CFP: Unlocking Audio 2: Connecting with Listeners (British Library)

UNLOCKING AUDIO 2: CONNECTING WITH LISTENERS
BRITISH LIBRARY CONFERENCE CENTRE, LONDON
16 - 17 MARCH 2009
CALL FOR PAPERS
Supported by the Joint Information Systems Committee
www.bl.uk/unlockingaudio

Unlocking Audio 2: Connecting with Listeners is a key event exploring the use of sounds online. The conference will focus on ways that researchers and other audiences expect to discover, browse, audition and analyse archival audio resources.

Reviewing existing and emerging practices and technologies, the conference will be of interest to:
· content owners
· academics
· service providers
· user groups
· resource managers
· system integrators
· designers and implementers of data mining, search & content analysis tools

Deadline for abstracts 12:00 hours GMT on 12 December 2008
Deadline for early registration 12:00 hours GMT on 19 December 2008
Deadline for late registration 12:00 hours GMT on 16 February 2009
Conference dates 16-17 March 2009

Contact details

Alison Faraday,
Unlocking Audio
The British Library
96 Euston Road
London NW1 2DB
United Kingdom

Fax: +44 (0)207 412 7441
Email: unlockingaudio@bl.uk

Let Beauty Awake: Elgar and Vaughan Williams Symposium (Upcoming Conf: British Library)

LET BEAUTY AWAKE
BRITISH LIBRARY CONFERNECE CENTRE, LONDON
22 - 23 NOVEMBER 2008

A symposium to consider the influences of literature and poetry on Sir Edward Elgar and Ralph Vaughan Williams. Speakers will include Byron Adams, Hugh Cobbe, Alain Frogley, Richard Hickox, Stephen Johnson, Michael Kennedy, Philip Lancaster, Andrew Neill, David Owen Norris and Roger Savage. The programme will also include a song recital performed by Roderick Williams (baritone), Juliette Pochin (mezzo soprano) and Iain Burnside (piano), and a screening of John Bridcut’s BBC film on Vaughan Williams.

This event is presented in association with the Elgar Society and the Ralph Vaughan Williams Society, as part of the commemorations to mark the 50th anniversary of the death of Vaughan Williams in 1958.

Further programme details are available here: http://www.rvwsociety.com/i-frame/newsmaster.html

Tickets: £60 (both days); £40 (Saturday only, including recital); £30 (Sunday only, including film)

British Library Box Office: 01937 546 546
http://www.bl.uk/onlinegallery/whatson/events/november.html