AIRS 5th Annual Meeting (Toronto 2013) Program and Proceedings

 

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______PROGRAM______

Sunday, August 11

(Pre-Conference)

 

9:00 am – 3:00 pm   AIRS 3.1 Workshop: Room  SBB238 (Psychology Bldg.)

 

International Research Project on Singing and Cultural Understanding: Children in Brazil, Canada, China, & Kenya

Organized by Lily Chen-Hafteck, assisted by Nancy Gleason and Daniel Aponte with participation by AIRS researchers from Brazil, Canada, China, and Kenya.

Other students, AIRS co-investigators, or other interested parties are welcome to sit in.  There will be one break for lunch.  Please contact Dr. Chen-Hafteck  lhafteck@ucla.edu for further information regarding content, or Ross Dwyer rdwyer@upei.ca for practical information.

Workshop Schedule

 

 

AIRS 5th Annual Meeting, Sunday, August 11, 2013

 

 

8:30 – 5:00  Registration/ Coffee  and pick up programme materials and name tags

 

3:00 – 5:30  AIRS Poster Session - Atrium (Engineering Building)

3:00   Welcome and Opening Remarks

 

           Frank Russo – Convenor SMPC

 

           Jean-Paul Boudreau – Dean of Arts, Ryerson University

 

           Robert Gilmour - Vice-President, Research, UPEI

 

           Hilary Apfelstadt – AIRS Advisory Board

 

           Annabel Cohen – Director AIRS

 

Note: Posters should be mounted  (materials provided) at earliest convenience for display throughout the entire meeting, with opportunities to view before sessions, during coffee breaks. Posters may be placed as early as 8:30 am and must be placed by 12:00 am Posters are identified with their sub-theme in the program  and in the abstract section

 

7:00

For all AIRS Students and Early Career Research Professionals –

 

Student & ECRP Pizza dinner

 

SBB Lounge - Psychology Building

 

                    Evening – Dinner on your own for all AIRS Co-Investigators and Collaborators

                    - Except the Policy and Planning Committee

 

5:45 pm - 6:30 pm   Policy & Planning Committee dinner

 

6:30 pm – 9:30 pm  Policy & Planning Committee meeting

 

AIRS Policy and Planning Committee Meeting

Location: SBB238 (Psychology Building)   Attendees:  Theme leaders, sub-theme leaders, committee chairs, advisory board and director, and senior executive

 

 Hilary Apfelstadt, AIRS Advisory Board

 Philip Smith, AIRS  Advisory Board

 Kate Stevens, AIRS Advisory Board

 Anna Maria  di Sciullo, AIRS Advisory Board (adjunct)

 

AIRS Policy and Planning Committee

 

  Christine Tsang, Co-leader 1.1     

  Laurel Trainor, Co-leader 1.1    

  Frank Russo, Co-leader 1.2  and Theme 1 Leader (Steering Committee)

  Sandra.Trehub Co-leader 1.2

  Annabel Cohen,  leader 1.3 and Director (Steering Committee)

  Helga Gudmundsdottir 2.1 Leader and Theme 2 Leader (Steering Committee)

  Patricia Campbell, Leader 2.1 & Theme 2 Leader (Steering Committee) - Honorary

  Darryl Edwards,  Leader 2.2

  Jenny Sullivan  Co-leader 2.3

  Andrea Rose, Co-leader 2.3

  Susan O’Neill, Theme 3 Leader (Steering Committee)

  Lily Chen-Hafteck  Co-leader 3.1 

  Godfrey Baldacchino, Co-leader 3.1

  Rachel Heydon,  Leader 3.2

  Laurel Young,   Leader 3.3

  Tom Germaine, Facilitator Digital Library 

  Ichiro Fujinaga, Co-leader Digital Library     

  George Tzanetakis,  Co-leader Digital Library

  Arla Good, Student and Early Career Researchers (with SECR)

