CIRMMT is pleased to participate in the International Symposium LTM21 - AEM21 taking place in Montreal from the 5th to 7th November 2015.
Abstract
The aim of this bilingual (English-French) conference is to bring together researchers from instrumental and music pedagogy as well as those from science of performance, music performance and music practices to discuss the contribution of scientific research and technological advancements in music learning and teaching contexts in the twenty-first century.
The symposium aims to provide a dedicated platform for the communication and exchange of ideas amongst researchers in pedagogy, science, technology, performance, musical practice and related disciplines.
Keynote speakers
Aaron Williamon
Facing the music: Employing science and technology to enhance professional training
Aaron Williamon is Professor of Performance Science at the Royal College of Music, London, where he heads the Centre for Performance Science. His research focuses on skilled performance and applied scientific initiatives that inform music learning and teaching. Aaron is a fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and the UK's Higher Education Academy.
Marc Leman
Music cognition and technology-enhanced learning for music playing
Marc Leman is “Methusalem” research professor in systematic musicology and director of IPEM, the research center of the musicology department at Ghent University. He published more than 350 articles, and several books (among which the monograph “Embodied music cognition and mediation technology”, MIT Press, 2007; and the co-edited book “Musical gestures: sound, movement, and meaning”, Routledge, 2010) on topics related to embodied music cognition. His lab is an international meeting place for researches working on expressive interactions with music, using embodiment, sensorimotor theory and action theory as a point of departure. In 2007 he became laureate of the Methusalem, and acquired a substantial funding, for his project on musical embodiment. In 2014 he holds the Franqui chair at the Université de Mons. He plays trumpet.
Wendy Mackay
Research Director, In Situ lab, Inria
LRI, Université Paris-Sud, France
Wendy Mackay is a Research Director at INRIA Saclay-Île-de-France where she founded and has directed the In|Situ| research group in Human-Computer Interaction for the past 11 years. She has published over 100 research articles in the area of human-computer interaction and has served as co-editor-in-chief of important journals in the Human-Computer Interaction field.
Schedule
TBA
For more information on the conference: http://ltm21aem21.wix.com/colloque2015