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Nordic Network for the Integration of
Music Informatics, Performance and Aesthetics
www.nnimipa.org
The Aesthetics of Music and Sound (AMS) has had the privilege of being affilated with NNIMIPA: Nordic Network for the Integration of Music Informatics, Performance and Aesthetics since the 2007-2008 academic year, when AMS Director Cynthia M. Grund served as Chief Applicant on a successful application for matching funds from NordPlus in order to establish this Nordic cooperative initiative. Nordplus has continued to provide matching grant funding for NNIMIPA activities held during the 2008-2009 and 2009-2010 academic years.
In 2007-2008 and 2008-2009, the participating institutions were:
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The University of Southern Denmark (SDU)
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Vestjysk Musikkonservatorium/Academy of Music and Music Communication, Esbjerg, Denmark (VMK); as of 1/1-2010 renamed Academy of Music and Dramatic Arts/Syddansk Musikkonservatorium & Skuespillerskole (SMKS) after merging with the Carl Nielsen Academy of Music Odense/Det Fynske Musikkonservatorium (DFM) and The School of Dramatic Arts Odense/Skuespillerskolen ved Odense Teater (SkO)
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Aalborg University Esbjerg, Denmark (AAUE),
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The Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden (KTH)
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University of Tampere, Finland (UTA)
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Sibelius Academy, Helsinki, Finland (SIBA).
As of the 2009-2010 academic year, we are pleased to welcome the University of Oslo, Norway (UIO) as a member.
Master's Course on
MUSIC, MEANING and GESTURE,
March 22-26, 2010 at SDU-Odense
(Printer-friendly version of poster/flyer here.
Download .pdf-version of the program found on the Google Calendar below.)
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There are a range of activities taking place under NNIMIPA sponsorship during the 2009-2010 academic year, and these may be seen on the EVENTS page here on www.soundmusicresearch.org as well as on www.nnimipa.org. These activities include
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The masters' course Music, Meaning and Gesture that has been preceded by a preparatory two-day workshop on music and gesture at a NNIMIPA coordination meeting which has just been held in Oslo, Norway February 18-19, 2010 : see here for general calendar information, and for more details, please see:
http://www.fourms.uio.no/activities/2010/westney-concert.html
and
http://www.fourms.uio.no/activities/2010/westney-unmaster.html
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The master's course on Music, Meaning and Gesture held March 22-26, 2010 on the campus of SDU in Odense, Denmark, and with the participation of all seven member institutions within NNIMIPA.
Schedule, lecture descriptions and readings for Master's Course: The schedule for the upcoming Master's Course on Music, Meaning and Gesture may be seen on the Google Calendar below, as well as on the EVENTS page here on this site. Select the dates March 22-26, 2010. The best view is provided on the agenda-setting. Lecture descriptions and suggestions for preparatory readings are included; click on 'more details' within each posting. A .pdf-document with this information is available here. Suggestions for accommodations in Odense for those coming to the course from out-of-town follow the calendar below.
For a three-way interview in which William Westney (concert pianist and Hans Christian Andersen Guest Professor at SDU 2009-2010), Alexander Refsum Jensenius (one of the masterminds behind the motion-capture project at the FourM's Lab at the Dept. of Musicology at University of Oslo) and SDU's Cynthia M. Grund (Network Coordinator for NNIMIPA) tell about the motion-capture experiments in which William Westney took part in Oslo and which will be presented and analyzed as part of the course, please go to www.nnimipa.org/JWG.html, and click on the link indicated in the text which explains the pictures there!
Students from NNIMIPA-NordPlus-partner institutions in Finland, Sweden, Norway and Denmark who wish to take this course for credit are asked to please consult their home university curriculum committees for information regarding the nature of the examination to be completed for a grade and the number of ECTS points awarded for passing this examination. Students at the University of Southern Denmark wishing to take this course as an overbygningskursus or fourth semester valgfag are requested to consult
http://www.sdu.dk/Information_til/Studerende_ved_SDU/Din_uddannelse/Filosofi_kandidat/Laeseplan/F10_iframe.aspx
(overbygningskursus)
and
http://www.sdu.dk/Information_til/Studerende_ved_SDU/Din_uddannelse/Filosofi_bachelor/Laeseplan/F10_iframe.aspx
(valgfag)
and to contact the curriculum committee (studienævn) of the department in which they are studying.
Note regarding calendar: The best view is provided on the "agenda"-setting. Clicking on "more details" yields the text in a properly formatted fashion.