  Mayumi Adachi, Global Group

  Lee Willingham, Partner

  Ross Dwyer, Administrative Assistant (ex officio)

  Bing-Yi Pan, AIRS Postdoctoral Fellow ex officio (with SECR)

 

                                                      Agenda: focus on milestones, 5th annual meeting, social policy development

                                                       (Snacks and coffee/juice will be served – Dinner to precede meeting)

 

AIRS 5th Annual Meeting

Monday, August 12, 2013, ENG LG-11, Engineering Building

                                                                                                         

8:30 – 9:00   Registration/ Coffee pick up programme materials and name tags

 

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

                        Annabel Cohen – AIRS Director (2 min)

                         Sing together (3 min)  (Carol Beynon)

                        Philip Smith – AIRS Advisory Board Member (3 min)

                        Hilary Apfelstadt  - AIRS Advisory Board Member (3 min)

                        Kate Stevens – AIRS Advisory Board Member (3 min)

 

9:17 – 11:00    AIRS  Overview –   Orientation   Annabel Cohen (3 minutes)

 

9:20  Wellbeing: Theme 3  Leader Susan O’Neill   (3 minutes)

                        3.1, 3.2, 3.3 (sub-theme leaders – 3 minutes each total  9 minutes)

                        3.1  Godfrey Baldacchino (3 min) + Jim Sparks (6 min)

                        3.2   Rachel Heydon (3min) + Susan O’Neill (6 min)

                        3.3   Laurel Young  (3 min) + Elisabetta Corvo (6 min)

                       

9:55   Education: Leader Theme 2  Helga Gutmundsdottir – (3 minutes)

                        2.1, 2.2, 2.3 (sub-theme leaders – 3 minutes each total  9 minutes)

                        2.1 Helga Gutmundsdottir (3 min) + Lisa Crawford (6 min)

                        2.2 Darryl Edwards  (3 min)  + Jane Ginsborg & Emile Perkins  (6 min)

                        2.3 Jennifer Sullivan  (3 min)  +  Arla Good (6 min)

                       Discussion – (5 min)

10:30   Development:  Leader Theme 1 Frank Russo – (3 minutes)

                       1.1, 1.2, 1.3 (presented by sub-theme leaders 3 min each, total 9 min)

                       1. 1 Christine Tsang (3 min)   +  Stephanie Boivert (6 min)

                       1.2  F. Russo & Sandra Trehub (3 min); Niusha Ghazban (6 min)

                       1.3  Annabel Cohen (3 min) + Laura Välja & Jaan Ross (6 min)

                       Discussion (5 min)

11:05 – 11:30   Coffee break (Atrium)

11:30  Digital Library – brief update  – George Tzanatakis & Ichiro Fujinaga (5 min)

11:35  Student-Early Career Researcher –  Arla Good (5 min)

11:40  AIRS Partners and Stakeholders -  Lee Willingham (~3 min)

11:43  Ethics,  Statistics and Intellectual Property – Jenny Sulllivan  (~ 3 min)

11: 46 Global Group – Mayumi Adachi  (~ 3 min)

11:50 – 12:30  Themes breakout (separate discussion for Development, Education and Well-being – location for each group is to be announced)

                        Topic:  Developing New AIRS Milestone document - September 2013 - March 2016

 

12:30 – 1:00   Continuing theme discussion - focus on research goals (answer the Theme question), within-theme synergies,  and directions toward policy development and  implementation

                        [Led by Theme and Sub-theme Leaders within each Theme]

 

1:00  - 1:45      Lunch –   (Atrium) - Continued poster viewing

 

1:45  - 2:15      The AIRS Book Series  Proposal  –Interdisciplinary Research in Singing

                        update and planning  

                         (Presiding:  Annabel Cohen and Designated Theme and Sub-theme Leaders): 

Volume 1 –Singing and Development:   (1)  Perception and Production,  (2) Multimodality  (3)  Cross-Cultural  and Lifespan

