Fwd: Research Special - out now!

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Today - it's a research special! Our newest Inspiring Voices episode is a research special featuring an in depth conversation with Professor Graham Welch from University College London's Institute of Education. Listen to this fascinating research deep dive now.   Inspiring Voices is a great listen for teachers, school leaders, teaching students, community workers, music leaders, singing leaders, choir leaders, charity and mental health workers.   You can find our podcast on all of your favourite podcast platforms including - Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google Podcasts and Amazon Music. Videos are also available on our YouTube Channel.   Have a listen and let us know what you think - we'd love to hear from you! You can also leave our podcast a review on Apple or Spotify.   With best wishes, Celi Barberia Joint Head of Foundation Let's talk singing research Baz talks to leading researcher Professor Graham Welch about why humans sing, why and how it is good for our health and wellbeing, and how people involved in this work should become researchers themselves, to help increase our understanding.   Listen on Spotify Watch on YouTube More Inspiring Voices episodes   "If you can't say it, sing it" - Sophie Garner on the power of songwriting with young people.   "Co-creators in the same room" - Aga Serugo-Lugo on the magic of group singing and creating connection.   'Singing and music-making in secure settings' - Chris Morris on working in the most challenging settings.   "You couldn't go and have a war with someone you've been singing with" - Jane Wheeler on her international work.   Being real - the effective practitioner - Mark Bick on community music and working with vulnerable young people.   Listen to the whole series. Listen now on: Spotify: https://bit.ly/IVPodSpotify Apple: https://apple.co/45ZCVTx Amazon Music: https://amzn.to/3raZXrF Google: https://bit.ly/IVPodGoogle   Watch on: YouTube Playlist Watch the trailer below for a taste of the first season of Inspiring Voices Follow Us Sing Up Foundation, Gateshead Business Centre, Mulgrave Terrace, Gateshead NE8 1AN 0204 566 9666 Share on social Go to site

Everybody is musical, Professor Welch on the Sångfokus Podden

https://open.spotify.com/episode/2mMnfPfxZ0Y8g0cBiIgMJ5?si=QQI2g0NqSy6ayPz5d-XyhA

Cadenza Virtual Workshop - Improving Music Listening for Those with Hearing Loss

please see below details regarding a free online workshop held in December as part of the Cadenza Project.

 

Cadenza virtual workshop - Cadenza-2023: Improving music listening for those with hearing loss

 

Workshop will be held 8th December 2023, and it is free and online.

 

More info and to register: https://cadenzachallenge.org/cadenza2023-workshop/ 

 

We're pleased to announce our first workshop that will review the first ever machine learning challenge targeted to improve music for those with a hearing loss. It will include talks on what the challenge was, how entrants approached the problem, what our listening panel thought of the processed music, and guest lectures. You will also get a chance to input on our future challenges.

 

Hearing loss causes problems when listening to music. It can make picking out lyrics more difficult, with music becoming duller as high frequencies disappear. This reduces the enjoyment of music and can lead to disengagement from listening and music-making, reducing the health and well-being effects people otherwise get from music.

 

The Cadenza workshops are designed to stimulate the development of systems to improve music processing for people with a hearing loss.

 

The aim of this virtual workshop is to report on the First Cadenza Challenge. The challenge ran from March to August 2023, presenting two tracks: listening to music using headphones, and listening to music in a car.

 

PS we also have a live ICASSP 2024 challenge on a similar topic.

 

All the best,

 

Scott.

 

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Dr Scott Bannister (he/him)

Postdoctoral Research Fellow

School of Music, University of Leeds, Leeds LS2 9JT, UK

Fwd: 27th International Conference on Digital Audio Effects (DAFx24) - Call for papers

Dear Music and Science List,

Apologies for cross-posting. Please see below the Call for Papers for DAFx24. 

Important Info

Full paper submission deadline: 20th March 2024

Conference dates: 3-7 September 2024

Location: Guildford, UK (35 minutes by fast train from London)

Website (work in progress): dafx24.surrey.ac.uk

Call for Papers

We are pleased to announce that the 27th International Conference on Digital Audio Effects (DAFx24) will be organised by the Institute of Sound Recording (IoSR) at the University of Surrey. 

