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Tuesday, 23 June 2009

PhD Studentships: Music Related Research (Open University)

INTERDISCIPLINARY PHD STUDENTSHIPS IN MUSIC
OPEN UNIVERSITY (MILTON KEYNES)
DEADLINE: 21 JULY 2009

The Open University offers up to two full-time, 3 year PhD studentships (to start 1 October 2009)

Music-related research at the OU encompasses a wide range of approaches (including historical, social, empirical and technological methods) with a distinctive emphasis on innovation and interdisciplinary research. We welcome applications for PhD studentships in any of our areas of strength, which include

* Social and cultural theory and analysis (including ethnomusicology,sociology, social psychology, human geography)
* Historical study (including documentary and archival research)
* Empirical investigation of performance
* Music computing (including Music Computing and Pervasive Interaction; the design and evaluation of new tools for performance, composition, analysis &education)
* Musical acoustics
* Music education and pedagogy

Projects which will benefit from supervision across traditional disciplinary boundaries (e.g. ethnomusicology and psychology, acoustics and historical musicology, or music computing or sociology) are particularly encouraged. Also encouraged are proposals with links to one of our existing research groups or collaborative projects (for details of these, and of our research facilities, go to the web address below).

Potential candidates are urged to make contact as soon as possible, in order to discuss and develop a project with support from potential supervisors prior to submission. Informal enquiries are encouraged to Prof. Martin Clayton, Director of Music Research (m.r.l.clayton@open.ac.uk)

For detailed information and to apply email s.a.parsons@open.ac.uk or telephone 01908 653280.

Further details of music-related research at the OU can be found at http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/music/research/

Closing date: 21 July 2009

Equal Opportunity is University Policy

Tuesday, 2 June 2009

CFP: 2nd Intl Conf on Music Communication Science (Sydney)

2nd INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON MUSIC COMMUNICATION SCIENCE (ICoMCS2)
SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA
3 - 4 DECEMBER 2009
CALL FOR PAPERS

http://marcs.uws.edu.au/links/ICoMusic09/index.html

The 2nd International Conference on Music Communication Science (ICoMCS2) will bring together people interested in an interdisciplinary understanding or application of music cognition, perception, action, performance, and communication. ICoMCS2 follows the successful inaugural conference held in 2007 (http://marcs.uws.edu.au/links/ICoMusic/program.html) and is organised jointly by the Australian Music & Psychology Society (AMPS http://marcs.uws.edu.au/links/amps/index.htm) and HCSNet the ARC Network in Human Communication Science (http://www.hcsnet.edu.au).

ICoMCS2 will be held in Sydney during the week-long HCSNet SummerFest (http://www.hcsnet.edu.au/summerfest09) with HCSNet summer school courses linked to ICoMCS2.

ICoMCS2 will attract people from all walks of research and performance life, including musicologists, psychologists, educators, linguists, ethnomusicologists, composers, engineers, computer scientists, speech scientists, physicists, philosophers and performance artists.

Papers reporting research concerning music communication in its various forms are invited. Broad topic areas include music performance, music perception, music cognition, intermodal processes, music information retrieval, audio-visual search and retrieval, music and language, evolutionary accounts of music and speech, generative systems, amusia, dystonia, music education, ethnomusicology, music therapy, sonification, spatialization and 3D audio, musical interfaces, digital media, interactive arts, psychophysics, and psychoacoustics.

We also encourage submissions for performance and installation sessions. Ensembles and individuals with performance programs of less than 10 minutes are invited to submit an abstract or full paper of their work.

Submissions will be accepted in two streams. You may submit either a full (four page) paper or an abstract of a paper for presentation. Full papers will be reviewed by the international scientific program committee and clearly identified separately in the conference proceedings. Papers and symposium proposals with an interdisciplinary theme are welcome; papers from
student researchers are strongly encouraged.

ICoMCS2 IMPORTANT DATES 2009
Monday, July 13: Submission of abstract, symposium proposal or full paper for review
Monday, August 24: Notification of Acceptance
Monday, September 21: Registrations open, camera ready versions (for full papers) due
Mon-Fri 30 Nov-4 Dec: HCSNet SummerFest including Summer Schools
Thurs-Fri 3-4 Dec: ICoMCS2 (during HCSNet SummerFest)

CONFERENCE LOCATION
The conference will be held at the Kensington campus of the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia() during the southern
summer from Thursday 3 to Friday 4 December 2009.