BUS SCHEDULE AND SUGGESTIONS FOR ACCOMODATIONS:
The following hotels and youth hostel (click on names for websites) are very reasonably priced, within five minutes of each other and close to the buses (40-41-42) to the university (bus schedule here):
Danhostel Odense City
Hotel CabInn Odense
Hotel Domir
Ydes Hotel
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The bed and breakfast known as Alléhuset is also very reasonable and not far from the center nor from the university. You can see the distance from the university here.
If you would like to read more about last year's (2009) NordPlus/NNIMIPA-master's course, Music Informatics, Performance and Aesthetics please see http://www.nnimipa.org/IMIPA.html. |
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Institute of Philosophy,
Education and the Study
of Religions
Research Director for
The Aesthetics of
Music and Sound:
Cynthia M. Grund
cmgrund@ifpr.sdu.dk
Updates
March 7, 2010: .pdf-version of the program for Music, Meaning and Gesture - including schedule, lecture descriptions and readings - is now available.
Please click here.
February 27, 2010: Norwegian coverage of NNIMIPA.
On February 22 2010, the Norwegian cultural site www.kulturkompasset.com began running a story here after the NNIMIPA: Nordic Network for the Integration of Music Informatics, Performance an Aesthetics coordination meeting in Oslo at the Department of Musicology, during which William Westney gave a concert, an Un-Master Class and participated in a variety of motion-capture experiments designed to shed light on the role of gesture in musical performance.
February 22, 2010: New comprehensive website for NNIMIPA: Nordic Network for the Integration of MusicInformatics, Performance and Aesthetics.
For more information regarding NNIMIPA: Nordic Network for the Integration of Music Informatics, Performance and Aesthetics, the network behind Music, Meaning and Gesture, please see www.nnimipa.org.
February 21, 2010: Course schedule now up for NordPlus-sponsored Nordic Master's Course on Music, Meaning and Gesture, SDU-Odense March 22-26, 2010.
After a productive coordination meeting in Oslo February 18-19, there is now a course schedule available here for Music, Meaning and Gesture. Please check regularly for updated information.
February 15, 2010: Televised documentary "Music and Meaning: Duets and Dialogues" with WILLIAM WESTNEY and CYNTHIA M. GRUND.
During the week of February 15-February 22, 2010, ALT-Aabenraa Lokal TV will be airing "Music and Meaning: Duets and Dialogues" with H.C. Andersen Guest Professor William Westney and Cynthia M. Grund, Research Director for The Aesthetics of Music and Sound (AMS). To view the documentary on ALTV's homepage, please click here. This program includes interviews with Westney and Grund, gives an overview of the activities of AMS, tells the story behind William Westney's connection with the Institute of Philosophy, Education and the Study of Religions at The University of Southern Denmark (SDU), and includes clips from the conference held at SDU-Odense on November 6, 2009: Art and/or Entertainment? The Fifth Anniversary Conference on Philosophy and Popular Culture.
February 8, 2010: Televised documentary on the Un-Master Class with WILLIAM WESTNEY.
The Aesthetics of Music and Sound (AMS) hopes that everyone has experienced a good start to the spring semester, 2010. We are pleased to present more television coverage of the activities of William Westney during his tenure as H.C. Andersen Guest Professor her at the Institute of Philosophy, Education and the Study of Religions at SDU 2009-2010. This time it is a documentary about William Westney's Un-Master Class, filmed at Alsion Concert Hall in Sønderborg November 24, 2009 and broadcast for the first time on ALT-Aabenraa Lokal TV during the week of February 8, 2010. To view the documentary, please click here in order to access the segment directly on ALT's homepage.
To keep up with what is going on in AMS during the spring semester of 2010, please keep and eye on the "Events" page - you can click here - for details as these become available.
January 5, 2010: Televised concert with WILLIAM WESTNEY.
The Aesthetics of Music and Sound wishes everyone a very Happy New Year and is pleased to bring you a New Year's concert. ALT-Aabenraa Lokal TV has broadcast a concert with H.C. Andersen Guest Professor William Westney recorded live on November 24, 2009 at Alsion Concert Hall, Sønderborg. To view the program as a pdf-file, please click here. To see and hear the concert, please click here. The broadcast is of the concert in its entirety and divided into two parts. The first part contains music by Haydn, Fauré, Liszt, Harburg/Arlen, and Arlen as well as the first piece by Gershwin. The second part contains the Gershwin/Wild Fantasy on Porgy and Bess and the Burgmüller encore.
November 30, 2009: TV interview with WILLIAM WESTNEY.
ALT-Aabenraa Lokal TV has broadcast the first of a series of interviews with H.C. Andersen Guest Professor William Westney. To view the clip, please click here.
Archive
for "Updates": Click here.
(Includes the description of the SDU-IFPR research program The Aesthetics of Music and Sound which initially appeared online in Danish as Musikkens og Lydens Aestetik during the fall of 2006.)
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