 7-9 CET (i.e. starts 6pm in the uk). The concert features 3 fantastic pianists improvising live with a system - JHAIMI (Joint Human AI Musical Improvisation) - I have been developing as part of project funded by the VW foundation. The concert performance will be followed by a panel discussion.

Details and link https://www.aesthetics.mpg.de/en/newsroom/events/events/article/creative-musical-dialogues-between-human-and-machine-en.html 

Fwd: Call for Papers - Postgraduate Research in Music Education Symposium

Dear Colleagues,

I would like to remind you that the deadline for submissions to the sixth PG Research in Music Education Symposium at Trinity Laban is Monday 1^st of September. 

The symposium is open to PG music education research students investigating subjects from across music education and participation. It will take place online, on Friday 31st October 2025. It is free to attend and present. 

Please share this call with your current / recent students. It is an excellent opportunity for them to share work and develop international networks. Our last Symposium involved over 125 attendees from across five continents, and 20 presenters representing 18 HEIs across the globe. 

Link to the call: https://www.trinitylaban.ac.uk/whats-on/postgraduate-research-in-music-education-symposium/

Kind regards,

Dr. Robert Wells

Fwd: Invitation: Workshop on Women Musicians' Wellbeing – Sept 1, 2025

With apologies for cross-posting

Dear all,

We are pleased to invite you to the workshop "Women Musicians' Wellbeing", taking place on September 1, 2025, from 12:00 to 17:00 (CEST) at the Department of Musicology, University of Oslo, and streamed live on YouTube.

This event brings together researchers and orchestra members to explore the physical, psychological, and social dimensions of wellbeing in the lives of women music professionals.
The programme features contributions from Aaron Williamon (Royal College of Music, London), who will share insights from the Musical Impact project; Filipa M. B. Lã (UNED, Madrid), who will discuss the impact of menopause on singers and wind instrumentalists; and Ragnhild Bang Nes (University of Oslo), who will offer perspectives from her research on happiness. The day will conclude with a panel discussion including Clare Farr (Norwegian Radio Orchestra KORK) and Stacey Dixon (Stavanger Symphony Orchestra).

Lunch and refreshments will be provided, and participation is free of charge.
For further information, please visit the wellbeing workshop webpage https://www.uio.no/ritmo/english/news-and-events/events/workshops/2025/women-wellbeing/

We look forward to welcoming you to an engaging and thought-provoking afternoon.
Warm regards,
Sara D'Amario & Alexander Refsum Jensenius
Workshop Organizers

Sara D'Amario (she/her)
Marie Curie Postdoctoral Fellow
RITMO Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies in Rhythm, Time and Motion
University of Oslo

Fwd: CMMR 2025 'Sound, Music: Space, Place' - tutorials, demos and workshops tracks now live

Please do consider forwarding on this message to all those who you think might be interested within the computer and music technology, and music education fields.

 

In particular, I wanted to draw your attention to the tutorials track. These will be held on the first and last days of the symposium programme. Tutorials provide an excellent opportunity for researchers, practitioners, and educators to present teaching and learning content on topics relevant to the Computer Music Multidisciplinary Research community.

 

CMMR attracts a wide range of individuals from varied national and professional backgrounds. Represented disciplines include computer science and engineering; performance, composition and musicology; cognitive science and psychology; neuroscience and physiology; education; and design and interaction. Participants are drawn from various roles including established academics, post-doctoral and early career researchers; doctoral and graduate students; independent researchers and artists; industry practitioners and developers; and educators and accessibility advocates. 

 

So, if you would like to promote or popularise a particular tool or technology, then the Tutorial format could be the perfect vehicle!

 

More information can be found here:

https://cmmr2025.prism.cnrs.fr/call-for-tutorials/

 

Tutorial proposals should use the templates available here:

https://cmmr2025.prism.cnrs.fr/tutorial-submission-guidelines/

 

Many thanks!

Ross

 

 

Full information on CMMR 2025:

CMMR 2025 'Sound, Music: Space, Place' - tutorials, demos and workshops tracks now live

 

17th International Symposium on Computer Music Multidisciplinary Research (CMMR 2025) - this year's theme is 'Sound, Music: Space, Place' hosted by UCL in East London, 3 - 7 November 2025 

 

Conference website:

https://cmmr2025.prism.cnrs.fr/

CMT submission site:

https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/CMMR2025  

 

CMMR 2025 welcomes contributions focusing on the multidisciplinary intersection of sound, music, and computing. 

Under this year's theme 'Sound, Music: Space, Place' we particularly encourage submissions that engage with the spatial and situated dimensions of sonic practice. 

The conference is hosted by UCL's internationally renowned departments of  UCL Anthropology (within the forward-thinking UCL School for the Creative and Cultural Industries) and the Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL.

 

The conference is co-organised with the CNRS-AMU PRISM laboratory (Perception, Representations, Image, Sound, Music). 

CMMR creates an open and inclusive space dedicated to sharing a wide range an in-person event; all presenters are required to attend and present onsite.  of insights and innovations that bridge sound, music, and computing. CMMR 2025 will feature a diverse range of activities across the following tracks: regular papers, demonstrations, sound & music works, tutorials, and workshops.

