SysMus and Sheffield
SysMus Conference Series
The SysMus conferences (International Conference of Students of Systematic Musicology) are annual student-run events designed to allow advanced students in the fields of systematic musicology and music science – particularly those studying for PhDs or completing Master's degrees – to meet and discuss their research. Keynote speakers include internationally renowned researchers working in various sub-fields of systematic musicology and music science.
SysMus is dedicated to including a broad range of topics within its conferences, representative of the great diversity within systematic musicology: music perception, music cognition, music psychology, music therapy, music modelling, music information retrieval, musical acoustics, music theory and analysis, music sociology, music education, music technology, music and culture, music and semiotics, and music philosophy.
In SysMus23, we would like to invite abstracts from different research areas, such as systematic musicology, composition, ethnomusicology, music technology, performance and psychology of music, in order to celebrate the interdisciplinarity of music research and offer a conference that represents the great diversity of music topics.
Music, Mind, Machine Research Centre - Department of Music, University of Sheffield
The Department of Music at the University of Sheffield is an All-Steinway School, renowned for its world-leading research in systematic musicology, composition, ethnomusicology, music technology, performance and psychology of music. The Music Mind Machine Research Centre (MMM) has played a significant role in the Department’s global reputation, providing a platform for researchers and students to explore musical experience from an interdisciplinary perspective. The MMM group combines theories and methods from music, psychology, social and computational sciences to conduct research with real-world applications, such as music as an aid for sleep and musical technologies for people with dementia. In addition, the group organises regular events such as reading groups, seminars (e.g. NEMUR in November 2021) and conferences (e.g. ICMPC16-ESCOM11 in July 2021), creating a space for researchers from around the world to promote their work, establish collaborations and develop new skills.
