Fwd: Performing Music Research - Announcing a new research methods textbook (OUP, 2021)

 

Dear colleagues, 

 

We're delighted to announce the publication of a new research methods textbook:  

 

Performing Music Research 

Methods in Music Education, Psychology, and Performance Science 

 

by 

Aaron Williamon 

Jane Ginsborg 

Rosie Perkins 

George Waddell 

 

Oxford University Press (2021) 

ISBN 9780198714545 

 

Performing Music Research is a resource for those who seek to understand musical performance and musicians wishing to carry out their own research. Drawing on perspectives from music education, psychology, and performance science, this book explores the motivations and methods underlying research in these fields, allowing readers to gain the knowledge and skills needed to review and critique existing studies and to design and carry out their own investigations. 

 

The book aims to help researchers bring precision to the questions they pose, select methods that are appropriate for addressing their questions, and apply those methods in a systematic and rigorous fashion. We recognize that music researchers typically place the importance of their research questions over that of any particular method of inquiry. Therefore, we have structured the book so as to guide readers as they plan, conduct, analyze, and communicate research: 

 

PART 1: Planning research 

1 Research questions 

2 Methodological approaches 

3 Research ethics 

 

PART 2: Conducting research 

4 Observations 

5 Documentation 

6 Interviews 

7 Surveys 

8 Experiments 

 

PART 3: Analyzing research 

9 Qualitative analysis 

10 Descriptive statistics 

11 Inferential statistics: Foundations 

12 Inferential statistics: Differences 

13 Inferential statistics: Relationships 

 

PART 4: Communicating research 

14 Communication and dissemination 

 

The book is accompanied by a companion website, www.PerformingMusicResearch.com, that includes practice datasets, interactive quizzes, and video summaries of example research. 

 

A public virtual launch will be held on Friday, 12 March, at 5pm (GMT). For more information, visit the Royal College of Music's Facebook page. 

 

A second public launch will be hosted by the Royal Northern College of Music on Thursday, 25 March, at 12 noon (GMT). For more information, visit the RNCM website or Facebook page. 

 

Aaron Williamon 

Jane Ginsborg 

Rosie Perkins 

George Waddell 

 

www.PerformingMusicResearch.com 

 

 

Fwd: [DMRN-LIST] fully funded PhD position at KTH

I am delighted to announce a fully funded PhD position at KTH for the project:

Sonic Interaction Design to Support Energy Efficiency Behaviour in the Household funded by Swedish Energy Agency.

To apply: https://www.kth.se/en/om/work-at-kth/lediga-jobb/what:job/jobID:375624/type:job/where:4/apply:1

Summary

Energy provides heating, lighting and more, but it affects the environment. In Europe, households account for 25% of the energy-related greenhouse gas emissions. Residential energy feedback could contribute to 5%–10% energy consumption reduction, but there are several barriers including those related to user behaviour. Visualisations of energy costs and savings are not enough: interventions must be tailored, frequent and engaging.

Our novel approach will employ sound. We will design, develop and evaluate real-time digital sonic interactions as augmentations of individual appliances and aggregated smart meters' outputs, which will promote energy efficiency in the household. Without adding to the myriad of "beeps" in our life, we will create new everyday sounds meant to be felt, implicitly understood, rather than listened to. Our procedural audio models, which can be embedded and personalized, will be based on our research on sound, interaction design, behavior change, and energy. The project benefits from access to high- resolution energy data of the KTH Live-in Lab (see https://www.liveinlab.kth.se) and its individual and shared spaces for testing.

See the team here: 

https://www.kth.se/hct/mid/research/smc/projects/sonic-interaction-design-to-support-energy-efficiency-behavior-in-the-household-1.1049087

Feel free to get in touch with me at pauletto@kth.se if you are interested about the post. 

Fwd: [Deadline extension] Special Issue on the Internet of Sounds @ JAES

Journal of the Audio Engineering Society
CALL for PAPERS
Special Issue on the Internet of Sounds
http://cimil.disi.unitn.it/JAES_SI_Internet_of_Sounds.pdf

Deadline extended to 29th of March



*** Apologies for cross-postings ***

We are pleased to announce a Special Issue of the Journal of the Audio
Engineering Society (http://www.aes.org/journal/) on the subject of
Internet of Sounds. Acknowledging the ever-rising importance of the
Internet of Things (IoT) in our environment, we believe that the time
has come to bring together researchers who are considering the use of
IoT components to pursue research in Sound and Music computing.
The Internet of Sounds (IoS) is an emerging research field positioned
at the intersection of the IoT, Sound and Music Computing and Semantic
Audio domains. IoS can also be seen as the union of two paradigms, the
Internet of Musical Things and the Internet of Audio Things, which
respectively address musical and non-musical domains in networked
contexts.
This Special Issue aims to present high-quality original research
reporting the current state of the art of IoS systems as well as their
interactions with end-users. We are interested in submissions covering
different aspects related to the use of sound and music processing in
relation to local or remote networks, including technological,
perceptual, and artistic perspectives.


