Ivan M
@specwrites.bsky.social
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Ivan M
@specwrites.bsky.social
· Oct 24
Call for papers: Amplification and Everyday Life conference, University of Huddersfield, 4-5 June 2026.
Submission deadline 15 December 2025.
makeitlouder.co.uk/2025/10/23/c...
Submission deadline 15 December 2025.
makeitlouder.co.uk/2025/10/23/c...
Excited to announce a conference around our research project! Hopefully one of several we can pull off with our funding. It's about amplification and everyday life, interpreted very broadly. Submissions due 15th December, meeting in person 4-5 June next year.
Article alert! My short paper on analysing DJ performance, based on some of my PhD methodology work, is out now. Open access: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
DJ Performance Analysis
What do DJs do on their equipment and why? How might an analyst measure and interpret these gestures? What can researchers learn more broadly about performance by examining DJs’ creative improvisat...
www.tandfonline.com
December 23, 2025 at 9:19 AM
Article alert! My short paper on analysing DJ performance, based on some of my PhD methodology work, is out now. Open access: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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It’s good to see papers start to address LLMs as structural plagiarism — provenance, more hidden than the original words or training data. www.nature.com/articles/s42...
LLM use in scholarly writing poses a provenance problem
Nature Machine Intelligence - LLM use in scholarly writing poses a provenance problem
www.nature.com
December 14, 2025 at 11:13 AM
It’s good to see papers start to address LLMs as structural plagiarism — provenance, more hidden than the original words or training data. www.nature.com/articles/s42...
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The Executive Committee of IASPM UKI express deep concern over the University of Nottingham’s recent decision to suspend recruitment to all undergraduate programmes in music, risking permanent closure of all music degrees at the University.
Read the full statement: iaspm.org.uk/statement-on...
Read the full statement: iaspm.org.uk/statement-on...
December 11, 2025 at 12:30 PM
The Executive Committee of IASPM UKI express deep concern over the University of Nottingham’s recent decision to suspend recruitment to all undergraduate programmes in music, risking permanent closure of all music degrees at the University.
Read the full statement: iaspm.org.uk/statement-on...
Read the full statement: iaspm.org.uk/statement-on...
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We are pleased to announce the call for papers for the next biennial conference of the UK and Ireland branch of IASPM.
Music at the edges: Peripherality in the practices of popular music
University of Aberdeen, 29 Jun - 01 Jul 2026
Full CFP: iaspm.org.uk/music-at-the...
Deadline: 02 Feb 2026
Music at the edges: Peripherality in the practices of popular music
University of Aberdeen, 29 Jun - 01 Jul 2026
Full CFP: iaspm.org.uk/music-at-the...
Deadline: 02 Feb 2026
December 11, 2025 at 12:27 PM
We are pleased to announce the call for papers for the next biennial conference of the UK and Ireland branch of IASPM.
Music at the edges: Peripherality in the practices of popular music
University of Aberdeen, 29 Jun - 01 Jul 2026
Full CFP: iaspm.org.uk/music-at-the...
Deadline: 02 Feb 2026
Music at the edges: Peripherality in the practices of popular music
University of Aberdeen, 29 Jun - 01 Jul 2026
Full CFP: iaspm.org.uk/music-at-the...
Deadline: 02 Feb 2026
Deadline approaching! Submit a proposal to our 'amplification and everyday life' conference by 15th December
Call for papers: Amplification and Everyday Life conference, University of Huddersfield, 4-5 June 2026.
Submission deadline 15 December 2025.
makeitlouder.co.uk/2025/10/23/c...
Submission deadline 15 December 2025.
makeitlouder.co.uk/2025/10/23/c...
December 5, 2025 at 10:07 AM
Deadline approaching! Submit a proposal to our 'amplification and everyday life' conference by 15th December
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Come and think about music and sound amplification in everyday life with me and my colleagues in Huddersfield next June! CfP is open until 15 December 2025.
Call for papers: Amplification and Everyday Life conference, University of Huddersfield, 4-5 June 2026.
Submission deadline 15 December 2025.
makeitlouder.co.uk/2025/10/23/c...
Submission deadline 15 December 2025.
makeitlouder.co.uk/2025/10/23/c...
October 24, 2025 at 10:39 AM
Come and think about music and sound amplification in everyday life with me and my colleagues in Huddersfield next June! CfP is open until 15 December 2025.
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Call for papers: Amplification and Everyday Life conference, University of Huddersfield, 4-5 June 2026.
Submission deadline 15 December 2025.
makeitlouder.co.uk/2025/10/23/c...
Submission deadline 15 December 2025.
makeitlouder.co.uk/2025/10/23/c...
October 24, 2025 at 9:11 AM
Call for papers: Amplification and Everyday Life conference, University of Huddersfield, 4-5 June 2026.
Submission deadline 15 December 2025.
makeitlouder.co.uk/2025/10/23/c...
Submission deadline 15 December 2025.
makeitlouder.co.uk/2025/10/23/c...