WEB SITE
For all information relating to the conference, including details of
submission formats, go to the ICoMCS2 web site
http://marcs.uws.edu.au/links/ICoMusic09/index.html.

We hope to see you at ICoMCS2 December 3-4 in Sydney! Best wishes,

Kate Stevens, Emery Schubert, and the ICoMCS2 Organising Committee

Monday, 11 May 2009

CFP: Social Behavior in Music (Vancouver, Canada)

SBM2009 - SOCIAL BEHAVIOUR IN MUSIC
VANCOUVER, CANADA
29 AUGUSTU 2009
www.infomus.org/SBM2009
SUBMISSION DEADLINE: 17 MAY 2009


Workshop in the framework of IEEE Intl. SocialCom-09 Conference

Music making and listening are a clear example of human activities that are above all interactive and social. On the one hand, however, nowadays mediated music making and listening is usually still a passive,non-interactive, non-context sensitive, and non-social experience. The current electronic technologies have not yet been able to support and promote these essential aspects. On the other hand, new mediated forms of sharing music experience in a social context with local or remote users or as a part of a community are emerging. At the same time we observe an increasing need for paradigms for embodied and active experience of music where non-verbal communication channels, and in particular movement and gesture, play a central role. This workshop focuses on the social signals and their features that are most significant for a qualitative and quantitative analysis of social behavior and experience in music. The workshop will discuss computational models, algorithms, techniques for analysis of social behavior in music, their application in concrete test-beds, and their evaluation in experimental set-ups. We are interested in exploring many-to-many human interplay, such as the performer-listener, performer-performer, and listener-listener interaction, in novel scenarios where the distinction between listeners and performers fades out and users become producers and consumers of music experience.

WORKSHOP TOPICS
We encourage papers and demos addressing fundamental research issues including, but not limited to, the following topics:

- theoretical approaches to social behavior in music
- experimental methodologies for analysis of social behavior in music
- computational models of social behavior in music
- analysis of social signals in music
- synchronization of human behavior in music
- analysis of social roles in performers and listeners groups
- analysis of attention and salience in social music experiences
- multimodal interfaces for active and social music experience
- cooperative social environments for participative music experience
-multi-user systems and application for social music experience


ELECTRONIC SUBMISSIONS
Submissions should follow the IEEE conference paper format. Submissions should include: title, author(s), affiliation(s), e-mail address(es), tel/fax number(s), and postal address(es).

The contributions can be submitted at:
http://infomus.org/SBM2009/commence

Both accepted papers and demos will be presented at the workshop as oral presentation or in a demo session. The accepted contributions will appear in the Proceedings of Social-Com09 Workshops published by IEEE Computer Society Press. Authors of accepted contributions will be required to submit a camera ready version. At least one author for each accepted paper or demo is required to attend the workshop to present the work.

Papers submission:
Manuscripts should be 8 pages maximum, including references, tables, and pictures.

Demo submission:
Proposal for demonstrations should be submitted as a (max) 2-pages extended abstract including pictures and technical details.

IMPORTANT DATES
May 17, 2009: Submissions deadline
June 5, 2009: Notification of acceptance
June 15, 2009: Camera ready version due to electronic form
August 29, 2009: SBM2009 Workshop

WORKSHOP ORGANIZERS AND CHAIRS
Antonio Camurri
Donald Glowinski
Maurizio Mancini
Giovanna Varni
Gualtiero Volpe

PROGRAM COMMITTEE
Frederic Bevilacqua (IRCAM, France)
Roberto Bresin (KTH, Sweden)
Shuji Hashimoto (Waseda University, Japan)
Ben Knapp (Queen's University Belfast, UK)
Marc Leman (Univeristeit Ghent)
Anton Nijholt (University of Twente, NL)
Maja Pantic (Imperial College London, UK and University of Twente, NL)
Catherine Pelachaud (CNRS, France)
Isabella Poggi (Università Roma 3, Italy)
Xavier Serra (UPF, Spain)
Alessandro Vinciarelli (IDIAP, Switzerland)

The workshop is partially supported by the FP7 EU-ICT Strep Project SAME
(www.sameproject.eu).

