Fwd: Music & Science special issue on music and hearing loss - Call for submissions

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 appreciation and lead to a reduction in musical activities and associated reduction in quality of life. This special collection is focused on scientific research which seeks to understand how hearing loss affects music experiences (perception, listening, performance) and how these can be improved for people with all levels of hearing. This might include approaches to hearing conservation, technical improvements to hearing devices such as hearing aids and cochlear implants, and audiological practice. It might also include alternative approaches to traditional rehabilitation such as vibrotactile perception and other promising augmentation strategies.

 

We invite submissions from a wide range of disciplinary areas such as music and creative practice, psychology, audiology, acoustics, psychoacoustics, engineering, computer science. 

 

Topics may include (but not be limited to):

·         Hearing conservation and hearing protection devices 

·         Hearing aids for music: user experiences, technological innovation, application design 

·         Cochlear implants for music: user experiences, technological innovation, sound coding strategies

·         Deep learning and signal processing for hearing devices for music

·         Music augmentation strategies (e.g. vibrotactile, personalised listening) 

·         Audiological/hearing therapy practice 

·         Music-based aural rehabilitation strategies 

·         Music perception and hearing loss 

·         Creative practice for those with hearing loss

 

The Special Collection welcomes the full range of paper types (including empirical research articles, theoretical papers, position papers, discussions, and reviews).

 

*Please note: We are using 'hearing loss' as the term most commonly used in scientific research papers which address the impact of different levels of hearing on music experience. We appreciate the complexity and diversity of terminology and philosophical perspectives on this matter, and that different terms are preferred and commonly used. Given variations in terminology use (e.g. 'hearing impairment', 'deaf', 'hard of hearing', 'hearing difference'), we ask that authors use their preferred terms, along with any relevant critique of terminology.

 

You can find out more, including the submission guidelines here: https://journals.sagepub.com/topic/collections-mns/mns-1-music_and_hearing_loss/mns

 

Deadline for submissions: 31 December 2025

 

Editorial team:

Alinka Greasley, Scott Bannister, Kai Siedenburg, Kate Gfeller, Gerardo Roa Dabike

 

Please contact me or one of the editorial team if you have any questions.

 

Best wishes,

Alinka

 

Prof. Alinka Greasley

Professor of Music Psychology

Director of Research and Innovation

School of Music | University of Leeds | Leeds, LS2 9JT, UK

Email: a.e.greasley@leeds.ac.uk 

Fwd: [DMRN-LIST] UWL Townshend Studio PhD Scholarship

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 students and comprise:

Full-time

• Stipend of £22,000 per year (tax free)
• Tuition fees waived
• Duration: Three years

Part-time

• Stipend of £11,000 per year (tax free)
• Tuition
• Duration: Six years

Find more details about PhDs at UWL at: https://www.uwl.ac.uk/course/research/music?start=1560&option=33

We are looking for someone to propose a doctoral research project based around this amazing and unique collection of electronic musical instruments starting in Sep 2025. The proposal can be for anything to do with the collection, but it needs to support the agenda that underpins the Townshend Studio project: a place for learning, collaboration, experimentation and play which is inspired by and built upon the musical and artistic legacy of Ealing, with a goal of promoting and encouraging creative practice for all. In particular, we are looking for proposals which create shareable new content, activities and/or knowledge which promote this agenda. Practice-based approaches are encouraged.

Possible areas for applications might be:

• Exploring ways in which contemporary digital technologies can be used in conjunction with these machines. The university has a range of audio, MIDI and control voltage interfaces.
• Placing the Townshend Studio and its collection of instruments in a historical context. Projects might range from histories of synthesis and sampling to the Ealing / West London music scene.
• Understanding how communities of practice and individuals engage with and use the collection. This might be a study that works in collaboration with the funded Artist-in-Residence scheme that started in 2025.
• An ethnographic study about the technology and its maintenance. Many of the older items in the collection have very few people qualified to maintain them and very few experienced expert users. How can we capture that knowledge and make it available? 
• Using the collection to explore and understand Roy Ascott's cybernetic approach to creativity and practice as embodied in the Groundcourse which Pete Townshend attended at a pre-cursor to UWL in the early 1960s.

·         Study ways of embedding diverse and inclusive practices into the configuration and use of the technology and the space it is in. This might be from a perspective of culture, gender, disability, neurodiversity or any other protected characteristic.

