Fwd: Invite | Music and Parental Mental Wellbeing | Online book launch | 1 July, 4-5pm

Dear All,

 

I am pleased to announce the release of a new book on Music and Parental Mental Wellbeing, edited by Rosie Perkins and recently published by Oxford University Press.

 

To celebrate this exciting new publication, we invite you to join us for an online launch event on Monday 1^st July, from 4-5pm via Zoom. For more information and to reserve your spot, please click HERE.

 

Below, you will find additional details about the book. We hope you can join us online to celebrate its launch!

 

About Music and Parental Mental Wellbeing:

There is compelling evidence that music can enhance parental wellbeing, yet to date there have been few attempts to bring together current endeavours in the field. Music and Parental Mental Wellbeing provides readers from music, health, and beyond, with a new and comprehensive opportunity to consider how music can support parental mental wellbeing. Drawing on recent ground-breaking practice, research, and evaluation the book illuminates how music can support mental wellbeing in pregnancy and the postnatal period, childbirth, and perinatal hospital settings, and in the early years.

Each chapter provides introductory context, describes the relevant musical practice, considers the intersections with parental wellbeing, and ends with implications for practice and key take-aways for the reader. With an interdisciplinary and international team of authors, including music and health practitioners, experts by experience, and researchers, this book explores and establishes the roles of music, in its many forms, in supporting and enhancing parental mental wellbeing.

 

Author Information:

Edited by Rosie Perkins, Professor of Music, Health, and Social Science at the Royal College of Music, London. Rosie's research focuses on the intersection of music and mental health, with a particular emphasis on societal wellbeing and artist development.

 

Best wishes,

Michael

 

Michael Durrant

Event Coordinator, Music and Parental Wellbeing Research Network

CENTRE FOR 
PERFORMANCE SCIENCE  
 
The CPS is a partnership of 

Royal College of Music | Imperial College London 

www.PerformanceScience.ac.uk

Fwd: Qualitative Interviewing in Music Research: A Study Day (in-person and online)

Qualitative Interviewing in Music Research: An RMA Study Day

Date: Thu Jun 27 2024

Time: 10:15 AM - 17:50PM

Location: Royal College of Music & Online.

You are invited to attend the following study on Qualitative Interviewing in Music Research. This event will bring together doctoral students and early career researchers from a range of disciplines within music research (e.g. music psychology, ethnomusicology, performance) to share ideas about methods and challenges in qualitative interviewing, and to learn from each other through supportive discussion. Additionally, there will be keynote presentations from Dr Katherine Williams, Research Fellow in Popular Music Songwriting (University of Huddersfield) and Dr Carsten Wernicke (University of Koblenz/Leuphana University). Please see the link below for more information:

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/qualitative-interviewing-in-music-research-an-rma-study-day-tickets-906679521857?aff=oddtdtcreator

Fwd: Postdoc in digital music interaction at UWE, Bristol

Hi MUSIC-AND-SCIENCE community,

We are hiring a postdoc in digital music interaction starting September 2024, the deadline is 27th May with interviews expected the week of the 10th June.

For details on the post, and to apply see:
https://ce0164li.webitrent.com/ce0164li_webrecruitment/wrd/run/ETREC179GF.open?WVID=8433573cTb&VACANCY_ID=349107QtXl

The project page is: micalab.org

Feel free to contact me at tom.mitchell@uwe.ac.uk with any questions or to arrange an informal chat.

Best wishes,
Tom

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Tom Mitchell
Professor of Audio and Music Interaction
UKRI Future Leaders Fellow
Creative Technologies Lab
The University of the West of England
Room 2Q16, Frenchay Campus
Coldharbour Ln
Bristol, BS16 1QY

Web: micalab.org
Email: tom.mitchell@uwe.ac.uk
Phone: +44 (0)117 3283349

Fwd: PhD Opportunities in AI for Digital Media Inclusion (Deadline 30 May 2024)

** PhD Opportunities in Centre for Doctoral Training in AI for Digital Media Inclusion
** Surrey Institute for People-Centred AI at the University of Surrey, UK, and
** StoryFutures at Royal Holloway University of London, UK

** Apply by 30 May 2024, for PhD cohort starting October 2024

URL: https://www.surrey.ac.uk/artificial-intelligence/cdt

The Centre for Doctoral Training (CDT) in AI for Digital Media Inclusion combines the world-leading expertise of the Surrey Institute for People-Centred AI at the University of Surrey, a pioneer in AI technologies for the creative industries (vision, audio, language, machine learning) and StoryFutures at Royal Holloway University of London, leader in creative production and audience experience (arts, psychology, user research, creative production).