Topics

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to the following areas:
• Wireless acoustic sensor networks
• Detection and classification of sounds in acoustic sensor networks
• Visualization and Sonification of acoustic sensor networks
• Ecoacoustics
• Privacy and security in acoustic sensor networks
• Networked music performances
• Smart Musical Instruments
• Musical haptics for the Internet of Musical Things
• Participatory live music performances
• Music education applications for the Internet of Musical Things
• Intelligent music production in Internet of Musical Things contexts
• Ubiquitous music
• Web Audio for the Internet of Sounds
• Spatial audio for the Internet of Sounds
• Sonification for Internet of Sounds applications
• Protocols and exchange formats for the Internet of Sounds
• Improving accessibility and inclusiveness within the Internet of Sounds
• Open audio databases for Deep Learning and Data Mining
• Challenges in the management and delivery of large audio databases
• Visualization, access and indexing of audio databases
• Cloud-based services for musical and audio applications


New deadline:

• Manuscript submission due: March 29th, 2021



Guest Editors

• Luca Turchet (Department of Information Engineering and Computer
Science, University of Trento)
• George Fazekas (Centre for Digital Music, Queen Mary University of London)
• Cristina Rottondi (Department of Electronics and Telecommunications,
Polytechnic University of Turin)
• Carlo Fischione (Department of Network and Systems Engineering, KTH
Royal Institute of Technology)


Author guidelines

Please submit complete 6 to 8-page papers by March 29th, 2021. All
submissions will be peer-reviewed according to standard JAES review
procedures. We welcome original research including revised and
expanded versions of "IWIS 2020" or AES conference papers addressing
the theme of this special issue. Please follow the Author Guidelines
found at: http://www.aes.org/journal/authors/guidelines/. Papers
should be submitted online at: http://www.aes.org/journal/submit/.
When submitting a paper, please choose the category "Special Issue
(Internet of Sounds)" rather than Research Paper or Engineering
Report.

Fwd: [DMRN-LIST] Fully Funded PhD Studentships in Music Computing Lab

The School of Computing and Communications at the Open University is offering a fully funded, full-time, three-year PhD studentship to start in October 2021. Studentships cover three years of fulltime study, including tuition fees and a stipend.

Please contact Dr Simon Holland (s.holland @ open.ac.uk) for an informal discussion and advice on developing or polishing a strong proposal.

Applications and enquiries are welcome in any of the following areas, or in any area related to Music and Computers.  Applicants are very welcome to devise their own topics.

New kinds of Musical Interaction
Computational Models of Music Perception
Physical, Gestural or Sensing Interfaces
Music and the Internet of Things
Music Technology for Rehabilitation and Therapy
New Musical Instruments
New approaches to traditional musical activities
Innovative approaches to technology for Music Education
Collaborative Music Interaction
Evolutionary and Biologically inspired Music Systems
Music Representation Tools
Tools that make new kinds of musical activity possible
Machine Learning for musical creativity and fluid interaction
New Tools for Live Coding
Any Aspect of Music and HCI

Those considering applying are encouraged to get in touch with Dr Holland for an informal discussion.  Enquiries and applications from those interested in part-time PhDs are welcome at any time.

Closing date: 15th March 2021.

Useful Links
The Music Computing Lab   https://eur01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fmcl.open.ac.uk%2Fmusiclab&data=04%7C01%7C%7Caf352cff370440d460a108d8cb692acf%7C1faf88fea9984c5b93c9210a11d9a5c2%7C0%7C0%7C637482999845972293%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C1000&sdata=g2cDCwAF71wvIvXmA6WU9h8u6u41lIFFLDpO5KL0IG8%3D&reserved=0


The Open University is incorporated by Royal Charter (RC 000391), an exempt charity in England & Wales and a charity registered in Scotland (SC 038302)

Fwd: Music, Sound, and Trauma: Interdisciplinary Perspectives, Online Conference, February 12-14, 2021: Registration Open & Program Available

Dear Colleagues,

We are pleased to announce that registration is open for the conference "Music, Sound, and Trauma Studies: Interdisciplinary Perspectives," taking place virtually February 12-14, 2021. Hosted at Indiana University's Jacobs School of Music, and subsidized through an IU Presidential Arts & Humanities grant, the conference is free and open to the public. 

