Research into gender and music education: online survey on how boys and girls learn music

Please can you help us with our research?

We are academics and researchers from University College London who are interested in teachers’ views on how boys and girls learn music in different school contexts. For our purposes, the term "school" is used broadly in the questionnaire, so please interpret this in relation to your own professional context; you will be able to give more detail about your educational context in the questionnaire. The questions are also based on a research survey conducted and the 1990s and we are particularly interested in whether or not the findings in that decade apply today.

We will be very grateful for your time in completing this short, anonymous questionnaire. Thank you for your support with this research.

https://opinio.ucl.ac.uk/s?s=61599

Drs Ross Purves and David Baker
UCL Institute of Education, London

Fwd: CfP: Revisiting Interdisciplinarity - Airea Journal (deadline extended 15 September 2019)

Dear all, 

An update on the call for papers for Airea Journal issue 2 Revisiting Interdisciplinarity within collaborative and participatory creative practice: deadline extended to 15 September 2019.

Please find below the full call for papers:

CALL FOR PAPERS: Airea Journal issue 2

Revisiting Interdisciplinarity within collaborative and participatory creative practice

For the past two decades, collaboration has emerged as a keyword and an important methodological concern in a variety of disciplines. This has nurtured interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary approaches that encompass innovative and experimental processes of knowledge production. Trends such as participatory and socially-engaged art, the workshop turn, and ideas of Do-It-With-Others contributed to the emergence of creative processes that operate within the sphere of inter-human relations through participation and collaboration. Such processes often operate beyond the institutional space, or classic studio and gallery settings, by engaging directly with the social realm, and blurring in this way, the lines between art, performance and our lived social, political, economic, technological and environmental realities. The growing practices, methodologies and vocabularies of creating, researching and collaborating, can be inextricably intertwined with the way works function and are experienced. Such concerns have been identified and theorized as dialogical (Kester, 2005), transformative (Fischer-Lichte, 2008) and operational (Bianchini and Verhagen, 2016).

In response to the various perspectives and approaches of what it means to create through participation or to participate, this second issue of Airea Journal focuses on artistic practices and research that problematize concepts and theories of (distributed) agency through participation, collaboration, and autonomy. Knowledge production that happens through the exchange and negotiation between communities, non-academic and academic partners has allowed the development of hybrid types of knowledge that provide with an enriched understanding of challenges. We invite both practice-based and theoretical contributions that will map this transition of culturally dispersed, interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary practices and theories that may initiate new types of creative processes. This is a move that pays attention to aesthetics, actions, methodologies and politics of collaboration and participation around themes such as:

• Collective vs personal
• Authorship-agency
• Artistic-activist collectivities
• Process-based approaches
• Co-creation
• Temporality-spatiality
• Performativity and performance ecologies
• Materials and media
• Interactivity
• Machine agency and automated practices

To be considered for this issue, please submit an abstract of 300 words along with author name(s), institutional affiliations, and contact details by Sunday 15 September 2019.

Submission instructions:

Register on http://journals.ed.ac.uk/airea and submit abstracts via the Open Journal System (OJS)
Journal policies: http://journals.ed.ac.uk/airea/about/policies 

Editorial information:

Guest Editor: 
Dr Sophia Lycouris, Reader in Interdisciplinary Choreography (University of Edinburgh)

Co-editors: 
Dr Eleni-Ira Panourgia, Teaching Fellow in Art and Design (University of Edinburgh)
Dr Katerina Talianni (University of Edinburgh)
Jack Walker, PhD candidate in Creative Music Practice (University of Edinburgh)

 
For general enquiries about the call please contact airea@ed.ac.uk 

The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in Scotland, with registration number SC005336.

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Fwd: Emotions conveyed by sounds

(with apologies for cross-postings)

Hi all,

We're looking for participants for a 15-minute online study in which you are asked to rate the emotions conveyed by environmental sounds. There is a chance to win an Amazon gift card worth £25 GBP or $30 USD. In addition, the sound stimuli will be used in a future study in which they are matched in their emotional expression to musical stimuli, and I will share these final stimulus sets on my OSF page for other researchers to make use of. 

