This conference will bring together leading researchers, teachers, and practitioners from different areas of music and emotion. A series of invited keynote addresses and peer-reviewed proposals will explore the ways in which emotion is encoded and mediated through musical sounds and structures, and investigate how musical emotion is conceptualised, modelled and measured.

The aim of this conference is to promote a dialogue between individuals and groups working in disparate fields related to music and emotion in order to more effectively share concepts, definitions, and methodologies, as well as technical and practical knowledge across disciplinary boundaries.

This conference follows previous Music & Emotion conferences held in Durham, UK (2009) and Perth, Australia (2011).

Re-posted from http://www.sheffield.ac.uk/music/research/mmm/mmmsummerschool/index

What phenomenological experiences are connected to musical engagement and understanding and how do these experiences vary with background and listening context? What faculties underlie musical understanding and how are these reflected in neuroscientific and psychological findings?

This summer school will investigate musical understanding from philosophical, psychological and neuroscientific perspectives and will address the raised questions through presentations, discussions, reading groups, and analysis of empirical work conducted before and during the summer school. The aim of the school is to provide an opportunity to engage with cutting edge research, interact with leading academics, and participate actively in debate, research design, analysis and presentation.

The summer school is likely to appeal to graduate students wishing to pursue an academic career in Psychology of Music. The summer school will help students to gain advanced research experience and training in a short period of time and to develop and demonstrate academic opinions and skills within a supportive environment of peers.

There will be place for maximally 30 students. Applications will be open until 14 March, 2013. To apply, please fill out the application form including a letter of motivation and an abstract for a poster presentation (both up to 500 words) and send this to Andrea Schiavio (e-mail: MMM_SummerSchool@sheffield.ac.uk).

Registration for the Summer School will be open from the 9th of April 2013. The full programme will be published on the website by that time.

The speakers and lecturers of the summer school will include:
Prof. Tuomas Eerola (University of Jyväskylä)
Dr. Katie Overy (University of Edinburgh)
Prof. Corrado Sinigaglia (University of Milan)
Dr. Nicola Dibben & Dr. Renee Timmers (University of Sheffield)

The University of Sheffield
Department of Music, Music Mind Machine research centre

Organisers: Andrea Schiavio, Yuko Arthurs, Stephanie Bramley, and Theresa Veltri.

Academic advisors: Dr. Nicola Dibben and Dr. Renee Timmers.

Excerpted fromhttp://www.speech.kth.se/smac-smc-2013 :

Sound Science, Sound Experience

During the past five decades, the domain of Music Acoustics has widened from studies of the acoustics of musical instruments and voice, including basic elements of musical perception and performance, to investigations of how humans experience and interact with sounds and music. Increasingly, the knowledge is put into industrial, societal and psychological perspectives. The age-old dream of bridging science and art has found new and bountiful ground in the field of Sound and Music Computing.

Description re-posted from http://www.speech.kth.se/smac-smc-2013/summerschool.html

Sound Science, Sound Experience

During the past five decades, the domain of Music Acoustics has widened from studies of the acoustics of musical instruments and voice, including basic elements of musical perception and performance, to investigations of how humans experience and interact with sounds and music. Increasingly, the knowledge is put into industrial, societal and psychological perspectives. The age-old dream of bridging science and art has found new and bountiful ground in the field of Sound and Music Computing.

The main theme for the Sound and Music Computing Summer School 2013 is "Music and Emotion".

The school will include lectures by:

Prof. Mari Tervaniemi, Institute of Behavioural Sciences, University of Helsinki, Finland
Topic: Music therapy

Bruno L Giordano, University of Glasgow, UK
Topics: Evaluation methods in sonic interaction / Brain imaging and perception of sound

Prof. Tuomas Eerola, Department of Music, University of Jyväskylä, Finland
Topic: Music and emotion

Dr Emilia Gomez, UPF, Barcelona, Spain
Topic: Music information retrieval (MIR) / Music avatars

Anders Friberg, KTH School of Computer Science and Communication, SMC group
Topic: MIR / Emotions

Ylva Fernaeus and Vasiliki Tsaknaki, KTH School of Computer Science and Communication, IxD group (TO BE CONFIRMED)
Topic: Interaction design / Smart interfaces

Kjetil Falkenberg Hansen, KTH School of Computer Science and Communication, SMC group
Topic: Music and sound interaction, and special needs

Projects Students attending the summer school will work in groups of about 5 people on a project in the fields of Music Information Retrieval (MIR) and/or music interaction. Tools used during the school will include motion capture systems, brain activity scanning devices, specialized toolkits and SDKs.

If you are:

• enrolled in a PhD program in design, computer science, media technology, engineering, psychology, music technology, or computer music,
• desiring to learn more about music and the brain, music and emotion, music information retrieval, and music and interaction,
• eager to explore the potential of music in the design of new interactive applications based on emotions,
• interested in the development of new methods and models for music information retrieval,
• work under the guidance of expert instructors and tutors,
• excited about the inspiring and interdisciplinary environment of KTH in Stockholm,

then please consider participating to the summer school by emailing a CV, a letter of interest that clearly indicates your motivation, previous experience with music and emotion research, and your expectations from this school, all in PDF, to Roberto Bresin roberto at kth.se , with the text “SMC2013SummerSchool” included in your subject, latest by Sunday April 14th, 2013.

Maximum 20 selected participants will be notified by April 21th, 2013.

The cost of attending the summer school, including lectures, training sessions, laboratory material, lunches and coffee breaks is 200€.

The summer school will include a visit to the exhibition “From Sound to Emotion” at Tom Tits Experiment, previously exhibited at the Montreal Science Centre.
The best project realized during the summer school will be exhibited at “From Sound to Emotion”.