Fwd: SEMPRE Graduate Conference - Monday 25 March 2019

SEMPRE Graduate Conference - Monday 25 March 2019

This one- day SEMPRE conference is for graduate students to present and discuss their own original research in music psychology, music education, and in the wider field of music and science. Graduate students from any institution are welcome to apply to participate  The conference will take place at the Faculty of Music of the University of Cambridge (UK) on March 25, 2019

Professor Martin Rohrmeier, director of the Digital and Cognitive Musicology Lab at the École Polytechnique Fédéral de Lausanne, will be joining us as the keynote speaker.  Registration cost for attendees and presenters is £25 and includes lunch, coffee, and refreshments. The deadline for registration for attendees and presenters is 18 March 2019, subject to places being available.

Graduate students interested in presenting in one of the three formats (5 min flash talk, 25 min long talk, or poster presentation) should submit a 300 word abstract, stating preferred presentation format. Proposals should be submitted in PDF format to Gabriele Cecchetti at gc573@cam.ac.uk by 11 January 2019. Please use "SEMPRE Graduate Conference 2019, Abstract" as your subject line, and state your student status, your institution and your nationality. If your abstract is accepted for inclusion you may be eligible for a SEMPRE Conference Award to help cover travel and registration costs.

Fwd: Developing Countries - Resources online --- IFORS

Dear Colleagues, 

The aim of the IFORS Developing Countries On-Line Resources page is to
offer the OR worker all publicly-available materials on the topic of OR
for Development. It also aims to provide a venue for people who are
working in the area to share their completed or in-process work, learn
from others, and stimulate comments and discussions on the
work.Regarding IFORS Developing Countries OR resources website, its
regular updates - and your possible submission of "free" (not copyright
protected) material, you might occasionally visit
http://ifors.org/developing_countries/index.php?title=Main_Page.

"Operational Research" (OR) is the discipline of applying advanced
analytical methods to help make better decisions. By using techniques
such as problem structuring methods and mathematical modelling to
analyze complex situations, Operational Research gives executives the
power to make more effective decisions and build more productive systems.

The International Federation of Operational Research Societies (IFORS;
http://ifors.org/) is an almost 60-year old organization which is
currently composed of 51 national societies.Regional Groups of IFORS
are:ALIO (The Latin American Ibero Association on Operations Research),
APORS (The Association of Asian-Pacific Operational Research Societies),
EURO (The Association of European Operational Research Societies), NORAM
(The Association of North American Operations Research Societies).IFORS
conferences are taking place every three years; IFORS 2017 has been
successfully celebrated in Quebec City, Canada.

Thank you very much for your attention.

With kind regards,
best wishes,
Luciana Buriol, Sue Merchant, Gerhard-Wilhelm Weber

PS: Feedback is welcome via buriol@inf.ufrgs.br,
suemerchant@hotmail.com, gerhard.weber@put.poznan.pl.

[IMR event] Brian Ferneyhough in conversation with Julian Anderson

Forthcoming events

AUTUMN 2018

Brian Ferneyhough 

in conversation with Julian Anderson

Talk: Thursday 29 November 2018, 18:00

Chancellor's Hall, Senate House,  Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU

Admission free. 

Promoted by Institute of Musical Research with the support of the Hepner Foundation.

The Institute of Musical Research celebrates Brian Ferneyhough's seventy-fifth birthday with a talk with the composer Julian Anderson. Brian Ferneyhough (b.1943) is widely recognized as one of today's foremost living composers. Since the mid-1970s, when he first gained widespread international recognition, his music has earned him an enviable reputation as one of the most influential creative personalities and significant musical thinkers on the contemporary scene.

His works include the opera Shadowtime, the orchestral works Plötzlichkeit, La Terre est un homme and Transit, six numbered string quartets and several smaller works for the ensemble, concertos for solo instrument and chamber ensemble including La chûte d'Icare, Incipits and Terrain, and many virtuosic solo works. His recent cycle of works, Umbrations, was premiered in Frankfurt: one of these works, Christus Resurgens, will receive its London première at Wigmore Hall on Monday 26 November.

Julian Anderson (b.1967) is one the leading composers of his generation, with commissions and performances throughout the UK, Europe, Asia and the United States.  His opera Thebans was premiered at ENO in 2014, and he has recently composed string quartets for the Arditti and JACK.  The BBC featured a 'Total Immersion' day of his music in 2017, and he holds the post of Professor of Composition and Composer in Residence at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama.

A series of talks by leading international composers, linked to performances of their work in the UK. Organised by Dr Paul Archbold, in collaboration with Contemporary Music Research Unit Goldsmiths, Guildhall School, Kings College London, Institute of Modern Languages Research School of Advanced Study University of London, and Royal Holloway University of London, in association with BBC Symphony Orchestra, London Sinfonietta,  Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival and Wigmore Hall.