The link to the survey is: https://durhammusic.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_5AcbZAYjHHY6BEx

Thanks in advance for your time!

Kelly Jakubowski

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Dr. Kelly Jakubowski

Assistant Professor (Research)

Leverhulme Early Career Fellow

Department of Music 

Durham University

musicscience.ne

Fwd: [DMRN-LIST] ICLI 2020 - Call for Submissions

# Fifth International Conference on Live Interfaces - Call for Submissions

https://live-interfaces.github.io/liveinterfaces2020/

## Call for Papers and Performances

ICLI is an interdisciplinary conference focusing on the role of interfaces in all artistic performance activities. We encourage critical and reflective approaches to key themes in the design and use of live interfaces. A wide range of theoretical and practice-based approaches are welcomed by people from all possible research, art and other practice backgrounds.

The fifth International Conference on Live Interfaces will take place at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology in Trondheim, NTNU, 9-11 March 2020. This biennial conference will bring together people working with live interfaces in the performing arts, including music, the visual arts, theatre, dance, puppetry, robotics or games. The conference scope is highly interdisciplinary but with a focus on interface technologies of expression in the area of performance. Note that technologies here can be understood in the widest possible sense. Topics of liveness, immediacy, presence (and tele-presence), mediation, collaboration and timing or flow are engaged with and questioned in order to gain a deeper understanding of the role contemporary media technologies play in human expression.

The special theme of the 2020 conference is 

### Artificial Intelligence. Artistic Intelligence. Automated Emotional Intelligence. 

A.I. is relatively widespread and ubiquitous within interfaces for artistic expression. Within this domain we can also include various sorts of automation and algorithmic extensions, as this constitutes a form of external agency that allows us to do more – more than we could unassisted by these technologies. How does this affect the artistic expression? Is it merely a convenience and an affordance to allow us to interface to complex domains, and as such just extend our inherent abilities? Or, does it imply a deeper impact on how the art is made? We can assume that all interfaces affect what we can do in profound ways. The difference with A.I. and machine learning in general is that the internal workings of the algorithms to a larger extent is a black box. We understand to a lesser degree how the internals of neural networks actually work, and then, how do we understand what we do as artists with these interfaces?

## Further details of submission categories, dates etc. See: 

https://live-interfaces.github.io/liveinterfaces2020/cfp/

## Collaboration with Meta.Morf

This ICLI collaborates with the Meta.Morf biennal for art and technology (http://metamorf.no/), taking place in Trondheim from March 3 to May 5. The Meta.Morf opening week is 5-10 March, and ICLI will commence immediately after. This creates a special opportunity to spend some quality time in Trondheim, in the company of both the ICLI and the Meta.Morf crowd. ICLI attendees will get a discount on Meta.Morf tickets. The theme for Meta.Morf 2020 is "The digital wild" - bending and twisting our illusions about digital futures. Come stay a full week in Trondheim and get the best of both worlds.

Fwd: [DMRN-LIST] London College of Music, UWL - Senior Lecturer, Associate Professor and/or Professor

The University of West London is looking to recruit staff at Senior Lecturer, Associate Professor and/or Professor level to further its research agenda. This includes potential appointments in the London College of Music where our research specialisms are:

• Music Practice as Research - score-based composition, electronic composition, performance (classical, jazz and popular), musical theatre
• Record Production
• Spatial Audio
• Music & Sound for Virtual Reality

Staff at LCM have been instrumental in founding and leading the Art of Record Production association and conference, the Innovation In Music conference and the 21st Century Music Practice research network. We have also produced several successful research funding bids in these areas from the AHRC and Innovate UK and are looking to build on this success.

Further details about the application process can be found at:

https://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/BUN394/senior-lecturers-associate-professors-professors 

Professor Simon Zagorski-Thomas

London College of Music

University of West London

Fwd: Funded MSc by research oppurtunity at York

Please distribute to anyone you think may be interested in the funded MSc opportunity below:

MSc by Research studentship: Lag-free audio communication in a multi-user virtual reality environment – a collaborative Masters by Research between New Moon Studios, XR Stories and the University of York Department of Electronic Engineering AudioLab.

