Call for Papers: Art & Sound Symposium, 4 July 2015
Theme: 'Place. Art. Life.'
Venue: Phoenix Square and Curve Theatre, Leicester.
The concept of 'place' is prominent across the arts and life in
general. Place can be created or preserved. It encapsulates us,
surrounding our daily lives and driving our philosophies of meaning
and aesthetics.
Place can be manipulated, imagined and abstracted; yet, it continues
to remain as a constant, often long after time has left it behind.
Art & Sound is a symposium series funded by De Montfort University
Leicester, with a special focus on initiating discussion across
disciplines and art forms, and between academics and practitioners. It
aims to run bi-annually, each time taking a new theme and opening up
discourse amongst a greater number of the arts, welcoming
contributions from both the digital and fine arts.
As the first event in a series, we welcome papers from established and
early-career researchers alike, focused on – but not restricted to –
the presence and prevalence of 'place' in art and daily life. The
deadline for the submissions of papers is: 31 May 2015.
Notification of results: 5 June 2015
To apply, please send a short abstract (c.200 words) and biography to
info@artandsoundsymposium.com
To register, please complete the form at:
http://artandsoundsymposium.com/index.php/registration/
The final date for registration is 30 June 2015.
Professor Peter Stollery & Dr Suk-Jun Kim (University of Aberdeen)
will be presenting keynotes at the event, discussing between them
aspect of 'preserving place' and 'body in place'. They will also be
presenting a concert of work exploring place in the evening of the
symposium.
The event will run over the course of one day on the 4th of July 2015,
between 10am and 5pm, at Leicester's Phoenix Square A concert will
also take place in the evening from 7pm at the Curve Theatre Several
key venues within Leicester's Cultural Quarter will be used throughout
the day. There will be no charge to attend the event, however
transport, accommodation and costs are the responsibility of
delegates.
For more information about the event, please contact:
info@artandsoundsymposium.com
Art & Sound Symposium can be found online:
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Twitter: https://twitter.com/art_sound_leics
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Tuesday, May 19, 2015
Monday, May 18, 2015
Fwd: FW: SIG NOTICE: Fw: Cellos in the Amazon event
Cellos in the Amazon: How Music Changed Lives - A conversation with BBC producer Mark Rickards
Start: May 26, 2015 06:30 PM
End: May 26, 2015 07:30 PM
Location: UCL, Wilkins Building, Haldane Room, Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT
BBC Senior Producer Mark Rickards explores how a radio programme he made changed the lives of young aspiring musicians in the Brazilian Amazon. The stories of those struggling to make music against all the odds in the rainforest touched an audience worldwide, with extraordinary consequences.
One listener felt so compelled to help that she organized a delivery of instruments to Brazil, an extraordinary total of 800 cellos and violins being sent to the city of Belem.
Join Mark Rickards to hear the inspiring stories of those determined to play music in the most difficult of conditions. We will have the rare opportunity to listen also to one of these virtuosos. A wine reception will follow.
Friday, May 15, 2015
Making a difference through music
Making a difference through music
Graham F Welch Chair of Music Education UCL Institute of Education Monday 11 May 2015
Early Years & Primary Education | Secondary & Post-Compulsory Education | Arts Based Educational Research
Where music making takes place, it often co-exists in a world that is characterised by poverty, disease, and child mortality (cf Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation; UN Human Development Index). Human development factors are deteriorating in many countries (being related to increased malnutrition and increased poverty globally). Childcare and education are reported to be highly variable in quality, often separated and not mutually supportive (UNESCO, 2010). Of an estimated 101 million children not in school, more than half are girls (UNICEF, 2010). However, we know that the economic health of a nation is closely linked to the education of the female population, including the mothers. We also know that 'Good nutrition, effective health care and access to good pre-school facilities can mitigate social disadvantage and lead to improved learning achievement. Yet early childhood provision continues to be marked by neglect.' (UNESCO, 2010). Furthermore, 'Literacy remains among the most neglected of all education goals, with about 759 million adults lacking literacy skills today. Two-thirds are women.' (UNESCO, op.cit.). UN and EC statutory bodies also recognise that educational policies (amongst others) need to address the 'cultural distance' that gender, social and ethnic factors can create between schooling and marginalized people.
structured and successful music education makes a positive difference to well-being across the lifespan
Yet, within this challenging global context, it is possible for us to effect change for the better. In particular, there is a growing body of research and other empirical evidence that structured and successful music education makes a positive difference to well-being across the lifespan, for adults as well as children – benefits that are intellectual, emotional, physical and social, as well as musical and cultural. Such evidence is found in the wealth of growing literature from the neurosciences, social sciences (psychology, sociology and education) and medicine. These positive examples of the wider impact of engaging in music arise from studies that cross national and international boundaries, including research from Chile, Costa Rica, Venezuela, Israel, Eire, Afghanistan, Australia, South Africa, Portugal, USA, Finland, Northern Ireland, England, Kenya, Taiwan, Germany and Italy.
