Fwd: music-data seminar this Thursday

Dear All,

The next seminar of the AHRC funded research network 'Datasounds, Datasets and Datasense' will take place this Thursday, Dec. 1^st at 4pm (UK time) online. Professor Ian Cross will be speaking about Music, Speech and Affiliative Communicative Interaction: Pitch and Rhythm as Interactive Affordances

If you wish to join us online please email o.ben-tal@kingston.ac.uk for the link.

Abstract: This paper presents the idea that, across cultures, musical interaction is communicative and intrinsically affiliative, overlapping significantly in function with the phatic speech register.  I will refer to experimental evidence that supports the view that joint music-making and phatic conversation can overlap not just in function but also in form.  I will suggest that what can be interpreted as phatic conversation or as participatory music are manifestations of a superordinate domain of affiliative communicative interaction, and will submit that features that we tend to think of as musical —such as discrete patterns in pitch and rhythm— are best construed not as aesthetic properties but as interactive affordances that may be functional in the achievement of interpersonal affiliative alignment.

Fwd: New open access book: Music and Digital Media: A planetary anthropology, edited by Georgina Born (UCL Press)

UCL Press is delighted to announce the publication of a new open access book that may be of interest to list subscribers: Music and Digital Media: A planetary anthropology, edited by Georgina Born. Download it free: https://bit.ly/3AdCSFy

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Music and Digital Media
A planetary anthropology
Edited by Georgina Born

Free download: https://bit.ly/3AdCSFy
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Anthropology has neglected the study of music and this needs to be redressed. This book sets out to show how and why. It does so by bringing music to the subfield of digital anthropology, arguing that digital anthropology has much to gain by expanding its horizons to music – becoming more interdisciplinary by reference to digital/media studies, music and sound studies.

Music and Digital Media is the first comparative ethnographic study of the impact of digital media on music worldwide. It offers a radical and lucid new theoretical framework for understanding digital media through music, showing that music is today where the promises and problems of the 'digital' assume clamouring audibility – while acting as a testing ground for innovations in the digital-cultural industries. The book contains ten chapters, eight of which present comprehensive original ethnographies. The chapters between them addresses popular, folk and art musics in the global South and North, including Kenya, Argentina, India, Canada and the UK/Europe, with each chapter providing a different regional or digital focus.

The book is unique in bringing ethnographic research on popular, folk and art musics from the global North and South into a comparative framework on a large scale, and creates an innovative new paradigm for comparative anthropology.

Free download: https://bit.ly/3AdCSFy

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Fwd: [DMRN-LIST] Deadline approaching: Fully funded PhD in Performing Arts Technology at Michigan

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From: Anıl Çamcı <acamci@umich.edu>
Date: Sat, 19 Nov 2022 at 15:33
Subject: [DMRN-LIST] Deadline approaching: Fully funded PhD in Performing Arts Technology at Michigan
To: <DMRN-LIST@jiscmail.ac.uk>

Dear DMRN list,

This is a friendly reminder that the applications for a fully funded PhD in Performing Arts Technology at the University of Michigan are due by December 10. You can find more information about the program and application procedure below.

The Department of Performing Arts Technology at the University of Michigan's School of Music, Theatre & Dance is now accepting PhD applications for Fall 2023.

Students in the program will benefit from: 

• individualized attention from a large, accomplished faculty with varied research and creative interests;

• a flexible curriculum with numerous specialized course offerings that allow for breadth and depth;

• access to cutting-edge research facilities; 

• an inclusive, diverse, and collaborative student community of artists and scholars in a vibrant, comprehensive performing arts school;

• the material, social, and intellectual resources of one of the top public research universities in the United States; 

• 5 years of full funding including tuition, a salary stipend, summer stipend, and generous health care benefits;

• professional and career development opportunities around teaching, research, and performance;

• many opportunities for additional funding, professional development, academic and community support through the Rackham Graduate School.

