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Archive for "Updates"-column:
The Aesthetics of Music and Sound
Cross-Disciplinary Interplay between the Humanities, Technology and Musical Practice
2010
May 24, 2010: For full details regarding the course "If I could say it, I wouldn't have to dance it" (Isadora Duncan): A Philosophical Investigation of Multimodality" May 25-28, Bifröst U, Iceland, please see the menu tab on this site labeled "Bifröst." For recital by William Westney in Salurinn on May 28 and for the research seminar "Music, Meaning and Method" in Reykjavik on May 29. please see the menu tab on this site labeled "Reykjavik."
May 22, 2010: Benefit concert with William Westney in London today. See here.
May 14, 2010: SUM symposium, Thursday May, 20, 2010 10:00-16:00 – Planeten, Huset i Magstræde, Rådhusstræde 11, Copenhagen K. The Nordic SUM - Structured Understanding of Music - research project aims to develop tools and procedures that facilitate the use of emotion as a systematic parameter in the creation, analysis and performance of music in its widest sense. The workshop will present a range of concepts and tools for managing musical emotion, both in analysis and synthesis. Among these are the SUM sensor device which is a performance and measurement tool in development. See here for details.
May 14, 2010: Details now available here for both the May 28 piano recital in Reykjavik with William Westney at Salurinn, Kopavogur Concert Hall here, and the May 29 research seminar Music, Meaning and Method at the University of Iceland, Reykjavik. For benefit concert with William Westney in London on May 22, see here for details.
May 13, 2010: Announcing a Lunchtime Concert on Monday, May 17 at 12:00 noon with William Westney at The University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Cafeteria 4. See announcement on Kultunaut here.
May 11, 2010: On May 12, in Aabenraa, Denmark, William Westney will hold an “Un-Master Class” 4 p.m.- 6 p.m. (see here) and will give a concert 6:40 p.m.- 7:20 p.m. (see here), both events at Deutsches Gymnasium für Nordschleswig, Svinget 26-28, 6200 Aabenraa. These events were originally to have taken place on Wednesday, February 3, but were resecheduled at the last minute due to heavy snowfall.
May 11, 2010: Today in Copenhagen 4 p.m. - 6 p.m. “Un-Master Class” workshop with William Westney. The Royal Danish Academy of Music, Rosenørns Allé 22, 1970 Frederiksberg C. See Events/Calendar entry here.
May 7, 2010: Homepage for the course "'If I could say it, I wouldn’t have to dance it' (Isadora Duncan): A Philosophical Investigation of Multimodality," taught by William Westney and Cynthia M. Grund at Bifröst U., Borgarnes, Iceland, May 25-28 as part of a course exchange now available. Please see the menu tab "Bifröst" here on this site.
May 2, 2010: Program for the 16th National Meeting of NTMSB, Music, Meaning and Empathy - An Open Research Colloquium at SDU on May 18 available here.
April 28, 2010: Facebook Group started for The Aesthetics of Music and Sound here:
April 27, 2010: Information on the lunchtime concert, "Flyglet Danser!/The Piano Dances!" taking place at SDU-Odense 11:30-12:30 on Thursday, April 29 now available here.
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FLYGLET DANSER!
(The Piano Dances)
Lunchtime Concert,
Cafeteria 4
The University of
Southern Denmark at Odense
Thursday, April 29.
11:30-12:30.
As a celebration of
Days of Dance 2010
JANUS ARAGHIPOUR
Conservatory Student,
Academy of Music and Dramatic Arts/
Syddansk Musikkonservatorium &
Skuespillerskole (SMKS), Odense
performs a program of
classical and modern music inspired
by dance styles throughout the years.
See poster here.
See program here.
Arranged by: THE PERSONNEL OF CAFETERIA 4 &
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April 16, 2010: Documentary slideshow and summary report now available for Music, Meaning and Gesture, NordPlus Master's Course held 22-26 March, 2010 at SDU-Odense here.
April 9, 2010: Information now available regarding course on Nordic National Romanticism, fall 2010, at The University of Southern Denmark (SDU), Odense. This is an upper-level course being offered during the fall semester 2010 which will focus on the philosophy and music associated with this complex of cultural and intellectual attitudes. The course will be conducted in English and will include cross-disciplinary elements. Please see here for detailed information.
April 5, 2010: JMM: The Journal of Music and Meaning.
JMM8 available online as of April 5 , 2010 here.
March 12, 2010: Prince Joachim and Princess Marie to attend William Westney's concert at Pumpehuset, Tønder on March 17.
- For story in Jydske Vestkysten, see here;
- For coverage in Kulturfokus, see here;
- For the Royal Calendar, see here;
- For coverage on the SDU website, see here.
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.
2009
(Site construction began June 2, 2009)
Please see here.
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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
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.
June 23,2010: Summary report chronicling William Westney's tenure as HCA-Academy Guest Professor at SDU now available on the menu tab "HCA Professor 2009-10" here on this site. As the summary report indicates, William Westney's presence as HCA-Academy Guest Professor has put its very exciting imprimatur on many of the acitivities within The Aesthetics of Music and Sound this year, and a heartfelt "thank you" goes to Professor Westney for all he has done to enrich the program. To see all that has transpired - also those activities and events without direct relation to the guest professorship - please see the calendar available on the "Events/Calendar" menu tab on this site (on the calendar itself, click the leftward-pointing arrow next to "Today.")
Now the summer university break is soon upon us, but please keep an eye out for upcoming events and activities within The Aesthetics of Music and Sound on both the "Preview" and "Events/Calendar" menu tabs.
The Aesthetics of Music and Sound wishes everyone a happy, healthy summer filled with wonderful music and sounds!
June 13, 2010: Preview tab added to the site's menu bar in order to inform about upcoming events, also those for which a date has yet to be fixed.
For all that has gone on in May 2010 and previously, please see "Archive for 'Updates' " below and the calendar available on the menu tab "Events/Calendar."
May 31, 2010: For details on the June 2, 2010 Seminar on meaning formation in music from the perspectives of multi-modality and functional linguistics at SDU with William Westney and Cynthia M. Grund, please see 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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