Fwd: Reminder: Call for Papers: "Intelligent Music Systems and Applications" (Special Issue of the ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology)

Please re-distribute (and accept our apologies for any cross-posting)

We are happy to announce the following call for papers:

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ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology
Special Issue on Intelligent Music Systems and Applications

http://www.cp.jku.at/journals/tist_imsa_2015_cfp.html
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With the advent of music information retrieval (MIR), intelligent
technologies have become an essential part of music systems and
applications. This is evidenced by today's omnipresence of digital
online music stores and streaming services, which rely on music
recommenders, automatic playlist generators, and music browsing
interfaces. A large amount of MIR research leading to intelligent
music applications deals with the extraction of musical and acoustic
information directly from the audio signal using signal processing
techniques. Other strategies exploit contextual aspects of music, not
present in the signal, for example, community meta-data and trails of
user interaction, as found, for instance, on social media platforms.
Recently, also user-centric aspects are being considered, such as
affect, personality, and user context. Intelligent music systems have
also been developed as music creation tools, in which case the
modeling of a composer's preferences or of genre/stylistic features
are required.


Topics of interest
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This special issue addresses all aspects of music information, i.e.,
music content, context, and user aspects. Highest quality research
that has not been published, nor is under review elsewhere, targeting
one or more of the following topics in the context of intelligent
music systems and applications is welcome:
• Music Information Systems
• Music Recommendation and Playlist Generation
• Intelligent Music and Audio Browsing Interfaces
• Games Based on Intelligent Music Analysis
• Automatic Accompaniment or Real-time Tracking of Performances
• Music Synthesis
• Automatic Composition
• Automatic Lyrics Generation
• MIR in the Music Production Domain
• Semantic Content Analysis, Knowledge Extraction, and Music Indexing
• Collaborative Tags, Social Media Mining, Network Analysis
• User Modeling and Personalized Music Systems
• Personality, Emotion, and Affect
• Hybrid Systems using Content and Context
• Multimedia Approaches to MIR and Cross-media Recommendation
• Large-Scale Music Retrieval
• Evaluation, Mining of Ground Truth, and Data Collections


Schedule
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Paper Submission Deadline September 27, 2015
Notification after First Review Cycle December 20, 2015
Paper Revisions Deadline February 21, 2016
Final Notification April 24, 2016
Submission of Camera Ready Paper May 22, 2016


Manuscript submission
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Please submit your manuscript through the ACM TIST submission system
at http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/tist (select "Special Issue:
Intelligent Music Systems and Applications" as the manuscript type).
Submissions must adhere to the ACM TIST instructions and guidelines
for authors available at http://tist.acm.org/authors.html.


Guest editors
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Markus Schedl Johannes Kepler University, Linz, Austria
Yi-Hsuan Yang Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan
Perfecto Herrera Universitat Pompeu Fabra and Escola Superior de
Musica de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain


Contact
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If you have any further questions, please contact us via e-mail:
Markus Schedl (markus.schedl@jku.at),
Yi-Hsuan Yang (yang@citi.sinica.edu.tw),
and Perfecto Herrera (perfecto.herrera@upf.edu)

Fwd: Reminder: 2nd Call for papers | Post-in-progress: 3rd International Post-Graduate Forum for Studies in Music and Dance

Post-ip'15 - Call for papers

http://postip.web.ua.pt/welcome_ENG.html

2nd Call

- July 1st until August 31st, 2015
- Notification of acceptance – September 30th, 2015

The Institute of Ethnomusicology – the Centre for Studies in Music and Dance (INET-md) - and the Department of Communication and Art (DeCA) of the University of Aveiro, are pleased to announce Post-in-progress: 3rd International Post-Graduate Forum for Studies in Music and Dance, open to all post-graduate students and researchers who have not yet obtained their doctoral degree. We are delighted to welcome Dr. Gregory Barz (Blair School of Music, Vanderbilt University), Dr. Kiri Miller (Brown University) and Dr. Stefan Ostersjo (Lund University) as our keynote speakers.   