Our vision is to deliver unique cross-disciplinary training embedded in real-world challenges and creative practice, and to address the industry need for people with responsible AI, inclusive design and creative skills. The CDT challenge-led training programme will foster a responsible AI-enabled inclusive media ecosystem with industry. By partnering with 50+ organisations, our challenge-led model will be co-designed and co-delivered with the creative industry to remove significant real-world barriers to media inclusion.

The overall learning objective of the CDT training programme is that all PhD researchers gain a cross-disciplinary understanding of fundamental AI science, inclusive design and creative industry practice, together with responsible AI research and innovation leadership, to lead the creation of future AI-enabled inclusive media.

The CDT training program will select PhD students who will work on challenge areas including Intelligent personalisation of media experiences for digital inclusion, and Generative AI for digital inclusion. Example projects related to audio include:

 - Audio Generative AI from visuals as an alternative to Audio Description
 - Audio orchestration for neurodivergent audiences using object-based media
 - AUDItory Blending for Inclusive Listening Experiences (AUDIBLE)
 - Foundational models for audio (including speech, music, sound effect) to texts in the wild
 - Generative AI for natural language description of audio for the deaf and hearing impaired
 - Generative AI with Creative Control, Explainability, and Accessibility
 - Personalised audio editing with generative models 
 - Personalised subtitling for readers of different abilities
 - Translation of auditory distance across alternate advanced audio formats

If you have any questions about the CDT, please contact Adrian Hilton (mailto:a.hilton@surrey.ac.uk) or Polly Dalton (mailto:Polly.Dalton@rhul.ac.uk).

For more information and to apply, visit:
https://www.surrey.ac.uk/artificial-intelligence/cdt

Application deadline: 30 May 2024

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Prof Mark D Plumbley
EPSRC Fellow in AI for Sound
Professor of Signal Processing
Centre for Vision, Speech and Signal Processing
University of Surrey, Guildford, Surrey, GU2 7XH, UK
Email: m.plumbley@surrey.ac.uk

Fwd: CfP: A Symposium on AI & Digital Innovations for Chamber Music

Apologies for cross-posting.

*Critical & Creative Digital Dynamics: A Symposium on AI & Digital
Innovations for Inter-art Chamber Music Practices*

Organiser: Institute of Languages, Cultures and Societies (ILCS) at the
School of Advanced Study, University of London
Submission deadline: 17 May 2024 (please note the deadline for paper submission has been extended)
Notification of acceptance: 20 May 2024
Symposium: 24 June 2024
Location: Woburn Suite, G22/26, Ground Floor, Senate House, Malet Street,
London WC1E 7HU

*CALL FOR PAPERS & PARTICIPANTS!*

We are pleased to announce a one-day symposium centred around AI, digital
innovation, and the fusion of art forms in performance practices. We will
dive into a world where artistic mediums transcend boundaries, combining
live music-making with dynamic elements such as animated paintings,
electronic literature, moving images, and more. This synergy of inter-art
expressions can be further enhanced using today's cutting-edge AI and
interactive technologies, bringing new dimensions of immersion and audience
engagement. Our goal is to challenge the traditional perceptions of
classical chamber music as 'elitist', transforming it into an inclusive and
democratic experience that resonates with our rapidly evolving digital
society.

The highlight of the symposium will be a piano trio concert, where new
media arts and generative AI technologies converge, followed by a keynote
speech and interactive workshop focusing on creative business insights,
entrepreneurship, and the future of innovative inter-art endeavours. We'll
also tackle critical dialogues surrounding AI's role in the performing
arts, pondering whether it disrupts or augments the 'embodied' aspects of
human creativity. Join us for a day of exploration, inspiration, and
spirited discussion on the forefront of art and technology.

We warmly invite abstract submissions for a 15-minute presentation of
papers, performances, or other formats of creative contributions from
academics of all career levels, postgraduate students, independent
scholars, and artists. Presentations may address, but are not limited to,
any of the following topics:

   - AI and human creativity
   - Enhancing audience engagement through AI
   - Interdisciplinary fusion in art and technology
   - The future of live performance in a digital age
   - Innovative business models or sustainable business strategies for
   inter-art endeavours

Abstracts should consist of no more than 200 words and should be submitted
by *17 May 2024* to *creativedigidynamics@gmail.com*.
The full call for papers and other details may be found at the conference
webpage (please note the deadline for paper submission has been extended):
https://ilcs.sas.ac.uk/events/critical-creative-digital-dynamics-a-symposium-ai-digital-innovations-inter-art-chamber

Fwd: Research positions with Centre for Digital Music @QMUL

I am happy to announce that the Centre for Digital Music is now formally advertising the new research positions I posted last week. One area is lyrics generation and the other is music signal processing (instrument ID, loop ID, lyric transcription). Both are collaborative with London-based music industry companies, session and stage.