·         Develop an extendable taxonomy to catalogue and analyse the sonic and functional properties of the synthesisers (and others) and develop a digital open-access archive that includes high-quality recordings and detailed analysis of each synthesiser's capabilities. 

PhD scholars will be expected to carry out teaching or research duties for a maximum of six hours per week (full-time) or 3 hours (part-time).

Application deadline

Home/settled students: 15 June 2025 at 11:59pm. International students: 30 April 2025 at 11:59pm

If you are interested, please contact Simon Zagorski-Thomas or Justin Paterson in the first instance with a short outline of your idea and we will help to develop a formal application from that.

 

Use this link to find details about some of the amazing instruments in the collection: https://www.uwl.ac.uk/study/study-facilities/the-townshend-studio/synthesisers

Fwd: [DMRN-LIST] King's College London announces 20 new AI+ fellowships leading to open-ended academic posts

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 Engineering, Computer Science, Digital Humanities, Engineering, Mathematics, and Music : https://marc.kcl.ac.uk

King's AI+ Academic Fellowships (leading to an open-ended academic post) - King's College London King's AI+ Initiative. King's College London is engaged in a major strategic investment in "AI+", focused on AI innovation and application applied to any/all areas of research – including health, humanities, biosciences, social sciences, arts, business and law, and physical/mathematical sciences. www.kcl.ac.uk

Closing date for applications : 19 May 2025 23:59

Best wishes,

Elaine

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Elaine Chew | eniale.kcl.ac.uk

Professor of Engineering | King's College London

NMES: Engineering | FoLSM : BMEIS : Cardiovascular Imaging

Becket House, BH5.16 | 1 Lambeth Palace Rd, London, SE1 7EU, UK

PI, ERC COSMOS | cosmos.isd.kcl.ac.uk 

Founder/Director, Music Theranostics Lab | JCMB G.30

Seeing music's effect on the heart - doi.org/10.1093/eurheartj/ehae436

Ensemble musicians' heartbeats - doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2024.1403599

Music based GCNN diagnosis of hypertension - bit.ly/music-DL-ht-diagnosis-preprint

Music to make the heart sing - alum.mit.edu/slice/music-make-heart-sing

Fwd: [DMRN-LIST] AIMC’25 - 10-12 Sep 2025 - Brussels, Belgium - Keynote Announcement - CfP Deadline: 04 April 2025

Dear all,

Sorry for the cross-posting, please circulate widely! 

https://aimusiccreativity.org/2025

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| | . . . . . The Artist in The Loop . . . . . | | 

| | . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . | |

| | . . . . . 10-12 September 2025 . . . . | | 

| | . . . . . . Brussels, Belgium . . . . . . . | | 

| | . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . | |

| | . . . . . . PAPERS | MUSIC . . . . . . . | |

| | . . WORKSHOPS / TUTORIALS . . | | 

| | . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . | |

| | . . Abstract Submission Deadline: . | | 

| | . . . . . . . . 04 April 2025 . . . . . . . . . | |

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Keynote Announcement

In line with the AIMC 2025 theme — The Artist in the Loop, which explores feedback loops between human creators and AI systems across all stages of creative practice — the conference will feature an outstanding panel of keynote speakers offering deep insights into AI-driven creativity, human-AI collaboration, and the future of generative music.

- Marc Leman: Professor of Musicology at Ghent University, known for pioneering work in computational and embodied musicology. Founder of the Art & Science Lab at De Krook and author of over 450 publications. His current work focuses on high-dimensional music data and immersive environments.

- Katerina Kosta: Head of AI at Hook, previously at TikTok and Jukedeck. Expert in music AI, computational musicology, and expressive performance modeling. Holds a PhD from Queen Mary University of London, and combines deep technical knowledge with performance experience in classical piano.

Meanwhile, the call for AIMC 2025 is still open!
We invite submissions of papers, music, and workshop/tutorial proposals exploring the intersections of AI and music creativitym specially those that involve The Artist in the Loop.