Post-in-progress will take place at the University of Aveiro, Portugal, between the 9th and 11th of December 2015, and aims to provide a platform for debate and presentations of scientific research, within (but not limited to) the following research areas:

Ethnomusicology and Popular Music Studies 
Historical and Cultural Studies in Music 
Dance Studies 
Creation, Theory and Music Technologies 
Performance Studies and Performance as Artistic Research 
Education and Music in the Community 
Music and Media 
Jazz Studies 
Historical Approaches to Musical Performance 
Videos and Documentaries in Music and Dance
 
The organising committee welcomes the following proposals:

- Communications with a maximum duration of 20 minutes;
- Conference-Recital-Performance (music or dance) with a maximum duration of 35 minutes (proposals must specify the duration); 
- Poster;
- Panels (proposals must detail the themes and the number of speakers – 3 maximum, with a maximum total duration of 90 minutes); 
- Films about music and dance, preferably of a documentary nature (films must be submitted by their directors/authors or by people involved in its creation)
Other forms of presentation may also be proposed to the organising committee.

Abstracts, with a maximum of 350 words, should be submitted to the Easy Chair Platform, via this link.

All proposals will be double-blind reviewed by the Post-Ip Scientific Commission. Abstracts will be published in the Conference Proceedings. A selection of full length articles will also be considered for publication in the Post-Ip online journal. 

Post-ip'13 teaser

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Clarissa Foletto

PhD Candidate 

INET-MD | Department of Communication and Art

University of Aveiro

Campus Universitário de Santiago 

3810-193 Aveiro

clarissafoletto@ua.pt

Fwd: PhD Scholarships

Dear colleague,

PLEASE DISTRIBUTE THIS WIDELY.

The University of Plymouth is offering 50 fully funded PhD scholarships starting October 2015, which include projects to be developed at ICCMR (http://cmr.soc.plymouth.ac.uk/) on topics pertaining to Computer Music or Music Technology.

We welcome applications from candidates wishing to develop projects on the topics of (but not limited to) modelling memory and memorisation to study the evolution of cultural conventions (e.g., through computational models of musical evolution), development of musical memory through embodied experience (MOCAP, NIME) and Brain-Computer Music Interfacing (BCMI).

DEADLINE for submissions 15 SEPTEMBER 2015.

More information here; first of all, please check if you are eligible:

https://www.plymouth.ac.uk/student-life/your-studies/the-graduate-school/fully-funded-phd-studentships/arts-and-humanities

If you are considering applying for a PhD at ICCMR, we strongly encourage you to contact Prof Eduardo Miranda with a brief description of your project for discussion before you prepare the application (eduardo.miranda@plymouth.ac.uk)

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Prof Eduardo Miranda
Interdisciplinary Centre for Computer Music Research (ICCMR)
Plymouth University



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Dr Evangelos Himonides FBCS CITP
Reader in Technology, Education and Music
University College London

International Conference of Students of Systematic Musicology

Please note that registration for the International Conference of
Students of Systematic Musicology (SysMus15, 17th-19th September) is
now open. Interested students and scholars are invited to register at
http://www.eventbrite.com/e/sysmus15-tickets-17503898632?aff=ehomesaved
until 31st of August.

SysMus15 is hosted by the University of Leipzig in association with
SEMPRE (http://www.sempre.org.uk), under the direction of Laura
Neumann and the scientific supervision of Prof. Sebastian Klotz.
Keynote speakers are:
Dr. Daniela Sammler (Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and
Brain Sciences, Leipzig)
Prof. Eric Clarke (University of Oxford) and
Prof. Matthias Vogel (University of Giessen)

Moreover, the programme includes about 30 paper presentations on all
aspects on systematic musicology as well as two panel presentations on
the topics „Musicology as Activism" and „Cultural and Cognitive
Approaches to Unfamiliar Repertoire", to be held by Master's and PhD
students from all over the world, besides a social programme including
a conference dinner and diverse activities.