Important Dates (deadlines are set at midnight Pacific Time (PT) on the specified dates.) 

Demo Track deadline: 21st July 2025

Notification of acceptance: 15 August 2025 

Tutorial track deadline: 25 July 2025

Notification of acceptance: 15 August 2025 

Workshop Track deadline: 25 July 2025

Notification of acceptance: 15 August 2025 

Sound & Music Track deadline: 25 July 2025

Notification of acceptance: 15 August 2025 

Registration 

Early registration: 22 August - 6 October 2025 

Normal registration: 7 October - 26 October 2025 

Late registration: 27 October - 7 November 2025 

Conference dates: 3 - 7 November 2025 

CMMR 2025 is committed to fostering an inclusive and welcoming conference environment. We especially encourage submissions from individuals traditionally underrepresented in computer music,  including women, people from the Global Majority, LGBTQIA+ communities, disabled people, non-traditional scholars (such as those in industry or otherwise outside academia, or from interdisciplinary fields), and individuals from diverse socioeconomic, cultural, and educational backgrounds.  

Further information including submission requirements can be found online. Conference logistics will follow soon. 

For all enquiries, including accessibility needs, please contact us at: cmmr25@ucl.ac.uk 

We look forward to your submissions! 

 

The CMMR 2025 Organising Committee 

 

Fwd: SYNTHposium - Call for Participation

***Call for Participation***
The Synthesizer Research Network (SyReN)
***DEADLINE*** FOR PROPOSALS: 31 JULY 2025
SYNTHposium, Saturday 11 October 2025
School of MUSIC, University of LEEDS, UK.

The Synthesizer Research Network invites participation in a one-day symposium event.
Participation can be in the form of a paper presentation, or performance-demonstration.
https://synthresearch.org/symposium

***Rationale and context***
The synthesizer is an instrument with a long history that has played an important role in popular and experimental music from the late 1960s onwards. The Synthesizer Research Network (SyReN) will initiate dialogue and collaborations between musicians, academic researchers, non-academic scholars, software and hardware engineers, composers, and other expert groups. These different communities share a common interest in the history, design, or musical practice of synthesizers. SyReN aims to provide an organised route for exchange of knowledge between these groups to explore how we can expand our understanding of how synthesizers are used by musicians (both past and present) and potentially use that knowledge to inform the design of future instruments.

Themes or questions for critical discussion:
Synthesizer practice: performance, composition, sound design
* How has synthesizer performance practice evolved over time, within specific genres?
* To what extent is the full potential of specific instruments exploited by musicians?
* Do specific categories of synthesizer have archetypal sounds and styles of performance practice that can be defined?
* What gaps currently exist in our knowledge of synthesizer practice?
Industrial design and musical practice
* Do variations in synthesizer design have an impact upon musical practice?
* Why are certain parameters or functions used more than others by musicians?
* What are the musical impacts of changes to synthesizer specifications?
* What gaps exist in our knowledge of synthesizer design?
Exploring the history and music of the synthesizer
* Has the perception of the synthesizer changed over time within different academic, professional, industrial, and enthusiast communities?
* How may our view of the synthesizer be augmented by broader cultural studies, including (but not limited to): race, disability, gender, sexuality and social class?
* What gaps currently exist in synthesizer scholarship and musicology?

Additionally, the over-arching question for all SyReN activities will be:
How can the network enhance synthesizer research and facilitate new discoveries that will be valuable to musicians, academics, engineers, and non-academic experts?

The deadline for submissions will be: 31 July 2025.
Please apply using the form available to download from our website: https://synthresearch.org/symposium
Forms and enquiries about the event should be emailed to Ewan Stefani - e.j.stefani@leeds.ac.uk with "SYREN 2025" in the subject line before the deadline.

Fwd: Participate in groovy music research study (US-based only)

Hi ya'll,

We are looking for volunteers for a scientific music research study. This study is an exploration of groove—how and why we feel a beat the way we do. Your participation would help us advance our scientific and musical understanding of groove. We'd love it if you would be willing to help us out!

The study will only take 15–20 minutes of your time to complete. All you will do is listen to some rhythmic patterns and tap buttons on your keyboard. Unfortunately, there would be no compensation to you, other than the good feeling of helping science.

Only adults (18 years or older) who are currently inside the USA may participate. If you are interested in participating, please use a computer (i.e., a device with a keyboard) to navigate to https://ccml.gtcmt.gatech.edu/Exploring_Groove.

If you have any questions, feel free to contact me. And feel free to forward this email to others!

Nat Condit-Schultz

Director of Graduate Studies

Georgia Tech School of Music

Principal Investigator, Computational and Cognitive Musicology Lab

Fwd: [DMRN-LIST] CMMR 2005 - paper deadline extension + all further tracks live

  [apologies for cross-posting]

CMMR 2025 'Sound, Music: Space, Place' - Extended deadline (regular papers) + all further tracks now live (tutorials, demos, workshops)

By popular request, the submission deadline for regular papers has been extended. The new deadline is 1 July at 12:00 AM Pacific Time, which is 2 July at 8:00 AM UK time.

