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MESSAGE FOLLOWS: BFE and RMA Research Students' Conference 2026 6th-8th January 2026, Royal Birmingham Conservatoire, UK Website: https://www.bcu.ac.uk/conservatoire/research/rsc2026 Email: rsc2026birmingham@bcu.ac.uk Deadline extension: following a request from the Musici Trust, we have decided to extend the deadline for proposals by one week to Thursday 25th September. Submissions
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An opportunity to listen to joint improvisation between human pianists and an AI-inspired system. We will be streaming a concert from the MPI for Empirical Aesthetics next Wednesday 17/9 7-9 CET (i.e. starts 6pm in the uk). The concert features 3 fantastic pianists improvising live with a system - JHAIMI (Joint Human AI Musical Improvisation) - I have been developing as part of project funded
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Dear Colleagues, I would like to remind you that the deadline for submissions to the sixth PG Research in Music Education Symposium at Trinity Laban is Monday 1st of September. The symposium is open to PG music education research students investigating subjects from across music education and participation. It will take place online, on Friday 31st October 2025. It is free to
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With apologies for cross-posting Dear all, We are pleased to invite you to the workshop "Women Musicians' Wellbeing", taking place on September 1, 2025, from 12:00 to 17:00 (CEST) at the Department of Musicology, University of Oslo, and streamed live on YouTube. This event brings together researchers and orchestra members to explore the physical, psychological, and social
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Please do consider forwarding on this message to all those who you think might be interested within the computer and music technology, and music education fields. In particular, I wanted to draw your attention to the tutorials track. These will be held on the first and last days of the symposium programme. Tutorials provide an excellent opportunity for researchers, practitioners, and
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***Call for Participation*** The Synthesizer Research Network (SyReN) ***DEADLINE*** FOR PROPOSALS: 31 JULY 2025 SYNTHposium, Saturday 11 October 2025 School of MUSIC, University of LEEDS, UK. The Synthesizer Research Network invites participation in a one-day symposium event. Participation can be in the form of a paper presentation, or performance-demonstration. https://
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Hi ya'll, We are looking for volunteers for a scientific music research study. This study is an exploration of groove—how and why we feel a beat the way we do. Your participation would help us advance our scientific and musical understanding of groove. We'd love it if you would be willing to help us out! The study will only take 15–20 minutes of your time to complete. All you will
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[apologies for cross-posting] CMMR 2025 'Sound, Music: Space, Place' - Extended deadline (regular papers) + all further tracks now live (tutorials, demos, workshops) By popular request, the submission deadline for regular papers has been extended. The new deadline is 1 July at 12:00 AM Pacific Time, which is 2 July at 8:
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Dear list members, We are delighted to announce the publication of a special collection in the journal, Music & Science, on the topic of 'Explaining music with AI: Advancing the scientific understanding of music through computation'. The collection has been guest edited by David Meredith, Anja Volk and Tom Collins. The special collection has been published open access and is
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**This list is managed by Professor Evangelos Himonides, University College London (UCL). Before 2015, this list was managed by the Institute of Musical Research (IMR).** MESSAGE FOLLOWS: Hi everyone!Next Monday 9th June we are hosting the book launch for my book 'Sonic Pasts: acoustical heritage and historical soundscapes' It's a hybrid event with options to attend in person in
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---------- Forwarded message ---------From: Enzo De Sena <00007eea1c298d8e-dmarc-request@jiscmail.ac.uk>Date: Fri, 30 May 2025 at 15:57Subject: [DMRN-LIST] AURORA³ announcement and Research Engineer job opportunity (deadline 18 June 2025)To: <DMRN-LIST@jiscmail.ac.uk>Dear Digital Music Research Network, (Apologies for cross-posting!) I am writing to share two pieces of news.
