AIRS 5th Annual Meeting (Toronto 2013) Program
______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)

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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 maxtotgermaine@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
CLASS

AIRS VOCAL MASTER

– 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