Sempre MET 2024
14th Jan 2024 – 2024-01-14 00:00:00
University of Hull
Overview
Following the great success of its inaugural conference held by the University of Hull in 2010, MET2014, MET2016, MET2018 at IOE London, MET2020 (online) and MET-TMOHE 2022 (online), this 7th biennial, two-day conference (#sempreMET) was hosted by the University of Hull.
Although the ‘musicking’ humanity has been reliant on technology from the very beginning of its musical journey, we cannot deny that, nowadays, technology changes, develops, and its role is being redefined at a dramatically greater rate. This sempre conference aimed to celebrate technology’s challenging role(s) and provide a platform for critical discourse and the presentation of scholarly work in the broader fields of digital technologies in:
- music composition and creation
- music performance
- music production (recording, studio work, archival and/or communication of music)
- diverse musical genres (e.g. popular, classical, world, etc.)
- creativity/ies
- real world praxial contexts (e.g. classroom, studio, etc.)
- assessment of musical development and/or assessment of performance
- computational musicology
- music and Big Data
- the music industry
- special educational contexts/needs
- music, health and wellbeing
- music, LEGO® and/or maker culture
- AI in Music Education
The conference provided opportunities for colleagues to present and discuss ideas in a friendly and supportive environment, as well as to act as a meeting point for academics, scholars, teachers, and practitioners who are seeking to form connections and synergies with participants from around the world.
Agenda: Friday 14th June 2024
- 09:00-09:30 Registrations
- 09:30-11:00 Session 1A: Chair: Andrew King, Session 1B: Chair: Yanyi Lu
- 11:00-11:30 Break
- 11:30-12.30 Session 2A: Chair: Monica Esslin-Peard, Session 2B: Chair: Yanyi Lu
- 12:30-13:30 Lunch
- 12:00-13:00 Sempre AGM
- 13:30-15:00 Session 3B: Chair: Carol Johnson
- 15:00-15:30 Break
- 15:30-17:00 Session 4A: Chair: Monica Esslin-Peard, Session 4B: Chair: Andrew King
Agenda: Saturday 15th June 2024
- 9:30-11.30 Session 5A: Chair: Andrew King, Session 5B: Chair: Carol Johnson
- 11:00-11:30 Break
- 11:30-12:30 Session 6A: Chair: Monica Esslin-Peard, Session 6B: Chair: Andrew King
- 12:30-13:30 Lunch
- 13:30-14:30 Session 7: Keynote Address: Adam Patrick Bell, Generative AI Prompts In/For/As Music Production Education
- 14:30-15:30 Session 8: Chair: Andrew King
- 15:30-16:30 Closing remarks, sounding off, departure
Conference chairs
Professor Andrew King
Professor of Music and Technology
Professor King holds a personal research chair in music and technology. He was Head of the School of the Arts from 2017 until 2023 and is a Principal Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. He previously led the music subject area and has led major research projects funded by AHRC, the Arts Council and the Paul Hamlyn Foundation (via PRSF, Sound and Music) in the areas of online music education, psychological wellbeing and evaluating the impact of composer residencies.
Dr Helen Prior
Senior Lecturer in Music
Helen is a music psychologist, with interests in music performance, music education, music and wellbeing, and music and the environment. Her work with the Centre for Musical Performance as Creative Practice (CMPCP) explored the experiences of professional musicians in creating, or shaping, their musical performances. Equally important is the area of music education, within which she has explored remote music lessons through the Connect: Resound project, led by Professor Andrew King; and is also exploring transitions within music education with Dr Elaine King.
Dr Carol Johnson
Senior Lecturer in Music, The University of Melbourne
Dr Johnson moved from the northern hemisphere to join the Melbourne Conservatorium as Senior Lecturer in Music (Online Learning and Educational Technologies), and has just published a book on online music pedagogy.
Professor Evangelos Himonides
Professor of Technology, Education, and Music, University College London
Evangelos held the University of London’s first ever lectureship in music technology education and now holds the first Chair in Technology, Education, and Music. He is Fellow of the RSA and Chartered Fellow (FBCS CITP) with the British Computer Society. As a musician, technologist and educator, Evangelos has had an ongoing career in research inPsychoacoustics, Music-Perception, Music-Cognition, IT, Human-Computer Interaction, SEND, the Singing Voice and Singing Development. Publications currently number over 180, in high-profile international journals, such as Frontiers of Psychology and Cognitive Science, Psychology of Music, IJME, RSME, Journal of Voice, Logopedics Phoniatrics Vocology.
Scientific committee
The MET2024 scientific committee was responsible for the peer-review of all submissions and for deciding which papers will be accepted for publication in the official book of conference abstracts.
Dr Julie Ballantyne
The University of Queensland, Australia
Dr Noemy Berbel Gómez
The University of the Balearic Islands, Spain
Professor Andrea Creech
McGill University, Canada
Professor Ian Cross
University of Cambridge, U.K.
Dr Francisco Cuadrado
Universidad Loyola Andalucía, Spain
Dr Monica Esslin-Peard
University of Liverpool, U.K.
Dr Andrea Giraldez-Hayes
Imperial College London, U.K.
Professor Evangelos Himonides
UCL, U.K.
Dr James Humberstone
The University of Sydney, Australia
Professor Andrew King
University of Hull, U.K.
Professor Adam Ockelford
University of Roehampton, U.K.
Dr Rosie Perkins
Royal College of Music, U.K.
Dr Helen Prior
University of Hull, U.K.
Dr Ross Purves
UCL Institute of Education, U.K.
Dr S. Alex Ruthmann
NYU, U.S.A.
Dr Mary Stakelum
Royal College of Music, U.K.
Dr Cynthia Stephens-Himonides
Kingston University, U.K.
Dr George Waddell
Royal College of Music, U.K.
Professor Graham Welch UCL
UCL Institute of Education, U.K.
Professor Aaron Williamon
Royal College of Music, U.K.
Dr Margaret Young
Ohio State University at Lima, U.S.A.
Partners and sponsors
University of Hull
Conference organisation
University College London
Conference organisation
International Music Education Research Centre
Conference sponsorship