17th International Symposium on Computer Music Multidisciplinary Research (CMMR 2025) - this year's theme is 'Sound, Music: Space, Place' hosted by UCL in East London, 3 - 7 November 2025

Conference website: https://cmmr2025.prism.cnrs.fr/
CMT submission site: https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/CMMR2025 

CMMR 2025 welcomes contributions focusing on the multidisciplinary intersection of sound, music, and computing.

Under this year's theme 'Sound, Music: Space, Place' we particularly encourage submissions that engage with the spatial and situated dimensions of sonic practice.

The conference is hosted by UCL's internationally renowned departments of UCL Anthropology (within the forward-thinking UCL School for the Creative and Cultural Industries) and the The Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL. The conference is co-organised with the CNRS-AMU PRISM laboratory (Perception, Representations, Image, Sound, Music).

CMMR creates an open and inclusive space dedicated to sharing a wide range of insights and innovations that bridge sound, music, and computing. CMMR 2025 will feature a diverse range of activities across the following tracks: regular papers, demonstrations, sound & music works, tutorials, and workshops. CMMR 2025 is planned to be an in-person event; all presenters are required to attend and present onsite.


Important Dates (deadlines are set at midnight Pacific Time (PT) on the specified dates.)

Regular paper deadline (extended): 1 July 2025 
Notification of acceptance: 15 August 2025
Camera-ready version deadline: 12 September 2025
Author registration deadline : 21 September 2025

Demo Track deadline: 14 July 2025 
Notification of acceptance: 15 August 2025

Tutorial track deadline: 15 July 2025 
Notification of acceptance: 15 August 2025

Workshop Track deadline: 15 July 2025 
Notification of acceptance: 15 August 2025

Sound & Music Track deadline: 25 July 2025 
Notification of acceptance: 15 August 2025

Registration
Early registration: 22 August - 6 October 2025
Normal registration: 7 October - 26 October 2025
Late registration: 27 October - 7 November 2025


Conference dates: 3 - 7 November 2025

CMMR 2025 is committed to fostering an inclusive and welcoming conference environment. We especially encourage submissions from individuals traditionally underrepresented in computer music,  including women, people from the Global Majority, LGBTQIA+ communities, disabled people, non-traditional scholars (such as those in indurty or otherwise outside academia, or from interdisciplinary fields), and individuals from diverse socioeconomic, cultural, and educational backgrounds. 

Further information including submission requirements can be found online. Conference logistics will follow soon.

For all enquiries, including accessibility needs, please contact us at: cmmr25@ucl.ac.uk

We look forward to your submissions!

The CMMR 2025 Organising Committee

Fwd: Special Collection in Music & Science on "Explaining music with AI" published

Dear list members,

 

We are delighted to announce the publication of a special collection in the journal, Music & Science, on the topic of 'Explaining music with AI: Advancing the scientific understanding of music through computation'. The collection has been guest edited by David Meredith, Anja Volk and Tom Collins.

 

The special collection has been published open access and is available online at

https://journals.sagepub.com/topic/collections-mns/mns-1-explaining_music_with_ai/mns

 

The collection includes an editorial overview and seven articles as follows:

 

Perception of Chord Sequences Modeled with Prediction by Partial Matching, Voice-Leading Distance, and Spectral Pitch-Class Similarity: A New Approach for Testing Individual Differences in Harmony Perception, by Matthew Eitel, Nicolas Ruth, Peter Harrison, Klaus Frieler, and Daniel Müllensiefen.

https://doi.org/10.1177/20592043241257654

 

The Interconnections of Music Structure, Harmony, Melody, Rhythm, and Predictivity, by Shuqi Dai, Huan Zhang, and Roger B. Dannenberg. 

https://doi.org/10.1177/20592043241234758

 

End-to-End Bayesian Segmentation and Similarity Assessment of Performed Music Tempo and Dynamics without Score Information, by Corentin Guichaoua, Paul Lascabettes and Elaine Chew. 

https://doi.org/10.1177/20592043241233411

 

Revealing Footprints of Ancient Sources in Recent Eurasian and American Folk Music Cultures Using PCA of the Culture-Dependent Moment Vectors of Shared Melody Types, by Zoltán Juhász. 

https://doi.org/10.1177/20592043241228982

 

Melodic Differences Between Styles: Modeling Music With Step Inertia, by Matt Chiu and David Temperley. 

https://doi.org/10.1177/20592043231225731

 

Mel2Word: A Text-Based Melody Representation for Symbolic Music Analysis, by Saebyul Park, Eunjin Choi, Jeounghoon Kim and Juhan Nam. 

https://doi.org/10.1177/20592043231216254

 

Understanding Feature Importance in Musical Works: Unpacking Predictive Contributions to Cluster Analyses, by Cameron J. Anderson and Michael Schutz.

https://doi.org/10.1177/20592043231216257

 

We hope that collection will provide a useful resource for researchers interested in using computational methods to advance our understanding of music.

 

Kind regards,

David Meredith