Volume 2 – Singing and Education (1) Natural acquisition  (2) Formal training (3) Using Singing to teach

Volume 3 – Singing and Well Being (1)  Cross-cultural understanding  (2) Intergenerational Understanding (3) Mental and Physical Health

Volume 4 – Digital Libraries for Singing Research (1) Methods of vocal analysis (2) Metadata systems (3) Databases and platforms

 

2:30 – 5:30      AIRS Plenary Discussion with Short Focussing Presentations –

QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS ABOUT SINGING :  DATA MEETS THEORY

Towards an AIRS Perspective on Singing from the joint perspectives of

 Culture, Individual Proclivities, and Universals

2:30 – 3:15      Theme 3 – How does singing impact wellbeing? [4 x 6-min talks

                        3.1       Baldacchino, Baldacchino & Ellis (6 min)

                        3.2       Beynon, Hutchison & Nafikova (6 min)

                        3.3       Clements-Cortes (6 min)

                         +   20 min plenary discussion

3:15 – 3:45      Theme 2 -  How should singing be taught & used to teach? [4 talks 6 min; 20 min discussion]

                        2.1       Pacheco

                        2.2       Edwards

                        2.2       Kiik-Salupere

                        2.3       Bastião

                        +   20 min plenary discussion

 

3:45 – 4:00     Nutrition break (Atrium)

 

4:00 – 4:45      Theme 1- How does singing develop [4 talks of 6 minutes; 20 min discussion]

                        1.1       TBA

                        1.2       Hauf & Murphy

                        1.3       Gutmundsdottir/Adachi (To be confirmed)

                        +   20 min plenary discussion

                       

5:00- 5:30        The place of the AIRS Digital Library in this endeavour (Fujinaga/Tzanatakis)         .          

 

6:30 -7:30        Dinner Buffet - (Oakham House)

 

7:30- 9:15        Celebration of Singing Concert of Attendees;  including Brazilian (Gramani) workshop,  North Indian demo, music of Greece, Western classical repertoire  & more  Programme forthcoming

 

9:15                 Reception – (co-sponsored by Office of the Dean of Arts, Ryerson) (Oakham House)

 

AIRS 5th Annual Meeting

Tuesday, August 13 –

Workshop and Master Class Day

All Technical Sessions in ENG LG-11 (Engineering Building)

Lunch & Breaks in the Atrium

 

8:00 – 9:00      Coffee / Juice

 

WORKSHOPS  - Room 1 Engineering Building

 

8:30 – 9:30   1.3  AIRS  TEST BATTERY WORKSHOP Reviewing  Child  and Adult On-line Version  Helga Gudmundsdottir (Iceland/Montreal),  Beatriz Ilari (Brazil/USA),  Jaan Ross  (Estonia); Mayumi Adachi (Japan), Jennifer Sullivan (Ontario),  Annabel Cohen  (PEI) Bing-Yi Pan, (PEI)     3.1  students from the  Quad-Cultural Understanding  project  are  encouraged to attend  

 

9:30 –   10 :00   PITCH ANALYSIS  WORKSHOP – 4 Perspectives   [P. Larrouy-Maestri (custom); Gudmundsdottir (Melodyne); Livingstone/Russo (Pratt);  Pan/Cohen (Praat), Devaney (custom) Participants to be confirmed

 

10:00 – 10:30 – TEACHING SINGING – ANALYSIS OF DATA FROM THE VOICE STUDIO  -examples  requested of music graduate student, young adult, senior adult, Students of Indian vocal Music  (voice teachers or voice students associated with 2.2 are asked to provide video examples in Advance as a basis and stimulant for Discussion. Please send short clips -3 min max- to tgermaine@upei.ca)

 

10:30 – 10:50    Nutrition Break (Atrium)

 

10:50 – 11:15 -  Emotional Meaning across Cultures (Russo/Livingstone)

 