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Dear Colleagues, As part of the Laudare ERC project, we are conducting a research focused on computational musicology. Our specific aim is to identify current gaps and understand the needs within the existing suite of tools available for researchers. We kindly invite you to contribute your valuable expertise by participating in a brief survey. It is designed to take approximately 10-15
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Dear Colleagues, As part of the Laudare ERC project, we are conducting a research focused on computational musicology. Our specific aim is to identify current gaps and understand the needs within the existing suite of tools available for researchers. We kindly invite you to contribute your valuable expertise by participating in a brief survey. It is designed to take approximately 10-15
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Please see below for an upcoming MARC seminar at King's College London. If you do not have access to the Strand Building at King's, please sign up here so we know to send someone to meet you in the Strand Building lobby 10 minutes before the event. Professor Ville Pulkki is hosted by Professor Zoran Cvetkovic and Dr Julie Meyer. __ KCL Music and
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Dear all, The School of Music in the University of Leeds invites applications for two PhD scholarships from prospective postgraduate researchers who wish to commence study for a PhD in the academic year 2025/26. School of Music Opportunity Research Scholarship This scholarship is open to prospective postgraduate researchers from Black, Asian and other minoritised ethnic
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[sent on behalf of the Musical Care International Network] We are delighted to report that a call for papers for the Special Collection "Interdisciplinary and intercultural perspectives on musical care" is up on the Music & Science journal website: https://journals.sagepub.com/topic/collections-mns/mns-1-special_collection_interdisciplinary?journalCode=mns The
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Dear all, Matt Ingleby and I have secured a fully-funded, 4-year PhD studentship with the Museum of the Home on music and lived experiences in non-elite English homes, 1780-1870. Please do share with anyone you think might be interested: Alastair (and Matt) -- AHRC Collaborative Doctoral Partnership (CDP) studentship Soundscapes of domesticity: music and lived experiences
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Please see a 3-year Research Fellow opportunity below. Please feel free to forward to anyone who may be interested. Thank you! Best regards, Enzo — RESEARCH FELLOW IN ADVANCED AUDIO SYSTEMS University of Surrey (UK) Post Type: in-person, full time Location: Guildford (35 minutes by fast train from London) Salary: £37,174 to £45,413 per annum, Fixed Term (- May 2028) Closing Date:
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Dear all, The interdisciplinary, open access online journal Music & Science has just released a special issue on music and hearing loss. Music and hearing loss Description It is estimated that by 2050, 2.5 billion people will be living with hearing loss* (WHO, 2024). Hearing loss is a major barrier for accessing music, which can impact negatively on music perception and
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The University of West London is offering a full-fees scholarship plus a bursary for a student undertaking a PhD focused on the Townshend Studio. The studio is the home of Pete Townshend's extraordinary collection of electronic musical instruments, on long-term loan to the university. Our scholarships are open for September 2025 to full-time and part-time international and home/settled
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Dear all, King's has just announced 20 new AI+ positions across the university. These are 5-year fellowships and senior fellowships leading to open-ended academic posts : https://www.kcl.ac.uk/jobs/role/kings-ai-academic-fellowships At King's, we have a growing community of academics interested in music and acoustics research across Biomedical
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Dear all,Sorry for the cross-posting, please circulate widely! https://aimusiccreativity.org/2025+ ----------------- AIMC '25 ---------------- +| | . . . . . The Artist in The Loop . . . . . | | | | . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . | || | . . . . . 10-12 September 2025 . . . . | | | | . . . . . . Brussels, Belgium . . . . . . . | | | | . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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Dear colleagues, This is a gentle reminder about the abstract deadline (1 April) for the next International Symposium on Performance Science (ISPS 2025) in Shanghai. With best wishes, Aaron Williamon — CALL FOR PAPERS ISPS 2025 Performance Science in Practice October 29 | 01 November 2025 Shanghai | China https://performancescience.org The
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UCL iMerc Newsletter — Vol. 15, March 2025Since the Covid-19 pandemic in 2020, we have been meeting regularly to share new research and insights related to diverse topics in music education, broadly conceived. We are a group of res…Go to this Sway
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1st Call for Papers: 17th International Symposium on Computer Music Multidisciplinary Research (CMMR 2025), London, 3 – 7 November 2025 CMMR 2025 "Sound, Music: Space, Place" UCL East, London, UK 3 - 7 November 2025 The 17th International Symposium on Computer Music Multidisciplinary Research (CMMR) will be held at University