 

These are available immediately and can be offered as either post-doctoral or graduate research assistants, and can be either full- or part-time. Closing date is May 1 2024.

 

Details can be found here

https://www.qmul.ac.uk/jobs/vacancies/items/9619.html

https://www.qmul.ac.uk/jobs/vacancies/items/9617.html

 

 

thanks

Mark

 

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Please note I work part time Monday - Thursday so there may be a delay to my email response. 

professor mark sandler, FREng, CEng, FIEEE, FAES, FIET
Turing Fellow
 
director of the centre for digital music (c4dm)

school of electronic engineering and computer science, queen mary university of london
mark.sandler@qmul.ac.uk | +44 (0)20 7882 7680

NYU Shanghai Interactive Media and Business Postdoctoral Program

New York University: NYU - Shanghai: Shanghai: Arts and Sciences: Interactive Media and Business

Location

Shanghai, China

Open Date

Apr 17, 2024

Description

NYU Shanghai is inviting applications for a full-time postdoctoral research and teaching position to support research and undergraduate teaching in our Interactive Media and Business (IMB) major. We seek candidates whose teaching practices and scholarship lie at the intersection of innovation and business education. Successful candidates will play a pivotal role in both teaching (70%) and research (30%), with their teaching closely aligned with their research projects. This unique blend of responsibilities offers an exceptional opportunity for postdoctoral fellows to develop their teaching profile and academic research career while making significant contributions to the IMB teaching and course development.

About the IMB Program 

The Interactive Media and Business (IMB) major is where innovation and business meet through emerging media and technology. IMB teaches how innovative ideas combine with technology, creativity, and business principles to yield viable products, services, and experiences. Our project-based curriculum explores new models for creation, innovation, and entrepreneurship through the development of software and hardware, the manipulation of digital media, the design and fabrication of material objects, the construction of virtual and physical spaces, and engagement with broad communities. Our seminars encourage study of the history and philosophy of emerging media as they impact society as a whole. Our program is currently served by eleven full-time faculty members (seven are clinical teaching faculty and four are tenured/tenure-track faculty), and five adjunct faculty members. 

Responsibilities

Teaching and Other Responsibilities (70%)

• Design and Teach Project-Based Innovation and Business Courses: Teach and develop interdisciplinary, project-based courses to engage students in learning about innovative business strategies and practices. The postdoctoral fellow is expected to teach two full courses each semester. 

• Develop and Sustain Outside Partnerships in Undergraduate Teaching: Design pedagogical frameworks to integrate innovation and business theories with real-world projects from different economic and artistic sectors, in order to inform future course design in innovation and business.

Research (30%) 

• Conduct and Publish Research in Innovative Business Education: Contribute to manuscript preparation, report writing, grant applications, seminar and conference applications and presentations, and other dissemination efforts (e.g., papers, book chapters, books, online formats, etc.) together with program faculty. 

• Collaborate with IMB Faculty to Support Curriculum Development: Draft internal reports to share insights and future plans to guide future IMB core-course development in the area of innovation, business, and entrepreneurship.

Terms of employment at NYU Shanghai are comparable to NYU New York and other U.S. institutions.  

Qualifications

• PhD, EdD, or other terminal degree conferred no later than August 2024 in business or a related field with a focus on innovative business theories and practices (e.g., innovation and entrepreneurship, innovation management, social innovation, strategy and leadership, industrial/organizational psychology, business anthropology).

Required Experience/Skills/Competences:

• Teaching experience in business strategy, entrepreneurship, or innovative business practices

• Strong project management and proactive communication abilities

• Experience designing and implementing qualitative, quantitative, and/or mixed-methods research studies

• Fluency in academic and spoken English

• Excellent interpersonal skills for effective teaching and collaboration with outside partners

Preferred Experience/Skills/Competences:

• Course design experience that integrates business projects 

• Experience and strong interest in working within a multicultural and global educational environment

• Prior record of publications, conference presentations, and workshops

• Experience or strong interest in exploring the use of generative Artificial Intelligence (AI) tools in research and teaching

Application Instructions

Applicants should submit a cover letter, curriculum vitae, statement of research and teaching interests, and electronic copies of up to five relevant research publications. To complete the online process, applicants will be prompted to enter the names and email addresses of at least three referees. Additional materials may be requested for those advanced to the next round of review.

