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CONCERT AND SEMINAR THURSDAY, APRIL 18, 2013 UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK - ODENSE
CONCERT THURSDAY, APRIL 18, 2013 ON THE CAMPUS SQUARE (CAMPUSTORVET) 12 NOON-1:00 P.M.
SEMINAR
THURSDAY, APRIL 18, 2013 3:15-5 P.M. IN U73
Charles-Valentin Alkan:
Morten Heide, Pianist and Choral Director; NNIMIPA (Nordic Network for the Integration of Music Informatics, Performance and Aesthetics) delegate-at-large representing The Academy of Music and Dramatic Arts, Southern Denmark (AMDA), Odense, Denmark. http://mortenheide.dk/home
• What qualities are to be found in Alkan's music?
Throughout the lecture, the musical material under discussion will be exemplified by means of scores, recordings, and live piano performance by Morten Heide.
Poster for the seminar available HERE.
Audience participation via Skype is also welcome.
Please Note: Morten Heide will be performing a program of Charles Valentin Alkan’s music at the April 18 Lunchtime Concert at the University of Southern Denmark. Please see http://www.soundmusicresearch.org/lunchtimeconcerts.html for details.
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From "News"; archived 14-04-2013
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SEMINAR THURSDAY, APRIL 11, 2013 3:15-5 P.M. IN U73 UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK - ODENSE
The Correlative Properties of the Unresolved Discord
Mogens Davidsen, PhD, Associate Professor, Institute for the Study of Culture, University of Southern Denmark.
Abstract: Taking as a point of departure an analysis of the short story “Dance Macabre” from 1901 by the Danish writer Johannes V. Jensen (Nobel Prize in 1944), this presentation will suggest an understanding of disharmonic structure in modernistic art, music and literature.
Furthermore, the lecture will present Henri Bergson’s ideas of the incapacity of the human everyday mind – being pragmatic in nature - to grasp the real nature of reality, and only in special situations capable of experiencing reality as different from the narrative structure the human mind applies to it. These special situations – among others – could well be in the confrontation with art.
Poster for the seminar available HERE.
Audience participation via Skype is also welcome.
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From "News"; archived 06-04-2013
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SEMINAR THURSDAY, APRIL 4, 2013 3:15-5 P.M. IN U73 UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK - ODENSE
Shaping the Community through Song – Ideology in the Song Collections of Johann Friedrich Reichardt
Mårten Nehrfors, PhD Candidate, Department of Musicology and Performance Studies, Stockholm University.
Abstract: In the second half of the 18th century German musicians began to direct their interest towards the newly emerging middle class. Here they found an audience seeking to validate its social status through the acquisition of cultural capital and hence with an interest in music. Musicians began to produce collections of songs and chamber music for this audience, as well as journals and magazines with musical content. In addition to cultural capital the music also provided the middle class with a cultural identity. This was particularly pertinent given that the German territories at the time were fragmented into countless disparate pieces. With their music the musicians helped create a community and provided an emotional expression for that community.
One musician with a keen interest in this audience was the Prussian court Kapellmeister Johann Friedrich Reichardt (1752-1814). This seminar will focus on how Reichardt, with song collections such as Wiegenlieder für gute deutsche Mütter and Lieder für die Jugend, not only provided his middle class audience with a cultural identity, but also actively sought to shape it.
Poster for the seminar available HERE.
Audience participation via Skype is also welcome.
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From "News"; archived 02-04-2013
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CONCERT AND SEMINAR THURSDAY, MARCH 21, 2013 UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK - ODENSE
CONCERT THURSDAY, MARCH 21, 2013 ON THE CAMPUS SQUARE (CAMPUSTORVET) 12 NOON-1:00 P.M.
SEMINAR
THURSDAY, MARCH 21, 2013 3:15-5 P.M. IN U73
Teresemarie Lisiux, Cand. Musicae, Master of Music - main subject: classical piano. The Academy of Music and Dramatic Arts, Southern Denmark.
Abstract: When giving piano lessons we sometimes tend to follow a tradition of saying the same things to our students that were said to us many years ago when we first started playing. For many generations this has been the only way of delivering "the know how" from one generation to the next. Nowadays, however, we are fortunate to have access to research on movement, brain functions and memory - a lot of information that may aid us in educating our children as well as upcoming pianists. Here in Denmark, nonetheless, we are - in my opinion - too fixated on the way tradition tells us how to teach. How many teachers are actually up-to-date with regard to research results?