Deadlines:

• 04 April 2025 – Abstract deadline

• 11 April 2025 – Full submission deadline

• 30 May 2025 - Decisions and notifications to authors  

• 10–12 September 2025 – Conference in Brussels

Details on keynotes and submission info:
https://aimusiccreativity.org/2025

Best,
AIMC 2025 Organising Committee

Fwd: ISPS 2025 | Oct 29-01 Nov 2025 | Shanghai

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 

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CALL FOR PAPERS 

 

ISPS 2025 

Performance Science in Practice 

 

October 29 | 01 November 2025 

Shanghai | China 

 

https://performancescience.org 

 

 

The next International Symposium on Performance Science, ISPS 2025, will be hosted by the Shanghai Conservatory of Music on October 29–01 November 2025. 

 

The ISPS 2025 theme, Performance Science in Practice, is intended to encourage discussion and debate on connections between performance, education, science, and society. Specific research topics, fields of study, and methodological approaches have been left open intentionally to encourage interdisciplinary exchange. 

 

Submissions detailing original research are invited from all performance disciplines, offering new perspectives from across the arts and sciences. 

 

We intend to offer both on-site and electronic presentation options, although the former will depend on possible restrictions on public meetings and international travel in place at the time of the event. 

 

IMPORTANT DATES 

 

01 April 2025: Paper/poster abstract submission deadline 

15 May 2025: Notification of submission decision 

01 June 2025: Article submissions open for ISPS 2025 Research Topic in Frontiers

01 September 2025: End of early registration 

29 October 2025: Start of ISPS 2025 

31 January 2026: Article submission deadline for ISPS 2025 Research Topic in Frontiers

 

SUBMISSIONS 

 

Submissions are invited for 

 

- Spoken papers 

- Poster presentations 

- Symposia 

Detailed instructions for submissions are available via the conference website: https://performancescience.org. 

 

Submissions should be made electronically by 01 April 2025. 

 

GRADUATE AWARDS 

 

The Scientific Committee is keen to encourage the attendance of students, as well as established researchers and practitioners. 

 

The ISPS 2025 Graduate Paper Award will be offered to one graduate student to present a keynote paper at the conference. 

In addition, at the symposium, delegates will be able to vote for the highest quality poster presentation delivered by a graduate student. The student(s) with the highest vote tally will be given the ISPS 2025 Graduate Poster Award. 

REVIEW PROCESS 

 

Each submission will be reviewed anonymously by the Scientific Committee according to its originality, importance, clarity, and interdisciplinarity. Corresponding authors will be notified by email of the Committee's decision by 15 May 2025. 

 

CONFERENCE PUBLICATION 

 

Building on the publication of articles from ISPS 2013, ISPS 2015, ISPS 2017, ISPS 2019, ISPS 2021, and ISPS 2023 in Frontiers in Psychology, the journal is hosting a Research Topic in the specialty section Performance Science for ISPS 2025 presenters. To qualify, the first (or corresponding) author must be a registered presenter at ISPS 2025, and the manuscript should be submitted to the journal for independent peer-review between 01 June 2025 and 31 January 2026. 

 

To learn more about the specialty section Performance Science, see https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/psychology/sections/performance-science. 

 

Note. The ISPS 2025 Research Topic replaces the Proceedings of the International Symposium on Performance Science. A proceedings volume will not be produced for ISPS 2025; however, published articles from all previous ISPS are freely available at https://performancescience.org. 

 

REGISTRATION 

 

Full and one-day registration options will be available, which also include student discounts and online-only options. 

 

Online registration will open on 15 May 2025. 

 

For further information about the venue, submissions, graduate award, and registration, visit the conference website: https://performancescience.org.  

 

The official language of the conference is English. There is also a special section for English/Chinese bilingual submissions as part of the Third International Forum on Musical Performance Studies (IFMPS 2025) that will be held together with ISPS 2025.

 

Aaron Williamon, London 

Yang Jian, Shanghai

 

UCL iMerc newsletter #15

UCL iMerc Newsletter — Vol. 15, March 2025

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Fwd: 1st Call for Papers: CMMR 2025 “Sound, Music: Space, Place” (UCL East, London, UK)

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 College London (UCL) in East London (United Kingdom), 3 - 7 November 2025.   

CMMR 2025 invites contributions related to all aspects of multidisciplinary fields and approaches, regarding sound, music and computers. In particular, we welcome submissions matching this year's topic "Sound, Music: Space, Place".     

The conference will be hosted by the world-leading departments of Anthropology (within the forward-thinking School for the Creative & Cultural Industries) and the Bartlett School of Architecture. As such, contributions centring on practices of culture (those of human as well as other living beings, including 'musical', acoustic and behavioural aspects of animals) and spatial practices, including architecture, are very welcome.   