Incoming students will complete two years of coursework, including a small core of required courses, cognates, and electives chosen from across four thematic clusters: Interaction Design, Audio Programming, Production, and Intermedia Composition/Performance. Afterwards, PhD candidates will work on a dissertation topic of their own design in close collaboration with a faculty advisory team tailored to the student's interests. The program encourages diverse research methodologies, including practice-based approaches. The program also involves opportunities for gaining teaching experience.

Ongoing faculty research areas include new interfaces for musical expression, data sonification, virtual reality music systems, telematic performance, haptics and accessible music interfaces, digital fabrication for acoustics, computational creativity, antiracist music theories and pedagogies, technical ear training and critical listening, and poetic interactions of sound, image, and story.

Applications for the PhD program are due by December 10. More information and detailed application instructions are available on the program page. Applicants must have completed undergraduate and master's degrees in related fields (e.g., music, music technology, engineering, media arts, computer science) prior to entering the PhD program. Students currently in the final year of a master's degree may apply for admission contingent upon successful completion of their degree. Those interested in a master's program are invited to apply to the MA in Media Arts by December 1 (note the earlier deadline).

If you have any questions about the program, admissions process, or the Department of Performing Arts Technology, feel free to contact the PAT Director of Graduate Studies, Professor Anıl Çamcı <acamci@umich.edu>.

Best,

Anıl Çamcı, PhD

Assistant Professor and Director of Graduate Studies

Department of Performing Arts Technology

School of Music, Theatre & Dance

University of Michigan

http://anilcamci.com

Fwd: CALT Conference 2023 - Abstract submission deadline extended

Dear colleagues and friends,

The first international conference CALT: Creative Approaches to Learning and Teaching will be held at the Faculty of Education in Osijek on March 24 and 25, 2023. The purpose of the conference is to bring together all experts and scientists whose work is aimed at questioning the traditional and contemporary view of creativity and at promoting new approaches in learning and teaching in which the emphasis is placed on creative activity and expression. More about the conference, themes, and participation you may find at the conference website: https://calt-conference-2023.webnode.hr/

We are pleased to announce that the deadline for Abstract submission has been extended until November 15, 2022. We would appreciate it if you could forward this message to colleagues that might be interested in Conference participation.



IMPORTANT DATES

Application for participation with submission of abstract and keywords: November 15, 2022

Notification of abstract acceptance: December 10, 2022

Registration and registration fee payment: January 10, 2023

Deadline for submitting full papers: May 15, 2023


With best wishes,
Mia Mucić,
Organizing Committee Secretary

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Fwd: REMINDER - Webinar: Telling Operatic Stories: Race, ethics and authenticity

Dear all, 

This is a reminder email as well as an invitation for our Thursday's Webinar. The event is free on Zoom and open to anyone interested in opera, culture and society. 

Please do not hesitate to follow the Twitter Telling Operatic Stories for updates. Looking forward to seeing you then and please feel free to share this to the people who might be interested in it! 

Kind regards,

Luqian Zhao

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Webinar: Telling Operatic Stories: Race, ethics and authenticity

 

Thursday 6 October, 4.30 - 6pm. Zoom link: https://universityofleeds.zoom.us/j/89304294702

 

In recent years, the opera industry and academic study of opera have grappled with the ethics of presenting certain stories on the stage. Controversies over racial and cultural depictions in recent opera productions demonstrate that such critical reckoning is timely and urgent. 

 

At stake are questions of how (and which) audiences listen, of who has the right to tell certain stories, and how organisations facilitate or inhibit authentic creative voices. 

In this, the first of six online seminars to be held in 2022-23 as part of the Sadler Seminar Series 'Telling Operatic Stories: Race, ethics, and authenticity', opera practitioners and scholars will come together to open up discussion around the ways in which opera stages encounters between different groups and cultures. 

 

The session is an invitation for dialogue between panellists and audience, that aims to create a space in which individual perspectives can be explored, and to identify the key themes and questions that will inform the rest of the series. By bringing academic perspectives from Leeds and beyond together with creative voices from Opera North, this seminar explores how engagement between research and practice can explore race and storytelling in opera.

