Call: Canadian Electroacoustic Community seeks articles on hearing loss and related issues

INVITATION TO CONTRIBUTE
eContact! 9.4 -- Hearing (Loss) and Related Issues

The CEC wishes to extend an invitation to contribute articles, commentaries, analyses, WIKI page content (and more) to eContact! 9.4.

We intend to address the theme from a variety of perspectives and therefore welcome contributions from Audiologists, Acousticians, Psychoacousticians and others, as well as from musicians and music lovers (see below for suggestions). Contributions do not necessarily have to be directly related to electroacoustics, but should have some relation to sound (art) and/or musical practices.

In addition to new articles written specifically for eContact! we are interested in publishing articles that may have been written years ago, but have since gone out of print, have not yet been made available on the internet, or which were published on now extinct websites. Any previously-published articles will be fully credited (the author is responsible for securing any necessary permissions).

Articles in any language are welcome. For languages other than English or French, the author will provide an abstract in one or both of these two languages.

The issue will be launched in late May, contributions must be ready by mid-May at the latest.

Contact jef chippewa if you are interested in contributing.

eContact! 9.4 will also feature a number of WIKI pages, to which anyone can contribute information, experiences and recollections, knowledge. Visit the WIKI directly to contribute .

http://eContact.ca (9.2 was just released; 9.3 will be released later this month)

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ARTICLES and COMMENTARIES (suggestions)

A few topics are suggested here, but feel free to propose your own topic.

P r e v e n t a t i v e M e a s u r e s
- encouraging and developing higher quality monitoring situations
- strategies for "resting" the ears
- choosing headphones (across a broad range of $)

P e r c e p t i o n
- a quick intro to Auditory Scene Analysis (ASA)
- perception (distance, pitch content, direction, absolute perception in sound)

D a m a g e (C o n t r o l)
- iPods, mp3s and frequency "holes" in one's hearing
- emergency procedures in the case of sudden loss of hearing

S o c i a l I s s u e s
- who is responsible -- socially? legally? -- for the sound levels?
- aesthetics and musical practice as social commentary

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c/o Dept. de Musique, Université Concordia RF-302
7141 rue Sherbrooke ouest, Montréal QC CANADA H4B 1R6
[ http://cec.concordia.ca | http://econtact.ca | http://sonus.ca ]

Call: Contributions for an Edited Collection on Popular Music in Canada

Call for Contributions for an Edited Collection on Popular Music in Canada
Edited by Charity Marsh and Holly Everett

Working Title:
Spanning the Distance: Reflections On Popular Music in Canada

The editors invite proposals for a volume of essays that take up one or more of the following five themes:

Popular Music Studies in Canada: Where Are We Now?
Space, Place, and Performance in Canada
Sounding Canadian: Representation, Identity, and Difference in Canada?s Music Scenes
Media, Technology, and the Industry: The Question of Local/Global Relations in Canada
Regionalism and Popular Music Scenes in Canada

With this collection of works the editors aim to encourage dialogue concerning the place of popular music and popular music studies within Canada?s cultural landscape and the academy. Inspired by the 2006 meeting of the Canadian chapter of the International Association for the Study of Popular Music (IASPM) in Regina, Saskatchewan, we also hope to offer a range of perspectives that are both discipline-specific and interdisciplinary. Contributions drawn from the full spectrum of popular music(s) are encouraged.

Deadline for Submissions:
Deadline for Proposals: May 15, 2007
Deadline for Completed Articles: August 15, 2007
Review Process: August to November 2007
Deadline for Final Edits: January 15, 2007

Please send proposals of 300 to 500 words to charity.marsh@uregina.ca and hjeverett@mun.ca by May 15, 2007. Upon acceptance, completed essays should be approximately 10,000 words and will be due by August 15, 2007.

If you have any questions please email:
Dr. Charity Marsh at charity.marsh@uregina.ca or Dr. Holly Everett at hjeverett@mun.ca

Call For Papers: CCCT 2007

CCCT 2007 will be held in Orlando, Florida on July 12-15, 2007

March 8th, 2007 is the deadline for paper/abstract submissions and
invited session proposals. http://www.info-cyber.org/ccct2007
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The registration fee of effective invited session organizers will be
waived and they will receive at the registration desk, for free, a
package of 4 DVDs and one CD containing the 6-hour tutorial
"Fundamentals and History of Cybernetics: Development of the Theory of
Complex Adaptive Systems". The market price of this package is US $
295. Twelve more benefits for invited session organizers are listed at
CCCT 2007 web page.

The best 10%-20% of the papers will be published in Volume 6 of JSCI
Journal (http://www.iiisci.org/Journal/SCI). 24 issues (volumes 1, 2, 3
and 4) of the Journal have been sent to approximately 200 universities
and research libraries, Promotional, free subscriptions, for 2 years,
are being provided to the organizations of the Journal's authors.

Submitted papers will go through three reviewing processes:
double-blind, non-blind (open) and participative reviewing. All
submissions will be sent to at least three reviewers, selected by the
Organizing Committee, for their respective double-blinded review.
Submitted papers or extended abstracts will also be sent to 1-3
reviewers suggested by the author(s) for their open, non-blind, review.
All papers will be included in a participative reviewing where other
authors, who also made submissions to the same area can access the
papers submitted to this area, in order to read them and provide
constructive feedback.

The three kinds of reviewing will support the acceptance process for
the selection of the papers to be presented at the conference, as well
as the selection of the best 10%-20% of the papers that will be
included in the JSCI journal. All papers accepted for presentation in
the conference will also be included in the conference proceedings.

The papers selected, after their presentation, as the best ones of
their regular or invited session, will also be considered for their
inclusion in the Journal. The authors of the best 30%-40% of these
papers will be invited to modify or extend their papers for its
respective publication in the Journal.

For those who are interested in organizing an invited session, please,
fill the respective form provided in the conference web page, and we
will send you a password (if it is pre-approved) so you can include and
modify papers in your invited session.

Invited session organizers with the best performance will be co-editors
of the proceedings volume where their sessions' papers were included,
and of the CD electronic proceedings. They will also be candidates for
invited editors, or co-editors, of a possible JSCI Journal issue
related to their invited session papers. Information on the suggested
steps to organize an invited session has been included in the
conference web site.

Submissions from both academia and industry are encouraged. Research
papers, case studies, lessons learned, status reports, and discussions
of practical problems faced by industry and user domains are all
welcomed submissions.

If you need a detailed Call for Papers and Participation, don't
hesitate in asking us for it. You can also get it from the conference's
web site.

If the deadlines are tight and you need more time, let us know about a
suitable time for you and we will inform you if it is feasible for us.


Dr. C.Dale Zinn
CCCT 2007 Program Chair

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