Fwd: CFP: Audience Research in the Arts Conference

Audience Research in the Arts Conference
The University of Sheffield
3–5th July 2019

http://www.sparc.dept.shef.ac.uk/audience-research-in-the-arts-conference-3-5-july-2019/

Sheffield Performer and Audience Research Centre (SPARC) is hosting a conference in partnership with the International Network for Audience Research in the Performing Arts (iNARPA), The Audience Agency, Routledge, The University of Leeds and Deakin University, to bring together researchers and industry professionals who investigate audience engagement with the arts. This conference comes at the culmination of two substantive contributions to the field of audience research at The University of Sheffield; the Understanding Audiences for the Contemporary Arts (UACA) study and the Modern Fairies project. The conference will also celebrate the publication of a Cultural Trends special double issue on 'Audience Data and Research' and launch a sector-facing handbook from the UACA project. It will feature sharing sessions from the two research projects and papers from contributors to the special issue.

CALL FOR PAPERS

Contributors are encouraged to present their work to a broad audience, so it can be readily understood by industry professionals, arts practitioners, policy-makers and the general public, as well as academics. Proposals are invited on the following themes:

- Considerations of how audiences find meaning in the works that they see, and the relationship this has to the artists' intended meaning
- Artist and audience communication, and ways in which the audience can feed into the creative process
- The place of cultural intermediaries (which could be artists or arts managers) in shaping audience experience
- Reflections on collaborative audience research, considering the role of partners and gatekeepers, means of knowledge exchange and collaborative learning.
- Innovative or emerging audience research methodologies, how can we make our research accessible and meaningful to participants?
- How audience research might better drive sectoral change and impact on arts policy

Papers addressing these themes are especially welcome, but the committee will consider any submissions relating to audience research and arts audiences today.

We are seeking proposals for:
- Papers (20 minutes with 10 minutes for questions)
- Collaborative presentations (or combination of two papers, one from an academic and one from a practitioner they work with)
- Panels (3 or 4 linked papers around a theme, totalling 1.5 or 2 hours)
- Round tables (3 or 4 shorter presentations, around 15 minutes each, followed by a chaired discussion, totalling 1.5 or 2 hours)
- Lightning talks (7-minute unscripted talks, usually accompanied by slides)
- Posters
- Films or other media presentations

The conference will also include PGR panels and workshops from the board of Cultural Trends; a separate call for papers for will be announced shortly.

Please send proposals to sparc@sheffield.ac.uk including: an abstract (250 words), your name, institutional affiliation (if any), email address, short biography (100 words) and any special AV requirements.

Deadline: 7th January 2019
Contributors notified by the end of January

British Library Music Doctoral Open Day: Tue 4 Dec 2018

Bookings are now open for the British Library Music Doctoral Open Day.
This will take place on Tuesday 4 December 2018 in the British Library
Knowledge Centre.

The day provides an introduction to the rich resources available at
the British Library to support music research of all kinds. The draft
programme is available at https://bit.ly/2yFhKc2 and includes specific
content on popular music.

We warmly invite all PhD students to attend. Masters students
considering studying at doctoral level are also welcome.

Places can be booked at
https://www.bl.uk/events/doctoral-students-open-day-20182019-music.



Dr Amelie Roper
Research Development Manager
The British Library
96 Euston Road
London
NW1 2DB

Shout at cancer forthcoming concerts at the Tabernacle

Dear friends and colleagues

As you might know, I have been working closely with an amazing Charity called Shout at Cancer, supporting people with throat cancer.

For those of you that would like to attend the next very exciting Shout at Cancer concert on Tuesday 30 October 2018, please see the information on the venue (Tabernacle) website:
https://www.tabernaclew11.com/events/2018-10-30-shout-at-cancer-weve-found-our-voice-the-tabernacle

a video teaser is available here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4uFN4KBSLWQ

A different type of concert is also available the day before (Monday 29 October 2018), also at the Tabernacle. The theme for this concert is: "Classical music with a pinch of salt", featuring The Verdammte Spielerei (Belgian saxophone band and stand-up comedian) in concert with Hanne Roos (Soprano) and Marc Masson (Piano). More information about this is available here: https://www.tabernaclew11.com/events/2018-10-29-classical-music-with-a-pinch-of-salt-the-tabernacle

If you have time for either concert this coming Monday or Tuesday, do consider attending! The cause is powerful, and the work is extremely exciting.

with best wishes,

Evangelos

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

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Fwd: Music PhD Studentships

Funded TECHNE AHRC Doctoral Studentships at Kingston:

https://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/BNN090/phd-studentship-techne-ahrc-phd-studentships-in-the-arts-and-humanities 

PhD Studentship: TECHNE AHRC PhD Studentships in the Arts ... www.jobs.ac.uk AHRC TECHNE PHD studentships at Kingston School of Art, Kingston University London. Fully funded full time and part time PhD studentships available for October 2019 start

Please contact Dr. Oded Ben-Tal (o.ben-tal@kingston.ac.uk) with questions about developing a proposal. 