Please find more information on SysMus15 at http://sysmus2015.com

3rd CALL FOR PAPERS Paper submission date now extended to 3rd Aug 2015 SEMPRE conference on Music and Health

3rd CALL FOR PAPERS

Paper submission date now extended to 3^rd Aug 2015

SEMPRE conference on Music and Health, including the 3^rd meeting of the Scottish Music and Health Network

21–23 October 2015

Glasgow Caledonian University

 

This 3 day event in partnership with SEMPRE and the Scottish Music and Health Network comprises three separate events:

·         Wednesday 21st October: SEMPRE Study day on Music Psychology and Education

·         Thursday 22nd October: SEMPRE conference on Music and Health

·         Friday 23rd October: SMHN meeting

Paper and poster submissions are invited for:

·         The study day on Wednesday 21^st October. Submissions are invited from postgraduate students which focus on music psychology and/or music education, but which may encompass a variety of related disciplines. We particularly welcome interdisciplinary research. Submissions should take the form of a 200 word abstract which clearly describes the research area and its relevance to music psychology or music education. Undergraduate students, particularly those in their final year, are also strongly encouraged to attend the day.

 

·         The conference on Thursday 22^nd October. Music is fundamental to human social life around the world, and there is growing evidence that music can have a profound influence upon health and wellbeing. Submissions are invited on research which explores the relationship between music and health, and which may encompass music listening, music performance, music therapy, community music or other topics which clearly relate to the conference theme. Submissions should take the form of a structured 300 word abstract, using the format:  Aims, methods, results, conclusions.

The deadline for submissions for the study day and conference has been extended, and is now Monday August 3rd 2015. Please submit abstracts to Dr Don Knox, conference organiser at d.knox@gcu.ac.uk

Venue

The conference panel are delighted to announce the conference will be held at the Technology and Innovation Centre, 99 George Street, Glasgow, G1 1RD.

 

Registration fees

The conference registration fee covers attendance on Wednesday 21^st and Thursday 22^nd October, lunch, conference materials including electronic proceedings, and attendance at a civic reception hosted at Glasgow City Chambers on Thursday 22^nd.

SEMPRE members, students, unwaged GBP 45 (proof required upon registration)

Standard rate GBP 90

Registration will be via online payment, and this facility will be made available in Aug/Sept.

The SMHN meeting on Friday 23^rd will be free to attend for anyone attending the SEMPRE events on the 21^st and 22^nd, however numbers may be limited subject to availability. This one-day event, aimed at music practitioners, healthcare professionals, academics and interested members of the public, will be programmed separately and consist of invited presentations highlighting current research and practice in Scotland around improving health and wellbeing with music.

 

Further details on registration, accommodation and other conference information will be made available via the GCU and SMHN websites:

 

www.gcu.ac.uk/musicandhealth2015

http://www.smhn.hss.ed.ac.uk/

 

Conference Organiser: Dr Don Knox, Glasgow Caledonian University.

Conference committee: Dr Don Knox, Dr Gianna Cassidy, Prof Frederike Van Wijck (Glasgow Caledonian University), Prof Raymond MacDonald, Dr Katie Overy, Dr Graeme Wilson  (University of Edinburgh)

Fwd: SIG NOTICE: IMR early career fellowships

From September 2015, the Institute of Musical Research will be based at Royal Holloway, under the directorship of Dr. Geoff Baker.

The new IMR's first initiative is to offer a number of grants to help early career scholars put on small research events in collaboration with music departments or colleges. The scheme is detailed here:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/m3iu943joa9h6zv/IMR%20early%20career%20research%20event%20grants.docx?dl=0.

Please circulate as far and wide as possible.

Fwd: Workshop on Music Similarity, 8th July, London,

The ASymMuS consortium would like to invite you to the 

ASyMMuS Workshop on Audio-Symbolic Music Similarity Modelling 

8 July 2015, 10:00 - 15:50 at the British Library, London. 

This workshop is open to researchers at all levels in the fields of music information retrieval, musicology (particularly, but not exclusively, those with an interest in computational and systematic musicology), music cognition, data science (with interest in music), and other related fields.

