Saturday, October 23, 2021
ISME Research Commission Pre Conference Seminar
11-15 July 2022 at the University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia.
Submissions are now open. Full information can be found here:
https://ismeworldconference.org/research-commission/
Pre-conference seminars are smaller, specialised events focussed on an
area of practice or field of work.
Friday, October 15, 2021
Special Issue: Music in the lives of young children published in ECDC Inbox
We are very pleased to announce the publication of the special issue "Music in the lives of young children" in Early Child Development and Care. There is a growing body of literature pointing to the significance of engaging with music, and to its potential for bringing about positive change in areas such as cognitive development, academic performance, educational motivation and learning, socio-emotional development and behaviour, and mental health – across the life course from infants through to seniors. The special issue 'Music In The Lives Of Young Children' targets music and its significance in young children's lives with a focus on music education and the musical experience of pre-school children. The special issue is comprised of 11 articles that have been written by 32 authors (several teams of co-authors) from 10 countries (Canada, Germany, India, Israel, New Zealand, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, the United Kingdom, and the United States of America). These research studies were carried out in nine countries (Australia, Canada, Germany, India, Israel, New Zealand, South Africa, the United Kingdom, and the United States of America).
The special issue may be accessed here: Early Child Development and Care: Vol 191, No 12 (tandfonline.com)
With kind regards,
Warren Brodsky & Ioulia Papageorgi (co-editors)
Fwd: Conference on Interdisciplinary Musicology, CIM22. FINAL CALL FOR PROPOSALS
The next Conference on Interdisciplinary Musicology, CIM22: 'Participation' will take place on 8-10 June 2022, convened by the Reid School of Music, The University of Edinburgh and the Department of Music, University of Hong Kong.
Guided by the aims of the Society for Interdisciplinary Musicology (SIM), CIM22 offers a meeting point for music researchers at the crossroads of humanities and sciences.
Keynote speakers:
Kyra Gaunt (Music & Theatre, University at Albany State University of New York, NY)
Ruth Herbert (School of Arts, University of Kent, UK)
Frederick Lau (Department of Music, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, HK)
Our theme of Participation invites cross-disciplinary reflection and dialogue across a range of current topics in music research which will benefit from the joint attention of both science and humanities expertise, to report new research from scholars and practitioners at all career stages.
Read the call for proposals in full here (https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/cim22-participation/call-for-proposals)
We particularly welcome co-authored proposals to present original interdisciplinary work in the form of regular papers, roundtable discussions, or video flash-talks. Submission deadline extended to 26 November 2021.
For more information and online proposal submission, visit the CIM22 conference website here (https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/cim22-participation/)
Contact email: ParticipationCIM22@gmail.com
Conference co-Chairs: Dr Nikki Moran, University of Edinburgh, UK | Vice-President SIM (Society for Interdisciplinary Musicology) & Dr Youn Kim, Hong Kong University
Committee includes
· Dr Juan Loaiza - Conference assistance (Edinburgh)
· Dr Andrea Schiavio, Karl-Franzens-Universität Graz, Austria (SIM)
· Theresa Schallmoser, Karl-Franzens-Universität Graz, Austria (SIM)
· Prof. Richard Parncutt, Karl-Franzens-Universität Graz, Austria (Founder, SIM)
· Dr Maiko Kawabata, Royal College of Music, London, UK
· Dr James Cook, University of Edinburgh, UK
· Dr Morag Grant, University of Edinburgh, UK
· Prof. Raymond MacDonald, University of Edinburgh, UK
· Dr Katie Overy, University of Edinburgh, UK
Monday, October 11, 2021
Out today... Sarangi Style in Hindustani Music
This beautifully illustrated book attempts to answer these questions: What is sarangi music? In what ways does it reflect or differ from the vocal music on which it is based? In what ways do the unique features of the sarangi and its technique affect its capacity to emulate vocal music? The approach is empirical, supported by extensive sargam transcription and analysis of video-recorded music and informed by the author's fifty years of experience as a student, performer and teacher of the sarangi and Hindustani vocal music. The discussion is supplemented by around 170 online video files and 555 audio examples. Most of these materials are supplied in both normal-speed and half-speed versions.
Due to the difficulty of its technique and to the lingering stigma of its historical association with courtesan culture, the sarangi declined in popularity throughout the twentieth century. Many sarangi players became vocalists; several of the most influential Hindustani vocalists of the twentieth century came from the sarangi tradition. Hence there is a wider relevance in enquiring into the nature of vocal music as taught and performed by sarangi players.