While preparing my Master of Music (Cand.musicae) thesis, I tested some results from the world of sports on "how to learn movements in the best and fastest way." I worked with two pianists, one amateur and one professional, and we implemented the ideas over a period of some weeks.
During my seminar presentation I will talk about the results of my work and will present some proposals for utilizing this knowledge when teaching students.
Poster for the seminar available HERE.
Audience participation via Skype is also welcome.
Please Note:Teresemarie Lisiux will be performing together with Emma Oemann, soprano, at the March 21 Lunchtime Concert at the University of Southern Denmark. Please see http://www.soundmusicresearch.org/lunchtimeconcerts.html for details.
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From "News"; archived 15-03-2013
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SEMINAR
THURSDAY, MARCH 14, 2013 3:15-5 P.M. IN U73
Dwelling “In-Between”: The Ineffability of Musical Meaning as an Asubjective Phenomenon
Tere Vadén, Professor, Department of Art, School of Art, Design and Architecture, Aalto University, Helsinki.
(Via Skype)
Poster for the seminar available HERE.
Audience participation via Skype is also welcome.
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From "News"; archived 09-03-2013
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SEMINAR
THURSDAY, MARCH 7, 2013 3:15-5 P.M. IN U73
What Music Tells Us About Ourselves and Our Cultural Experience
Mary L. Tuck, currently in the MA Ethnomusicology program at Kent State University, Kent, Ohio. Abstract: What is it about music that reveals to us our humanness? Why do we do what we do in our cultures? Is there a way that science and the humanities can work together to help reveal these secrets? Today, more than ever, there is awareness that multidisciplinary collaboration will help move all our fields forward. Psychology, neuroscience, anthropology, semiology (to name just a few of the fields involved) are sharing a common dialogue through music. Ethnomusicology, with a multidisciplinary approach as one of its hallmarks, uses the tools of its sister disciplines to look at ourselves at home in our cultural traditions through the lens of music. What a community holds as sacred and how that experience is communicated and translated into our daily experience is pointing to some potential human universals. The idea of a shared experience is at the very core of our existence and music is an immediate, creative and evolving partner to that experience. Art moves us along our evolutionary path. Today, we will look at the science in the spiritual practice of kirtan (call and response accompanied singing) to understand ourselves in both a reflective and reflexive way. Poster for the seminar available HERE.
Audience participation via Skype is also welcome.
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From "News"; archived 01-03-2013
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SEMINAR
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 2013
Thursday, February 28, 2013, 3:15 -5 p.m. in U73
Music, Rhythm and Embodied Cognition
Nereya Otieno
Master's Candidate in Cognition and Communication, Center for Subjectivity Research, University of Copenhagen
Abstract: Our bodies are involved as much with our cognitive process as our brains. Rhythm plays a key role in our navigation of our own bodies and minds, but it also is a crucial element in our ability to live with one another as a whole. During this talk we will couple scientific evidence with social tendencies in an attempt to make a a greater case for the need for and purpose of rhythm in the human species. The scaffolding for this forthcoming master's thesis is thus a discussion of the implications of rhythm and music in humans as communicative, co-existing, and moving beings. The intrinsic and unavoidable aspects of rhythm will be explored - both in everyday life and in irregular circumstances. What are the effects of rhythm on our speech patterns? What are the effects of rhythm on our sensorimotor cortex? What is suggested by the physical, corporeal characteristics of rhythm and sound? What are the philosophical intimations of the human inclination toward rhythm? Poster for the seminar available HERE.
Audience participation via Skype is also welcome.
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From "News"; archived 22-02-2013
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LUNCHTIME CONCERT AND SEMINAR
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 2013
Concert: Thursday, February 21, 12 noon to 1 p.m. in Cafeteria 4: Poster for the concert available here. Program for the concert (in Danish) available here.
Seminar: Thursday, February 21, 3:15-5 p.m. in U73
Aesthetics and Pedagogies for Making Music with New Media S. Alex Ruthmann PhD, Assistant Professor Music Education, Department of Music Faculty Fellow in Residence, Commonwealth Honors Program, UMass, Lowell President, Association for Technology in Music Instruction Co-Editor, International Journal of Education & the Arts (Via Skype.)