Fwd: CFP: Audience Research in the Arts Conference

Audience Research in the Arts Conference
The University of Sheffield
3–5th July 2019

http://www.sparc.dept.shef.ac.uk/audience-research-in-the-arts-conference-3-5-july-2019/

Sheffield Performer and Audience Research Centre (SPARC) is hosting a conference in partnership with the International Network for Audience Research in the Performing Arts (iNARPA), The Audience Agency, Routledge, The University of Leeds and Deakin University, to bring together researchers and industry professionals who investigate audience engagement with the arts. This conference comes at the culmination of two substantive contributions to the field of audience research at The University of Sheffield; the Understanding Audiences for the Contemporary Arts (UACA) study and the Modern Fairies project. The conference will also celebrate the publication of a Cultural Trends special double issue on 'Audience Data and Research' and launch a sector-facing handbook from the UACA project. It will feature sharing sessions from the two research projects and papers from contributors to the special issue.

CALL FOR PAPERS

Contributors are encouraged to present their work to a broad audience, so it can be readily understood by industry professionals, arts practitioners, policy-makers and the general public, as well as academics. Proposals are invited on the following themes:

- Considerations of how audiences find meaning in the works that they see, and the relationship this has to the artists' intended meaning
- Artist and audience communication, and ways in which the audience can feed into the creative process
- The place of cultural intermediaries (which could be artists or arts managers) in shaping audience experience
- Reflections on collaborative audience research, considering the role of partners and gatekeepers, means of knowledge exchange and collaborative learning.
- Innovative or emerging audience research methodologies, how can we make our research accessible and meaningful to participants?
- How audience research might better drive sectoral change and impact on arts policy

Papers addressing these themes are especially welcome, but the committee will consider any submissions relating to audience research and arts audiences today.

We are seeking proposals for:
- Papers (20 minutes with 10 minutes for questions)
- Collaborative presentations (or combination of two papers, one from an academic and one from a practitioner they work with)
- Panels (3 or 4 linked papers around a theme, totalling 1.5 or 2 hours)
- Round tables (3 or 4 shorter presentations, around 15 minutes each, followed by a chaired discussion, totalling 1.5 or 2 hours)
- Lightning talks (7-minute unscripted talks, usually accompanied by slides)
- Posters
- Films or other media presentations

The conference will also include PGR panels and workshops from the board of Cultural Trends; a separate call for papers for will be announced shortly.

Please send proposals to sparc@sheffield.ac.uk including: an abstract (250 words), your name, institutional affiliation (if any), email address, short biography (100 words) and any special AV requirements.

Deadline: 7th January 2019
Contributors notified by the end of January

British Library Music Doctoral Open Day: Tue 4 Dec 2018

Bookings are now open for the British Library Music Doctoral Open Day.
This will take place on Tuesday 4 December 2018 in the British Library
Knowledge Centre.

The day provides an introduction to the rich resources available at
the British Library to support music research of all kinds. The draft
programme is available at https://bit.ly/2yFhKc2 and includes specific
content on popular music.

We warmly invite all PhD students to attend. Masters students
considering studying at doctoral level are also welcome.

Places can be booked at
https://www.bl.uk/events/doctoral-students-open-day-20182019-music.



Dr Amelie Roper
Research Development Manager
The British Library
96 Euston Road
London
NW1 2DB

Shout at cancer forthcoming concerts at the Tabernacle

Dear friends and colleagues

As you might know, I have been working closely with an amazing Charity called Shout at Cancer, supporting people with throat cancer.

For those of you that would like to attend the next very exciting Shout at Cancer concert on Tuesday 30 October 2018, please see the information on the venue (Tabernacle) website:
https://www.tabernaclew11.com/events/2018-10-30-shout-at-cancer-weve-found-our-voice-the-tabernacle

a video teaser is available here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4uFN4KBSLWQ

A different type of concert is also available the day before (Monday 29 October 2018), also at the Tabernacle. The theme for this concert is: "Classical music with a pinch of salt", featuring The Verdammte Spielerei (Belgian saxophone band and stand-up comedian) in concert with Hanne Roos (Soprano) and Marc Masson (Piano). More information about this is available here: https://www.tabernaclew11.com/events/2018-10-29-classical-music-with-a-pinch-of-salt-the-tabernacle

If you have time for either concert this coming Monday or Tuesday, do consider attending! The cause is powerful, and the work is extremely exciting.

with best wishes,

Evangelos

--
Dr Evangelos Himonides FRSA, FBCS CITP
Reader in Technology, Education, and Music
University College London

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Fwd: Music PhD Studentships

Funded TECHNE AHRC Doctoral Studentships at Kingston:

https://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/BNN090/phd-studentship-techne-ahrc-phd-studentships-in-the-arts-and-humanities 

PhD Studentship: TECHNE AHRC PhD Studentships in the Arts ... www.jobs.ac.uk AHRC TECHNE PHD studentships at Kingston School of Art, Kingston University London. Fully funded full time and part time PhD studentships available for October 2019 start

Please contact Dr. Oded Ben-Tal (o.ben-tal@kingston.ac.uk) with questions about developing a proposal. 

Initial  application deadline January 7th, final TECHNE deadline February 1st.

