Events

Next SMPC Conference:

Society for Music Perception & Cognition (August 8-11, 2013; Toronto, Ontario, Canada). It is our pleasure to announce that the 2013 SMPC Conference will be held at Ryerson University in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. We thank Frank Russo (Ryerson University), who is serving as conference chair, and Michael Schutz (McMaster University), who is serving as program chair. Further information about the conference will be sent to SMPC members as soon as it is available. In the meantime, please mark your calendars. Judging from the excellent conference proposal, we can look forward to an exciting meeting in 2013!

Upcoming Events:

Segregation and Integration in Music and Language (February 23-24, 2012; Tübingen, Germany) - The workshop aims at all PhD-students, postdocs and researchers who are interested in the neural mechanisms of music and language processing, especially those which might be shared by or separated in both modalities. It will cover the three areas of auditory processing: music, language and non-speech signals. Submission deadline has passed. Visit website for details: http://www.simal2012.de/

Midwest Graduate Music Consortium (March 2-3, 2012; Evanston, IL) - The 16th annual meeting will be held on the campus of Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois, and will include paper sessions, a concert of new music, and a keynote address. MGMC 2012 is jointly sponsored by the Bienen School of Music and The Graduate School of Northwestern University. The program committee invites all graduate and advanced undergraduate students to submit proposals for papers related to ethnomusicology, historical musicology, music theory and analysis, music cognition, music education, performance practice or any other topic concerning the study and practice of music. We particularly welcome interdisciplinary work. Deadline for abstracts has passed. Visit website for details: http://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/node/42805

Music, Mind, and Invention: Creativity at the Intersection of Music and Computation (March 30-31, 2012; New Jersey) - The Music, Mind, and Invention Workshop will take place at The College of New Jersey. Its purpose will be to explore the rich interconnections between music, cognition, computation, and creativity, addressing themes such as: creativity across disciplines, ways of thinking about music, and music as a medium for improvement. The workshop will feature a keynote address by Marvin Minsky, invited talks by Noam Elkies, Tod Machover, and Dmitri Tymoczko, panel discussions, and presentations of peer-reviewed papers and creative work. Submissions that present novel theories, late-breaking results, and new ways of addressing unresolved questions are welcome. Special efforts will be made to recruit submissions and reviewers from a broad range of disciplines. Deadline for submission of abstracts and creative work: January 8, 2012. The workshop will be open to the public. For more information, visit the event website: http://www.tcnj.edu/~mmi

SysMus12 (May 24th-26th, 2012) The Universite de Montreal's faculty of music and the Observatoire Interdisciplinaire de Creation et de Recherche en Musique (OICRM) will play host to the Fifth International Student Conference on Systematic Musicology (SysMus12). Organized by graduate students, the SysMus conference allows young researchers in systematic musicology at the masters and doctoral levels to present their work in the form of papers, poster sessions and online publications (https://sites.google.com/site/sysmusconference/). This conference also provides attendees with the opportunity to hear papers by four internationally-renown specialists, and to meet colleagues from around the world who share the same interests.

Graduate students are encouraged to submit a proposal in English (maximum 2 pages) for either a formal paper or a poster session.

Proposals will be evaluated by an international committee made up of doctoral and post-doctoral students representing an array of fields of investigation within systematic musicology. Since proposals will be evaluated anonymously, the author=92s name, address, and institutional affiliation should appear *only* in the body of the email. Submission deadline has passed.

"Music, Mind, and Brain" (May 24th-27th, 2012; Chicago, IL) Call for submissions for the Music, Mind, and Brain poster session at 2012 APS Convention.