Review of applications will begin immediately and will continue until the position is filled. If you have any questions, please email the NYU Shanghai NY Office of Faculty Recruitment at shanghai.faculty.recruitment@nyu.edu.

About NYU Shanghai:

NYU Shanghai is the third degree-granting campus within New York University's Global Network. It is the first higher education joint venture in China authorized to grant degrees that are accredited in the U.S. as well as in China. All teaching is conducted in English. A research university with liberal arts and science at its core, NYU Shanghai resides in one of the world's great cities with a vibrant intellectual community. NYU Shanghai recruits scholars of the highest caliber who are committed to NYU's global vision of transformative teaching and innovative research and who embody the global society in which we live.

NYU's Global Network includes degree-granting campuses in New York, Shanghai, and Abu Dhabi, complemented by twelve additional academic centers across the world. Faculty and students may circulate within the network in pursuit of common research interests and cross-cultural, interdisciplinary endeavors, both local and global.

For people in the EU, click here for information on your privacy rights under GDPR: www.nyu.edu/it/gdpr.

Fwd: [DMRN-LIST] £22k + fees PhD Scholarships at London College of Music, UWL

The London College of Music, as part of The University of West London's research expansion strategy, is offering a number of opportunities for fully funded PhD Scholarships: https://www.uwl.ac.uk/course/research/music?start=1240&option=33. If you scroll down on that page you'll find a complete list of supervisors with links to their profiles. 

Our scholarships are open to full-time, part-time, home and international* students and comprises an attractive package including:

Full-time

Stipend of £22,000 per year (tax free)

Up to £900 per year to attend conferences 

Duration: Three years

Part-time

Stipend of £11,000 per year (tax free)

Up to £450 per year to attend conferences

Duration: Six years

 PhD scholars will be expected to carry out teaching or research duties for a maximum of six hours per week (full-time) and three hours per week (part-time).

Particular attention will be paid to applications aligned with one (or more) of our research strategic priorities:

Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) – We encourage applications promoting and embedding EDI values throughout the whole research process. We also encourage original research addressing key EDI-related challenges.

Interdisciplinarity – We encourage applications sitting across several UWL Schools/Colleges and demonstrating innovative research focus and/or methodologies.

Impact – We encourage applications demonstrating effect on, change or benefit to the economy, society, culture, public policy or services, health, the environment or quality of life, beyond academia.

Successful applicants to the Vice-Chancellor's Scholarship will join a vibrant and challenging academic environment where innovation, insight, and knowledge creation feeds into high quality research.  

Deadlines for applications:

International/Home students: 12 May 2024, Home/settled students: 30 June 2024

Research degrees | University of West London (uwl.ac.uk)

* Please note that international students cannot apply for part-time scholarships

Fwd: Invitation to the inaugural Musical Care in Dialogue session hosted by the Musical Care International Network

[sent on behalf of Dr Neta Spiro]

Dear Musical Care International Network members, 

We are delighted to invite you to the inaugural Musical Care in Dialogue session hosted by the Musical Care International Network.

Filippo Bonini Baraldi (NOVA University, Lisbon) and Dave Camlin (Royal College of Music) will be talking about 'Love and Empathy in Musical Care'. The session will be chaired by Giorgos Tsiris (Queen Margaret University). More information about the theme and speakers is below.   

Date: Monday 13th May 2024
Time: 09:30 - 10:30 (BST)
Zoom link: 
https://imperial-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/99598418518?pwd=V2J3c3h3cVk3UjFUS1hndFNoN0U3dz09
Meeting ID: 995 9841 8518 
Passcode: p!5A.k 

The session will begin with short presentations by each of the speakers followed by open discussion. As ever with Network meetings, we look forward to lively discussion.   

The session will be recorded and shared among network members in the first instance. 

Please do share this invitation with your networks.

For new members, please register for email updates about Network events, including future Musical Care in Dialogue sessions here: https://imperial.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_0ocwfSmXzZL32Qe. More information about the network is available here: https://musicalcareresearch.com/musical-care-network/. 