Audience participation via Skype is also welcome.
Poster for the seminar available here.
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From "News"; archived 17-02-2013
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SEMINAR
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 2013
Thursday, February 14, 3:15-5 p.m. in U73
Oracular Music: Musical Modernism and the Ideology of Progress
Golan Gur, MA, Doctoral Candidate, Institute of Musicology and Media Studies, Humboldt University of Berlin It should not surprise us that so many composers in the twentieth century aligned themselves with the notion of progress. After all, if music – and art in general – is to maintain its cultural importance and significance, then it must keep pace with the rest of the developments that define modern civilization, in particularscientific and technological developments. Additionally, the emergence of specific historical genres, forms, and styles of music was undeniably conditioned by the political and social circumstances of their era. Yet art works also possess a trans-historical value. The technological innovations of today surpassed those of the past, but present-day listeners and musicians are just as capable of enjoying and appreciating music written hundreds years ago. Indeed, many would agree that new art is not necessarily better than earlier one. Referring to ancient Greek literature, Karl Marx spoke of the "unequal relation of the development of material production". By contrast, some contemporary music theorists and philosophers have argued that only the most recent music can truly fulfil the higher calling of art. What then is the function of music in relation to general progress? When and how did we start thinking of art along these lines, and is it still possible today in the wake of postmodernism? The seminar explores this set of questions, taking as its primary case study Arnold Schoenberg's and Theodor W. Adorno's widespread views of musical progress.
Audience participation via Skype is also welcome.
Poster for the seminar available here.
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From "News"; archived 10-02-2013
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SEMINAR
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 2013
Thursday, February 7, 3:15-5 p.m. in U73
On the Meanings of the Sounds of Commerce
Matthias Bode, Associate Professor, Department of Marketing & Management, University of Southern Denmark
Commerce always has had a certain sound, a certain song to play. The historical relationships are much more intertwined than the more common antagonistic myths try to argue. Recent socio-cultural and economic changes led to a new phase in this configuration. Market phenomena such as brands have become cultural resources, while a cultural system such as the production and consumption of music became immersed explicitly into branding. Based on this background, this presentation will highlight the changed socio-historical context of the sounds of commerce and give an overview of the embedded practices of “acoustic branding” from a socio-semiotic perspective.
Audience participation via Skype is also welcome.
Poster for the seminar available here.
Schedule for series Topics in the Aesthetics of Music and Sound
February 1, 2013: This is the first day of the spring 2013 university semester here in Denmark, so welcome back to all who have spent the month of January either taking or grading exams!
This site will be updated during the next few days to reflect all that will be happening during the spring term. Please keep an eye out especially for the Lunchtime Concert Series and the seminar series Topics in the Aesthetics of Music and Sound, and please check the site's calendar periodically for the other activities which will also be taking place throughout the spring semester.
2012 (For 2011, please see HERE. For 2010 please see HERE; for 2009 please see HERE; site construction began June 2, 2009)
From "News"; archived 01-02-2013
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FROKOSTKONCERT
WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 12, 2012
Poster available for download here. Program with notes available for download here.
SEMINAR
THURSDAY, DECEMBER 13, 2012 RESCHEDULED! PLEASE WATCH FOR THIS SEMINAR AS PART OF OUR SPRING SERIES.
‘Rhythmical Building Blocks’: Creating Creativity Anne Helle Jespersen, Research Librarian in Music, Head of Music Section; Library of the University of Southern Denmark. MA in Ethnomusicology and Cultural Communication.
In 2011, Anne Helle Jespersen produced the set of teaching materials, Rhythmical Building Blocks – from J.S. Bach to James Brown together with co-author Marc Bernstein, saxophonist, composer and educator. The book includes a CD and it is aimed at music teaching in primary schools. It presents principles and tools, however, that can be used in a variety of music teaching situations and institutions. b) her role as a communicator and “cultural translator” of the work and teaching of an artist c) the collaboration between artists, higher schools of music in Denmark i.e. music conservatories, and the public school system.
Rytmiske Byggesten. Fra J.S.Bach til James Brown
Poster for the seminar available here.