Saturday, 2 May 2009

CFP: First Annual International Crime, Media and Popular Culture Studies (Indiana State University)

FIRST ANNUAL INTERNATIONAL CRIME, MEDIA AND POPULAR CULTURE STUDIES CONFERENCE: A CROSS-DISCIPLINARY EXPLORATION
INDIANA STATE UNIVERSITY
5 - 7 OCTOBER 2009
CALL FOR PAPERS

Early Abstract Submission is Highly Encouraged.

The Indiana State University Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice would like to invite you to attend the "First Annual International Crime, Media and Popular Culture Studies Conference: A Cross-Disciplinary Exploration" to be held October 5th, 6th & 7th, 2009
at Indiana State University, Terre Haute, Indiana. Please visit our website for further details regarding abstract submission, registration and for a detailed description of our Keynote Speakers and Featured Speakers. Please feel free to forward this notice to any colleagues or
graduate students that you feel might be interested.

Conference website:
www.indstate.edu/ccj/popcultureconference

Indiana State University is conveniently located less than 1 hour from Indianapolis International Airport traveling west on Interstate 70. Indiana State University is also within 3-5 hours driving time from Chicago, Illinois; Springfield, Illinois; St. Louis, Missouri; Columbia,
Missouri; Louisville, Kentucky; Lexington, Kentucky; Cincinnati, Ohio; Toledo, Ohio; Columbus, Ohio; and Nashville, Tennessee.

Early Conference Hotel Reservations are Highly Encouraged.

Once again given that this is a cross-disciplinary conference please feel free to forward this call for papers to any individuals or departments that you feel might have an interest in the conference (criminology, criminal justice, sociology, anthropology, public policy, psychology, race & ethnic studies, women’s studies, music, media studies, journalism, literature, film studies, history).

Featured Speakers:
Jeff Ferrell, Ph.D.
Texas Christian University

Victor E. Kappeler, Ph.D
Eastern Kentucky University

David L. Altheide, Ph.D
Arizona State University

Frankie Y. Bailey, Ph.D.
University of Albany

Gregory Snyder, Ph.D.
Baruch College, CUNY

Nickie Phillips, Ph.D.
St. Francis College

Staci Strobl, Ph.D.
John Jay College of Criminal Justice

Vikas Kumar Gumbhir, Ph.D.
Gonzaga University

Brett A. Mervis, Ph.D. Candidate
University of South Florida

Robert D. Weide, Ph.D. Candidate
New York University


Keynote Speakers:
Taylor Mali
Four Time National Poetry Slam Champion and One of the Original Poets on HBO’s Russell Simmons Presents “Def Poetry”

Stephen Belber
Acclaimed Playwright, Screenplay Writer and Director
(TV Credits Include Staff Writer for “Law & Order SVU” and “Rescue Me”)

Sincerely,

Franklin T. Wilson, Ph.D.
Conference Chair
Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice
Indiana State University
Holmstedt Hall 230
Terre Haute, Indiana 47809
fwilson2@indstate.edu

Friday, 1 May 2009

Post-doc Opportunity: Research Assistantship in Music Psychology (King's College London)

RESEARCH ASSISTANTSHIP IN MUSIC PSYCHOLOGY
KING'S COLLEGE LONDON
DEADLINE: 20 MAY 2009


Applications are invited for a three-year post-doctoral Research Assistantship in music psychology at King's College London. The project, which belongs within the AHRC Research Centre for Musical Performance as Creative Practice, will document through interviews, and analyse, performers' reported experiences of the way music ‘takes shape' and the ways in which a sense of shape influences detailed decision-making in performance.

