Thursday, March 27, 2025
Fwd: [DMRN-LIST] King's College London announces 20 new AI+ fellowships leading to open-ended academic posts
Tuesday, March 25, 2025
Fwd: [DMRN-LIST] AIMC’25 - 10-12 Sep 2025 - Brussels, Belgium - Keynote Announcement - CfP Deadline: 04 April 2025
Sorry for the cross-posting, please circulate widely!
https://aimusiccreativity.org/2025
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| | . . . . . The Artist in The Loop . . . . . | |
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| | . . . . . 10-12 September 2025 . . . . | |
| | . . . . . . Brussels, Belgium . . . . . . . | |
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| | . . . . . . PAPERS | MUSIC . . . . . . . | |
| | . . WORKSHOPS / TUTORIALS . . | |
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| | . . Abstract Submission Deadline: . | |
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Keynote Announcement
In line with the AIMC 2025 theme — The Artist in the Loop, which explores feedback loops between human creators and AI systems across all stages of creative practice — the conference will feature an outstanding panel of keynote speakers offering deep insights into AI-driven creativity, human-AI collaboration, and the future of generative music.
- Marc Leman: Professor of Musicology at Ghent University, known for pioneering work in computational and embodied musicology. Founder of the Art & Science Lab at De Krook and author of over 450 publications. His current work focuses on high-dimensional music data and immersive environments.
- Katerina Kosta: Head of AI at Hook, previously at TikTok and Jukedeck. Expert in music AI, computational musicology, and expressive performance modeling. Holds a PhD from Queen Mary University of London, and combines deep technical knowledge with performance experience in classical piano.
Meanwhile, the call for AIMC 2025 is still open!
We invite submissions of papers, music, and workshop/tutorial proposals exploring the intersections of AI and music creativitym specially those that involve The Artist in the Loop.
Deadlines:
04 April 2025 – Abstract deadline
11 April 2025 – Full submission deadline
30 May 2025 - Decisions and notifications to authors
10–12 September 2025 – Conference in Brussels
Details on keynotes and submission info:
https://aimusiccreativity.org/2025
AIMC 2025 Organising Committee
Monday, March 24, 2025
Fwd: ISPS 2025 | Oct 29-01 Nov 2025 | Shanghai
Wednesday, March 19, 2025
UCL iMerc newsletter #15
| UCL iMerc Newsletter — Vol. 15, March 2025 | |
| Since the Covid-19 pandemic in 2020, we have been meeting regularly to share new research and insights related to diverse topics in music education, broadly conceived. We are a group of res… | |
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Fwd: 1st Call for Papers: CMMR 2025 “Sound, Music: Space, Place” (UCL East, London, UK)
1st Call for Papers: 17th International Symposium on Computer Music Multidisciplinary Research (CMMR 2025), London, 3 – 7 November 2025
CMMR 2025 "Sound, Music: Space, Place" UCL East, London, UK 3 - 7 November 2025
The 17th International Symposium on Computer Music Multidisciplinary Research (CMMR) will be held at University College London (UCL) in East London (United Kingdom), 3 - 7 November 2025.
CMMR 2025 invites contributions related to all aspects of multidisciplinary fields and approaches, regarding sound, music and computers. In particular, we welcome submissions matching this year's topic "Sound, Music: Space, Place".
The conference will be hosted by the world-leading departments of Anthropology (within the forward-thinking School for the Creative & Cultural Industries) and the Bartlett School of Architecture. As such, contributions centring on practices of culture (those of human as well as other living beings, including 'musical', acoustic and behavioural aspects of animals) and spatial practices, including architecture, are very welcome.
CMMR is an open-minded symposium that provides an opportunity to exchange ideas, opinions, and findings for everyone engaged in sound, music, and computers. We warmly welcome submissions from researchers and practitioners from academia and the industry, and others with an interest in related topics. CMMR is an in-person conference. All presenters are required to participate in the conference and present their works on site.
CMMR 2025 will feature a diverse range of activities across the following tracks: papers, demos, music and installations, tutorials, and workshops.
Call for Papers
The conference accepts short papers of 8 pages to present work-in-progress and long papers of 12 pages to present a more substantial contribution to the field (Springer LNCS single-column format).
Papers must be submitted as PDF files using EasyChair. All papers will be peer-reviewed by at least two experts in the field to ensure quality and suitability. Accepted papers will be presented in the conference programme and proceedings in open access (OA) format.
The Scientific Program Committee will determine the presentation format (oral / poster) of each accepted paper based on the reviewers' recommendations. The camera-ready version of accepted papers must implement revisions requested by the reviewers.
The conference will feature special paper sessions, the topics of which will be made available in due course.
As in the previous CMMRs, post-symposium proceedings consisting of selected peer-reviewed papers are planned to be published in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science Series of Springer Verlag.