There is much here to engage those interested in musical style and musical enculturation. And there is much that will be of practical value to students of Hindustani music, especially sarangi players, including information about the sarangi's history, construction and maintenance. Organological appendices include images and discussion of 321 sarangis. This book also gives a rare glimpse into the home life and cloistered musicianship of hereditary sarangi players.
Fwd: ICDS5: Feelings before the conference!

Wednesday, October 6, 2021
Fwd: [DMRN-LIST] CFP: EURASIP JASMP - Special Issue on Recent Advances in Computational Sound Scene Analysis
EURASIP Journal on Audio, Speech and Music Processing
Special issue on
Recent advances in computational sound scene analysis
Submission Deadline: 1st April 2022
https://asmp-eurasipjournals.springeropen.com/ssoundscene
Topics of interest include but are not limited to:
- Methodology: signal processing, machine learning, auditory perception, taxonomies, and ontologies related to sound scenes and events
- Tasks and applications: acoustic scene classification, sound event detection and localization, sound source separation, audio tagging, audio captioning, detection of rare sound events, anomaly audio event detection, computational bioacoustic scene analysis, urban soundscape analysis, and cross-modal analysis (e.g. audio recognition/analysis with information from video, texts, image, language, etc.)
- Machine learning methodologies for sound scene analysis: self-supervised learning, few-shot learning, meta-learning, generative models, explainable machine learning, continual learning, curriculum learning, active learning, multi-task learning, and attention mechanisms
- Human-centered sound scene analysis: human-computer interaction and interfaces, user-centered evaluation, visualization of audio events and scenes, and user annotation
- Evaluation, datasets, software tools, and reproducibility in computational sound scene and event analysis
- Ethics and policy: legal and societal aspects of computational sound scene analysis; ethical and privacy issues related to designing, implementing and deploying sound scene analysis systems; privacy-preserving sound scene analysis; federated learning for sound scene analysis
- Performance metrics: studies for developing effective evaluation metrics and tools for related tasks in audio scene analysis, event detection, and audio tagging
The EURASIP Journal on Audio, Speech, and Music Processing recognizes novel contributions of the following types within its area:
- Empirical Research: Data-driven research, new experimental results, and new data sets
- Methodology: New theory and methods for the processing of speech, audio, and music signals
- Software: New software implementations and toolboxes for speech, audio, and music processing
- Review: Timely and comprehensive overview and tutorial material covering recent developments within the field
Submission instructions:
https://asmp-eurasipjournals.springeropen.com/submission-guidelines
Guest Editors:
Jakob Abeßer, Fraunhofer IDMT, Germany
Emmanouil Benetos, Queen Mary University of London, UK
Annamaria Mesaros, Tampere University, Finland
Wenwu Wang, University of Surrey, UK
Monday, September 27, 2021
A Song for Afghanistan
Afghanistan has always been a place of rich and diverse cultural heritage, including musical practice. Since 2010, the Afghanistan National Institute of Music (https://www.anim-music.org/) has worked tirelessly to rebuild and revitalise Afghanistan's cultural voice in the face of intense political upheaval, war, conflict and censorship. Through investing in young musicians and transcending cultural, ethnic, religious, and gendered boundaries, ANIM has honoured the musical heritage that is dear to the heart of every Afghan and contributes towards a just and civil society.
Once again, musicians are facing silencing and oppression under Taliban rule, and SEMPRE stands in solidarity with all artists, educators, scholars, and cultural actors across Afghanistan.
Supporting an international concert series, Love Songs for Afghanistan, initiated by the Queensland Conservatorium, Griffith University Australia (https://www.griffith.edu.au/arts-education-law/queensland-conservatorium), SEMPRE (https://sempre.org.uk) joins the call for artistic freedom and peace, bringing together musicians from across national borders, cultural or linguistic backgrounds, and musical styles, to send to Afghanistan our messages of peace, compassion, courage, and above all else, love.
