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with fresh valuable material
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[Apologies for cross-posting]

Dear Colleagues,

As part of the Laudare ERC project, we are conducting a research
focused on computational musicology. Our specific aim is to identify
current gaps and understand the needs within the existing suite of
tools available for researchers. [...]

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Dear All,

I am looking for African, Black British and Caribbean participants aged 50-60 years to take part in a 20-minute survey on musical preferences. Many thanks for taking part! [...]

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Dear all,

The School of Music in the University of Leeds invites applications for two PhD scholarships from prospective postgraduate researchers who wish to commence study for a PhD in the academic year 2025/26. [...]

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Dear List, please forward to anyone who may be interested in this post.

I would particularly like to encourage applications from under-represented groups in our area, including women, people from Black, Asian and minority ethnic groups and people with disabilities. [...]

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Dear All,

The Third International Conference on Computational and Cognitive
Musicology (ICCCM 2025) will take place at Aalborg University, Denmark, on
October 8–10, 2025. Following editions in Athens (2023) and Utrecht
(2024), ICCCM 2025 invites researchers to explore the intersection of
musicology, computational methods and cognitive science in advancing our
understanding of music and musical processes. [...]

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[sent on behalf of the Musical Care International Network]

We are delighted to report that a call for papers for the Special Collection “Interdisciplinary and intercultural perspectives on musical care” is up on the Music & Science journal website:
https://journals.sagepub.com/topic/collections-mns/mns-1-special_collection_interdisciplinary?journalCode=mns [...]

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From: Alastair Owens <a.j.owens@qmul.ac.uk>
Date: Thursday, 10 April 2025 at 10:10
Subject: AHRC PhD studentship: Soundscapes of domesticity: music and lived experiences in non-elite English homes, 1780–1870
Dear all, [...]

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As our material progresses, this is just a reminder every now and then.
To access information regarding IFORS Developing Countries resources, its regular updates – and to submit your possible “free” (not copyright protected) material, you may occasionally visit the link: [...]

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Dear Music and Science List, (Apologies for cross-posting!)

Please see a 3-year Research Fellow opportunity below. Please feel free to forward to anyone who may be interested. Thank you! [...]

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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 [...]

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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. [...]

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

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The annual spring conference of SEMPRE, the Society for Education, Music and Psychology Research, is taking place at the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester on Wednesday 9 and Thursday 10 April 2025. [...]

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

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[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. [...]

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*The London International Piano Symposium **Researching at the Interface
Between **Science and the Art of Piano Performance*

After the success of the first edition of /Rethinking Piano
Performance:The Mindful Body,/ we are pleased to present the second
edition:/Rethinking Piano Performance: The Embodied Mind/. This second
edition is enhanced by a cooperation with the Antonio Damasio ―
Professor of Neuroscience, Psychology & Philosophy, and the director of
the Brain and Creativity Institute, University [...]

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As our material progresses, this is just a reminder every now and then.
To access information regarding IFORS Developing Countries resources, its regular updates – and to submit your possible “free” (not copyright protected) material, you may occasionally visit the link: [...]

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Dear All,

I am recruiting for those aged 35 years and over who identify as African, Black British and Caribbean to take part in a 15-20 min short online survey on musical preferences : https://westminsterpsych.az1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_8vMraVsDErWPBY2 [...]

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ICME2025-Audio-Encoder-Challenge<https://dataoceanai.github.io/ICME2025-Audio-Encoder-Challenge/>
https://dataoceanai.github.io/ICME2025-Audio-Encoder-Challenge/
The IEEE International Conference on Multimedia & Expo (ICME) 2025 Audio Encoder Capability Challenge
Overview
The ICME 2025 Audio Encoder Capability Challenge, hosted by Xiaomi, University of Surrey, and Dataocean AI, aims to rigorously evaluate audio encoders in real-world downstream tasks.
This challenge imposes NO restrictions on model size or the scale of training data, and training based on existing pre-trained models is allowed.
Participants are invited to submit pre-trained [...]