Original contributions are encouraged in, but not limited to the following topics:
- Affective computing
- Architectural acoustics
- Artificial intelligence applied to sound and music
- Audio signal processing
- Auditory perception and cognition
- Augmented and smart musical instruments
- Aural diversities
- Bioacoustics
- Computational musicology
- Cooperative music networks
- Digital audio effects
- Digital communities
- Digital music libraries
- Embodied musical interaction
- Evaluation of creative music systems
- Extended reality (VR/AR/MR) and music
- Human-computer interaction applied to music
- Intelligent music tutoring systems
- Live coding
- Motion and gesture
- Multimodal perception
- Music and emotions
- Music education
- Music ethnography
- Music games and interactive learning
- Music information retrieval
- Music production and composition tools
- Music representation and visualization
- Music structure analysis
- Music transcription
- Musical interface design
- Optical music recognition
- Oral histories & storytelling
- Semantic web
- Sonification and musification
- Sound and music in visual media
- Sound source separation
- Sound studies & sonic anthropology
- Sound synthesis
- Soundscape and acoustic ecology
- Spatial audio
- User studies (e.g., ethnography, UI/UX)
Important Dates:
Paper submission deadline: 30 May 2025
Paper notification of acceptance: 28 July 2025
Conference dates: 3 – 7 November 2025
Conference Committee
General Chair: Angela McArthur (UCL)
General Co-Chair: Emma-Kate Matthews (UCL)
Further information pertaining to the various conference tracks, including submission requirements and conference logistics, will be disseminated in due course.
Tuesday, March 11, 2025
Fwd: HearMus Seminar 6
HearMus Seminar 6 (March 25.03.25) 14:00-16:00 GMT (15:00-17:00 CET)
Music and hearing loss across the lifespan: transfer effects to support speech-in-noise perception
Dr Chi Lo, Postdoctoral Fellow, Macquarie University and Australian Institute of Health Innovation
Speech perception in noisy environments remains a critical challenge for individuals with hearing loss. Recent evidence suggests that music processing skills and training can facilitate improvements in auditory perception. In this presentation, the findings from two music intervention studies (paediatric and geriatric) will be discussed and consolidated.
In the first study, 39 older adult hearing aid users (aged 57–90) were assigned to a 14-week, three-arm intervention (choir singing, music appreciation, and do-nothing control). Results revealed that participants assigned to the music groups had enhanced speech-in-noise perception as well as frequency following responses after the intervention.
The second study involved 14 children (aged 6–9) with prelingual sensorineural hearing loss that used cochlear implants, and/or hearing aids. Participation involved a 12‐week intervention incorporating weekly group‐based music therapy, supplemented with a take-home music app. Compared with an age‐matched typical hearing cohort, the children with hearing loss showed a significant improvement for SIN perception which was mechanistically linked to better timbre and spectral resolution perception.
Collectively, these findings highlight the potential of music‐based interventions as a complementary rehabilitation strategy. They suggest that structured music training may play critical roles in enhancing auditory outcomes across the lifespan.
Balancing auditory stimulation and noise exposure: Lessons from private and NHS audiology
Dr Alan Sanderson, Brighton and Sussex Medical School, UK
Dr Sanderson is a Clinical Lecturer in Audiology. In parallel to his research on tinnitus and hearing devices, Alan works in NHS and private clinical audiology. At the HearMus seminar, Alan will share how he and Conor O'Kane, an audiologist and classically trained pianist, set up an audiology service to optimise and protect hearing for patients that love music. The talk will use clinical case examples to draw out patterns that we can use to improve and standardise clinical protocols for people that play and/or listen to music.
Alinka Greasley is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting.
Topic: HearMus Seminar 6 (25.03.25)
Time: Mar 25, 2025 14:00-16:00 GMT (15:00-17:00 CET)
Join Zoom Meeting
https://universityofleeds.zoom.us/j/81935189643
Meeting ID: 819 3518 9643
We look forward to seeing some of you there! Please pass on to anyone you feel would be interested.
The HearMus seminar series provides a monthly forum for the discussion of a broad array of topics around music and hearing health. The series aims to yield a state of the art of research on music perception and hearing impairment, hearing aids and music, and individual differences in music perception and production. Besides presentations from experts in academia and industry, the seminar series seeks to foster lively discussions and exchange of ideas, with the joint goal of sustaining and enhancing access to music for people with diverse hearing needs.
