AIRS News  

  •  The Routledge Companion to Interdiscipiinary Studies in Singing (Series Editor, Annabel J. Cohen) was published  in June,  2020.

    • Vol 1 Development (Edited by Frank Russo, Beatriz Ilari, Annabel  J. Cohen)

    • Vol 2 Education (Edited by Helga Gudmundsdottir, Carol Beynon, Karen Ludke, Annabel J. Cohen) 

    • Vol 3 Wellbeing   (Edited by Rachel Heydon, Daisy Fancourt, Annabel J. Cohen)

  • With over 100 chapters, the series heralds the importance of singing across the lifespan and offers foundations for practice, advocacy, and interdisciplinary research
    • Note: The Companion Website will soon be released at this site as part of the public section of the AIRS Digital Library.  The infrastructure has been completed,  and items for several chapters have been uploaded to test for functionality.  If you require immediate access to any items referenced in the Companion Website,  please contact Annabel Cohen at acohen@upei.ca 

 

 Other News

  • An exciting project at  the Melbourne Conservatorium of Music:  Discovering Genes for Singing Ability in Australilan Families - 2020-2023 As of March 2021, the project is offering  a very generous 3.5 year PhD scholarship aimed at helping with our research grant dealing with genes and singing abilities. The successful applicant would need to possess an Honours or Master’s degree in Behavioural Genetics or Bioinformatics and Statistics orMolecular Genetics or Molecular Biology. Contact Gary PcPherson, Ormond Chair of Music  g.mcpherson@unimelb.edu.au
  • CFP: 8th International Conference on Digital Libraries for Musicology (In Association with IAML 2021), July 28-30, 2021. Abstract deadline March 29, 2021; Paper submission April 5, 2021.

AIRS News  

  • We are pleased to announce that three volumes of the  Routledge Companion to Interdiscipiinary Studies in Singing (Series Editor, Annabel J. Cohen)  are in press.

    • Vol 1 Development (Edited by Frank Russo, Beatriz Ilari, Annabel  J. Cohen)

    • Vol 2 Education (Edited by Helga Gudmundsdottir, Carol Beynon, Karen Ludke, Annabel J. Cohen) 

    • Vol 3 Wellbeing   (Edited by Rachel Heydon, Daisy Fancourt, Annabel J. Cohen)

  • With over 100 chapters, the series heralds the importance of singing across the lifespan and offers foundations for practice, advocacy, and interdisciplinary research,

 

AIRS wishes you a happy holiday and prosperous, fulfilling New Year.

AIRS News  

  • A research article by Sandra Trehub and Isabelle Peretz has received more than 10,000 views on Frontiers in Psychology website edition:  Speech vs. singing: infants choose happier sounds, Marieve Corbeil, Sandra E. Trehub, and Isabelle Peretz, International Laboratory for Brain, Music and Sound Research, Department of Psychology, Université de Montréal, Montréal. The research results indicate that, overall, happy voice quality rather than vocal mode (speech or singing) was the principal contributor to infant attention, regardless of age. 

  • Congratulations Steven and Frank! Steven Livingstone and Frank Russo have created a database of human emotions of speech and song: Livingstone, S. R., & Russo, F. A. (2018), The Ryerson Audio-Visual Database of Emotional Speech and Song (RAVDESS): A dynamic, multimodal set of facial and vocal expressions in North American English. PLoS ONE, 13(5),e0196391
      
    This work began when Steven received postdoctoral support in 2011-2012 to work with Frank Russo and the database was introduced at the AIRS 4th Annual Meeting (Charlottetown, 2012).  Continued support was obtained by Frank Russo from NSERC for validation experiments entailing human classification of the emotions.  The database which is available to the public under a Creative Commons license can be downloaded here.  The RAVDESS  has been used in several publications, with no doubt many more to come.

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