Music and the Moving Image VII (June 1-3, 2012; NYU Steinhardt, NY) - The annual conference, Music and the Moving Image, encourages submissions from scholars and practitioners that explore the relationship between music, sound, and the entire universe of moving images (film, television, video games, iPod, computer, and interactive performances) through paper presentations. Abstracts or synopses of papers (250 words) should be submitted by Dec. 16, 2011. Visit website for details: http://steinhardt.nyu.edu/music/scoring/conference/

9th International Symposium on Computer Music Modeling and Retrieval (CMMR) "Music and Emotions" (June 19-22nd, 2012; Queen Mary University of London) - CMMR 2012 is jointly organized by the Centre for Digital Music (QMUL) and the CNRS - Laboratoire de Mecanique et d'Acoustique (France). CMMR is an interdisciplinary conference involving fields such as computer science, engineering, information retrieval, human computer interaction, digital libraries, hypermedia, artificial intelligence, acoustics, audio and music signal processing, musicology, music perception and cognition, neuroscience, as well as music composition and performance.

The CMMR 2012 website is now online at: http://www.cmmr2012.eecs.qmul.ac.uk/

Submission deadline for papers (short, long), demo proposals, panel proposals, and music: February 1, 2012

ICPMC 2012 (July 23-28, 2012; Thessaloniki, Greece) – 12th International Conference on Music Perception and Cognition (ICMPC), 8th Triennial Conference of the European Society for the Cognitive Sciences of Music (ESCOM). The conference is organized by the Department of Music Studies, School of Fine Arts, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, and the European Society for the Cognitive Sciences of Music. Papers are invited that report empirical and theoretical research that contributes to a better understanding of how music is perceived, represented and generated. Please note that online submissions are now accepted. Visit the website for details: http://icmpc-escom2012.web.auth.gr/

 

Past Events:

'Power of Music' (November 30 - December 3, 2011; Western Australia) – the 34th National Conference of the Musicological Society of Australia and the 2nd International Conference on Music and Emotion, The University of Western Australia, Perth. Submission deadline has passed.

BrainBeat: Recent Neuroscience on Music's Therapeutic and Rehabilitative Potential (December 9, 2011; New York, NY) – This workshop is hosted by the Italian Academy for Advanced Studies in America at Columbia University in cooperation with the Department of Music, bringing together neuroscientists from the New York area and beyond to present their research and methodological approach from a broad, interdisciplinary perspective. Scientists in the field of neuroscience will present and discuss frontiers in music- and rhythm-related perception, cognition, rehabilitation, and neural plasticity. Featuring talks by Gyorgy Buzsaki, Steven Frucht, John Iversen, Lutz Jancke, Nina Kraus, Isabelle Peretz, Gottfried Schlaug, Sarah Woolley, and Robert Zatorre. For more information visit the event website: http://www.italianacademy.columbia.edu/brainbeat.html

Cleveland Music and Medicine Symposium (October 22, 2011; Cleveland, OH) – The Center for Music and Medicine of University Hospitals Case Medical Center and Case Western Reserve University presents the second annual Cleveland Music and Medicine Symposium. This day-long symposium features a renowned panel of experts who will discuss the underlying neurological foundations of musical perception, performance and cognition, and explore the fascinating intersection of music and the brain and music and health. Presenters include renowned music therapist Deforia Lane, PhD, and Isabelle Peretz, PhD. For more information on the symposium please visit: http://clevelandneurocriticalcare.com/2nd-annual-cleveland-music-and-medicine-symposium

McMaster Institute for Music and the Mind:

- 'Can You Feel It? Sensorimotor Interactions in Music' (November 5, 2011, Hamilton, Ontario) All-day scientific symposium with Jessica Grahn, Peter Pfordresher and Frank Russo. For more information on the daytime workshop please visit this website. There will also be an

- Evening lecture/concert on musical meaning with Stefan Koelsch. (November 5, 2011, Hamilton, Ontario) Please visit the event website for details.

SysMus11 - Fourth International Conference of Students of Systematic Musicology (October 5-7, 2011, Institute of Musicology, Cologne, Germany) Submission deadline has passed. For more information please contact Julia Wewers (julia-wewers @ gmx.de), visit the SysMus11 homepage or the SysMus conference series website.