Initial  application deadline January 7th, final TECHNE deadline February 1st.

The UK House of Lords debates music education - 17 October 2018

Members of the Lords, including the chairs of the Royal College of Music and the English Schools' Orchestra, will debate the state of music education in schools, in the House of Lords on Thursday 18 October. Find out more here: https://www.parliament.uk/business/news/2018/october/lords-debates-music-edcuation/

 

Fwd: Call for Candidates - SysMus Executive Committee

Call for Candidates – SysMus Executive Committee


We are establishing the SysMus Executive Committee to guarantee the
continuation of the SysMus conference series in the future. This
Executive Committee will comprise the following positions elected by
the SysMus Council (currently 17 members) and other candidates: 1
Chair, 1 Vice-Chair, 1 Secretary, 1 Advisor, and 2 Members-at-large.
The current SysMus Council approved the new guidelines of the SysMus
Conference Series (see attachment).


The purpose of this email is to solicit nominations for the positions
of Chair, Vice-Chair, Secretary and 2 Members-at-large for the new
SysMus Executive Committee, which will start its work on November 1st,
2018, for a period of two years.


Self-nominations are welcome and should include a short statement of
motivation (100 words) and a picture.

Duties associated with each position are listed below.


Please turn in nominations to both Birgitta Burger
(birgitta.burger@jyu.fi) and Manuela Marin (manuela.marin@uibk.ac.at)
by October 19th, 2018, CEST.

Best wishes and thank you for your interest in SysMus,


Manuela Marin & Birgitta Burger
Election Officers



Executive Role Profiles


Chair
- Heads the Executive (in close collaboration with the Vice-Chair),
and by extension the SysMus Council
- Oversees the Executive
- Calls meetings and prepares meeting agendas
- Is a point of contact for future SysMus conference hosts and the
main person responsible for the effective functioning of the SysMus
Series
- Leads in strategic planning and execution of strategic plan
- Must be a member of the Council or a former Hosting Committee
- Must be a Master's or Doctoral candidate or within 3 years of having
completed her/his graduate studies


Vice-Chair
- Oversees the Executive in close collaboration with the Chair
- Supports the Chair in all issues regarding the functioning of the
SysMus Series
- Calls meetings and prepares meeting agendas
- Leads in strategic planning and execution of strategic plan
- Must be a member of the Council or a former Hosting Committee
- Must be a Master's or Doctoral candidate or within 3 years of having
completed his/her graduate studies


Secretary
- Manages communications to and from the Executive to the Council and
wider audiences via the SysMus Executive's shared email account
- Takes minutes at meetings and circulates to Executive and Council
- Maintains and updates the general SysMus conference series website
- Manages social media pages and Google Group
- Recruits candidates for the election of the Executive
- Manages the list of active Council members
- Must be a Master's or Doctoral candidate or within 3 years of having
completed her/his graduate studies


Members-at-large

- Participates in meetings and decision-making and supports other
members of the Executive
- Flexibility to further define role as member-at-large and Executive see fit
- In general, shall see the welfare of the SysMus conference series
- Must be a Master's or Doctoral candidate or within 3 years of having
completed her/his graduate studies
- Should belong to different sub-disciplines of systematic musicology
to represent the field in its diversity, preferably with one member
representing the humanities side of systematic musicology

Fwd: NordicSMC winter school (Oslo 4-8 March 2019)

We are happy to announce the NordicSMC winter school, to be held at the University of Oslo, Norway, 4-8 March 2019.

This is an intensive PhD-level training course on sound and motion analysis with experts in sound and music computing from the Nordic countries.

About

The winter school will be taught with a combination of traditional and flipped-classroom methodologies. All participants are expected to follow the free online course Music Moves prior to coming to Oslo. This MOOC lasts for 6 weeks (starting on 21 January) and will serve as background information for many of the topics dealt with during the week.

The week in Oslo will comprise a combination of lectures, hands-on tutorials and a small, team-based research project utilizing the theories and methods taught during the school.

All students that complete the MOOC, the Oslo programme, and submit a final written report, will receive a diploma with a recommendation of being awarded 3 ECTS credits as part of their PhD training.

