January 2019 - News!

AIRS News  

• 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.
  

• Andrea Rose of Memorial University's Faculity of Music, Newfoundland & Labrador, presented at a recent conference in St. John's - People, Place & Public Engagement: Building Community and Learning Together: The Making of a Newfoundland and Labrador Choral Federation, presenters: Andrea Rose, Keira Galway and Barry Roberts
  

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Conferences, Symposiums, Workshops   view all upcoming

• The Music Research Nexus, The University of Georgia, Hugh Hodgson School of Music, Call for Conference Proposals: Hip-Hop in the Golden Age, Jacobs School of Music, Indiana University Bloomington, February 16-17, 2019.   Link 
  

Student Opportunities

• Full-time Ph.D. position in research Lab, the Analysis of Voice and Hearing (AVAH) Laboratory, Department of Communicative Sciences and Disorders at Michigan State University.  The research is focused on studying the voice production mechanisms and human auditory system.  Link