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From "News"; archived 10-12-2012
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SEMINAR
THURSDAY, DECEMBER 6, 2012 RESCHEDULED! PLEASE WATCH FOR THIS SEMINAR AS PART OF OUR SPRING SERIES.
Thursday, December 6, 3:15-5 p.m. in U73
On the Meanings of the Sounds of Commerce
Matthias Bode, Associate Professor, Department of Marketing & Management, University of Southern Denmark
Commerce always has had a certain sound, a certain song to play. The historical relationships are much more intertwined than the more common antagonistic myths try to argue. Recent socio-cultural and economic changes led to a new phase in this configuration. Market phenomena such as brands have become cultural resources, while a cultural system such as the production and consumption of music became immersed explicitly into branding. Based on this background, this presentation will highlight the changed socio-historical context of the sounds of commerce and give an overview of the embedded practices of “acoustic branding” from a socio-semiotic perspective.
Audience participation via Skype is also welcome.
Poster for the seminar available here.
Schedule for series Topics in the Aesthetics of Music and Sound
From "News"; archived 01-12-2012
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SEMINAR
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 29, 2012
Thursday, November 29, 3:15-5 p.m. in U73
Write a Science Opera
Oded Ben-Horin, Associate Professor, Stord Haugesund University College, Norway, Faculty of Learning and Culture (Music Dept.) (Via Skype.) Write a Science Opera (WASO) is a newly-developed approach to multi-disciplinary and creative science education which brings together the opera genre and the traditional science class. WASO is based on the widespread and well-documented pedagogical methodology Write an Opera which is led in Europe by the Royal Opera House (London): a professional development methodology enabling teachers to instruct pupils of all ages during the creation and performance of completely self-written operas. WASO integrates science education into the original methodology by involving scientists as mentors, providing real-world complex scientific challenges on which students will collaborate creatively, creating a need to learn. Scientific information is personally introduced to pupils as inspiration for WASO productions by a scientist whose function is to lead and inspire an inquiry-based scientific as well as artistic process, thus demonstrating the common impulses shared by science and the arts.
Poster for the seminar available here
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From "News"; archived 01-12-2012
Cross-Disciplinary Interplay between the
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 27, 2012: PhD COURSE (in Danish) offered by the Institute for the Study of Culture, University of Southern Denmark:
Ph.d.-kursus ved Institut for Kulturvidenskaber, Syddansk Universitet, tirsdag den 27. november (på dansk). Kursusansvarlige: Lektor i børne- og ungdomskultur Herdis Toft Lektor i filosofi Cynthia M. Grund, Institut for Kulturvidenskaber, Syddansk Universitet
Se HER for detaljeret information og tilmelding og HER for plakat. Tilmeldingsfrist: Senest den 15. november 2012.
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LUNCHTIME CONCERT AND SEMINAR THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 2012
LUNCHTIME CONCERT 12:00 NOON-1:00 P.M. THE CAMPUS SQUARE/CAMPUSTORVET Campusvej 55, University of Southern Denmark, Odense ADMISSION IS FREE.
Program available as PDF-file here: Posters availabe as PDF-files here and here.
A seminar in the series Topics in the Aesthetics of Music and Sound follows the Lunchtime Concert on November 22, 3:15 -5:00 p.m. in U73:
with Tom Eide Osa, Associate Professor, University of Bergen, The Grieg Academy. (Via Skype.) Abstract here. Poster for the seminar available here.
Wittgenstein emphasizes that familiarity with a concept is to apply it correctly in action, knowledge is found in the correct use of the concept. Learning a concept is to obtain proper use within established conventions, to master the practice that is the concept’s grammar. To describe a concept is to clarify the usage rules in the current context.
I understand ways of playing and sets of such as concepts and areas of knowledge. Knowing and practicing ways of playing as concepts are the knowledge in the communities of practice. Music performance cultures can be identified as representatives of historically and geographically localized styles and genres, characterized and constituted by their distinctive ways of playing.
All are welcome both to the seminar series Topics in the Aesthetics of Music and Sound and to the Lunchtime Concert Series.
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From "News"; archived 19-11-2012
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SEMINAR THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 2012 Seminar 3:15- 5 p.m. in U73 Campusvej 55, University of Southern Denmark, Odense
Participation by Skype also welcome!
Music and Epistemology: Tomas McAuley, PhD Candidate, Department of Music, King's College London. (Via Skype.)