This conference brings together scholars from a variety of disciplines to illuminate the current state of research on music and trauma, while also generating rich discussion of further avenues of interdisciplinary inquiry, activism, and collaboration. Featuring researchers from across the globe working at the intersections of music scholarship, sound studies, history, psychology, medical humanities, and other disciplines, this event centers around addressing three main questions: 

1) How can emerging knowledge from the humanistic discipline of trauma studies shape music- and sound-oriented fields such as musicology, ethnomusicology, music education, and sound studies? 

2) How might music and sound studies research that engages with trauma studies shape the landscape of research and teaching in the arts and humanities more broadly? 

3) Considering the many ways in which cultural trauma and social inequality have historically been linked, how might interdisciplinary research and pedagogy at the intersections of music, sound, and trauma inform knowledge, policy, and practice geared towards social justice within and beyond the academy?  

Keynote presenters include:  

• Maria Hamilton Abegunde (Indiana University, US) 

• Laura Brown (Seattle, WA, US) 

• Maria Cizmic (University of South Florida, US)  

• Lucy Dhegrae (National Sawdust, Brooklyn, NY, US)  

• Pacifica Quartet (Indiana University, US) and Shulamit Ran (University of Chicago, US)  

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For more information, including program, presenter, and registration information, please visit www.musicsoundtraumaconf2021.com or email musicsoundtraumaconf2021@gmail.com. 

Conference Organizers: Dr. Erin Brooks (SUNY-Potsdam), Jacqueline Fortier (Indiana University), Dr. Michelle Meinhart (Trinity Laban Conservatoire), and Dr. Jillian Rogers (Indiana University) 

Fwd: FW: 2021 TMOHE Conference Save the Date (and Call for Papers)

dear colleagues, sending on behalf of Dr Carol Johnson!

thank you.

best wishes,

Evangelos

Subject: 2021 TMOHE Conference Save the Date (and Call for Papers)

 

