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Cross-Disciplinary Interplay between the
Humanities, Technology and Musical Practice
June 30, 2010: NordForsk awards a grant of 571,239 Norwegian kroner to NNIMIPA for 2010-2013.
The Nordic Network for the Integration of Music Informatics, Performance and Aesthetics (NNIMIPA - www.nnimipa.org) becomes a research network under NordForsk (www.nordforsk.org) on September 1, 2010. Nordforsk contacted chief applicant Cynthia M. Grund on June 30 to announce the award of 571,239 Norwegian kroner (ca. 535,000 Danish kroner/88,000 US dollars) for 2010-2013. The decision was made by the director of NordForsk following an evaluation carried out by a panel of independent experts.
For several decades, philosophy of music or, more generally, humanistic research in music has concentrated on issues such as
the relationships between music and speech
the influence on local and global culture exerted by the immediate availability of music from virtually any time and place
the ways in which agents hear sounds as meaningful and representative, even when they come from the realm of what is usually thought of as “noise"
the ontological status of the work of music or more narrowly the status of the composition
And, more recently,
understanding processes in the minds of performing musicians, and
inspired by the results of such investigations in music ensembles, getting a deeper understanding of human interaction in communities (or just person to person) in general.
The Research Program The Aesthetics of Music and Sound, centered at the Institute for Philosophy, Education and the Study of Religions (IFPR), University of Southern Denmark (SDU), aims at shedding new light upon these questions by viewing music in terms of information and communication, aided by the tools under rapid development within information technology, practice-based research and the new perspectives arising within aesthetics as a result of new technologies for studying and producing music.
Among the topics to which these considerations give rise are:
the extension and application of successful music teaching strategies to pedagogical method in general
expanding the techniques of music pedagogy by integrating those from other disciplines
assessing the implications of various approaches to music pedagogy with respect to expressivity, mastery, and individuality.
[For a full description of the goals of the Research Program, as well as its background, please continue here.]
For a printer-friendly synopsis of the research program in pdf-form (links live when viewed online), please click here.
Please see the following networks for additional information about activities within The Aesthetics of Music and Sound:
JMM: The Journal of Music and Meaning (Funded by the Danish Research Council for the Humanities.)
Nordic Network for the Integration of Music Informatics, Performance and Aesthetics ((Supported by NORDPLUS 2007-2010; a research network under NordForsk September 1, 2010-August 1, 2013.)
netværk for tværvidenskabelige studier af musik og betydning/
network for cross-disciplinary studies of music and meaning
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