Subject: The Natural History of Song From: Samuel Mehr <sam@xxxxxxxx> Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2016 12:00:46 -0400 List-Archive:<http://lists.mcgill.ca/scripts/wa.exe?LIST=AUDITORY>--94eb2c0b0188f18faa053c8df23e Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Dear colleagues, Manvir Singh, Luke Glowacki, and I are delighted to officially announce the Natural History of Song! We've just launched our website at http://www.naturalhistoryofsong.org. I've posted about this project a few times on Auditory and we are now going public. In the project, we collect ethnographic text and audio recordings from many cultures and use them to determine the behavioral, social, acoustical, and musical features that characterize the world's songs. We aim to provide a public resource that advances the scientific and humanistic study of music. We'd love to discuss with anyone who is interested, especially if there are particular questions that you'd like to explore or experiments you'd like to run using the datasets. The data and materials will soon be made open-access, so this could be either on your own, or in collaboration with one or more people on our team. We are also recruiting musicians, music theorists, ethnomusicologists, and/or anyone with basic training in music who is interested in volunteering to help gather data from the audio recordings and transcriptions used in the project. If you or one of your students might be interested, please check out the website and contact us if you=E2=80=99d li= ke to join the team. Looking forward to discussing the project with any/all who are interested! best, Samuel Mehr, Director Manvir Singh, Co-Director Luke Glowacki, Co-Director The Natural History of Song naturalhistoryofsong@xxxxxxxx naturalhistoryofsong.org --=20 Samuel Mehr Presidential Scholar, Harvard Graduate School of Education Affiliate, Lab for Developmental Studies + Evolutionary Psychology Lab 1136 William James Hall // (617) 384-9093 // mehr.cz --94eb2c0b0188f18faa053c8df23e Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable <p dir=3D"ltr">Dear colleagues,</p> <p dir=3D"ltr">Manvir Singh, Luke Glowacki, and I are delighted to official= ly announce the Natural History of Song!=C2=A0We've just launched our w= ebsite at=C2=A0<a href=3D"http://www.naturalhistoryofsong.org/">http://www.= naturalhistoryofsong.org</a>. I've posted about this project a few time= s on Auditory and we are now going public.</p> <p dir=3D"ltr">In the project, we collect ethnographic text and audio recor= dings from many cultures and use them to determine the behavioral, social, = acoustical, and musical features that characterize the world's songs. W= e aim to provide a public resource that advances the scientific and humanis= tic study of music.</p> <p dir=3D"ltr">We'd love to discuss with anyone who is interested, espe= cially if there are particular questions that you'd like to explore or = experiments you'd like to run using the datasets. The data and material= s will soon be made open-access, so this could be either on your own, or in= collaboration with one or more people on our team.</p> <p dir=3D"ltr">We are also recruiting musicians, music theorists, ethnomusi= cologists, and/or anyone with basic training in music who is interested in = volunteering to help gather data from the audio recordings and transcriptio= ns used in the project. If you or one of your students might be interested,= please check out the website and contact us if you=E2=80=99d like to join = the team.<br> Looking forward to discussing the project with any/all who are interested!<= /p> <p dir=3D"ltr">best,<br> Samuel Mehr, Director<br> Manvir Singh, Co-Director<br> Luke Glowacki, Co-Director</p> <p dir=3D"ltr">The Natural History of Song<br> <a href=3D"mailto:naturalhistoryofsong@xxxxxxxx">naturalhistoryofson= g@xxxxxxxx</a><br> <a href=3D"http://naturalhistoryofsong.org/">naturalhistoryofsong.org</a><b= r></p> <p dir=3D"ltr">-- <br> Samuel Mehr<br> Presidential Scholar, Harvard Graduate School of Education<br> Affiliate, Lab for Developmental Studies + Evolutionary Psychology Lab<br> 1136 William James Hall //<a href=3D"tel:%28617%29%20384-9093"> (617) 384-9= 093</a> //<a href=3D"http://mehr.cz"> mehr.cz</a><br> </p> --94eb2c0b0188f18faa053c8df23e--