We are happy to announce the NordicSMC winter school
<https://www.hf.uio.no/ritmo/english/projects/all/nordicsmc/events/conferenc…>,
to be held at the University of Oslo, Norway, 4-8 March 2019.
This is an intensive PhD-level training course on /sound and motion
analysis /with experts in sound and music computing from the Nordic
countries.
About
The winter school will be taught with a combination of traditional and
flipped-classroom methodologies. All participants are expected to follow
the free online course Music Moves
<https://www.futurelearn.com/courses/music-moves> prior to coming to
Oslo. This MOOC lasts for 6 weeks (starting on 21 January) and will
serve as background information for many of the topics dealt with during
the week.
The week in Oslo will comprise a combination of lectures, hands-on
tutorials and a small, team-based research project utilizing the
theories and methods taught during the school.
All students that complete the MOOC, the Oslo programme, and submit a
final written report, will receive a diploma with a recommendation of
being awarded 3 ECTS credits as part of their PhD training.
For Whom
The winter school is primarily intended for PhD students in relevant
fields, but it is also open for advanced Master's students. Students
from the NordicSMC partners will have priority.
Cost
The winter school is /free of charge/ for all participants. Students
from NordicSMC partners can apply for getting travel and accommodation
covered. Other participants have to cover travel and accommodation on
their own.
Participate
To apply for a place in the winter school, please fill in this form
<https://nettskjema.uio.no/answer/104593.html> and upload your CV and a
letter of interest that clearly indicates your motivation and previous
experience with sound and music computing.
*Deadline: 1 December 2018*
Selected participants will be notified by 15 December 2018
More information
Please see the NordicSMC winter school
<https://www.hf.uio.no/ritmo/english/projects/all/nordicsmc/events/conferenc…>
web page for updated information about the programme, teachers, etc. Get
in touch if you have any questions.
Welcome!
--
Alexander Refsum Jensenius, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Department of Musicology, University of Oslo
http://people.uio.no/alexanje/
Deputy Director, RITMO Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies in Rhythm, Time, and Motion
http://www.uio.no/ritmo/
New book: "A NIME Reader"
http://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-319-47214-0
New master's programme: "Music, Communication & Technology"
http://www.uio.no/mct-master/
To pd-announce:
I made a packaging mistake in the Intel Macintosh releases of Pd 0.49-0 -
if you're using that, please grab 0.49-1 which should fix the problem.
Pd 0.49-0 apparently crashes randomly; it's really worth getting the
fixed one.
http://msp.ucsd.edu/software.htm
Pc users or people getting Pd source or via other package managers like
Debian's are not affected by this.
cheers
Miller
(Apologies for cross-postings)
ICAD 2019 --- Call for Submission of Papers and Extended Abstracts
25th International Conference on Auditory Display
Northumbria University, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, UK
23--27 June, 2019
https://icad2019.icad.orghttps://twitter.com/ICAD2019
Theme/Special focus of ICAD 2019: Sonification for Everyday Life.
Digital technology and artificial intelligence are becoming embedded in the objects all around us, from consumer products to the built environment. Everyday life happens where People, Technology, and Place intersect. Our activities and movements are increasingly sensed, digitised and tracked. Of course, the data generated by modern life is a hugely important resource not just for companies who use it for commercial purposes, but it can also be harnessed for the benefit of the individuals it concerns. Sonification research that has hit the news headlines in recent times has often been related to big science done at large publicly funded labs with little impact on the day-to-day lives of people. At ICAD 2019 we want to explore how auditory display technologies and techniques may be used to enhance our everyday lives. From giving people access to what’s going on inside their own bodies, to the human concerns of living in a modern networked and technological city, the range of opportunities for auditory display is wide. The ICAD 2019 committee is seeking papers and extended abstracts that will contribute to knowledge of how sonification can support everyday life.
Important Dates:
- Friday 15th March 2019 - Deadline for submission of full papers.
- Friday 22nd March 2019 - Deadline for submission of extended abstracts.
For details on topics of interest, proposal format, submission instructions, and additional conference information please visit https://icad2019.icad.org/call-for-participation/
Papers Chair:
Tony Stockman
icad2019papers(a)icad.org
Conference Chairs:
Paul Vickers and Matti Gröhn
icad2019chairs(a)icad.org
About ICAD:
First held in 1992, ICAD is a highly interdisciplinary conference with relevance to researchers, practitioners, artists, and graduate students working with sound to convey and explore information. The conference is unique in its specific focus on auditory displays and the range of interdisciplinary issues related to their use. Like its predecessors, ICAD 2019 will be a single-track conference, open to all, with no membership or affiliation requirements.
--
Paul Vickers
Co-chair of ICAD 2019: https://icad2019.icad.org
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Please pardon x-posting:
Virginia Tech is seeking graduate student candidates for a competitive
Institute for Creativity, Arts, and Technology (ICAT) graduate research
assistantship starting with the academic year 2019-20. We are
specifically looking for students who are interested in studying in the
newfound Human-Centered Design (HCD) transdisciplinary individualized
PhD and/or Computer Science's Human-Computer Interaction (HCI). We are
also willing to consider Masters level applicants to the CS program with
focus on HCI. Additional assistantships may be available through the HCD
program.
HCD Option
Virginia Tech's new individualized Human-Centered Design (HCD) iPhD
transdisciplinary degree is closely aligned with the Institute for
Creativity, Arts, and Technology (ICAT). iPhD is a degree designed
primarily to support individually tailored PhD experiences, allowing
students to actively participate in shaping their plan of study.
CS HCI Option
The graduate program in the Department of Computer Science at Virginia
Tech is on its way to becoming one of the top programs in the country.