For Whom

The winter school is primarily intended for PhD students in relevant fields, but it is also open for advanced Master's students. Students from the NordicSMC partners will have priority.

Cost

The winter school is free of charge for all participants. Students from NordicSMC partners can apply for  getting travel and accommodation covered. Other participants have to cover travel and accommodation on their own.

Participate

To apply for a place in the winter school, please fill in this form and upload your CV and a letter of interest that clearly indicates your motivation and previous experience with sound and music computing.

Deadline: 1 December 2018

Selected participants will be notified by 15 December 2018

More information

Please see the NordicSMC winter school web page for updated information about the programme, teachers, etc. Get in touch if you have any questions.

Welcome!

--   Alexander Refsum Jensenius, Ph.D.  Associate Professor, Department of Musicology, University of Oslo  http://people.uio.no/alexanje/    Deputy Director, RITMO Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies in Rhythm, Time, and Motion  http://www.uio.no/ritmo/    New book: "A NIME Reader"  http://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-319-47214-0    New master's programme: "Music, Communication & Technology"  http://www.uio.no/mct-master/

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Call for Participation: APME 2019

Call for Participation: APME 2019

June 12-15, 2019

New York University (NYU)

The Association for Popular Music Education is pleased to announce a call for participation in the 2019 conference at NYU, entitled "Celebrating Diversity in Popular Music Education".  We welcome proposals for papers, presentations, workshops and performances from a broad range of contexts and perspectives. 

Application Deadline is December 1, 2018

Note: All accepted participants are required to be current members of APME and pay to register for the conference.

Click here for the conference application

 

Papers
Paper presentations run 20 minutes, plus 5 minutes for questions.

Pop 10
A "Pop 10" is a 10-minute TED-talk-style presentation, followed by discussion. The idea behind the Pop 10 is to present one compelling idea quickly, similar to a 'lightning talk'.  

Panel Presentation
A 50-minute session on a single topic with multiple presenters

Workshops
Workshops are designed to share and inform, providing the opportunity for audience participation. Workshops are either 20 or 50 minutes plus 5 minutes for questions.

Demonstrations
Demonstrations are sessions that showcase a technique, method, project, tool, resource, pedagogical idea, etc. Demonstrations are scheduled for 20 minutes,  plus 5 minutes of questions.

Performances
Performing groups or individual artists from any educational setting are encouraged to apply. Performances are limited to 40 minutes, including an additional 60-minute workshop with an APME clinician.

Click here for the conference application

The mission of the Association for Popular Music Education (APME) is to promote and advance popular music at all levels of education both in the classroom and beyond.

Head of Dept vacancy – covering maternity leave - 1 year (starting January 2019) at Fearnhill School in North Hertfordshire, UK

Head of Dept vacancy – covering maternity leave - 1 year (starting January 2019) at Fearnhill School in North Hertfordshire, UK. https://www.teachinherts.com/find-a-job/view,lead-teacher-of-music-temporary-appointment-for-one-year-maternity-cover_49757.htm

 

Fwd: TISMIR Journal Launch and Call for Papers

Dear colleagues,

It brings us great pleasure to announce the launch of the first issue of TISMIR, the Transactions of the International Society for Music Information Retrieval, https://transactions.ismir.net/
TISMIR was established to complement the widely cited ISMIR conference proceedings and provide a vehicle for the dissemination of the highest quality and most substantial scientific research in MIR. TISMIR retains the Open Access model of the ISMIR Conference proceedings, providing rapid access, free of charge, to all journal content. In order to encourage reproducibility of the published research papers, we provide facilities for archiving the software and data used in the research. The TISMIR publication model avoids excessive cost to the authors or their institutions, with article charges being less than the ISMIR Conference registration fee. You can read more about the motivations for the launch of TISMIR and our envisioned perspectives for TISMIR's future in Ubiquity's interview with the Editors-in-Chief here.

The first issue contains an editorial introducing the journal, four research papers and one dataset paper:

Editorial: Introducing the Transactions of the International Society for Music Information Retrieval - Simon Dixon,  Emilia Gómez,  Anja Volk

Multimodal Deep Learning for Music Genre Classification - Sergio Oramas,  Francesco Barbieri,  Oriol Nieto,  Xavier Serra

Learning Audio–Sheet Music Correspondences for Cross-Modal Retrieval and Piece Identification - Matthias Dorfer,  Jan Hajič jr.,  Andreas Arzt,  Harald Frostel,  Gerhard Widmer

A New Curated Corpus of Historical Electronic Music: Collation, Data and Research Findings - Nick Collins,  Peter Manning,  Simone Tarsitani

A Case for Reproducibility in MIR: Replication of 'A Highly Robust Audio Fingerprinting System' - Joren Six,  Federica Bressan,  Marc Leman

Pop Music Highlighter: Marking the Emotion Keypoints - Yu-Siang Huang,  Szu-Yu Chou,  Yi-Hsuan Yang

Two more papers (one research paper and one overview paper) are in press.

