Program for August 22nd AIRS Annual Meeting -(update Aug 20)

AIRS 2nd Annual Meeting - August 22, 2010

 

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8:00 – 9:00      Breakfast – Watertown Hotel and registration, pick up materials and name tag

                        Posters can be placed

 

9:00 – 9:15      Welcome, introductions, and group singing, goals of the meeting

                                    Possible connection with Advisory Board Members Dr. Hilary Apfelstadt and  Dr. Philip Smith

 

9:15 – 11:00     AIRS overview – Director’s overview (10 minutes)

                        9: 25  Theme 1: Frank Russo (5 minutes)

                                    1.1,  1.2, 1.3 (presented by sub-theme leaders 7 minutes each – total 20 min)

                                                Laurel Trainor & Christine Tsang (1.1)

                                                Sandra Trehub & Frank Russo (1.2)

                                                Annabel Cohen (1.3)

                                    Discussion – 5 min

                        9:55  Theme 2:  Patricia Campbell (5 minutes)

                                    2.1, 2.2, 2.3 (sub-theme leaders – total  20 minutes)

                                                Patricia Campbell (2.1 and 2.2 for Darryl Edwards)

                                                Rena Sharon (2.2 for Darryl Edwards and VISI)

                                                Jennifer Sullivan (2.3)

                                     Discussion – 5 min

                        10: 25 Theme 3:  Jennifer Nicol (5 minutes)

                                    3.1, 3.2, 3.3 (total 20 minutes)

                                                3.1  Annabel Cohen (for Godfrey Baldacchino & Lily Chen-Hafteck)

                                                3.2  Rachel Heydon

                                                3.3 Jennifer Nicol

                                    Discussion – 5 min

                        10:55 Student-Young Professional Group – Andrea Emberley  (5 minutes)

 

11:00 – 11:20   Coffee break and posters

 

11:20 – 12:00  Themes breakout  (separate discussion with the 3 large themes 1, 2, and 3)

 

12:00 – 1:00    Lunch – sub-theme members are encouraged to meet and eat together  at this time

 

AIRS

 Technical Program

 

1:00 – 3:30      Talks: Themes 1 and 2; presented by sub-theme, i.e., 1.2, 1.3, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3

3:00 – 3:30      Poster and Nutrition break and posters

4:00 – 5:00      Talks: Theme 3 (3.1, 3.2, 3.3), Digital Library and Stakeholders

5:00 – 5:30      Plenary Session – focus on synergies. Review of goals to work on for Year 2

6:00 – 7:45      Dinner (Araya’s Place)

8:00 – 9:30      Vocal concert of wide variety (Araya’s Place, continuing)

 

 

Technical Program Details on Presentations  1:00 – 5:00 

 

Theme 1: Singing and Development

 

Note: ORAL PRESENTATION are LIghtning Talks and OF no More than  12-15  minutes

 

 

  • Perception and production – Inter-relations

 

Posters

  • Preference for natural singing voice in pitch-matching and sounds categorisation

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

 

  • 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

 

  • Multimodal (audio, visual, and motor)

1:00-1:15

  • 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

 

  • AIRS Test Battery

1:15-1:30

  • 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

        1:30 – 1:45

  • Theoretical, methodological, and empirical considerations in singing

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

 

1:45-2:00

  • 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

        2:00 -2:15

  • 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

2:15-2:30

  • 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

2:30-2:45

  • “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

        2:45 – 3:00

  • Singing voice and phonetic acquisition

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

 

Posters

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

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

Coffee  Break   3:00 – 3:30

Theme 3: Singing and Well-being

 

3.1  Singing and Well-being:  Cross-cultural Understanding

       3:30 – 3:45

  • An exploration of the learning and performance practices of song & 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

  • Intergenerational curricula, multimodal communication, and identity options: Findings from a study of an IG art program as a basis for a study of IG singing curricula

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

3.3  Singing and Well-being: Health

         3:45-4:00

  • 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

4:00 – 4:15

  • 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

4:15 – 4:30

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

Stephen Clift (Sidney De Haan Research Centre for Arts and Health, UK1), 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(1)  Jennifer.nicol@usask.ca

 

4. Digital Library

         4:30-4:45

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

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

4:45-4:55

  • Short Introduction to the PARIDISEC database

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

4:55-5:05

  • Brief     overview of the  AIRS web and digital library   resources - current and potential

Jonathan Lane  (AIRS,UPEI)  jmlane@upei.ca

 

5. Stakeholders  

5:05-5:15

  • The Vancouver International Song Institute – A nexus for change

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

 

 

PLENARY SESSION

5:15-5:45

 

 

6:00                                      Dinner followed by concert

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