11:15 – 12:00  - HOW TO ENGAGE PEOPLE IN SONGS OF THEIR OWN AND OTHER CULTURES – (baldacchino/beynon/stark/) Choral conducting and Song Circles  (our choir directors Demonstrate: possibly invite representatives from song Circle and Multicultural Choirs of Toronto)

 

12:00 – 1:00     Lunch  (Atrium)

 

1:00   - 2:30                                                   AIRS VOCAL MASTER CLASS                                                                         

– Darryl Edwards and AIRS  Participants

Those interested in Participating please Contact Ross Dwyer (Rdwyer@upei.ca)

 

 

 

2:30 – 2:45         Nutrition Break (Atrium)

 

2:45              AIRS  POLICY DEVELOPMENT   WORKSHOP BENEFITTING SOCIETY THROUGH SINGING   

-WHATEVER HAPPENED TO THE MUSIC TEACHER?              

WHAT EVIDENCE DOES OR WILL AIRS HAVE TO SUPPORT THE VALUE OF POLICIES TO IMPROVE SOCIETAL WELL-BEING? (20 min)

                   Theme 2   

                   Theme 3

                   Theme 1

                   Digital Library

        WHAT POLICIES  INVOLVING SINGING COULD IMPROVE SOCIETAL WELL-BEING?  (20 min)

                  Theme 1

                  Theme 2

                  Theme 3

                  Digital Library

        HOW CAN SUCH POLICIES BE IMPLEMENTED? (20 Min)

                  Theme 3

                  Theme 2

                  Theme 1

                  Digital Library

 

Synthesis (15 min)

 

4:30 Final Remarks – AIRS Advisory Board

 

4:45 Final Remarks – AIRS  Student and Early Career Researcher

 

4:50 Final Remarks  - SMPC  Convenor

 

4:55 Final Remarks – AIRS Director

 

______PROCEEDINGS______

5th Annual Meeting Abstracts, Posters and Slide Presentations

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THEME 1 – DEVELOPMENT OF SINGING

SUB-THEME: 1.1 PERCEPTION AND PRODUCTION OF SINGING

SUB-THEME: 1.2 MULTIMODAL (AUDIO/VISUAL/MOTOR) ASPECTS SINGING

SUB-THEME: 1.3 AIRS TEST BATTERY OF SINGING SKILLS

THEME 2 – SINGING AND EDUCATION

SUB-THEME: 2.1 LEARNING TO SING NATURALLY

SUB-THEME: 2.2 FORMAL TEACHING OF SINGING

SUB-THEME: 2.3 TEACHING THROUGH SINGING

THEME 3 – SINGING AND WELL-BEING

SUB-THEME: 3.1 SINGING AND CROSS-CULTURAL UNDERSTANDING

SUB-THEME: 3.2 SINGING AND INTERGENERATIONAL UNDERSTANDING

SUB-THEME: 3.3 HEALTH BENEFITS OF SINGING

______WORKSHOP______

<Sunday, August 11 (Pre-Conference)

8.30 am

Breakfast (University Residence)

9:00 am

Introduction and Welcome – Team  and a song from each country

9:15

Overview of AIRS & Subtheme 3.1 Cultural Understanding –

Nancy Gleason

9:30 – 11:00

Update from each country: Quantitative Focus Daniel A.Aponte

Qualitative Focus – Measuring levels of cultural understandingArla Good

11:00

NUTRITION BREAK

11:15

Checking of Interview Data – 4 Raters one from each country

12:00 LUNCH
1:00
  • Further Data Analysis plans
  • Improving methodology – Open Discussion and Action Items
  • Unique issues in each country:
    • Brazil
    • China
    • Canada
    • Kenya
2:00
  • Toward 2nd Data Collection in 4 countries
    • What remains the same
    • What is new
2:45
  • Inclusion of On-line Test Battery component after the testing  - A.Cohen
2:50

Synthesis of the day’s activities and action items

3:00

End of Workshop

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