Application deadline: 31 August

https://www.findaphd.com/phds/project/msc-by-research-studentship-lag-free-audio-communication-in-a-multi-user-virtual-reality-environment/?p106610  

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Dr Helena Daffern
Lecturer

Director of York Centre for Singing Science

Audio Lab

Communication Technologies Research Group
Department of Electronic Engineering
University of York
YO10 5DD

Please note I work part time (Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday) so there may be a delay to my email response.

Email: helena.daffern@york.ac.uk
Phone: 01904 32 2350

Call for contributions: Perspectives On Music Production series, ‘Distortion in Music Production: How Distortion, Colouration and Saturation Shape the Production Process’

In the spirit of the Perspectives On Music Production series, 'Distortion in Music Production: How Distortion, Colouration and Saturation Shape the Production Process',  follows on from Mixing Music (2017), Producing Music (2019), Mastering Music (2020) and several monographs in the field.

Distortion in Music Production will collect detailed and informed considerations on the use of non-linear signal processing, by authors working in a wide array of academic, creative, and professional contexts. It will solicit the perspectives of scholars, alongside producers and engineers, to provide a fully comprehensive analytic point-of-view on how distortion has shaped the production process. It will explore distortion as a production technique, ranging from the overt use of the process as a sound mangling tool to the subtle changes in an audio signal's sonic signature, afforded as a consequence of non-linear signal processing. The book will explore ways in which music producers can implement distortion in their work, investigate how the effect can be used and abused while examining things from technical, practical and musicological perspectives. In addition, the book will look at distortion from a historical perspective, noting how it was initially an unwanted artefact of the production process, whereas today it is a much sought-after process, used by engineers in their quest to colour and transform audio signals.


The editors welcome abstracts for proposed chapters in a forthcoming Routledge edited-volume entitled, 'Distortion in Music Production: How Distortion, Colouration and Saturation Shape the Production Process'. The scope for contribution areas are listed below but these areas are not exclusive:

Distortion in music production from a musicological perspective
Hardware and software design and application, past, present and future
Case studies
Distortion as a mixing, recording and mastering process
Historical use and adaptation of distortion and saturation in music production
Future trends in the application of distortion
The use of distortion as a compositional device
The use of distortion as a performance tool
Perceptual experiments in how the listener perceives distortion in music production
How distortion affects timbre perception
As an aesthetic expression in mixing
Other topics to do with distortion would be considered

The Abstracts are requested to be emailed to distortion@hepworthhodgson.com by the 20th September 2019. Abstracts will be reviewed, submitted to Routledge, and the authors known of the result in the latter weeks of October 2019. Final submission of chapters expected 11th September 2020.


Please feel free to email me personally if you have any specific questions as I'll be co-editing the work with Austin Moore at the University of Huddersfield. He can also be contacted at A.P.Moore@hud.ac.uk

Kind regards,

Gary Bromham

Centre for Digital Music
Queen Mary University of London
School of Electronic Engineering and Computer Science

Fwd: livestreams on YouTube from ICDS4

Dear colleagues,

 

We are happy to announce that all artistic events of the 4^th International Conference of Dalcroze Studies: "The listening body in movement" (28 July – 2 August 2019, Katowice, Poland) will be broadcast via ICDS Channel on YouTube.

 

Follow the links below to find our livestreams or search for ICDS:

·         https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLQHM_k44hIDN6X852i9Bn-BPM0H-2wBSZ&fbclid=IwAR09-DNiSTU73vkcTVAe4VVsc_uk-f1ZgnCj2UC8o0mvXQOuZYChKt4oPuo

·         http://bit.ly/2OazZQY

 

Below is the complete list of artistic events, which will be broadcast:

 

Sunday, 28 July:

·       17 Opening Ceremony

 

Monday, 29 July:

• 17 & 18 (repeated performance) - Musical Expression in Polish Secondary Music Schools
• 19.30 – Les Jumeaux des Bergame – A Comic Opera by Emile Jaques-Dalcroze

Tuesday, 30 July:

·         17 - A Concert of Emile Jaques-Dalcroze's Piano Pieces and Plastiques Animees

·         19.30 - Plastique Animee Concert

 

Wednesday, 31 July:

• 19.30 – Around Dalcroze's Idea and Beyond

 

Thursday, 01 August:

·         17 – Dalcroze's Piano Pieces Recital

We hope that you will enjoy the concerts and hopefully they will encourage you to be a part of this exciting international, transdisciplinary meeting point for practitioners, researchers and students, unified by an intellectual passion for exploring the relationships between music and movement in the nearest future!