 

Confirmed speakers:

Sam Durrant (School of English, University of Leeds)

Dominic Gray (Projects Manager, Opera North) 

Maggie Kubanyiova (School of Education, University of Leeds) 

Imani Mosley (School of Music, University of Florida) 

Ariana Phillips-Hutton (School of Music) 

Edward Venn (School of Music) 

Matthew Kofi Waldren (Conductor)

 

The event is free on Zoom and open to anyone interested in opera, culture and society. Please do not hesitate to follow the Twitter Telling Operatic Stories for updates. For further information, or if you have trouble accessing the seminar, please contact Luqian Zhao (mclz@leeds.a.cuk).

Fwd: Tenure-track position in Music Technology at Georgia Tech

Dear colleagues, 

 

The School of Music at the Georgia Institute of Technology is beginning a search for a full-time, tenure-track position at the level of Assistant Professor.  Please find the full details and application link on this page.

 

I would be happy to answer any questions related to the position or the school. Please share among your graduating PhD students and colleagues! 

 

Kind regards, 

Claire Arthur 
Assistant Professor, School of Music
College of Design
Georgia Institute of Technology

Pronouns: she, her

claire.arthur@gatech.edu

Fwd: Music Therapy in the UK Today conference

Music Therapy in the UK Today: a weekend conference with the Music
Therapy Charity and the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, London,
29th-30th October 2022
We look forward to welcoming you to the 2nd Music Therapy Charity
Conference, arranged in collaboration with the music therapy
department at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama.
The aim of the conference is to provide a forum for new and innovative
music therapy research funded by the MTC, alongside clinical
discussion and improvisation workshops organised by the Guildhall.
The conference will be of particular interest to students (with
special rates) ,music therapists, arts in health practitioners and
current and future researchers: all are welcome!

Keynote Speakers:
Dr. Catherine Carr, (Queen Mary University of London): Tony Wigram
Travelling Fellowship Memorial lecture
Dr Tracey McConnell and Dr Lisa Graham-Wisener (Queen's University
Belfast): "Building capacity for high-quality research on the role of
music therapy in supporting informal carers of people at end-of-life:
MusiCARER project".
Dr Claire Flower (Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHs Foundation Trust
London and Anglia Ruskin University Cambridge): "Music Therapy
Research & Practice, Shall We Dance?"

The Programme will include research presentations given by Guildhall
Alumni and recipients of grants awarded by the Music Therapy Charity:

Dr Elizabeth Coombes: The Singing Unit: a mixed methods study
exploring the benefits of a music therapy intervention for parents of
premature babies during their hospital stay.
Vicky Kammin: "Experiences of Music Therapy in Paediatric Palliative
Care from multiple stakeholder perspectives: a Systematic Review"
Gemma Lenton-Smith: Investigating a music therapy service in a primary
mainstream school: the teachers' perspective"
Joon Oh: "Music therapy with young people from multicultural
backgrounds in South Korea"
Tara Roman: "Disability, ethics and music therapy research: An
exploration of ethical considerations in a participatory research
project with disabled children and young people"
Dr Giorgos Tsiris: "Why researching spirituality in music therapy?"
Tina Warnock: "How does a music therapist's vocal awareness and
approach affect the potential for vocal interplay with a child with
autism?"
Bryony Waters: "Development and evaluation of Person Attuned Musical
Interactions (PAMI) Manual in Dementia – A UK Version"

Practical sessions will include a workshop with Dr Sarah Gail Brand
(Professor of Improvisation, Guildhall School of Music and Drama),
exploring improvised music making in music therapy and musical
performance from her doctoral research, and clinical discussion
workshops facilitated by Ann Sloboda (Head of Music Therapy, Guildhall
School of Music and Drama, Psychoanalyst and member of the British
Psychoanalytic Society).

The conference fee will include lunch on Saturday 29th, tea/coffee on
both days and a drinks reception 5-6pm on Saturday evening; it will
close at 1400 on Sunday 30th October.

