Hosted by the Centre for Digital Music at the QMUL Mile End Campus.
The first themed research event of LIMRI will be an afternoon workshop that explores the many ways we can understand expert performance in music. Bringing together researchers and practitioners from fields including performance science, design engineering, music computing, and recording practices, the event will invite diverse perspectives on how musical expertise is developed, expressed, studied, captured, and modelled.
The workshop will include 5 talks and a panel discussion, followed by an informal reception and networking.
Invited speakers
Schedule
Description of the four talks can be found here.
On the day practicalities
The talks and panel will take place in the David Sizer Lecture Theatre, which is located on the ground floor of the Bancroft Building (#31 on campus map).
There will be no catering for refreshments and coffee/tea during the short breaks between the talks and panel. All attendees can use the Ground Cafe (#33 on campus map) or the Graduate Centre Foyer cafe (#18 on campus map, there’s a small chance it might be closed), paying with regular bank card, both at a minute’s walk from the workshop space (TBC).
The reception and networking will take place in spaces of the C4DM Studios (#15 on campus map). Some drinks (non-alcoholic and alcoholic) and snacks will be provided, courtesy of C4DM. Thank you!
We will not be making lanyards for the occasion. We take the view that single-use lanyards are simply awful. You get this piece of plastic, can’t return it, can’t re-use, and can’t recycle it. Why not bring a lanyard from your own institution, or from a recent conference. Call it a conversation starter! QMUL members will be wearing their lanyards (blue or multi-colour strap), so we should be easy to identify.
Organising team
Royal Academy of Music
Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance
Is your lab missing? Let us know [c.saitis@qmul.ac.uk]!
]]>We are witnessing a fast-changing research landscape with the advent of deep learning and other data-centric methods applied to ever growing list of domains we used to consider the preserve of humans alone. Within this context, it is sometimes difficult to distinguish between genuine breakthroughs, over excited reporting, and hyped-up marketing. The aim of this panel, which launches the London Interdisciplinary Music Research Initiative, is to stimulate discussion on current frontiers in music research with emphasis on interdisciplinary approaches. What are the questions we should be asking and aren’t? How can we facilitate cross-disriplinary and interdisciplinary research to address those questions? And how might local networks such as DMRN and LIMRI support individuals to navigate these challenges?
The panel includes:
The idea for LIMRI began over (very affordable) soup and sandwiches at King’s earlier this year, when Oded (Kingston University London), Mark (King’s College London), Diana (Goldsmiths, University of London), and Charis (Queen Mary University of London) agreed it was time to make it happen. There had been earlier discussions between Mark and C4DM about the future of the Digital Music Research Network, and between Oded and Charis about the lack of/need for some cross-institutional infrastructure to enable collaborative and interdisciplinary work in music research and innovation. An earlier attempt in this direction can be found in the Institute of Musical Research hosted first at the School of Advanced Studies and later supported by the Music Department at Royal Holloway, University of London.
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