The Aesthetics of Music and Sound - www.soundmusicresearch.org                 

Cross-Disciplinary Interplay between the Humanities, Technology and Musical Practice    

Projects

 

(Click on titles for project descriptions. Please note that a selective bibliography is available by means of a link at the bottom of this page.)

 

 

1.Understanding Music through Modern Technology

 

a) Recognizing Music

 

(Jakob Christensen-Dalsgaard, Cynthia M. Grund)

 

b)Recognition of Expressive Styles in Music Performance

 

(Niklas Saers (Ph.D.-project) with Kristoffer Jensen, Mogens Christensen)

 

The different playing styles of a large number of music instruments will also be investigated in a related performance-based research project.

 

(Mogens Christensen, Axel Momme, Niklas Saers, Kristoffer Jensen)

 

c) Autonomous Agents – An accompanist in VR

 

(Kristoffer Jensen, Lars Graugaard)

 

d) The Composition and its Role in the Ensemble

(Ph.d.-project by Søren R. Frimodt-Møller)

 

2. Intermediality

(Lars Ole Sauerberg)

 

3. Learning through Music

 

a) Music Communication

 

(Mogens Christensen, Frederik Søegaard, Axel Momme, Hans Sydow)

 

b) Children's Knowledge Creation with Intelligent Agents in Music Education - Understanding for optimizing motivations

 

(Eva Petersson, Tony Brooks, Kristoffer Jensen)

 

c) Adaptable Interfaces & Augmented Avatar (JC) - Introducing Tools  for Disabled and Musicians in VR

 

(Kristoffer Jensen, Tony Brooks, Eva Petersson)

 

d) Community Singing and/or Ideology

 

(Peter Edlef Nissen)

 

4. Practice-based Research

 

a) Analysis and Implementation of Practice-Based Research

 

Tere Vadén, William Westney, Fredrik Søgaard, Cynthia M. Grund

 

b) Relationship of Gesture to Communicative Authenticity in Performance 

 

(William Westney, Kristoffer Jensen,  Cynthia M. Grund)

 

c) Musical Implications of the Work of Pragmatist Philosophers James, Dewey and Peirce 

 

(William Westney, Cynthia M. Grund)

 

d)  Employing the Methods of Discourse Narrative to Support Interpretive Choices Faced by the Practicing Musician    

 

(William Westney, Marianne Horsdal, Cynthia M. Grund)

 

e) Soundmapping the Genes    

 

(Fredrik Søegaard, Claus Gahrn, Kristoffer Jensen, Cynthia M. Grund)

 

5. Selective Bibliography

 

 

 

 

 

 

 Institute of Philosophy, 

Education and the Study

of Religions

 

Research Director for

The Aesthetics of

Music and Sound:

and

 Editor and Webmaster for

www.soundmusicresearch.org:

Cynthia M. Grund

cmgrund@ifpr.sdu.dk

 

 

Updates

 

 

September 6, 2010: Airing on ALTV (Aabenraa Lokal TV) September 6, 2010 - September 13, 2010 and available online at ALTV's homepage HERE: William Westney's lecture as Hans Christian Andersen Visiting Professorial Fellow, University of Southern Denmark (SDU), Odense: "Experience and Inquiry - A Musical Journey."

 

September 5, 2010: The site has been updated for the fall semester 2010. Please keep an eye out for further updates and additions!

 

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.

  

 

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(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.)