August 22, 2010, 1:00 – 3:30  (subject to change).

Note: The AIRS Annual meeting begins at 8:15 for breakfast at the Watertown Hotel. The formal program begins at 9:00. The discussion of the research of AIRS takes place in the morning. The technical program below then follows for 2.5 hours. Further trans-theme discussions then take place, with a concluding plenary wrap up and vision for the future. Following Dinner, there is a concert.

Theme 1  Singing and Development

Note: ORAL PRESENTATION are Lightning Talks and no longer than 12-15 minutes.

Presenters: please send power points in advance to jmlane@upei.ca to facilitate smooth transition from paper to paper.

1.1  Perception and production – Inter-relations

• Preference for natural singing voice in pitch-matching and sound

Yohana Leveque  (Aix-en-Provence-France) & Daniele Schön (CNRS-France) yohana.leveque@gmail.com

Posters

• Development of singing: A critical review and directions for future research

Rayna H.  Friendly   & Laurel Trainor (Department of Psychology, Neuroscience and Behavior, McMaster University  friendr@mcmaster.ca

• Pitch perception processes underlying singing ability

Amy Fancourt   (Goldsmiths, University of London)  &  Fred Dick (Department of Psychological Sciences, Birkbeck College, University of London),  & Lauren Stewart (Department of Psychology, Goldsmiths, University of London)  a.fancourt@gmail.com

1.2  Multimodal (audio, visual, and motor)

• Influence of infants on maternal speech and singing

Judy Plantinga (University of Toronto), Sandra E. Trehub (University of Toronto/BRAMS), Frank Russo (Ryerson University. Toronto) judy.plantinga@utoronto.ca

Poster

• On the importance of visual aspects of performance in vocal pedagogy

Lisa Chan (Department of Psychology, Ryerson University), Darryl Edwards (Faculty of Music, University of Toronto) & Frank Russo (Department of Psychology, Ryerson University) lisa.chan@psych.ryerson.ca

1.3  AIRS Test Battery

• The AIRS Test Battery in Estonia

Marju Raju  (Estonian Academy of Music and Theater)    marju.raju@gmail.com

Theme 2  Singing and Education – Teaching singing and using singing to teach

2.1   Learning to sing naturally

• Theoretical, methodological, and empirical considerations in singing

Stefanie Stadler Elmer  (University of Zurich Switzerland) Stefanie.stadler@access.uzh.ch

• Pitches and rhythms in songs of Brazilian children

Beatriz Ilari & Vivian Agnolo Barbosa Federal University of Parana  beatrizilari@yahoo.ca

Poster

• Accent on music in the study of children’s musical cultures.

Megan Perdue & Patricia Shehan Campbell ( School of Music, University of Washington)  megan.perdue@gmail.com

2.2   Teaching singing in  formal settings including focus on lifespan

• Intonation in SATB vocal ensembles

Johanna Devaney , Jonathan Wild, Peter Schubert, & Ichiro Fujinaga ( Schulich  School of Music, Mcgill University, Singing and Education) johanna.devaney@mail.mcgill.ca

• How do singers manage vowels in relation to the laryngeal mechanism? An acoustic and linguistic inquiry.

Sylvain Lamesch,  Michèle Castellengo, Boris Doval, & Luiza Maxim  LAM-IJLRA, Paris lamesch@lam.jussieu.fr

• “Guru-sishya parampara ”: a cross-cultural examination of vocal pedagogical method in North India (Demonstration and explanation)

Hans Utter  (Ohio State University) and Utpola Borah  utpola@yahoo.com

2.3  Teaching through singing

Posters

• Singing voice and phonetic acquisition (poster)

Sandra Cornaz  (GIPSA Lab, Grenoble & Turin, University, Italy) , Nathalie Vallée (CNRS Dept. 34), & Nathalie Henrich (GIPSA Lab  Department of Language Sciences, University Grenoble),  &   scornaz@gmail.com

• Can we teach vocabulary  to preschoolers via singing? And more

Jennifer Sullivan (Psychology Department, St. Francis Xavier University, Antigonish, Nova Scotia) jfsulliv@stfx.ca

Theme 3  Singing and Well-being

3.1  Singing and Well-being:  Cross-cultural Understanding

• An exploration of the learning and performance practices of song and dance in cross-cultural contexts

Dr. Andrea Emberly & Professor Jane Davidson (University of Western Australia, Perth) andrea.emberly@uwa.edu.au

3.2 Singing and Well-being: Intergenerational Understanding

Poster

• Developing an intergenerational singing program

Zheng Zhang & Rachel Heydon (Faculty of Education, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario)

3.3  Singing and Well-being: Health

• Group singing, wellbeing and health: A systematic review. 

Stephen Clift (Sidney De Haan Research Centre for Arts and Health, UK ),  Jennifer J. Nicol (University of Saskatchewan), Matthew Raisbeck (Sing for Your Life Ltd, UK), Christine Whitmore (Public Health Directorate, NHS Eastern and Coastal Kent, UK), Ian Morrison (Sidney De Haan Research Centre for Arts and Health, UK)  Jennifer.nicol@usask.ca

• Using singing to speak after stroke

Dawn Merrett  (University of Melbourne¹, Florey Neurosciences Institutes², BRAMS³), Isabelle Peretz (³ & Université de Montréal), Grame Jackson^(1,2), & Sarah Wilson ^(1,2) dawnmerrett@gmail.com

Poster

• Mama Music: Promoting health and harmony in the lives of adolescent mothers and their infants with singing

Jean Emmerson (University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon) jean.emmerson@usask.ca

4.  Digital Library

• Building intelligent web-based audio tools for interacting with large collections of audio: Cantillion and Orchive

George Tzanetakis (Department of Computer Science, University of Victoria,  Victoria, BC) gtzan@cs.uvic.ca

• Short Introduction to the PARIDISEC database

Kate Stevens,  MARCS, University of Western Sydney kj.stevens@uws.edu.au

5. Stakeholders

• The Vancouver International Song Institute –  A nexus for change

Rena Sharon (UBC/VISI)  rena.sharon@ubc.ca