Society for Music Perception & Cognition (August 11-14, 2011; Rochester, NY). The conference committee will be chaired by Betsy Marvin and David Temperley; the program committee will be chaired by Peter Pfordresher. Please visit the website for details: http://www.esm.rochester.edu/smpc2011/.

The Third International Conference on Mathematics and Computation in Music (MCM 2011), June 15-17, 2011 at IRCAM, the Institute for Research and Coordination of Acoustics and Music in Paris, France. We welcome original and high quality contributions – including research papers, invited sessions or panels and tutorials – in all areas related to the mission of the Society of Mathematics and Computation in Music (see http://www.smcm-net.info/).

Exploring the Mind Through Music, Rice Univ., June 13-17, 2011

The Neurosciences & Music IV (June 9-12, 2011; Edinburgh, Scotland) The central theme of Music and Neurosciences IV will be Learning and Memory. Please visit the conference website for details.

The Autistic Mind, Music, and The Brain (March 22, 2011, Recital Hall, Purchase College SUNY) A symposium that explores recent research on enhancing cognitive functioning through music.

Music, Science, and Medicine: Frontiers in Biomedical Research and Clinical Applications (March 25, 2011; NYAS conference center, NY) Hosted by the New York Academy of Sciences (NYAS) this multidisciplinary 1-day conference aims at exploring the connection between up-to-date scientific findings and their possible application to clinical music and physiological function.

Symposium on Music and Memory (March 4-5; Stanford University, CA) For information and registration please see: http://musicandthebrain.stanford.edu

Crossing the Corpus Callosum II: Neuroscience, Healing and Music (January 29, 2011; Cambridge, MA) Poster submissions are invited for Longwood Symphony Orchestra's day-long symposium on neuroscience, healing and music. The symposium will take place on January 29, 2011, 8:30-5 at the Northwest Building at Harvard University, 52 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA, 02138.

We welcome any research involving the intersection of basic or clinical neuroscience with music from disciplines including, but not limited to: neuroscience, neurology, cognitive science, psychology, psychiatry, physical therapy and rehabilitation, music therapy, music theory, and other areas.

Universals in Music (December 3-4, 2010; Aix-en-Provence, France). 1st International Colloquium on Universals in Music: Data, issues, perspectives, held at the University of Provence.

Musicognition International Conference 2010 (December 3-4, 2010; Macau). Submission deadline for abstracts has passed.

Society for Music Theory (November 4-7, 2010; Indianapolis, IN)

Auditory Perception, Cognition and Action Meeting (Thursday, November 18, 2010; St. Louis, MO). The 9th annual Auditory Perception, Cognition and Action Meeting (APCAM) will be held just prior to the Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society. The goal of APCAM is to bring together researchers from various theoretical perspectives to present focused research on auditory cognition, perception, and aurally guided action. Submission deadline for abstracts has passed.

McMaster Institute for Music and the Mind Annual Events:

- Integrated Lecture/Concert with Dr. Aniruddh D. Patel (November 19, 2010; Hamilton, ON)

- All-Day Scientific Workshop: Music Cognition, Language and Thought with Aniruddh D. Patel, E. Glenn Schellenberg, William F. Thompson and Isabelle Peretz (November 20, 2010; Hamilton, ON)

Music and the Sciences of the Mind (November 19-20, 2010; Brussels). International Colloquium hosted by the European Society for the Cognitive Sciences of Music, in collaboration with l'Académie Royale de Belgique.

Music in Medicine and Therapy (November 4-6, 2010; Krems/Danube, Austria). Poster submission deadline has passed.

Northeast Music Cognition Group (October 23, 2010; Boston, MA). We invite you to participate in the third meeting of the Northeast Music Cognition Group (NEMCOG). The meeting will be hosted by the Berklee College of Music's Department of Music Therapy and Division of Music Technology.