There is evidence, for example, that music education can support and nurture auditory function, phonological development and literacy (e.g., Moreno & Bidelman, 2014; Overy, 2006; Putkinen et al, 2015; Strait & Kraus, 2011; Welch et al, 2012). With very young children, new Australian longitudinal data suggest that rich and shared early musical experiences in the home can help overcome social disadvantage by promoting children's vocabulary, numeracy, attentional and emotional regulation, and prosocial skills (Williams et al 2015). Furthermore, such findings are in line with UK longitudinal data that academic progress up to the first years of secondary school that 'defies the odds of disadvantage' is stimulated in homes where parenting is a process of 'active cultivation' that facilitates and nurtures children's cognitive and social skills allowing children to benefit from what the educational system has to offer (Siraj-Blatchford et al, 2011). At the opposite end of the age range, other studies have reported on the social, emotional and cognitive benefits of participation in community musical activities amongst older people (Clift et al, 2011; Creech et al, 2014; Davidson & Fedele, 2011).
we should seek to ensure that music has a central place in any educational system
Collectively, such studies reflect a growing recognition amongst scientists that musical behaviour is central to our humanity, to what it means to be human. Music is multiply sited in the brain and, according to archaeologists, predates language. We are musical by design. Therefore, we should seek to ensure that music has a central place in any educational system that aims to develop the whole person. It is not an option for policy makers (neither in preschool, compulsory schooling, further and higher education, nor in community education) if we really want to use research to address key human global challenges.
Monday, May 11, 2015
Fwd: FW: Music SIG Seminar, Monday 18 May 4-5pm in room 834
Music Education Special Interest Group
Research Seminar Announcement
'Flow' in the musical activities of novice and advanced musicians
Marcos Araújo (PhD student at the Department of Communication and Art of University of Aveiro, Portugal)
Monday 18th May
16.00 – 17.00
Room: 834
Further details from Lucy Green, l.green@ioe.ac.uk
All are welcome
Abstract
In this seminar Marcos will present studies on flow in the context of music practice. In the first part he will briefly review studies that show how the idea and promotion of flow can be beneficial to music learning processes. In the second part he presents two aspects of his current research. The first concerns a cross-sectional survey to investigate the dispositions to flow in practising alone, and to what extent some efficient practice behaviours adopted by advanced musicians are related to their flow dispositions. The second involved a short intervention with nine novice classical guitar students from a Portuguese conservatoire. It consisted of i) an informal lecture about informal learning approaches (e.g. learning by ear, experimentation, improvisation, use of figures, tablature, etc.); ii) group learning activities, with the main purpose being the application of classical techniques in other musical genres; and iii) a 'musical moment', where the students presented their own shared musical outcomes. The participants filled in a questionnaire at the end of the activity, assessing flow and motivation for learning guitar in the future. An interview was also conducted with the teacher two months after the activity. The findings shed light on how daily practice can heighten positive affective responses (flow) in musicians vulnerable to the requirements and difficulties of deliberate practice. It leads to questions about the optimization and sustaining of flow in daily practice, offering future directions in the study of effective engagement with deliberate music practice.
Marcos Araújo is a former Erasmus student at the UCL IoE, and a member of the Music Education Special Interest Group. His PhD is in the music doctoral program at the Department of Communication and Art of University of Aveiro, Portugal. Member of INET/MD – Instituto de Etnomusicologia – Centro de Estudos de Música e Dança and the European Flow-Researchers Network (EFRN). He has presented his research in some of the main conferences on musical performance such as PERFORMA-2013 (Porto Alegre, Brazil), International Symposium on Performance Science 2013 (Vienna, Austria), and Performance Studies Network 3rd International Conference (Cambridge, UK), and published in peer-reviewed journals and publishers such as Psychology of Music and Springer. His research interests include flow and the cognitive and affective processes underlying music practices. As a musician, Marcos has been giving concerts both as a solo and chamber classical guitarist in Brazil, Portugal and UK.
Friday, May 8, 2015
Singing belongs to everyone - How to get millions of children singing within the span of a generation
Singing belongs to everyone - How to get millions of children singing within the span of a generation
Maybe this sentence sounds familiar, but we have used it also for our new international inspirational guide for choirs, published by Koor&Stem. It is a guide for all choirs, singers and choral conductors who want to share their passion for singing with children and youngsters.
