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** The Music and Science list is managed by the Institute of Musical Research (www.music.sas.ac.uk) as a bulletin board and discussion forum for researchers working at the shared boundaries of science and music. ** MESSAGE FOLLOWS: Sonic Signatures Symposium Aalborg University hosts the Sonic Signatures Symposium for PhD students and postdoctoral researchers 9th – 11th of April 2014. Registration is FREE. Deadline for applications to participate is Nov. 1st 2013. ATTENDANCE IS FOR PARTICIPANTS ONLY - you can only attend if you apply before the deadline. The symposium will look at the way the sound of gesture, character, space and the environment can define a musical personality or genre in recorded popular music. This will include: * Presentations by each of the invited speakers where they discuss some aspect of their research or practice and answer questions from the participants * Participants give a short description of their PhD / current research in which they can flag up any issues that they would like advice, discussion and feedback on * The event will bring together practice led research and theoretical / analytical research to find common ground and approaches * Workshops by the keynote speakers in which participants examine some selected musical examples and work through some of the concepts presented by the keynotes * Industry panel discussion where the practicalities of the issues and the ways in which the theory relates to practice can be explored * Classic tracks presentation where the sonic characteristics - both in relation to performances and technological mediation - will be examined through some close scrutiny of multitrack master recordings. * Continual networking opportunities throughout the days and evenings where participants will mix socially with the keynotes and panelists Speakers include: Richard James Burgess: has worked as a producer, performer and remixer with artists as varied as Adam Ant, Tony Visconti, Lou Reed, Trevor Horn, Kate Bush, Youssou N'Dour and Spandau Ballet Anne Danielsen: (professor at the University of Oslo) will address the sonically distinctive character of digital mediation. She will have a particular focus on microrhythmic manipulation and autotuning. Martin Knakkergaard: (associate professor at Aalborg University) Tore Simonsen: (professor at the Norwegian Academy of Music) Simon Zagorski-Thomas: (reader at the London College of Music) will examine how theories of ecological perception, embodied cognition and the social construction of technology can be used to understand the kinds of invariant properties that may characterise sonic signatures. These sonic cartoons, schematic musical representations of gesture, character and space, will be examined in relation to the people, technologies, institutions and places that produce them. Industry Panel Chaired by Katia Isakoff: will include Richard James Burgess, Karsten Dahlgaard (Delgado) and others. Further information at: http://www.sss.musik.aau.dk/