April 2016 - News!

AIRS News  

• World Voice Day  Saturday April 16th, 2016.   Johan Sundberg, a member of AIRS,  encourages members of AIRS to organize and participate in events highlighting the voice on World Voice Day.  Please submit your event  to the website and represent AIRS in this global initiative.  Last year Frank Russo had a public concert of one of his research choirs.  This sets a great precedent. Its an opportunity to tell the community about your work and put your  vocal research or performance on the map  - literally, (check out the web-site) .   Timing of your event can be around  April 16th, just as long as World Voice Day is acknowledged.
  

• Two AIRS Symposia have been accepted for presentation at the International Conference on Music Perception and Cognition (ICMPC14) which will take place in July 2016, in San Francisco.  Symposium 1 is on Singing and Development.  Symposium 2 is on The Benefits of Choral  Singing.
  

• An AIRS Symposia and an AIRS Workshop have been accepted for presentation at the Biennial Conference of the International Society of Music Education (ISME) which will take place  later in the month of July 2016, in Glasgow.  The Symposia is on Cross-Cultural Understanding through Singing in Schools and the Workshop is on the AIRS Test Battery of Singing Skills.   Stay tuned for more information about these events and more!
  

• AIRS Digital Library is now available for browsing, searching, and uploading of AIRS Project research over the past seven years. Check out the link on AIRS Home Page to the Digital Library Index page. Students who wish to upload research material to the AIRS Digital Library need to contact AIRS Administration to obtain rights to do so.  Current AIRS members do already have such rights.  Please see the DL Index Page for links to helpful video tutorials about ingesting to and searching material in the Digital Library.
  

• Laura Cirelli has been awarded a SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellowship to work with Sandra Trehub (AIRS 1.2 Sub-theme leader , Multimodal aspects of Singing Development) at the University of  Toronto. They will be investigating mother-infant vocal interactions.  Laura has been conducting her doctoral research on rhythmic synchronization and musical entrainment from a developmental perspective under the supervision of AIRS member  Laurel Trainor, Director of the McMaster Institute of Music and Mind.  Congratulations  Laura, Sandra, and Laurel!
  

• Catherine Stevens,  of the AIRS Advisory Board and MARCS Institute of the University of Western Sydney has  accepted the position of next Editor-in-Chief of the journal Music Perception,  following  the dedicated service in this role by Lola Cuddy for over a decade.   Kate will begin to receive manuscripts in 2017.   Congratulations Kate!
   
  

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• Student Opportunity:   Competition ACRI - Young Investigator Training Program for 13 investigators (under 40).  Topic: Aesthetics of Emotions - Arts and Cognitive Science.  LINK
  

• World Voice Day  Saturday April 16th, 2016.   Johan Sundberg, a member of AIRS,  encourages members of AIRS to organize and participate in events highlighting the voice on World Voice Day.  Please submit your event  to the website and represent AIRS in this global initiative.  In Charlottetown, a  program will include reports from honours students on song memory and singing research projects, a brief overview of the AIRS project, and a short concert  by a sub-group University Multicultural Choir and Song Circle will  take place.   Its an opportunity to tell the community about your work and put your  vocal research or performance on the map  - literally.