Friday, May 25, 2012
Journée mondiale de la diversité culturelle pour le dialogue et le développement / World Day for Cultural Diversity for Dialogue and Develop ment / Día Mundial de la Diversidad Cultural para el D iálogo y el Desarrollo
Thursday, May 17, 2012
Hip hop education identities - Roundtable discussion to be held on 30th May 2.30-4.00
'Hip hop, education, identities'
Wednesday May 30th 2012
From 2.30 to 4.00 – Large seminar room.
London Knowledge Lab 23-29 Emerald Street LondonWC1N 3QS
Coffee and tea will be available from 2.00
A roundtable discussion, chaired by Lucy Green, with David Kirkland, Rupa Huq, Francis Winston, Patrick Turner, Chris Richards
This event will explore developments in the British educational context in conversation with David Kirkland of New York University.
David Kirkland has written widely on urban youth culture, language and digital media. His new book, A Search Past Silence, will be published by Teachers College Press.
Rupa Huq is the author of Beyond subculture: pop, youth and identity in a postcolonial world and, forthcoming from Bloomsbury Academic, Making Sense of Suburbia Through Popular Culture.
Francis Winston is a musician (Souljahz) and a student on the MA in Music Education at the Institute of Education.
Patrick Turner completed his PhD in 2010, at Goldsmiths' College - Hip Hop Versus Rap: An Ethnography of the Cultural Politics of New Hip Hop Practices.
Chris Richards is the author of Teen Spirits: Music and Identity in Media Education; Forever Young:Essays on Young Adult Fictions and, most recently, Young People, Popular Culture and Education.
Lucy Green has recently edited Learning, Teaching and Musical Identity: Voices Across Cultures (2011). She is the author of Music on Deaf Ears: Musical Meaning, Ideology and Education; Music, Gender, Education; How Popular Musicians Learn: A Way Ahead For Music Education; Music, Informal Learning and the School: A New Classroom Pedagogy.
At the Institute of Education, Bedford Way: Elvin Hall
5.00 Tea
5.30: David Kirkland, Assistant Professor, New York University
Faculty Lecture Series - Rhythms of justice: using hip hop to teach global awareness and for social change
6.30 Drinks, canapés
Friday, May 4, 2012
CfP: MIRUM '12 - 2nd Int'l Workshop on Music Information Retrieval with User-Centered and Multimodal Strategies at ACM Multimedia 2012
CALL FOR PAPERS
2nd International Workshop on Music Information Retrieval with
User-Centered and Multimodal Strategies (MIRUM)
held in conjunction with the ACM Multimedia 2012 conference
November 2, 2012, Nara, Japan
http://mirum12.tudelft.nl
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-- Motivation --
Music is an outstanding example of a content type with many different,
complimentary representations in multiple modalities. Each of these
contribute to the way in which music is conveyed and experienced.
Furthermore, the consumption of music is strongly guided by affective
and subjective responses, which are personal and context-dependent,
occur at different conceptual specificity levels, and for which no
universal, uncompromising ground truth exists. Thus, in order for
music retrieval systems to yield satisfying results, insight into the
information needs and demands of the actual users of the systems
becomes very important.
To allow comprehensive and flexible exploitation of the multifaceted
aspects of music, both the availability of complementary music-related
information in multiple modalities and the role of the human user
should be considered. At the same time, challenges such as the
identification and optimal combination of useful information from
different modalities and algorithmic approaches to user-dependent
subjective assessments of music retrieval results still are largely
unsolved. These challenges are certainly not unique to music content,
but actual and prevalent in the broad multimedia community.
The MIRUM workshop, held on November 2, 2012 in conjunction with ACM
Multimedia 2012 in Nara, Japan, provides a platform at a premier
multimedia venue for discussing open challenges and presenting
state-of-the art work on music information retrieval adopting
user-centered and multimodal strategies. The workshop explicitly aims
to initiate a cross-disciplinary idea exchange between experts in the
fields of music and multimedia information retrieval (and other
related fields)
-- Topics of interest --
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
- Music multimedia content analysis
- Visual and sensory information for music processing
- Multimodal music search, retrieval and recommendation
- Social networks and indexing for music applications
- Music similarity measures at different specificity levels
- Fusion of multimodal music information sources
- Music knowledge representation and reasoning
- Interactive music systems and retrieval
- (Adaptive) user interaction and interfaces
- User (context) models and personalization
- Real-world issues (unstructured and noisy data, scalability, formats, …)
- Evaluation methods and data understanding
- Cross-domain methodology transfer
-- Contributions --
MIRUM welcomes **technical papers** and a limited number of **position
papers** (both max. 6 pages) with novel, thought-provoking work and
ideas relating to the workshop topics. In addition, **extended
abstracts for technical demonstrations** (max. 2 pages) are solicited.