You can find out more details and watch previous seminars here: https://musicandhearingaids.org/hearmus-seminars/
Prof. Alinka Greasley
Professor of Music Psychology
Director of Research and Innovation
School of Music | University of Leeds | Leeds, LS2 9JT, UK
Email: a.e.greasley@leeds.ac.uk | Phone: + 44 113 343 4560
Wednesday, March 5, 2025
Fwd: Reminder: Musical care in dialogue 18th March 2025
Juanita Eslava (Orquesta Filarmónica de Medellin, Colombia)
Kjetil Falkenberg (KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden)
Ailsa Lipscombe (University of Cincinnati, USA)
Cincinnati, Ohio, US – 10:00-11:00
London, UK – 14:00-15:00
Stockholm, Sweden – 15:00-16:00
Meeting ID: 999 1738 5066
Passcode: d7X@k4
Wednesday, February 26, 2025
Fwd: [DMRN-LIST] Jason Yust: "Musical Rhythm as Signal" @ KCL, March 26
Tl;dr:
Jason Yust is visiting KCL for a seminar exactly one month from today. All are welcome; registration is needed.
Jason Yust is renowned as one of the world's foremost experts in music theory, particularly the mathematical modelling thereof.
For more on Yust see his website:
If you know Jason's work, you'll know how fascinating it is. If you don't know his work, then come to the talk and find out! You might think of attendance as a step towards greater dialogue between the MIR, MCM, and music theory communities 😉
Details:
- Room: STRAND BLDG S0.13 (Strand Campus)
- Date: 25-Mar-2025
- Start time: 15:00
- End time: 16:00
- Title: "Musical Rhythm as Signal"
- Event webpage: https://www.kcl.ac.uk/events/musical-rhythm-as-signal
- Form to register is here
Please do register: If you're coming from outside KCL I need to give your name to the desk so you can get in. The campus is a bit of a fortress!
Thanks and best wishes,
Mark
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Mark Gotham
Tuesday, February 25, 2025
Fwd: [DMRN-LIST] Call for Contributions: First AES International Conference on AI and Machine Learning for Audio (AIMLA 2025) - extended deadline
Tuesday, February 11, 2025
Fwd: HearMus Seminar Series
HearMus Seminar – February 20th 14:00-16:00 GMT (15:00-17:00 CET)
Making music more accessible for cochlear implant users
Professor Waldo Nogueira, Hannover Medical School, Germany
Music is vital in our lives, connecting people emotionally and culturally. However, cochlear implants, designed to restore speech, often fail to help users enjoy music. This presentation reports on outcomes of the Music4u project which aims to change this by developing technology to improve music perception for cochlear implant users. This involves creating new signal processing algorithms to enhance music enjoyment and personalizing it based on individual hearing performance and brain signals. The goal is to improve users' quality of life by making music more accessible.
1st Cadenza Machine Learning Challenge for Music and Hearing Loss: Listener Evaluation Data
Dr Scott Bannister, University of Leeds, UK
The Cadenza Project (https://cadenzachallenge.org/) aims to improve music listening experiences for people with a hearing loss, through machine learning challenges and perceptual studies. The 1st Cadenza Challenge (CAD1) tasked entrants with improving music audio quality for people with hearing loss, listening to music unaided and over headphones. Entrant systems were assessed via an objective metric, and subjectively evaluated by a Listener Panel of hearing aid users. This talk aims to summarise recent sensory evaluation work to understand attributes of music audio quality from the perspectives of hearing loss, and to present Listener Panel evaluation data for CAD1. Findings will be discussed in relation to music listening difficulties experienced through hearing loss, and next steps in the Cadenza Project will be outlined.
Alinka Greasley is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting.
Topic: HearMus Seminar 5 (20.02.25)
Time: Feb 20, 2025 14:00-16:00 GMT (15:00-17:00 CET)
Join Zoom Meeting
https://universityofleeds.zoom.us/j/87092558319
Meeting ID: 870 9255 8319
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HearMus Seminar 6 (March 25.03.25) 14:00-16:00 GMT (15:00-17:00 CET)
Dr Alan Sanderson, Brighton and Sussex Medical School, UK
Dr Chi Lo, Toronto Metropolitan University, Canada
The HearMus seminar series provides a monthly forum for the discussion of a broad array of topics around music and hearing health. The series aims to yield a state of the art of research on music perception and hearing impairment, hearing aids and music, and individual differences in music perception and production. Besides presentations from experts in academia and industry, the seminar series seeks to foster lively discussions and exchange of ideas, with the joint goal of sustaining and enhancing access to music for people with diverse hearing needs. You can access recordings of the previous seminars here: https://musicandhearingaids.org/hearmus-seminars/
Seminar leaders: Prof. Alinka Greasley, Prof. Kai Siedenburg
Prof. Alinka Greasley
Professor of Music Psychology
Director of Research and Innovation
School of Music | University of Leeds | Leeds, LS2 9JT, UK
Email: a.e.greasley@leeds.ac.uk | Phone: + 44 113 343 4560