Excited to announce a conference around our research project! Hopefully one of several we can pull off with our funding. It's about amplification and everyday life, interpreted very broadly. Submissions due 15th December, meeting in person 4-5 June next year.
Call for papers: Amplification and Everyday Life conference, University of Huddersfield, 4-5 June 2026.
Submission deadline 15 December 2025.
makeitlouder.co.uk/2025/10/23/c...
Submission deadline 15 December 2025.
makeitlouder.co.uk/2025/10/23/c...
October 24, 2025 at 9:16 AM
Excited to announce a conference around our research project! Hopefully one of several we can pull off with our funding. It's about amplification and everyday life, interpreted very broadly. Submissions due 15th December, meeting in person 4-5 June next year.
Job opp - full-time Project Officer at U of Huddersfield. Support the admin needs of research staff and PGRs on the Amplification Project. Grade 6 (£32,363 - £39,132 per annum), fixed-term ending Jan 2030. Apply by 1st Oct here: vacancies.hud.ac.uk/tlive_webrec...
September 22, 2025 at 9:13 AM
Job opp - full-time Project Officer at U of Huddersfield. Support the admin needs of research staff and PGRs on the Amplification Project. Grade 6 (£32,363 - £39,132 per annum), fixed-term ending Jan 2030. Apply by 1st Oct here: vacancies.hud.ac.uk/tlive_webrec...
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VCs don’t run universities.
We do.
After another real terms pay cut, UCU is launching a UK-wide strike ballot.
Ballot opens October.
Vote YES.
#WeAreTheUniversity
We do.
After another real terms pay cut, UCU is launching a UK-wide strike ballot.
Ballot opens October.
Vote YES.
#WeAreTheUniversity
September 8, 2025 at 5:39 PM
VCs don’t run universities.
We do.
After another real terms pay cut, UCU is launching a UK-wide strike ballot.
Ballot opens October.
Vote YES.
#WeAreTheUniversity
We do.
After another real terms pay cut, UCU is launching a UK-wide strike ballot.
Ballot opens October.
Vote YES.
#WeAreTheUniversity
Someone recently contacted me about accessing the archive of the Low End Theories conference we ran online in 2023, inspired by my PhD research. The site has been cleaned up and archived cfp + recordings of the talks are now fully online. sites.google.com/view/lowendt...
#LowEnd23 #LowEndTheories
#LowEnd23 #LowEndTheories
Home
Welcome to the Low End Theories conference website.
Date held: 19–20 May 2023
This free online conference was a response to the multidisciplinary field emerging around low-frequency sound and the soun...
sites.google.com
September 9, 2025 at 8:27 AM
Someone recently contacted me about accessing the archive of the Low End Theories conference we ran online in 2023, inspired by my PhD research. The site has been cleaned up and archived cfp + recordings of the talks are now fully online. sites.google.com/view/lowendt...
#LowEnd23 #LowEndTheories
#LowEnd23 #LowEndTheories
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We're now on Bsky 👋 This account will be used to share CFPs, news, and opportunities in the field, and maybe the occasional photo or two from conferences. For any formal enquiries, visit Contact Us on our website to reach the relevant committee member.
June 28, 2025 at 3:38 PM
We're now on Bsky 👋 This account will be used to share CFPs, news, and opportunities in the field, and maybe the occasional photo or two from conferences. For any formal enquiries, visit Contact Us on our website to reach the relevant committee member.
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The AMS (like any large org) doesn't always get it right, but it got this one VERY right
www.amsmusicology.org/coalition-of...
www.amsmusicology.org/coalition-of...
Coalition of Music Organizations to Help Address Lost Grant Access
The AMS launches a voluntary association of music organizations designed to strengthen the music and education sector.
www.amsmusicology.org
April 22, 2025 at 5:31 PM
The AMS (like any large org) doesn't always get it right, but it got this one VERY right
www.amsmusicology.org/coalition-of...
www.amsmusicology.org/coalition-of...
Amps! + a neat little summary of what our work is about www.hud.ac.uk/news/2025/ap...
Ambitious research agenda for new five-year Amplification Project - University of Huddersfield
A project to chart the past, present and future of the technology behind amplified sound has begun at the University of Huddersfield, with the backing of a Leverhulme International Professorship grant...
www.hud.ac.uk
April 7, 2025 at 5:08 PM
Amps! + a neat little summary of what our work is about www.hud.ac.uk/news/2025/ap...
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Excited to share that I have a new chapter out in *The Oxford Handbook of Electronic Dance Music* entitled “Beats, Tactility, and the Politics of Deaf Representation in EDM": doi.org/10.1093/oxfo...
March 1, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Excited to share that I have a new chapter out in *The Oxford Handbook of Electronic Dance Music* entitled “Beats, Tactility, and the Politics of Deaf Representation in EDM": doi.org/10.1093/oxfo...
PhD call part II: we have three fully funded (home) scholarships still to award for students interested in researching sound amplification. Preference will go to topics like disability and the environment but all will be considered. Info below, deadline 12 May. www.findaphd.com/phds/program...