Accepted contributions will be presented in oral sessions and in a
dedicated demo session. Position papers should consider visionary
ideas based on a solid argumentation, and technical demonstrations
should consider demonstrably working systems. In all cases, there
should be clear relevance to the workshop focus areas.
All submissions must be formatted according to the ACM Proceedings
style and contain original work that is not being published or under
review elsewhere. Each submission will undergo a double-blind
reviewing process by at least 3 PC members. All accepted papers will
be published together with the ACM Multimedia 2012 main conference
proceedings and will be made available through the ACM digital
library.
The submission system is open at https://cmt.research.microsoft.com/ACMMMWS2012.
-- Important dates --
Workshop paper submission: June 29, 2012
Notification of acceptance: July 24, 2012
Camera-ready submission:August 15, 2012
ACM Multimedia 2012: October 29 - November 2, 2012
MIRUM workshop: November 2, 2012
-- Workshop organization --
Cynthia Liem, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands
Meinard Müller, Bonn University & MPI Informatik, Germany
Steve Tjoa, iZotope, Inc., USA
George Tzanetakis, University of Victoria, Canada
-- Program committee --
Xavier Anguera, Telefónica Research, Spain
Thierry Bertin-Mahieux, Columbia University, USA
Elaine Chew, Queen Mary, University of London, UK
Ching-Hua Chuan, University of Northern Florida, USA
Emanuele Coviello, University of California, San Diego, USA
Christian Dittmar, Fraunhofer IDMT, Germany
Slim Essid, Télécom ParisTech, France
Sebastian Ewert, Queen Mary, University of London, UK
Takuya Fujishima, Yamaha Corporation, Japan
Rebecca Fiebrink, Princeton University, USA
Masataka Goto, AIST, Japan
Fabien Gouyon, INESC Porto, Portugal
Peter Grosche, Saarland University and MPI Informatik
Perfecto Herrera, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain
Jason Hockman, McGill University, Canada
Paul Lamere, The Echo Nest, USA
Martha Larson, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands
Jin Ha Lee, University of Washington, USA
Mark Levy, last.fm, UK
Lie Lu, Dolby Sound Technology Research, China
Eric Nichols, Indiana University, USA
Geoffroy Peeters, IRCAM, France
Markus Schedl, Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria
Björn Schuller, TU München, Germany
Joan Serrà, IIIA-CSIC, Spain
Yi-Hsuan Yang, Academia Sinica, Taiwan
Ju-Chiang Wang, National Taiwan University, Taiwan
Ye Wang, National University of Singapore, Singapore
Tuesday, May 1, 2012
PhD Scholarship
Closing date: 12 noon, Monday 21 May 2012
The School of Humanities and Performing Arts (HuMPA) seeks to award 2
fully funded full time research studentships in key strategic areas of
research, which included Computer & Contemporary Music.
The studentships, funded for 3 years, cover Home/EU tuition fees and
stipend in line with RCUK levels.
Non Home/EU students are eligible to apply but, if successful, will
have to fund the difference between Home/EU and International fees.
The school welcomes proposals to study for a PhD at the
Interdisciplinary Centre for Computer Music Research (ICCMR). Please
refer to ICCMR's website for a glance at our research activity, but
proposals do not necessarily need to be associated with an ongoing
project. We welcome suggestions for new research topics, particularly
those related to composition aided by new technologies.
http://cmr.soc.plymouth.ac.uk/
Link to application information through here:
http://neuromusic.soc.plymouth.ac.uk/jobs.html
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Prof Eduardo R. Miranda
Plymouth University / ICCM
Wednesday, March 28, 2012
Gallions Primary School: Music Manager Required
We are excited to advertise this newly created role to take our music
provision to the next level.
Gallions Primary School is in the lowest 5 per cent of areas for
deprivation in the country. Despite this huge barrier, we are
determined that all the children that we teach will achieve just as
well as any other child in the country.
The curriculum we teach offers opportunities in Music, Dance, Drama
and Art wherever possible and a special feature of the school is our
rich music programme.
As part of the programme, every child (currently 570 children) from
the age of 3 has weekly musicianship lessons and every child from the
age of 6 learns to play a string instrument.