CMMR is an open-minded symposium that provides an opportunity to exchange ideas, opinions, and findings for everyone engaged in sound, music, and computers. We warmly welcome submissions from researchers and practitioners from academia and the industry, and others with an interest in related topics. CMMR is an in-person conference. All presenters are required to participate in the conference and present their works on site.     

CMMR 2025 will feature a diverse range of activities across the following tracks: papers, demos, music and installations, tutorials, and workshops.   

Call for Papers   

The conference accepts short papers of 8 pages to present work-in-progress and long papers of 12 pages to present a more substantial contribution to the field (Springer LNCS single-column format).   

Papers must be submitted as PDF files using EasyChair. All papers will be peer-reviewed by at least two experts in the field to ensure quality and suitability. Accepted papers will be presented in the conference programme and proceedings in open access (OA) format.   

The Scientific Program Committee will determine the presentation format (oral / poster) of each accepted paper based on the reviewers' recommendations. The camera-ready version of accepted papers must implement revisions requested by the reviewers.   

The conference will feature special paper sessions, the topics of which will be made available in due course.    

As in the previous CMMRs, post-symposium proceedings consisting of selected peer-reviewed papers are planned to be published in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science Series of Springer Verlag.    

Original contributions are encouraged in, but not limited to the following topics: 

• Affective computing 
• Architectural acoustics 
• Artificial intelligence applied to sound and music 
• Audio signal processing 
• Auditory perception and cognition 
• Augmented and smart musical instruments 
• Aural diversities 
• Bioacoustics   
• Computational musicology 
• Cooperative music networks 
• Digital audio effects 
• Digital communities 
• Digital music libraries 
• Embodied musical interaction 
• Evaluation of creative music systems 
• Extended reality (VR/AR/MR) and music 
• Human-computer interaction applied to music 
• Intelligent music tutoring systems 
• Live coding 
• Motion and gesture 
• Multimodal perception 
• Music and emotions 
• Music education 
• Music ethnography 
• Music games and interactive learning 
• Music information retrieval 
• Music production and composition tools 
• Music representation and visualization 
• Music structure analysis 
• Music transcription 
• Musical interface design 
• Optical music recognition 
• Oral histories & storytelling 
• Semantic web 
• Sonification and musification 
• Sound and music in visual media 
• Sound source separation 
• Sound studies & sonic anthropology 
• Sound synthesis 
• Soundscape and acoustic ecology 
• Spatial audio 
• User studies (e.g., ethnography, UI/UX)   

Important Dates: 

Paper submission deadline: 30 May 2025 

Paper notification of acceptance: 28 July 2025  

Conference dates: 3 – 7 November 2025   

Conference Committee 

General Chair: Angela McArthur (UCL) 

General Co-Chair: Emma-Kate Matthews (UCL)   

Further information pertaining to the various conference tracks, including submission requirements and conference logistics, will be disseminated in due course. 

Fwd: HearMus Seminar 6

The next seminar in the HearMus series is taking place next on 25^th March with Dr Chi Lo (Macquarie University) and Dr Alan Sanderson (Brighton and Sussex Medical School).

 

HearMus Seminar 6 (March 25.03.25) 14:00-16:00 GMT (15:00-17:00 CET)

 

Music and hearing loss across the lifespan: transfer effects to support speech-in-noise perception

Dr Chi Lo, Postdoctoral Fellow, Macquarie University and Australian Institute of Health Innovation

 

Speech perception in noisy environments remains a critical challenge for individuals with hearing loss. Recent evidence suggests that music processing skills and training can facilitate improvements in auditory perception. In this presentation, the findings from two music intervention studies (paediatric and geriatric) will be discussed and consolidated.

 

In the first study, 39 older adult hearing aid users (aged 57–90) were assigned to a 14-week, three-arm intervention (choir singing, music appreciation, and do-nothing control). Results revealed that participants assigned to the music groups had enhanced speech-in-noise perception as well as frequency following responses after the intervention.

 

The second study involved 14 children (aged 6–9) with prelingual sensorineural hearing loss that used cochlear implants, and/or hearing aids. Participation involved a 12‐week intervention incorporating weekly group‐based music therapy, supplemented with a take-home music app. Compared with an age‐matched typical hearing cohort, the children with hearing loss showed a significant improvement for SIN perception which was mechanistically linked to better timbre and spectral resolution perception.