Agata Trzepierczyńska, Media Officer & Organizing Committee

International Conference of Dalcroze Studies (ICDS)

Researching into music and movement, in education, the arts and humanities, and the social, health and life sciences.

www.dalcroze-studies.com 

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Fwd: Job vacancy: Research Assistant in Audio Signal Processing and AI

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Job vacancy: Research Assistant in Audio Signal Processing and AI

Salary: £30,395 to £33,199 per annum
Duration: 40 months, full-time position
Starting date:1st November 2019 (can be negotiable)

The Interdisciplinary Centre for Computer Music Research (ICCMR) at the University of Plymouth is seeking to recruit a highly motivated Research Assistant with expertise in Real-Time Audio Signal Processing and Machine Learning to work on the EPSRC-funded project "Radio Me: Real-time radio remixing for people with mild to moderate dementia who live alone, incorporating agitation reduction and reminders".

The project is aimed at the development of AI to adapt and personalise live radio and music with the aim of transforming life for people living alone with dementia.

Radio Me is a partnership between the University of Plymouth's Interdisciplinary Centre for Computer Music Research (ICCMR) and the Centre for Dementia Studies at Brighton and Sussex Medical School, the Glasgow Interactive Systems group at the University of Glasgow, and the Cambridge Institute for Music Therapy Research at Anglia Ruskin University. Other partners include BBC Radio, Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust, Bauer Media, CereProc Ltd, MHA Care Group and Alzheimer's Society.

You will be expected to have an engineering, computing and/or maths background, and proven expertise in audio signal processing and analysis, computer programming, including machine learning.

Please demonstrate how you meet the essential criteria outlined in the knowledge, qualifications, training and experience elements of the job description in your supporting statement.

For an informal discussion to find out more about the role then please contact Professor Eduardo Miranda by email: eduardo.miranda@plymouth.ac.uk

Project press release here: https://www.plymouth.ac.uk/news/multimillion-pound-project-will-see-ai-remixing-radio-to-help-people-living-with-dementia

Also advertised here: https://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/BTR451/research-assistant-in-audio-signal-processing-and-ai

More information & apply online https://www.plymouth.ac.uk/about-us/jobs (Click on "Job Vacancies", then "Current University of Plymouth Vacancies" and then on "Academic Research").

For general information about employment, email:  jobs@plymouth.ac.uk
Tel:  +44 1752 588255 (Monday-Thursday 8.30-17.00, Friday 8.30-16.30)

Fwd: Research Assistant in Audio Signal Processing and AI

Research Assistant in Audio Signal Processing and AI

If you are into audio, music technology and AI and would love to use your skills for the good of society, improve the lives of our ageing population and help the NHS to support people living with dementia, this is the right job for you.

The Interdisciplinary Centre for Computer Music Research (ICCMR) at the University of Plymouth is seeking to recruit a highly motivated Research Assistant (post-doc) with expertise in Real-Time Audio Signal Processing and Machine Learning to work on the EPSRC-funded project "Radio Me: Real-time radio remixing for people with mild to moderate dementia who live alone, incorporating agitation reduction and reminders".

The project will develop AI to adapt and personalise live radio and music with the aim of transforming life for people living alone with dementia.

More information: https://www.plymouth.ac.uk/about-us/jobs (Click on "Job Vacancies", then "Current University of Plymouth Vacancies" and then on "Academic Research").

Email:  jobs@plymouth.ac.uk

Tel:  +44 1752 588255 (Monday-Thursday 8.30-17.00, Friday 8.30-16.30)