Best wishes, 
Neta, Bonnie, and Katie Rose 

Bio and topics:

Filippo Bonini Baraldi is Principal Researcher (CEEC_ind) at the Instituto de Etnomusicologia (INET-md) of NOVA University, Lisbon (Portugal), where he leads the research group "Ethnomusicology and Popular Music Studies" , and associate member of the Centre de Recherche en Ethnomusicologie (Crem-LESC) of Université Paris Nanterre (France). His researches on music, emotion, and health, based on long term fieldworks in Romania, Italy, and Brazil, are strongly interdisciplinary and combine methods of ethnomusicology, music computing, and cognitive sciences. His book  "Roma Music and Emotion" , (Oxford UP, 2021) has been awarded the ICTM book prize (honorable mention) and the William A. Douglas Prize in Europeanist Anthropology (Society for the Anthropology of Europe, a section of the American Anthropological Association).

In this short talk, I will show how the Transylvania Roma (Gypsies) perform "personal songs"  with the aim of establishing an intersubjective relationship with somebody who is otherwise absent or has passed away. In some cases, performing "personal songs" provokes a sort of emotional crisis which is intended as having a cathartic effect. I understand this emotional crisis as the co-presence of two opposite psychological states: a heightened sense of emotional and corporeal proximity with one's "brothers" and a heightened sense of emotional and physical separation from the beloved of the family. Music renders feasible this "oscillation" between these two opposite psychological realities as it builds a "collective body" where everyone is close and equal to the other while  simultaneously enabling one to feel the absence of a part of the community.  I will also suggest that this same process is at stake in other healing rituals the world around.

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Dr. Dave Camlin's musical practice spans performance, composition, teaching, Community Music (CM) and research. He lectures in music education at the Royal College of Music and Trinity-Laban Conservatoire and was Head of HE / Research at Sage Gateshead from 2010-19. His research interests include: CM, especially group singing; music, health and wellbeing; musician education. He has pioneered the use of Sensemaker® 'distributed ethnography' as a research method for understanding artistic and cultural experiences. His recent book Music Making and Civic Imagination: a Holistic Philosophy explores the potential of musicing as both a complex adaptive system (CAS) and a global resource for sustainability.

In my provocation, I'll suggest that the notion of 'love-in-action' arises in music making through the complex ways in which music makers 'tune in' to each other, both musically and neurobiologically, leading to a sense of 'feeling felt' through 'self-other' merging. I'll point to previous research where one participant suggested music making represented a kind of 'safe danger' for experiencing intimacy, because it provides opportunities for psychological and neurobiological intimacy which the participants have some degree of control over. I'll also raise some of the ontological and epistemological challenges of thinking about love and music making in this way, given that these experiences of intimacy are highly individualised and not susceptible to measurement or comparison owing to their complex entanglement with other biological, psychological, social, behavioural and musical mechanisms.

Fwd: Call for posters on classical music research for an industry audience

Hi everyone,

We are inviting proposals for a poster session at the following conference next month: 

 

Making the Case for Classical: Research, Insight and Advocacy 

Wednesday 22nd May 2024, Sheffield, UK (venue tba)

In this challenging period of arts funding, it's more important than ever that we have the right evidence to make the case for classical music. This one-day symposium will explore the current state of research and data in the classical music sector and help to improve the quality and effectiveness of the evidence we collect. Delivered in partnership between the University of Liverpool, the Association of British Orchestras and Music in the Round, this conference is intended for a mixed audience of academics and industry professionals.

 

We are inviting proposals for posters which showcase your research for an industry audience. Presenters will have the opportunity to "host" their poster in a dedicated session, with delegates being guided round the displays. We hope this will allow you to disseminate your work to different audiences and spark new conversations for future research and impact. 

 

We invite proposals for posters on any topic relating to the conference theme. Some (non-exhaustive) examples might include: 

• Audiences and the listening experience
• Socio-demographics of classical music engagement
• Cultural policy and classical music funding
• The classical music workforce: make-up, experiences, challenges
• Music education today and for the future
• Community engagement and the role of arts organisations in supporting wellbeing

 

Application

Given the short turnaround for this event, we are operating a fairly informal application process. Please send an introduction and a short description of the research you wish to present as soon as possible to Sarah Price (sarah.price@liverpool.ac.uk). Decisions will be made and communicated on a case-by-case basis to allow maximum time for preparing the poster. Posters should be designed with a knowledgeable but non-academic audience in mind. 

 

Any questions, please don't hesitate to email me (sarah.price@liverpool.ac.uk).

 

Best wishes

Sarah

 

Dr Sarah Price (she/her)

Lecturer in Music Industries

AHRC Research, Development and Engagement Fellow: Audiences for Classical Music

Department of Music

School of the Arts

80-82 Bedford Street South

Liverpool L69 7WW

T: 0151 795 1439

E: sarah.price@liverpool.ac.uk

W: http://www.liv.ac.uk/arts/