Salary range: £25,623 - £33,432

Further details are available from
http://www.kcl.ac.uk/depsta/pertra/vacancy/external/pers_detail.php?jobindex=7806

Friday, 20 March 2009

CFP: Systemic Musicology 2009 (Ghent, Belgium)

SYSMUS09
SECOND INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF STUDENTS OF SYSTEMIC MUSICOLOGY
GHENT, BELGIUM
CALL FOR PAPERS


http://www.ipem.ugent.be/sysmus09

Important dates:
Submission of papers: May 29, 2009
Notification of paper acceptance: August 17, 2009
Camera-ready submissions: October 9, 2009
SysMus 2009: November 18-20, 2009


All research involving meaning, description, and technological mediation of music can be related to musicology. However, the complexity of musical engagement in socio-cultural contexts engenders different networks of research and knowledge, with distinct interdisciplinary configurations, methods and specializations. Systematic musicology specifically deploys this methodological diversity so as to approach each musicological question with a distinct configuration of methods. In doing so, systematic musicology often bridges methodological foundations of sciences with the critical analysis from humanities. It promotes the study of aesthetics, semiotics, and cultural studies by incorporating empirical and data-oriented methods into the methodological framework. It relies on paradigms from different disciplines as diverse as the philosophy of aesthetics, theoretical sociology, semiotics, and music criticism, combined with strategies derived from empirical psychology, acoustics, physiology, neurosciences, cognitive sciences, computing, and others.

Unfortunately, the concentration of efforts on methodological diversity and broad re-search questions may lead students to superficial discussions, disconnected results or research that is alienated from the musical matter. One of the biggest challenges for researchers in systematic musicology, therefore, is to learn how to deal with the inter-disciplinary nature inherent to their own field. Several questions are raised by this problem:

- How to guide yourself through innumerable methods, resources, and uncertain methodological pathways?
- How to design and execute interdisciplinary research?
- How to communicate with our partners: engineers, psychologists, and musicians?
- How to build an active network of collaborations within this interdisciplinary field?

These questions, together with courses in presentation and conference skills, will be addressed in SysMus09.

SUBMISSION:

Submissions are solicited for spoken research papers or posters related to any subdiscipline of systematic musicology. Suggested topic areas include, but are not limited to:

Acoustics and psychoacoustics
Cognitive musicology
Composition and improvisation
Computer Music
Cross-cultural studies of music
Mediation technology
Memory and music
Multimodal Interfaces
Music and emotions
Music and evolution
Music and language
Music and meaning
Music and movement
Music and neuroscience
Music education
Music performance
Music therapy
Musical development
Musical timbre
Pitch and tonal perception
Rhythm, meter, and timing
Social psychology of music

Short papers in English (max. 2 pages) should be submitted on the conference website (http://www.ipem.ugent.be/sysmus09/) and must be presented in one of the two formats: oral presentations or posters. The templates required for formatting papers and posters will be available at the same address. There will be a double-blind review process by a committee composed of advanced PhD students.

Wishing you welcome in Ghent in 2009!

Organizing Committee - SysMus09
Director: Luiz Naveda
Co-Director: Prof. Marc Leman

Monday, 9 March 2009

Invitation: Music Research Online Survey

MUSIC RESEARCH
ONLINE SURVEY


We invite you to take part in a survey which will take you about 20 minutes and is completely anonymous. We invite all music educators, music psychologists, or music scientists (students and professionals who engage in research). Please follow the link:

http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=AS7IOTng6f2xqPtZdohCmA_3d_3d

This is a questionnaire survey to find out about professional music researchers’ musical backgrounds and current levels of musical engagement (e.g. performing, composing, improvising, listening). The first round of the survey addresses music researchers in any area of music psychology and music science.

Please circulate this information to anyone interested in it. Many thanks in advance.

Wednesday, 25 February 2009

CFP: 5th Conference on Interdisciplinary Musicology (Paris)

FIFTH CONFERENCE ON INTERDISCIPLINARY MUSICOLOGY
PARIS, FRANCE
26 - 29 OCTOBER 2009
CALL FOR PAPERS


http://cim09.lam.jussieu.fr

Abstract submission deadline March 27, 2009

• PRESENTATION
The Conference on Interdisciplinary Musicology is a forum for constructive interaction among all musically and musicologically relevant disciplines, including acoustics, aesthetics, anthropology, archeology, art history and theory, biology, composition, computing, cultural studies, education,
ethnology, history, linguistics, literary studies, mathematics, medicine, music theory and analysis, perception, performance, philosophy, physiology, prehistory, psychoacoustics, psychology, semiotics, sociology, statistics, and therapy. CIM especially promotes collaborations between sciences and humanities, between theory and practice, as well as interdisciplinary combinations that are new, unusual, creative, or otherwise especially promising.