2021 Call for Papers and Presentations Have you seen the papers published from the 2020 TMOHE Online Conference? Scroll down to access the papers!       Please read on for more details about the upcoming 2021 conference.  Apologies in advance for cross-posting. Please feel free to forward as appropriate to your networks. We are excited to share with you the news about the 2021 Teaching Music Online in Higher Education Online Conference hosted from the Melbourne Conservatorium of Music, Melbourne, Australia      Submissions You are invited to contribute to the conference in a variety of forms: · Paper presentation · Research presentation · Panel Discussion · Virtual Poster (Bachelor and Graduate Students) This is a blind peer-reviewed conference. Authors and presenters are invited to upload their submissions in English through the conference submission system by March 1, 2021. Submissions must be original and should not have been published previously.    Proposals can be submitted for: ð For paper presentation, submit a 3,000 – 4,000 word paper with 150-word abstract); or ð For research presentations, submit a 400-word abstract (plus references); or      ð For a virtual poster, submit a 400-word abstract (plus references).   All presented papers are eligible for submission to the conference proceedings.    Important Dates: - Submission Deadline: March 1, 2021 - Notification to Authors: April 1, 2021 - Authors' 15 minute Video Presentation Uploaded to Dropbox: May 8, 2021 - Early Conference Registration: Until April 20, 2021 - Late Registration: After April 21, 2021 - Conference: June 3 & 4, 2021 (USA and Europe) and June 4 & 5, 2021 (Australia)   We hope to see you at our online conference in June 2021! Visit our website.     Submit a Paper     Date, Location & Cost The conference will be held on June 4 & 5, 2021 (Australia). Conference sessions are held ONLINE, hosted from the  Melbourne Conservatorium of Music in Melbourne, Australia. Pre-conference workshops are on Thursday, June 3, 2021 (Australia) and our online conference reception will be on Thursday evening.  Please consider submitting a proposal for a paper presentation at the Teaching Music Online in Higher Ed (TMOHE) Conference 2021. TMOHE is sponsored this year by the University of Melbourne Conservatorium of Music.  The cost of the two-day conference is $40 AUD plus $30 for the pre-conference workshops (June 3, 2021). Published Papers Blackburn, A. and Hewitt, D. (2020), 'Fostering creativity and colla- boration in a fully online tertiary music program', International Journal on Innovations in Online Education, 4:2, pp. 1–14, doi:10.1615/ IntJlInnovOnlineEdu.2020035099.    Johnson, C. (2020), 'A conceptual model for teaching music online', International Journal on Innovations in Online Education, 4:2, pp. 1–23, doi:10.1615/IntJlInnovOnlineEdu.2020035128.  McAlpine, K. B. (2020), 'Etudiants sans frontieres: Facilitating online international cultural exchange through music technology', International Journal on Innovations in Online Education, 4:3, pp. 1–16, doi:10.1615/IntJlInnovOnlineEdu.2020035156.  Merrick, B. (2020),'Changing mindset, perceptions, learning, and tradition: An "Adaptive Teaching Framework" for teaching music online', International Journal on Innovations in Online Education, 4:2, pp. 1–17, doi:10.1615/ IntJlInnovOnlineEdu.2020035150.  Nikolsky, T. (2020), 'Challenges and opportunities in teaching VCE music at Virtual School Victoria', International Journal on Innovations in Online Education, 4:2, pp. 1–14, doi:10.1615/IntJlInnovOnlineEdu.2020034533.  Osborne, M. (2020), 'Entering the live-streaming voice and emerging victo- rious: Teaching performance psychology under pressure', International Journal on Innovations in Online Education, 4:2, pp. 1–23, doi:10.1615/ IntJlInnovOnlineEdu.2020035052.  Pike, P. (2020), 'Preparing an emerging professional to teach piano online: A case study', International Journal on Innovations in Online Education, 4:2, pp. 1–14, doi:10.1615/IntJlInnovOnlineEdu.2020034417.   TMOHE Conference Co-Convenors:  Carol Johnson, PhD & Brad Merrick, PhD University of Melbourne Southbank, Victoria, Australia Email: teaching-music-online@unimelb.edu.au Website: http://teachingmusiconlineinhighered.com/index.html

Fwd: Fully Funded PhD Studentships

The School of Computing and Communications at the Open University (UK) invites applications for a full-time PhD studentship starting in October 2021. Studentships are for three years full time study, and cover tuition fees and a stipend.

The following topics are suitable, but you are welcome to propose a project in any area of music computing.

Music and Emotion
Music and Narrative
Computational Creativity
Computational Musicology
Deep Learning / AI for Music
Musical Pattern Discovery
Statistical Music Generation
Music for Computer Games/Multimedia
Collaborative Music Environments
MIR in Creative Settings

If interested, please contact me (Dr Robin Laney: robin.laney @ open.ac.uk) for an informal discussion and advice on constructing a proposal early, as a polished proposal will be needed.

Applications from part-time candidates also welcome.

Closing date: 15th March, 2021.

The Open University is incorporated by Royal Charter (RC 000391), an exempt charity in England & Wales and a charity registered in Scotland (SC 038302).

Fwd: Invitation to participate: measuring perceived tension in music

Dear all,

We are building a computational implementation of musical tension and are looking for hearing unimpaired volunteers to evaluate it.

We invite you to participate in a listening study which involves recording the degree of tension you perceive while listening to short clips of music.

The study will take 10-15 minutes to complete.

We recommend using a laptop or PC, rather than a mobile phone, with a mouse or similar device.

You can access the study at: 

https://survey.alchemer.eu/s3/90306297/A-survey-on-perceived-musical-tension

Many thanks.

Best wishes,

Germán Ruiz-Marcos

Open University (UK)

Fwd: [DMRN-LIST] [CFP] 2nd International Workshop on the Internet of Sounds

2^nd International Workshop on the Internet of Sounds

(part of Audio Mostly 2021)

 

September 1-3, 2021. Trento, Italy

 

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Call for papers and demos

 

After the success of the first edition, we are pleased to invite the community to submit to the 2^nd International Workshop on the Internet of Sounds (IWIS 2021). The Internet of Sounds is an emerging research field positioned at the intersection of the Internet of Things and Sound and Music Computing domains. The workshop will be hosted at the Department of Information Engineering and Computer Science of University of Trento.