Booking:
Via Eventbrite: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/music-therapy-in-the-uk-today-
tickets-335304664277?aff=ebdssbdestsearch
Early Bird (until 20th September 2022) £90 (+7.61 booking fee) Student
£40.00 (+£3.71 booking fee)
Standard (until 20th October 2022) £120 (+£9.95 booking fee)

Or, direct to The Music Therapy Charity (no booking fee) via bank transfer to:
Account name: The Music Therapy Charity
Sort code: 40-52-40
Account number: 00001391
Reference: RCUK(YOUR NAME)

NB Cancellations up to 19/08/22 will be refundable minus the
Eventbrite fees but cancellations after 19/08/22 will not be
refundable.
All enquiries should be addressed to the Conference Secretary, Nicola
Barton, info@musictherapy.org.uk

looking for musicians with a diagnosis on the autistic spectrum to take part in my PhD study

Fwd: Musical Bodies, Musical Minds by Dylan van der Schyff, Andrea Schiavio and David J. Elliott (on sale August 30, 2022 from the MIT Press),

Hello,

 

I am sending along a digital review copy of our forthcoming book, Musical Bodies, Musical Minds: Enactive Cognitive Science and the Meaning of Human Musicality by Dylan van der Schyff, Andrea Schiavio and David J. Elliott (on sale August 30, 2022 from the MIT Press), which may be of interest to you. The book offers an enactive account of musicality that proposes new ways of thinking about musical experience, musical development in infancy, music and evolution, and more.

 

Musical Bodies, Musical Minds provides an innovative account of human musicality that draws on recent developments in embodied cognitive science. The authors explore musical cognition as a form of sense-making that unfolds across the embodied, environmentally embedded, and sociomaterially extended dimensions that compose the enactment of human worlds of meaning. This perspective enables new ways of understanding musical experience, the development of musicality in infancy and childhood, music's emergence in human evolution, and the nature of musical emotions, empathy, and creativity.

 

Developing their account, the authors link a diverse array of ideas from fields including neuroscience, theoretical biology, psychology, developmental studies, social cognition, and education. Drawing on these insights, they show how dynamic processes of adaptive body-brain-environment interactivity drive musical cognition across a range of contexts, extending it beyond the personal (inner) domain of musical agents and out into the material and social worlds they inhabit and influence. An enactive approach to musicality, they argue, can reveal important aspects of human being and knowing that are often lost or obscured in the modern technologically driven world.

 

"An inspiring contribution to the rapidly changing field of contemporary musicology drawing on the latest developments in enactive and ecological perspectives on embodiment,"said  Ezequiel A. Di Paolo, Research Professor, Ikerbasque, the Basque Foundation for Science. "The authors deftly combine a wide range of disciplines to put forward an integrated view of human musicality as situated and intersubjective meaning-making."

 

The book goes on sale August 30. Please go here to access an early digital review copy. If you have any questions or require a physical review copy, please let me know and we can make accommodations.

 

Thank you for considering coverage.

 

All best,

Rachel

 

Rachel Aldrich 
Associate Marketing Manager | The MIT Press
One Broadway, Fl 12 | Cambridge, MA 02142
(617) 253-3383 | raldrich@mit.edu 
Pronouns: she/her

Fwd: The Growth of Music and Science: Professor Ian Cross and his impact and legacy

Professor Ian Cross recently retired from being director of the Centre
for Music and Science at the University of Cambridge. We will be
celebrating his work on the 25th and 26th July. This event is part of
the GROWTH series at Wolfson College, Cambridge, UK and will explore
the growth of music and science through a series of invited talks by
Ian Cross, his PhD students, Wolfson alumni and close collaborators.

For more information:
https://www.wolfson.cam.ac.uk/about/events/growth-music-and-science-professor-ian-cross-and-his-impact-and-legacy

If you would like to join online, please register here:
https://imperial.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_bKhfPmFLQNBNVgW

Best wishes,
Neta

Dr Neta Spiro
Reader in Performance Science


CENTRE FOR
PERFORMANCE SCIENCE

The CPS is a partnership of
Royal College of Music | Imperial College London

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