AIRS is a Major Collaborative Research Initiative that focuses on singing:  both theory and applications. The proposal to the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) Major Collaborative Research Initiative  program received approval in December 2008. The project officially began on April 1, 2009.  The  inaugural  AIRS Annual Meeting  took place at the University of Prince Edward Island, the the home base of the project, in June 2009.  The second Annual meeting took took place in Seattle, Washington, in conjunction with the International Conference on Music Perception and Cognition (ICMPC) in August 2010.   St. John's Newfoundland,  was the home of the AIRS 3rd Annual Meeting  (June 9 - 11, 2011) in conjunction with Festival 500/Phenomenon of Singing and the International Council of Traditional Music.  Participants in the project are shown under the Research Team page. The support of the SSHRC MCRI program is gratefully appreciated.

This  web-site  was developed primarily for the benefit of the AIRS research team. Eventually the Web site will be directed also to the general public.

AIRS Researchers welcome connections at this early stage with others committed to the importance of singing in human development, education, health and well-being. AIRS welcomes contact with individuals or groups having similar interests: Please contact us via our contact page.

AIRS 4th Annual Meeting (Charlottetown, PE 2012)

The 4th Annual Meeting of AIRS will take place August 22-24 in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island. Workshops are being planned in conjunction with the meeting (August 21 and 24) with details forthcoming. The Policy and Planning Committee meeting will take place the evenving of August 21.

May 2012 - News!

AIRS in China Photo

  • AIRS in China

  • AIRS Test Battery of Singing Skills at Acoustical Society of American and the Chinese Acoustical Society's meeting in Hong Kong

  • Dr. June Countryman on CBC PEI Radio 1's Island Morning

April 2012 - News!

AIRS Student Funding

The Student Funding Review Committee has completed its review for Year 4 of the AIRS Project and is pleased to announce that over 30 project proposals have been approved with a potential student involvement of over 90 students. Congratulations to all AIRS team members and their students and best wishes for a productive project year.

AIRS at ECMA Awards

As part of the AIRS Partnership with the East Coast Music Association, AIRS visited the ECMA Awards in Moncton, NB this month and once again invited participation on the 'Melody on the Spot' contest. The contest challenges participants to create and perform an original song based on visual images presented to them. Entries have been forwarded to judges for evaluation. Watch for the winners in our May 2012 news!

March 2012 - News!

On-line Well-Being Survey on Singing

Rito Bento, a graduate student working with AIRS Co-investigator Dr. Stephen Clift  at the Sidney De Haan Institute at Canterbury Christ Church University, has created an online survey which aims to gather information regarding the impact of singing on general well being and quality of life.

 

AIRS invites everyone to complete this survey, as this is a great opportunity to provide valuable data for the researchers.

 

 

 

February 2012 - News!

Volume 21 of Psychomusicology: Music, Mind & Brain, hot off the press in February, is a special volume entitled `Singing and Psychomusicology`.  Edited by Annabel J. Cohen and Sandra E. Trehub, the volume contains contributions from AIRS co-investigators and collaborators:  Mayumi Adachie, Stefanie Stadler Elmer, Simone Falk, Ichiro Fujinaga,  Mary Gick, Jane Ginsborg, Nathalie Henrich, Susan O`Neill, Jaan Ross,   Frank Russo,  Laurel Trainor, Christine Tsang,  Graham Welch,  and from AIRS Post-doctoral Fellow  Bing-Yi Pan, and students  Johanna Devaney, Rayna Friendly, and  Triinu Ojamaa.  Reviewers included AIRS members Bradley Frankland, Beatriz Illari, Henrietta Lempert, Sten Ternstrom, and Laurel Young among other experts from around the world. The articles will be available on-line through PsycArticles in the near future via publisher American Psychological Association under the EPF  (Educational Publication Foundation) imprint.

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AIRS is currently working on making this Web site more interesting to the general public. We also hope to be able to provide the results of our research, so that information can be shared.

Please direct any questions or comments regarding the AIRS Web site to the AIRS Information Technology Coordinator. Contact information can be found on our Contact AIRS page.