The aim of the workshop is to bring together academics and industry to investigate and advance the development of Internet of Sounds technologies by using cutting-edge tools and processes. The event will consist of presentations from academics and keynotes, poster presentations, demonstrations, as well as tutorials.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following areas:

• Wireless acoustic sensor networks
• Detection and classification of sounds in acoustic sensor networks
• Visualization and Sonification of acoustic sensor networks
• Ecoacoustics
• Privacy and security in acoustic sensor networks 
• Smart Musical Instruments
• Musical haptics for the Internet of Musical Things
• Participatory live music performances
• Networked music performances
• Music education applications for the Internet of Musical Things
• Intelligent music production in Internet of Musical Things contexts
• Ubiquitous music
• Web Audio for the Internet of Sounds
• Spatial audio for the Internet of Sounds
• Sonification for Internet of Sounds applications
• Protocols and exchange formats for the Internet of Sounds
• Improving accessibility and inclusiveness within the Internet of Sounds
• Open audio databases for Deep Learning and Data Mining
• Challenges in the management and delivery of large audio databases
• Visualization, access and indexing of audio databases
• Cloud-based services for musical and audio applications

We consider contributions in the form of a full paper (min 5 pages, max 8 pages), a poster paper (min 2 pages, max 4 pages), or a demo proposal (max 2 pages). Authors are welcome to submit to all three tracks. We encourage the submission of work in progress as well as more mature work.

 

The event is being run alongside the Audio Mostly Conference (https://audiomostly.com/) an interdisciplinary conference also hosted at the Department of Information Engineering and Computer Science of University of Trento between 1 and 3 of September. The participants to the workshop will have access to all the sessions of the Audio Mostly conference.

The paper templates are available at https://audiomostly.com/2021/call/instructions/

 

Important dates

• Papers and demos submission deadline: May 1, 2021
• Author notification: June 15, 2021
• Camera ready due: July 15, 2021
• Workshop dates: September 1-3, 2021

 

Publications

 

All accepted full papers will appear in the proceedings of the Audio Mostly Conference. They will be included in the ACM Digital Library and will be indexed by Scopus, ACM, Web of Science, and DBLP. 

 

Awards

 

The Organizing Committee will select the winners for the Best Paper, Best Student Paper and Best Demo awards. To be eligible for the best student paper award, the presenting and first author of the paper must be a full-time student.

 

 

Organizing Committee

• Luca Turchet (University of Trento)
• Mathieu Lagrange (University of Nantes)
• Chris Chafe (Stanford University)
• Victor Lazzarini (Maynooth University)
• Carlo Fischione (KTH Royal Institute of Technology)
• Paolo Casari (University of Trento)
  

 

Logistics

Registration: https://audiomostly.com/2021/info/registration/

How to reach the venue: https://audiomostly.com/2021/info/info-attendees/

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Luca Turchet

Assistant Professor

Head of the Creative, Intelligent & Multisensory Interactions Laboratory

Department of Information Engineering and Computer Science

University of Trento

Via Sommarive 9 - 38123 Trento - Italy

E-mail: luca.turchet@unitn.it

Tel: +39 0461 283792

IFA: May The Arts Bring You Hope And Healing In 2021

source: https://indiaifa.org/whats-new/may-arts-bring-you-hope-and-healing-2021.html


May The Arts Bring You Hope And Healing In 2021

Many of us are glad to bid farewell to 2020 - a year that took away so
much that was precious to us. We lost friends, freedoms, certainties,
and the warmth of contact. Grappling with these many griefs, we have
somewhat hurtled down the last few days of December, hoping that the
beginning of yet another random cycle of time will bring with it hope
and peace. Many are counting on the vaccine, some on the disease to
reduce its ferocity, and others on the generosity of the universe to
allow us the strength to continue our journeys.

In all of this, at IFA, we have held on to each other and continued to
do our best for the arts and culture communities that we are committed
to serving. If we reflect on what we have learnt, three things stand
out. Firstly, as human beings, we have a huge capacity for courage,
empathy and compassion that we must employ on our ordinary days as
much as we do when faced with trying times. Secondly, the pandemic has
thrown away our blindfolds to the inequalities in the world that stare
at us asking questions we must collectively imagine answers for.
Lastly, artists once again have come out as healers of a broken world
and hope makers of the future, offering joy and solace to all those
feeling lost and alone during these trying times.

We share these learnings with you because you too have touched us with
the art you create and the kindness of your spirit – with messages of
encouragement, generous contributions, and undying faith in the work
we do. We hope the New Year is one that brings us the healing touch we
need and may we continue to work hard for an equal and just world.