 

Collectively, these findings highlight the potential of music‐based interventions as a complementary rehabilitation strategy. They suggest that structured music training may play critical roles in enhancing auditory outcomes across the lifespan.

 

Balancing auditory stimulation and noise exposure: Lessons from private and NHS audiology

Dr Alan Sanderson, Brighton and Sussex Medical School, UK

 

Dr Sanderson is a Clinical Lecturer in Audiology. In parallel to his research on tinnitus and hearing devices, Alan works in NHS and private clinical audiology. At the HearMus seminar, Alan will share how he and Conor O'Kane, an audiologist and classically trained pianist, set up an audiology service to optimise and protect hearing for patients that love music. The talk will use clinical case examples to draw out patterns that we can use to improve and standardise clinical protocols for people that play and/or listen to music.

 

Alinka Greasley is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting.

Topic: HearMus Seminar 6 (25.03.25)

Time: Mar 25, 2025 14:00-16:00 GMT (15:00-17:00 CET)

Join Zoom Meeting

https://universityofleeds.zoom.us/j/81935189643

Meeting ID: 819 3518 9643

 

We look forward to seeing some of you there! Please pass on to anyone you feel would be interested.

 

The HearMus seminar series provides a monthly forum for the discussion of a broad array of topics around music and hearing health. The series aims to yield a state of the art of research on music perception and hearing impairment, hearing aids and music, and individual differences in music perception and production. Besides presentations from experts in academia and industry, the seminar series seeks to foster lively discussions and exchange of ideas, with the joint goal of sustaining and enhancing access to music for people with diverse hearing needs.

 

You can find out more details and watch previous seminars here: https://musicandhearingaids.org/hearmus-seminars/

 

Prof. Alinka Greasley

Professor of Music Psychology

Director of Research and Innovation

School of Music | University of Leeds | Leeds, LS2 9JT, UK

Email: a.e.greasley@leeds.ac.uk | Phone: + 44 113 343 4560

 

Fwd: Reminder: Musical care in dialogue 18th March 2025

[sent on behalf of Dr Neta Spiro]

Dear all

 

The next in the Musical care in dialogue series hosted by the Musical Care International Network will be on Hearing, disability, and musical care and is coming up this month.

 

Speakers:
Juanita Eslava (Orquesta Filarmónica de Medellin, Colombia)
Kjetil Falkenberg (KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden)
Ailsa Lipscombe (University of Cincinnati, USA) 

 

Date:

Tuesday 18th March 2025 14:00 – 15:00 GMT

 

Medelline, Colombia – 09:00-10:00
Cincinnati, Ohio, US – 10:00-11:00
London, UK – 14:00-15:00
Stockholm, Sweden – 15:00-16:00

 

You can join the dialogue following the Zoom link here: 

https://imperial-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/99917385066?pwd=I3OwHISlEe4eh0iCRbGEpEnBoSNyzd.1 

Meeting ID: 999 1738 5066
Passcode: d7X@k4

  

Click here to find out more about and join the network: https://musicalcareresearch.com/musical-care-network/

Fwd: [DMRN-LIST] Jason Yust: "Musical Rhythm as Signal" @ KCL, March 26

 

Tl;dr:

Jason Yust is visiting KCL for a seminar exactly one month from today. All are welcome; registration is needed.

 

Jason Yust is renowned as one of the world's foremost experts in music theory, particularly the mathematical modelling thereof.

For more on Yust see his website:

www.sites.bu.edu/jyust

 

If you know Jason's work, you'll know how fascinating it is. If you don't  know his work, then come to the talk and find out! You might think of attendance as a step towards greater dialogue between the MIR, MCM, and music theory communities 😉

 

Details:

• Room:  STRAND BLDG S0.13 (Strand Campus)
• Date:  25-Mar-2025
• Start time: 15:00
• End time: 16:00
• Title: "Musical Rhythm as Signal"
• Event webpage: https://www.kcl.ac.uk/events/musical-rhythm-as-signal
• Form to register is here

 

Please do register: If you're coming from outside KCL I need to give your name to the desk so you can get in. The campus is a bit of a fortress!

 

Thanks and best wishes,

Mark

 

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Mark Gotham

https://markgotham.github.io/