Call for Applications: The Leverhulme Amplification Project PhD Scholarships at University of Huddersfield on FindAPhD.com
PhD Programme - Call for Applications: The Leverhulme Amplification Project PhD Scholarships at University of Huddersfield, listed on FindAPhD.com
www.findaphd.com
March 26, 2025 at 3:28 PM
PhD call part II: we have three fully funded (home) scholarships still to award for students interested in researching sound amplification. Preference will go to topics like disability and the environment but all will be considered. Info below, deadline 12 May. www.findaphd.com/phds/program...
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While accounts of platform power tend to come across as bleak and monolithic, "Algorithms of Resistance" shows through a diverse range of case studies how people can resist algorithms across various domains. This book is available in a free, #openaccess edition: mitpress.mit.edu/978026254742...
March 13, 2025 at 1:47 PM
While accounts of platform power tend to come across as bleak and monolithic, "Algorithms of Resistance" shows through a diverse range of case studies how people can resist algorithms across various domains. This book is available in a free, #openaccess edition: mitpress.mit.edu/978026254742...
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Walter Rodney's ambitious masterwork of political economy, How Europe Underdeveloped Africa is part of our Black History Month sale.
Rodney makes the unflinching case that African maldevelopment is not a natural feature, but a direct product of imperial extraction.
Rodney makes the unflinching case that African maldevelopment is not a natural feature, but a direct product of imperial extraction.
Black History Month | Reading List
During the final week of Black History Month we're offering a collection featuring both new and classic titles on Black History. All titles below are marked down 40%. Buy two or more from this list a...
www.versobooks.com
February 26, 2025 at 9:57 PM
Walter Rodney's ambitious masterwork of political economy, How Europe Underdeveloped Africa is part of our Black History Month sale.
Rodney makes the unflinching case that African maldevelopment is not a natural feature, but a direct product of imperial extraction.
Rodney makes the unflinching case that African maldevelopment is not a natural feature, but a direct product of imperial extraction.
I'm giving a short talk in a few weeks with my new team about our work where we want the Amplification Project to go, or think it could/should go. It's a weekday morning on campus but come along if you can, we'd love to hear from you.
#MusicSky #AcWri #Musicology #MusicStudies #Yorkshire
#MusicSky #AcWri #Musicology #MusicStudies #Yorkshire
February 25, 2025 at 2:10 PM
I'm giving a short talk in a few weeks with my new team about our work where we want the Amplification Project to go, or think it could/should go. It's a weekday morning on campus but come along if you can, we'd love to hear from you.
#MusicSky #AcWri #Musicology #MusicStudies #Yorkshire
#MusicSky #AcWri #Musicology #MusicStudies #Yorkshire
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Save the School of Music protest. It's a very bittersweet feeling watching these incredible musicians play. This is the talent we will be losing if Cardiff University go ahead with their shortsighted plans.
February 22, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Save the School of Music protest. It's a very bittersweet feeling watching these incredible musicians play. This is the talent we will be losing if Cardiff University go ahead with their shortsighted plans.
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Check out Josh Davila author of "Blockchain Radicals", on @thebristolcable.bsky.social 's People Just Do Something Podcast on crypto and the contemporary left.
thebristolcable.org/2025/02/peop...
thebristolcable.org/2025/02/peop...
February 6, 2025 at 5:51 PM
Check out Josh Davila author of "Blockchain Radicals", on @thebristolcable.bsky.social 's People Just Do Something Podcast on crypto and the contemporary left.
thebristolcable.org/2025/02/peop...
thebristolcable.org/2025/02/peop...
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Catch the #Grammys? This week’s review introduces the concept of Blacksound to examine how the American popular #musicindustry "was built on the exploitation of slave song and blackface minstrelsy” in "Blacksound" from U California Press: ow.ly/JQtZ50USEBB
#BlackHistoryMonth @ucpress.bsky.social
#BlackHistoryMonth @ucpress.bsky.social
February 4, 2025 at 6:29 PM
Catch the #Grammys? This week’s review introduces the concept of Blacksound to examine how the American popular #musicindustry "was built on the exploitation of slave song and blackface minstrelsy” in "Blacksound" from U California Press: ow.ly/JQtZ50USEBB
#BlackHistoryMonth @ucpress.bsky.social
#BlackHistoryMonth @ucpress.bsky.social
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@lendavis.bsky.social , author of "Poor Things," talks with the @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social about how people with money write about those without it.
https://buff.ly/4gl9YGf
https://buff.ly/4gl9YGf
January 31, 2025 at 4:00 PM
@lendavis.bsky.social , author of "Poor Things," talks with the @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social about how people with money write about those without it.
https://buff.ly/4gl9YGf
https://buff.ly/4gl9YGf
Grim news at Cardiff, probably more to come at other Universities. Please sign and share if you can. Solidarity to all the affected students and staff chng.it/xcSXRBZwW4
Sign the Petition
SAVE CARDIFF UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MUSIC
chng.it
January 29, 2025 at 7:38 PM
Grim news at Cardiff, probably more to come at other Universities. Please sign and share if you can. Solidarity to all the affected students and staff chng.it/xcSXRBZwW4