The basic idea of the guide is that the environment in which children are brought up plays a crucial role in the choice of their artistic hobbies and that there is a fantastic potential in the European choir community to convince their local communities of the importance of singing for children: all in all, there are 1 million choirs and 37 million singers all over Europe. One effort of a choir may just be that decisive nudge that will start the ball rolling. The new inspirational guide therefore describes small and large-scale initiatives from choirs, schools, municipalities and cultural organisations from all over Europe, designed to get children singing and hopes that it will give choirs ideas to take similar initiatives.
The brochure has been published in English, Dutch, French. The German version will be available next week. It can be downloaded freely on the Singing Cities website - and on the website of Koor&Stem www.koorenstem.be. I attach the English version and hope you are able to share it with others.
Kind regards,
Lucille Lamaker
Lucille Lamaker
Directie-assistent
Koor&Stem vzw
Organisatie voor vocale muziek
Zirkstraat 36
2000Antwerpen
tel. +32 (0) 3 237 96 43
Thursday, May 7, 2015
Fwd: May 26 seminar+concert
Tuesday, May 26, 2015 Artaud Performance Center 001
Brunel University
16:oo – 18:oo Seminar
"Synaethesia, Performance, Immersive Atmospheres"
A conversation between Noam Sagiv, Sérgio Basbaum, Oded Ben-Tal, & Johannes Birringer,
focusing on new interdisciplinary research perspectives that link psychology, anthropology,
architecture & the performing arts
19:00 Concert
BVA AGM, GUNNAR RUGHEIMER LECTURE & STUDY DAY: MANAGEMENT OF THE YOUNG VOICE
This study day will explore the management, training
and therapy of the young voice. It will incorporate
identifying problems, handling the changing voice and
will look at potential routes to therapy where necessary.
It will address issues for both female and male
adolescent singers as well as children and will extend
into the realms of hearing and speech therapy.
The day will also include the Gunnar Rugheimer Lecture,
this year presented by Graham Welch.
Wednesday, May 6, 2015
Fwd: World Symposium on Choral Music 11: Apply now!
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Fwd: PhD Studentships available - WRocAH network York, Leeds and Sheffield Universities
Dear all,
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Please see below details of three PhD studentships that are available from this Autumn as part of a WRoCAH research network (one PhD available at Sheffield, Leeds and York Universities) Expressive nonverbal communication in ensemble performance.
The PhDs are interdisciplinary and all have scope to fit the backgrounds of relevant students. You may be from a music background with interest in empirical study and science behind performance or you may come form a computer science / engineering background and be interested in performance / singing.
Please advertise to anyone who may be interested
Best wishes,
Helena Daffern
Dr Helena Daffern
Lecturer
Lecturer
Director of York Centre for Singing Science
York Audio Network Coordinator
Audio Lab
Department of Electronics
University of York
YO10 5DD
Email: helena.daffern@york.ac.uk
Phone: 01904 32 2350
York Audio Network Coordinator
Audio Lab
Department of Electronics
University of York
YO10 5DD
Email: helena.daffern@york.ac.uk
Phone: 01904 32 2350
Tuesday, May 5, 2015
Fwd: Online Experiment on Music, Emotion & Relaxation
Dear all,
I am a PhD candidate in Music Psychology/Neuroscience at the Freie
Universität in Berlin. I'm currently looking for participants for an
online experiment on an interesting research I'm working on. The topic
is music, emotion & relaxation. The experiment is about 20-25 minutes
long and consists of listening to a few musical pieces. If you would
like to help out, please click on one of the following four links
according to what month is your birthday:
between January and March: http://ww3.unipark.de/uc/koelsch/3fb8/
between April and June: http://ww3.unipark.de/uc/koelsch/4a53/
between July and September: http://ww3.unipark.de/uc/koelsch/db88/
between October and December: http://ww3.unipark.de/uc/koelsch/7ae7/
Thank you very much and best regards,
Liila Taruffi
I am a PhD candidate in Music Psychology/Neuroscience at the Freie
Universität in Berlin. I'm currently looking for participants for an
online experiment on an interesting research I'm working on. The topic
is music, emotion & relaxation. The experiment is about 20-25 minutes
long and consists of listening to a few musical pieces. If you would
like to help out, please click on one of the following four links
according to what month is your birthday:
between January and March: http://ww3.unipark.de/uc/koelsch/3fb8/
between April and June: http://ww3.unipark.de/uc/koelsch/4a53/
between July and September: http://ww3.unipark.de/uc/koelsch/db88/
between October and December: http://ww3.unipark.de/uc/koelsch/7ae7/
Thank you very much and best regards,
Liila Taruffi
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