Authors:  We look forward to receiving new submissions to the journal - please see the Call for Papers below.

Best Regards
Simon Dixon, Anja Volk and Emilia Gómez
Editors-in-chief, TISMIR

CALL FOR PAPERS

The ISMIR Board is happy to announce the launch of the Transactions of the International Society for Music Information Retrieval (TISMIR), the open-access journal of our community.

TISMIR (http://tismir.ismir.net) publishes novel scientific research in the field of Music Information Retrieval (MIR), an interdisciplinary research area concerned with processing, analysing, organising and accessing music information. We welcome submissions from a wide range of disciplines, including computer science, musicology, cognitive science, library & information science, machine learning, and electrical engineering.

TISMIR is established to complement the widely cited ISMIR conference proceedings and provide a vehicle for the dissemination of the highest quality and most substantial scientific research in MIR. TISMIR retains the Open Access model of the ISMIR Conference proceedings, providing rapid access, free of charge, to all journal content. In order to encourage reproducibility of the published research papers, we provide facilities for archiving the software and data used in the research. TISMIR is published in electronic-only format, making it possible to offer very low publication costs to authors' institutions, while ensuring fully open access content. With this call for papers we invite submissions for the following article types:

Article types
Research articles must describe the outcomes and application of unpublished original research. These should make a substantial contribution to knowledge and understanding in the subject matter and should be supported by relevant experiments.
Overview articles should focus in detail on specific aspects of MIR research. Overview articles will provide a comprehensive review of a broad MIR research problem, a critical evaluation of proposed techniques and/or an analysis of challenges for future research. Papers should critically engage with the relevant body of extant literature.
Datasets should present novel efforts in data gathering and annotation that have a strong potential impact in the way MIR technologies are exploited and evaluated.

If the paper extends or combines the authors' previously published research, it is expected that there is a significant novel contribution in the submission (as a rule of thumb, we would expect at  least 50% of the underlying work - the ideas, concepts, methods, results, analysis and discussion - to be new). In addition, if there is any overlapping textual material, it should be rewritten.

Review process
The journal operates a double-blind peer review process.  Review criteria include originality, consideration of previous work, methodology, clarity and reproducibility.

Publication frequency
The journal is published online as a continuous volume and issue throughout the year, following an open access policy. Articles are made available as soon as they are ready to ensure that there are no unnecessary delays in getting content publicly available.

Editorial team
Editors in Chief
Simon Dixon, School of Electronic Engineering and Computer Science, Queen Mary University of London, United Kingdom
Emilia Gómez, Music Technology Group, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain
Anja Volk, Department of Information and Computing Sciences, Utrecht University, Netherlands

Editorial Board
Juan P. Bello, Department of Music and Performing Arts Professions, & Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, New York University, United States
Arthur Flexer, Austrian Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence (OFAI), Austria
Fabien Gouyon, Pandora, United States
Xiao Hu, Faculty of Education, Division of Information & Technology Studies, University of Hong Kong
Olivier Lartillot, Department of Musicology, University of Oslo, Norway
Jin Ha Lee, Information School, University of Washington, United States
Meinard Mueller, International Audio Laboratories Erlangen, Germany
Geoffroy Peeters, Sound Analysis/Synthesis Team, UMR STMS IRCAM CNRS, France
Markus Schedl, Department of Computational Perception, Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria

Reviewers: The editorial board counts on reviewers from the ISMIR community, who are crucial to the success of the journal. To become a reviewer, please register here http://tismir.ubiquitypress.com/author/register/reviewer/

Journal Manager
Tim Wakeford, Ubiquity Press, United Kingdom

Contact
tismir@ismir.net

Website
http://tismir.ismir.net/

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Anja Volk, 
Assistant Professor, MA, MSc, PhD
VIDI-laureate

Editor-in-Chief of Transactions of ISMIR (tismir.ismir.net)

Department of Information and Computing Sciences 

Utrecht University

http://people.cs.uu.nl/volk/
Tel.:+31 (30) 253 5965
email: a.volk@uu.nl