More details can be found here:

http://dml.city.ac.uk/workshops/asymmus-workshop/

Attendance is free, but we request registration in advance here:

http://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/asymmus-workshop-on-audio-symbolic-music-similarity-modelling-tickets-17564466793

[Vacancy] Psychology of Music Journal Editorial Assistant

Psychology of Music Journal

Editorial Assistant

 

The position of Editorial Assistant carries an annual stipend of £4000 from 2016 (subject to tax, if applicable) and is an important role in supporting the Editor and Editorial Board of the Psychology of Music Journal. It requires someone with exceptional attention to detail, good time management skills, an ability to manage a complex online system, and high levels of discretion, as well as knowledge of the academic subject matter covered by the journal. The approximate time involved is around 5–8 hours per week, depending on the flow of activity. The role includes dealing with author enquiries, checking manuscripts on submission and resubmission, proof-reading of accepted manuscripts before they are passed to the publisher (e.g., checking style, quality of English, and adherence to academic conventions), processing manuscripts through the Sage online system in a timely fashion, and ensuring the editorial team are kept informed of tasks in hand.

The post would suit a doctoral student or a post-doctoral researcher, or a recent graduate in the psychology of music or a closely related area, and it is intended that this appointment will provide at least some overlap between the current editor and the new one (to be appointed in 2016). Interested applicants should send a full CV and the names of two referees (at least one of whom should be an academic), who can comment on their ability and motivation to undertake this work, to Professor Graham Welch, Chair of SEMPRE (g.welch@ioe.ac.uk) by 1 August 2015. It is hoped that an appointment will be made by 1 September 2015 or soon after. Any informal enquiries about this role can be directed to the current Editorial Assistant, Rachel Hallett (racheljhallett@gmail.com), or the current Psychology of Music Editor, Dr Alexandra Lamont (a.m.lamont@keele.ac.uk).

Fwd: PhD positions in Semantic Audio and Music Informatics at Centre for Digital Music, QMUL

Two PhD positions with the Centre for Digital Music
in
Music Informatics and Semantic Audio

Applications are invited for 2 fully-funded PhD studentships, allied
to the 5 year EPSRC and Digital Economy funded Programme Grant: Fusing
Audio and Semantic Technologies for Intelligent Music Production and
Consumption (FAST-IMPACt or FAST). The grant started in June 2014 and
runs until June 2019.

FAST-IMPACt aims to answer questions such as: How can next generation
web technologies (Ontologies, Linked Data, Metadata) combined with
music content analysis in the studio bring new value and functionality
to producers, creators, consumers and intermediaries of music content?
And how will both ends of the music value chain benefit from more
engaging interactions (enhanced productivity, increased enjoyment and
immersion) while creating or consuming music? And can intermediaries
add value with semantically enhanced services?

Helping us pursue this vision are national and international partners
from academia and industry, including BBC R&D, Abbey Road, Omnifone,
Universal Music, Solid State Logic, International Audio Labs and more.

Candidates must have a first-class honours degree or equivalent, or a
good MSc Degree in Computer Science, Electronic Engineering, Sound &
Music Computing or equivalent. Candidates should be confident in
digital signal processing and/or machine learning, and have
programming experience in, e.g. MATLAB, Mathematica, Python, Java, C++
or similar. Prior experience with Semantic Web is welcome. Experience
in research and a track record of publications is very advantageous.
Formal music training or sound engineering experience is also
advantageous.

More details can be found at:
http://www.eecs.qmul.ac.uk/phd/research-topics/funded or
http://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/ALJ821/two-phd-studentship-in-semantic-audio-and-music-informatics/

The closing date for the applications is 31/07/15. Interviews are
expected to take place between 2 and 4 September 2015.

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professor mark sandler, CEng, FIEEE, FAES, FIET, FBCS
royal society wolfson research merit award holder

director of the EPSRC/AHRC CDT in media and arts technology (MAT)
director of the centre for digital music (c4dm)

school of electronic engineering and computer science
queen mary university of london

mark.sandler@qmul.ac.uk
+44 (0)20 7882 7680; +44 (0)7775 016715

twitter: @markbsandler,
follow the FAST-IMPACt Programme Grant @semanticaudio

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