With our own orchestras, choirs and huge ambition, we now need someone
to help us take our music provision to the next level.
This role is full-time (39 weeks per year).
With an initial salary of £25,989.68 - £28,105.79.
E-mail us at music@gallions.newham.sch.uk for an application pack or
visit to the school.
This is a truly exciting opportunity in a truly exciting organisation.
Closing Date – Midday Friday 27th April 2012
Wednesday, March 14, 2012
‘Rock and Roles’ Conference: Philosophy and Sociology of Popular Music Education
'Rock and Roles' Conference
Philosophy and Sociology of Popular Music Education
Institute of Contemporary Music Performance, London, NW6 &XG, England
July 23 & 24, 2012
This international conference features speakers from around world discussing a range of topics including
· Careers and continuity
· Cultural perspectives
· Creativity
· Canon and the contemporary
Keynote Speakers:
Ruth Wright (University of Western Ontario)
"Art for Art's Sake, Music for Whose Sake? Taking the class out of music"
Terry Applebaum (University of the Arts, Philadelphia)
"Crossing the Stage: From music student to emerging professional" (workshop)Tuesday, February 28, 2012
Seeking Little Kids Rock, USA - National Program Director
Inc. has been retained by Little Kids Rock to conduct a search for a
National Program Director. Little Kids Rock (LKR) is a non-profit
organization based in Cedar Grove, NJ (just outside NYC) which brings
modern rock music instruction and free instruments to public schools
with high concentrations of low-income students. They currently reach
more than 78,000 children in grades K-12 in eleven states. Through
partnerships with school districts, LKR is able to work with teachers
to train them on its innovative curriculum-which is built around rock,
pop, rap, hip-hop, funk, blues and reggae-and supply them with
instruments in order to inspire young people and support their
students' self-expression, self-confidence and creativity.
The National Program Director will be responsible for establishing new
high-level relationships with school district administrators, as well
as nurturing existing relationships to foster program growth and
improvement. He/she will be responsible for setting the vision and
action plan for the training of teachers, and for managing a budget
and the program staff.
The ideal candidate will be an inspirational, charismatic educator
with the ability to build high-level relationships within public
school districts. He/she will have exceptionally strong interpersonal
and communication skills. Experience with classroom teaching or
administration within a public school system, as well as non-profit
management experience is highly desirable. The individual should be
at least proficient on guitar, electric bass, drums or electronic
keyboards. A master's or doctoral degree is preferred, and formal
academic pedigree in some aspect of music will be considered a plus.
For the full position description contact: Claire@ligaturepartners.com
University of London Chamber Choir: Spring Concert
Conducted by Colin Durrant
Monteverdi - Beatus Vir
Byrd - Laudibus in Sanctis
and Music by Bruckner, Howells, Harris and Purcell
Friday 9th March 2012 - 19:30
St George's Church, Bloomsbury, WC1
Tickets available at the door (£9/£4)
Monday, February 27, 2012
'Directions in Musical Research' Seminar
'Directions in Musical Research' Seminar
(Senate House, Room G35)
Grenville Hancox and Stephen Clift (Canterbury Christ Church University)
Chair: Norma Daykin (University of the West of England)
Applying music: singing on prescription
Free of charge. Open to the public. No advance booking required.
Wednesday, February 22, 2012
New Teaching Positions in Afghanistan National Institute of Music (ANIM)
I am pleased to inform you that ANIM is expanding its international
faculty by employing three music teachers for the following
instruments:
Classical guitar: http://www.jobs.af/afghanistan/14989/guitar-teacher
Cello and double base:
http://www.jobs.af/afghanistan/14980/cello-double-bass-teacher
Saxophone: http://www.jobs.af/afghanistan/14991/saxophone-teacher
Having said that I would like to ask you to forward the links above to
your friends and music educators who might be interested to join our
faculty. If is it possible please place it in your website and use
your networks to spread the words about this opportunities.
I am looking forward to appreciate your assistance.
Regards
Ahmad
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Dr Ahmad Naser Sarmast
Founder and Director
Afghanistan National Institute of Music (ANIM)
Ministry of Education, Afghanistan
Research Fellow
Monash Asia Institute
Monash School of Music - Conservatorium
Monash University, Australia
Honorary Fellow
National College of Music, London
Tel: +93 (0) 796 54 29 52 + 61421981246 +613 9704 2784
Email: ahmad.sarmast@adm.monash.edu.au