The UK House of Lords debates music education - 17 October 2018

Members of the Lords, including the chairs of the Royal College of Music and the English Schools' Orchestra, will debate the state of music education in schools, in the House of Lords on Thursday 18 October. Find out more here: https://www.parliament.uk/business/news/2018/october/lords-debates-music-edcuation/

 

Fwd: Call for Candidates - SysMus Executive Committee

Call for Candidates – SysMus Executive Committee


We are establishing the SysMus Executive Committee to guarantee the
continuation of the SysMus conference series in the future. This
Executive Committee will comprise the following positions elected by
the SysMus Council (currently 17 members) and other candidates: 1
Chair, 1 Vice-Chair, 1 Secretary, 1 Advisor, and 2 Members-at-large.
The current SysMus Council approved the new guidelines of the SysMus
Conference Series (see attachment).


The purpose of this email is to solicit nominations for the positions
of Chair, Vice-Chair, Secretary and 2 Members-at-large for the new
SysMus Executive Committee, which will start its work on November 1st,
2018, for a period of two years.


Self-nominations are welcome and should include a short statement of
motivation (100 words) and a picture.

Duties associated with each position are listed below.


Please turn in nominations to both Birgitta Burger
(birgitta.burger@jyu.fi) and Manuela Marin (manuela.marin@uibk.ac.at)
by October 19th, 2018, CEST.

Best wishes and thank you for your interest in SysMus,


Manuela Marin & Birgitta Burger
Election Officers



Executive Role Profiles


Chair
- Heads the Executive (in close collaboration with the Vice-Chair),
and by extension the SysMus Council
- Oversees the Executive
- Calls meetings and prepares meeting agendas
- Is a point of contact for future SysMus conference hosts and the
main person responsible for the effective functioning of the SysMus
Series
- Leads in strategic planning and execution of strategic plan
- Must be a member of the Council or a former Hosting Committee
- Must be a Master's or Doctoral candidate or within 3 years of having
completed her/his graduate studies


Vice-Chair
- Oversees the Executive in close collaboration with the Chair
- Supports the Chair in all issues regarding the functioning of the
SysMus Series
- Calls meetings and prepares meeting agendas
- Leads in strategic planning and execution of strategic plan
- Must be a member of the Council or a former Hosting Committee
- Must be a Master's or Doctoral candidate or within 3 years of having
completed his/her graduate studies


Secretary
- Manages communications to and from the Executive to the Council and
wider audiences via the SysMus Executive's shared email account
- Takes minutes at meetings and circulates to Executive and Council
- Maintains and updates the general SysMus conference series website
- Manages social media pages and Google Group
- Recruits candidates for the election of the Executive
- Manages the list of active Council members
- Must be a Master's or Doctoral candidate or within 3 years of having
completed her/his graduate studies


Members-at-large

- Participates in meetings and decision-making and supports other
members of the Executive
- Flexibility to further define role as member-at-large and Executive see fit
- In general, shall see the welfare of the SysMus conference series
- Must be a Master's or Doctoral candidate or within 3 years of having
completed her/his graduate studies
- Should belong to different sub-disciplines of systematic musicology
to represent the field in its diversity, preferably with one member
representing the humanities side of systematic musicology

Fwd: NordicSMC winter school (Oslo 4-8 March 2019)

We are happy to announce the NordicSMC winter school, to be held at the University of Oslo, Norway, 4-8 March 2019.

This is an intensive PhD-level training course on sound and motion analysis with experts in sound and music computing from the Nordic countries.

About

The winter school will be taught with a combination of traditional and flipped-classroom methodologies. All participants are expected to follow the free online course Music Moves prior to coming to Oslo. This MOOC lasts for 6 weeks (starting on 21 January) and will serve as background information for many of the topics dealt with during the week.

The week in Oslo will comprise a combination of lectures, hands-on tutorials and a small, team-based research project utilizing the theories and methods taught during the school.

All students that complete the MOOC, the Oslo programme, and submit a final written report, will receive a diploma with a recommendation of being awarded 3 ECTS credits as part of their PhD training.

For Whom

The winter school is primarily intended for PhD students in relevant fields, but it is also open for advanced Master's students. Students from the NordicSMC partners will have priority.

Cost

The winter school is free of charge for all participants. Students from NordicSMC partners can apply for  getting travel and accommodation covered. Other participants have to cover travel and accommodation on their own.

Participate

To apply for a place in the winter school, please fill in this form and upload your CV and a letter of interest that clearly indicates your motivation and previous experience with sound and music computing.

Deadline: 1 December 2018

Selected participants will be notified by 15 December 2018

More information

Please see the NordicSMC winter school web page for updated information about the programme, teachers, etc. Get in touch if you have any questions.

Welcome!

--   Alexander Refsum Jensenius, Ph.D.  Associate Professor, Department of Musicology, University of Oslo  http://people.uio.no/alexanje/    Deputy Director, RITMO Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies in Rhythm, Time, and Motion  http://www.uio.no/ritmo/    New book: "A NIME Reader"  http://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-319-47214-0    New master's programme: "Music, Communication & Technology"  http://www.uio.no/mct-master/

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