The conference will be hosted on the university campus and will feature oral presentations, poster and demo sessions, keynote addresses, and tutorials. The social program – including a welcome reception, concert and banquet – will offer opportunities for more informal interaction.

This annual conference brings together research practitioners across the globe working with digital audio processing for music and speech, sound design, sound art, acoustics and related applications. Original contributions for DAFx24 are encouraged in, but not limited to, the following topics:

• Capture and analysis
  
• Representation, transformation and modelling
  
• Transmission and resynthesis
  
• Effects and manipulation
  
• Perception, psychoacoustics and evaluation
  
• Spatial sound analysis, estimation, coding and synthesis
  
• Source separation
  
• Physical modelling, virtual acoustic and analogue models
  
• Sound synthesis, composition and sonification
  
• Hardware and software design
  
• Music Information Retrieval and Intelligent Audio Engineering
  
• Sound for Virtual and Augmented reality
  
• Applications of digital audio effects
  
• Multisensory presentation and digital effects
  

This year we especially welcome submissions addressing:

• Synthesis for AR/MR/VR and spatial audio reproduction
  
• Machine Learning-based methods for all topics above
  

Prospective authors are invited to submit full-length papers, eight pages maximum, for both oral and poster presentations, by March 20th 2024.

Submitted papers must be camera-ready and formatted according to the templates and instructions available at the DAFx24 website. All papers have to be submitted through the EasyChair conference management system and are subject to peer review. Acceptance may be conditional upon changes being made to the paper as directed by the reviewers. Proceedings with the final versions of the accepted contributions will be made freely accessible on the DAFx website after the conference closure.

Volumes 2008 to 2023 of DAFx proceedings are now indexed in Scopus and this will apply similarly to DAFx24 proceedings. Extended versions of the best DAFx24 papers will be invited to submit for publication to an upcoming Special Issue of the Journal of the Audio Engineering Society.

Organising Committee

Enzo De Sena (IoSR, Surrey)

Annika Neidhardt (IoSR, Surrey)

Christos Chousidis (IoSR, Surrey)

Joshua D. Reiss  (QMUL)

Mark D. Plumbley (CVSSP, Surrey)

Randall Ali (IoSR,
Surrey)

Russell Mason (IoSR, Surrey)

Stefan Bilbao (Edinburgh)

Amal Emthyas (IoSR, Surrey)

Joshua Mannall (IoSR, Surrey)

Marcela Rada (IoSR, Surrey)

Matteo Scerbo (IoSR, Surrey)

Will J. Cassidy (IoSR, Surrey)

Best regards,

   Enzo

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Enzo De Sena

Associate Professor (Reader)

Director, Institute of Sound Recording

Department of Music & Media

University of Surrey

Stag Hill, University Campus, Guildford GU2 7XH, UK

Office: 08aBC03

Email: e.desena@surrey.ac.uk

URL: desena.org

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/enzodesena

iMerc Newsletter #2 (2023_10)

Fwd: 8th SIMM-posium (Brisbane, Australia, 20-22 November) - upcoming SIMM-research seminars in 2024 - upcoming SIMM-podcast-episodes

1. The programme of the 8th SIMM-posium - organised in and with the Queensland Conservatorium Research Centre (Griffith University) in Brisbane, Australia, from 20 to 22 November 2023 - is really impressive! You can still register to attend it in person or online.  The programme and information on registrations can be found via this page of the SIMM website.

2. We plan our 7th research seminar from 15 to 17th April 2024 at the London based Guildhall School, organised in a close collaboration with both the Guildhall School and the Ghent University based Chair Jonet. The focus of this research seminar will be the role of composition (and composers) within participatory music projects.  Deadline for applications is 15th December 2023, and information of the small group of scholars selected (maximum 20) for this 3-day research seminar will be communicated before 15th January. You can find the call for applications here.

3. After a break of one year, we will these coming weeks broadcast several new episodes of the SIMM-podcast.  You will be able to find them on most podcast directories, and find an overview here.  The new podcast-episodes which are now finalised, are: 

(1) During the 16th episode of the SIMM-podcast we interview Barbara Hesser and Brydie-Leigh Bartleet who co-edited the Compendium on Music as a Global Resource. 