• THEME FOR CIM09 MUSIC AND ITS INSTRUMENTS
CIM09 – will focus on relationships between music and the instruments used for its production.
How is the music of a given culture determined or influenced by the nature of its musical instruments? How do instruments influence repertoires? How are instruments that have been developed in the context of given musical styles used in new styles? Conversely, what issues arise when old instruments are revived, or new instruments adapted, for the performance
of early music?

• HOST INSTITUTIONS
Lutheries, Acoustique, Musique (LAM- IJLRA) - CNRS - Université Pierre et Marie Curie
Centre de recherche Langages Musicaux (CRLM) et Musicologie, informatique et nouvelles technologies (MINT) - Université Paris Sorbonne – Paris IV Cité de la Musique (Musée de la Musique) Musée du Quai Branly (Département de la Recherche et de l’Enseignement)
With the collaboration of Société Française d’Acoustique (SFA).

• ABSTRACT SUBMISSION
The abstract submission deadline for CIM09 is March 27, 2009. Submissions must be sent to : morange-cim09 at lam.jussieu.fr
All submissions to CIM09 must have at least two authors who represent two of the following three groups of disciplines: humanities, sciences, musical practice. Submissions must address a musical research question. See website for instructions.

Saturday, 13 December 2008

Sempre (Society for Education, Music and Psychology Research) Fellowships/Awards

SEMPRE (SOCIETY FOR EDUCATION, MUSIC AND PSYCHOLOGY RESEARCH) SCHOLARSHIPS AND FUNDS
DEADLINE: MOST 1 MAY 2009 BUT VARIES VIA AWARD


GERRY FARRELL TRAVELLING SCHOLARSHIPS
Society for Education, Music and Psychology Research (Sempre), UK The Society for Education, Music and Psychology Research invites applications for its Gerry Farrell travelling scholarships.
See
http://www.sempre.org.uk/awards_farrell.html

ARNOLD BENTLEY NEW INITIATIVES FUND
Society for Education, Music and Psychology Research (Sempre), UK The Society for Education, Music and Psychology Research invites applications for the Arnold Bentley new initiatives fund.
See http://www.sempre.org.uk/awards.html

SEMPRE LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD
Society for Education, Music and Psychology Research (Sempre), UK The Society for Education, Music and Psychology Research invites nominations for its lifetime achievement award.
See http://www.sempre.org.uk/awards_hickman.html

Thursday, 4 December 2008

CFP: Conference on Music and Emotion (Durham)

INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON MUSIC AND EMOTION
UNIVERSITY OF DURHAM
31 AUGUST - 3 SEPTEMBER 2009
CALL FOR PAPERS


The conference is conceived around four key-note panels representing the disciplines of music theory, philosophy, psychology and sonic arts. In addition, we invite papers on any aspect of emotion research, including:

* new tools for analysing emotion in musical structure
* theories of expression, arousal, contagion, and representation
* categorical, dimensional, circumplex, and prototype models
* aesthetic psychology and the role of empirical evidence
* statistical and probabilistic models, including theories of expectation and markedness
* measuring physiological change, brain imaging, and analysis of gesture and whole-body movement
* mechanisms of induction, transmission, and evaluation
* cross-modality and metaphor
* labelling versus dynamic modelling
* cross-cultural and trans-historical differences and universals
* musical emotion in social context
* classical versus evolutionary perspectives
* rhetoric, figurality, and the passions
* how emotion is mediated through musical form, material, timbre, and voice

Proposals (up to 200 words) for papers of around 20 minutes' duration should be sent by email to Jo Buckley (jo.buckley@durham.ac.uk) by 1st March 2009.
Further details can be found at www.dur.ac.uk/music.emotion/.
 
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