To watch the first concert livestream (28 September, 19:00 Brisbane time): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=75BCnJEHUsU
To host a Love Songs event at your institution, email: alexis.kallio(a)griffith.edu.au
Fwd: Calls for Abstracts - International Music Therapy Week Conferences
Friday, September 24, 2021
Fwd: [DMRN-LIST] NIME 2022 - Decolonising Musical Interfaces - Call for papers, music, installations, demos, workshops and doctoral consortium
- 22 January 2022: Paper, music, installation, workshop submission deadline
- 31 January 2022: Final submission upload deadline (no extension)
- 1 April 2022: Demo, doctoral consortium submission deadline
- Papers
- Music
- Installations
- Demos
- Workshops
- Doctoral Consortium
- Approaches on decolonising music and musical interfaces
- Studies or reviews of non-Western musical epistemologies and pedagogies
- Novel controllers, interfaces or instruments for musical expression
- Augmented, embedded and hyper instruments
- Technologies or systems for collaborative music-making
- Discussions about the artistic and cultural impact of NIMEs
- Reflections on the ethical, environmental, societal, and political impact of NIMEs
- Critical analysis of existing commercial, academic or artistic NIME practice
- Historical, theoretical or philosophical discussions about designing or performing with NIMEs
- Easier/cheaper approaches to the design of bespoke and customizeable accessible instruments
- Strategies that improve the reach and replicability of one-off accessible instrument projects, particularly those that are unlikely to have full commercial potential
- Musical interfaces designed by/with disabled/neurodiverse musicians
- Practice-based research approaches/methodologies/criticism
- Music-related human-computer interaction
- User studies and evaluations of NIMEs
- Interactive sound art and sound installations
- New music performance paradigms
- Gesture to sound mapping
- Sonic interaction design
- Musical robotics
- Sensor and actuator technologies for NIMEs
- Interface protocols and data formats supporting musical interaction
- Machine learning and artificial intelligence in NIMEs
- Pedagogical perspectives and/or student projects in NIME-related courses
- Full paper (up to 5000 words in proceedings, optional demo)
- Short paper (up to 3000 words in proceedings, optional demo)
- "New NIME" - traditional NIME music submission aimed at showcasing pieces performed or composed with new interfaces for musical expression.
- "NIME with a story" - dedicated to NIMEs that have been presented before. This includes new pieces for interfaces that have been previously presented at NIME or outside of NIME. This option was developed for the following objectives. First, in alignment with the theme of NIME 2022 decolonising NIME, it promotes a vision of technology-mediated music practice that is focused on the actual cultural practice of making music rather than the technological innovation. It also challenges consumeristic ideologies or innovation for innovation sake. Second, It aims to mitigate the environmental impact of the creation of a new NIME by fostering a culture of reusing rather than disposing. Third, it promotes replicability of NIMEs, following the numerous debates that took place at NIME 2021 on replicability and documentation of NIMEs.
- to provide a video of their installation for online presentation along with additional supporting material if required, e.g., thumbnails, programme note, etc.
- if they wish to participate in an optional artists discussion panel as a part of the conference.
- Khyam Allami
- Rekka Bellum & Devine Lu (Hundred Rabbits)
- Sally Jane Norman
- General Co-Chairs: Fabio Morreale (Waipapa Taumata Rau, The University of Auckland) & Sasha Leitman
- Paper Co-Chairs: Andrew McPherson (Queen Mary University of London) & Emma Frid (IRCAM/KTH Royal Institute of Technology)
- Music Chair: Raul Masu (Universidade NOVA de Lisboa)
- Poster & Demo Co-Chairs: Johnny Sullivan (McGill University) & Diana Siwiak (Te Herenga Waka, Victoria University of Wellington)
- Workshop Co-Chairs: Doga Cavdir (Stanford University) & Charles Martin (The Australian National University)
- Installations Co-Chairs: Meg Schedel (Stony Brook University) & Paul Dunham (Te Herenga Waka. Victoria University of Wellington)
- Doctoral Consortium Co-Chairs: Cécile Chevalier (University of Sussex) & Federico Fontana (University of Udine)
- Virtual & Hybrid Chair: Astrid Bin (Ableton)
- Sponsor Chair: Robert Jack (Bela)
Tuesday, September 7, 2021
Fwd: Faders - online, collaborative, smart DAW
We're proud to present the result of our spin-out from Birmingham City University: an online, collaborative, intelligent digital audio workstation (DAW) that's free to use and getting even more features every week: https://faders.io.
Faders is built around the idea of removing all barriers in audio production, without hiding the complexity and dumbing down the interface. The result is a user-friendly, powerful, and smart DAW, which helps you by labelling tracks, doing rough mixes, trimming silence from recordings, … and a collaborative web-based platform that can accommodate cutting-edge processors that don't have to fit a single track "plugin" for DAWs.
Synth and FX plugins are based on the open source JSAP framework https://github.com/nickjillings/JSAP, and a Freesound browser is integrated https://freesound.org/. Some of the tech in this platform is based on about a decade of academic research.
It would mean a lot to us if you tried it out and let us know what you think, emailing me directly or on the forum at https://community.faders.io.
Educators: we are especially keen to work with you and will be releasing an education mode where you can share files, follow up on student projects, and even teach remotely with video, all inside Faders.
Please reach out to me if you tried it (I'd love to hear your thoughts) or if you want to use it for a class. We're also exploring all kinds of partnerships, from software instruments over plugin development to cross-promotion.
Thanks!
Brecht De Man
Ryan Stables
Nicholas Jillings
Semantic Audio Labs