(2) Two more podcasts-episodes will be broadcast before the end of November on research on participatory opera and music theatre practice, following the June 2023 research seminar on this topic at the Barcelona Teatro de Liceu, and in preparation of the September 2024 research seminar we are planning with Chair Jonet and Guildhall School on this field of research. 

 

Fwd: [DMRN-LIST] UWL PhD Scholarships in music/music technology

Hi all,

* apologies for cross posting*

Please forward to potentially interested parties in your networks.

The University of West London is a forward-thinking University with an appetite for innovative, rigorous and impactful research. As part of its research expansion strategy, the University is offering a number of opportunities for 3 year fully funded PhD Scholarships (fees plus an annual stipend of £22,000). These will be available for all eligible students (both home and international). PhD scholars will be expected to carry out teaching or research duties for a maximum of six hours per week. Enrolment will be in February 2024.

Within the University, London College of Music welcomes applications in areas within music, music technology and performing arts: https://www.uwl.ac.uk/research/research-degrees/phd-opportunities/research-degrees-london-college-music Bespoke topics are welcome, and there is also a range of specific project already outlined, including some with industry links.

Applications via: www.uwl.ac.uk/research/research-degrees/phd-opportunities

Particular attention will be paid to applications aligned with one (or more) of our research strategic priorities:

• Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) – We encourage applications promoting and embedding EDI values throughout the whole research process. We also encourage original research addressing key EDI-related challenges.
• Interdisciplinarity – We encourage applications sitting across several UWL Schools/Colleges and demonstrating innovative research focus and/or methodologies.
• Impact – We encourage applications demonstrating effect on, change or benefit to the economy, society, culture, public policy or services, health, the environment or quality of life, beyond academia.

Successful applicants to the Vice-Chancellor's Scholarship will join a vibrant and challenging academic environment where innovation, insight, and knowledge creation feeds into high quality research.  

Application deadline: Friday 3rd November 2023 (5.00 pm)
Interviews will take place: 4th and 5th of December 2023

Best regards,

Justin

Professor Justin Paterson

Course Leader

MA Advanced Music Technology

LCM Offices — PK.01.016

Park

University of West London

St. Mary's Rd

Ealing

London

W5 5RF

https://www.uwl.ac.uk/academic-schools/music

Fwd: Proposal/Abstracts Reminder: Sound Matters Virtual Symposium (Stellenbosch University)

Dear Colleagues, 

 

I hope that this email finds you in warm spirits. 

 

This is a warm reminder that the South African Research Chair in Science Communication, The Academic Citizen, and the South African Journal of Science, invite proposals/abstracts for the upcoming virtual symposium, Sound Matters: Interdisciplinary Explorations Into Audio Knowledge Production. This symposium brings together and explores interdisciplinary perspectives on how the mode of audio offers new possibilities in the formation, articulation, and dissemination of academic and/or scientific knowledge. We welcome proposals of individual or collaborative contributions, panels or showcases of audio scholarship from any discipline, with a focus on themes such as but not limited to: 

 

• The ways in which research praxis incorporates audio,
• How audio can be linked to principles of open access, transformation, and ethical research praxis,
• Data and its analysis in audio form,
• Presentation of new empirical findings in audio-recorded talking formats,
• The possibilities for designing peer-review and publishing modalities in audio.

 

To participate, please submit a 300-word proposal and a 100-word biography in one document to fumanim@sun.ac.za by 9 October 2023. For more information about the symposium, please view the full call here or listen here. We welcome proposals from all over the world and participation in the symposium is free. If you have any queries, please do not hesitate to contact me.  

 

Thank you so much and we look forward to receiving your proposals.  

 

Enkosi | Thank You | Ke a Leboga | Dankie

Fumani Jwara (Mr.)

Communications Officer: SA Research Chair in Science Communication  

Social Media Coordinator: Stellenbosch Department of Journalism 

Stellenbosch Department of Journalism | 26 Crozier Road, Stellenbosch