The resources and facilities for research areas such as human-computer
interaction, bioinformatics, and high-end computing are state of the
art, and the growing list of specialized masters and doctoral degrees in
a variety of areas provides opportunities for students to concentrate
their research and study on the specific aspects of computer science in
which they are most interested. At Virginia Tech, students receive
firsthand instruction by award-winning faculty. In the computer science
department, that means that graduate students have the opportunity to
learn from the professors who have helped to define today's computer
industry. The Center for Human-Computer Interaction is a part of ICAT,
offering a diverse infrastructure and human expertise for cutting-edge
research.
The GAship in question seeks candidates with a solid research background
and aspirations with strong communication skills (verbal and written)
and a sense of independence and self-sufficiency. We are particularly
seeking students interested in sonification, sound spatialization, and
interactive technologies, including (but not limited to) NIMEs,
mind-body technologies, laptop/mobile ensembles,
mobile/wearable/physical computing, etc. Knowledge of Max and
Pd/Pd-L2Ork programming environments, C/C++, Java, or equivalent is
strongly preferred, as well as skills in other domains (e.g. interactive
multimedia, K-12 education, 3D animation, etc.).
This is a renewable assistantship with a full tuition waiver and
a stipend. To be eligible candidates need to apply, be accepted, and
enroll in the new HCD iPhD or the Human-Computer Interaction Computer
Science program with primary focus in the computer music domain focusing
on one or more of the aforesaid areas of interest.
The successful candidate will be given an opportunity to participate in
conducting research using the cutting edge 148+ loudspeaker system and
consequently its innovative spatialization, sonification, and immersion
approaches in the new $100M Moss Arts Center and more specifically
Institute for Creativity, Arts, and Technology's three-story Cube space
and its smaller counterpart, the immersive Perform Studio, as well as
the new DISIS facilities, a part of a $600,000 renovation that opened in
January 2015. They will also work closely with ICAT faculty and
students on a number of collaborative projects.
For questions and application information please contact Dr. Ivica Ico
Bukvic <ico(a)vt.edu>
For more information:
ICAT http://www.icat.vt.edu
L2Ork http://l2ork.icat.vt.edu
HCD http://hcd.icat.vt.edu/
DISIS http://disis.icat.vt.edu
Best,
Ico
--
Ivica Ico Bukvic, D.M.A.
Interim Assoc. Dean, College of Liberal Arts and Human Sciences
Creative Technologies in Music
Director -- DISIS, L2Ork
ICAT Senior Fellow
Virginia Tech
School of Performing Arts – 0141
Blacksburg, VA 24061
(540) 231-6139
ico(a)vt.edu
liberalarts.vt.eduwww.performingarts.vt.edudisis.icat.vt.edul2ork.icat.vt.eduico.bukvic.net
Georgia Tech School of Music
Guthman Musical Instrument Competition
2019 Call for Submissions
Is Now Open!
http://guthman.gatech.edu
Georgia Tech's 2019 Margaret Guthman Musical Instrument Competition is an annual event aimed at identifying the world's next generation of musical instruments and unveiling the best new ideas in musicality, design, engineering, and impact.
The Guardian called the competition "The Pulitzer of the New Instrument World," and The New York Times described the "special, otherworldly sound that you can feel permeating your soul" which became the hallmark of the competition. Fast Company explained how Guthman's "Futuristic Instruments will change how we make music," and the Atlanta Magazine suggests that "at the Guthman Competition, innovative instruments just might predict the future of music."
The Guthman Competition will take place March 8-9, 2019 at Georgia Tech's Ferst Center for the Arts, in Atlanta, Georgia.
The deadline for submissions is October 10, 2018. Approximately twenty semi-finalists will be invited to demonstrate, discuss, and perform with their instruments as they compete for $10,000 in cash prizes.
Submit Your Instrument at: http://guthman.gatech.edu/2019-call-submissions-0
///////////////////////////////////////////////////
:::: This Year's Judges ::::
PAMELA Z - Composer, Performer, and Media Artist
ROGER LINN - Electronic Musical Instrument Designer
GE WANG - Associate Professor, CCRMA, Stanford University
///////////////////////////////////////////////////
To learn more about the competition,
visit guthman.gatech.edu or https://www.facebook.com/guthmancompetition
We’d love to hear your comments!
Hi, two related announcements! I've Finished translating the vol. 2 of my
Live Electronics Tutorial to English, with now 323 examples!
https://github.com/porres/Live-Electronics-Tutorial - It already relies on
the (still in test phase) 0.49-0 release of Pure Data (though 99% will work
in 48). Anyway, vol. 2 is where things gets a little serious... there's FFT
stuff and I really like my take on filters (folder "29").
I hope this becomes a relevant tutorial for Pd. Let me know what you think.
Next plan is to write a book where these are the examples. This is a very
special announcement for me as I've been working on this for 10 years now
and I'm happy to make it available in english. Not only that, but to
finally port it out of Pd Extended and into Vanilla!
Porting to Vanilla relies heavily and extensively in the ELSE library, and
this is where most of my work has been put recently, in order to port this
out of Extended. This brings us to the next announcement: I have a new
release that it relies on, Beta 12! Find it on deken (pd => Help => Find
Externals). See https://github.com/porres/pd-else/releases/tag/v1.0-beta12
for details. Newer additions to the tutorial now depend on developments of
ELSE.
The last release was a couple of weeks ago but I'm really proud of the
advancements I made. I'd like to highlight the additions to [envgen~], you
really should check it out, it's a very powerful and versatile envelope
generator. I still wanna allow for exponential curves, maybe next time. This
release of ELSE also already relies on Pd 0.49, but works for the most part
with 0.48.
cheers