REMONETISING THE RELATIONSHIP
MERRY-GO-ROUND - Announcements
CALLING ALL MANAGERS
Anna George, a BA Hons Arts Management student at Leeds University is looking for some help with a short questionnaire to help her complete her dissertation - 'Achieving Artist-Longevity Through Effective Management'.
Music Management has only recently been available for study at University at BA Hons level and access to information has been limited. Determined to make an impact in this chosen field, any help would be greatly appreciated. Please contact:
DIGITAL MUSIC RESEARCH NETWORK SUMMER CONFERENCE - CALL FOR PAPERS
Hosted by Leeds Metropolitan University, this year the DMRN Summer Conference (6th-8th July) will run in association with the Sonic Art Meeting Group. This collaboration will promote the integration of arts and science-based disciplines including those directed at sonic art performance.
Contributions invited, addressing the following topics:
- Sound synthesis
- Audio analysis
- Signal processing tools
- Music data structures and representations
- Human computer interfacing for music and audio
- Digital music content generation
- Musicology, analysis and performance
- Aesthetic approaches to compositional practice
- Psychoacoustics, perception, cognition of music and audio
Submissions will initially take the form of an abstract of between 300- 500 words. Authors will be invited to present their work either by oral presentation (20 minutes) or as a poster. The conference committee will decide this allocation; however, authors may specify a preference when submitting their abstract.
Please include contact details and list affiliated institutions whereapplicable. Successful contributors will be notified by Monday 7th May 2007.
Abstracts should be e-mailed no later than Monday 23rd April 2007, to:
MUSIC, SOUND AND THE MOVING IMAGE - CALL FOR PAPERS
Music, Sound, and the Moving Image is the first international scholarly journal devoted to the study of the interaction between music and sound with the entirety of moving image media - film, television, music video, advertising, computer games, mixed-media installation, digital art, VJ-ing, et alia.
Published by Liverpool University Press and co-edited by Anahid Kassabian(University of Liverpool) and Ian Gardiner (Goldsmiths, University of London), the journal is intended to be truly interdisciplinary, inviting contributions from across a range of critical methodologies, to include musicology and music analysis, film studies, popular music studies, cultural theory, aesthetics, sociology, marketing, sound studies, and music psychology.
Issue 1 will be published in Spring / Summer 2007.
Call For Papers: The journal is published twice a year, and articles (5,000-10,000 words) are invited on a continuous basis for editorial consideration and peer review. Style guidelines are available from the editorial addresses below. MSMI is also committed to publishing English translations of important articles from other languages. Proposals for translations are welcome and should include the name of the proposed translator and the willingness to seek permission - we are also interested in receiving recommendations of works that should be translated.
Deadline for Issue 2: June 22, 2007.
ALSO: articles are invited for two special themed issues, to be published 2008/2009.
Editorial enquiries: journal(a)liv.ac.uk
Books for review and review enquiries: holly.rogers(a)cantab.net