In a 1798 fragment from the journal Athenaeum, Friedrich Schlegel asks that his reader ‘consider a certain tendency of pure instrumental music (reine Instrumentalmusik) toward philosophy as something not impossible in itself.’ In a notebook entry from around the same time, Schlegel is much more forthright: ‘All pure music must be philosophical and instrumental (music for thought).’ These suggestions, tentative in public, forthright in private, are amongst the very first statements of a new view of music that arose in German-speaking countries in the years around 1800. The core of this new view was the belief that instrumental music is able to provide insight into central philosophical questions such as the nature of subjectivity or of the ultimate ground of being. According to a still standard presumption, this view arose in response to developments in contemporary composition. In this talk, however, I show that, in the case of Schlegel at least, the birth of this new view was driven not by any particular music, but by philosophical speculation regarding the nature of knowledge.
www.kcl.ac.uk/artshums/depts/music/people/students/mcauley/index.aspx
Poster for the seminar available here.
Schedule for series Topics in the Aesthetics of Music and Sound
All are welcome both to the seminar series Topics in the Aesthetics of Music and Sound and to the Lunchtime Concert Series.
From "News"; archived 11-11-2012
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SEMINAR THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 2012 (A. RUTHMANN RESCHEDULED - WATCH FOR NEW DATE! On November 8, Oded Ben-Horin gives us a "preview of coming attractions" for his talk on November 29) Seminar 3:15- 5 p.m. in U73 Campusvej 55, University of Southern Denmark, Odense Participation by Skype also welcome!
Aesthetics and Pedagogies for Making Music with New Media
S. Alex Ruthmann, PhD, Assistant Professor of Music Education, Department of Music; Faculty Fellow in Residence, Commonwealth Honors Program, University of Massachusetts Lowell; President, Association for Technology in Music Instruction; Co-Editor, International Journal of Education & the Arts. www.alexruthmann.com/ (Via Skype)
This presentation will share contemporary exemplars of new tools and musical practices for making music with new media. Online communities of youth practice are also emerging alongside, and embedded within, these new tools and platforms. More and more, children are learning from and teaching each other mediated by online fora and shared media exemplars. In the process, children are building shared understanding and distributed expertise often in semi-private environments not accessible to their teachers. Given that children increasingly have access to these musical tools (e.g., Noteflight.com, MIT's Scratch, GarageBand, inbflat.net, BohemianRhapsichord.com, etc.) and are actively using them to create music with new media, how should school- and community-based music educators respond to these innovations? How can school music educators make space for and facilitate these new forms of musicianship in their classrooms? In many cases, these new tools and practices raise pedagogical and technological issues that challenge notions of musical aesthetics and practices held dear by formally trained educators and musicians. Processes and practices which used to be only accessible to the most expert practitioners after years of practice now seem to be available to any child at the flick of a finger. These issues, and others, will be raised and problematized.
Poster for the seminar available here.
Schedule for series Topics in the Aesthetics of Music and Sound
All are welcome both to the seminar series Topics in the Aesthetics of Music and Sound and to the Lunchtime Concert Series.
From "News"; archived 02-11-2012
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THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 1: LUNCHTIME CONCERT AND SEMINAR
Lunchtime Concert 12:00 noon -1 p.m. on Campustorvet - The Campus Square - Campusvej 55, University of Southern Denmark, Odense
Concert program with program notes available as pdf-file HERE . Poster for the concert available as pdf-file HERE .
Composition as Inquiry Matias Vestergård Hansen, currently studying piano with Amalie Malling at the Royal Danish Conservatory of Music.
For me, composing music has always been a byproduct of all my musical endeavors; and do I mean composition in the literal sense, that is, the joining together of disparate musical elements. Apart from film media, music is the only art form that evolves temporally, and is capable of doing so on many planes at once. This we call counterpoint, something that deeply interests me.
Poster for the seminar available HERE.
PLEASE NOTE THAT THE TIME OF THE SEMINAR HAS BEEN CHANGED TO 4:15 P.M. SO AS NOT TO COLLIDE WITH THE HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSEN ANNUAL ACADEMY LECTURE AT SDU AT 3:00 P.M.
Schedule for series Topics in the Aesthetics of Music and Sound
All are welcome both to the seminar series Topics in the Aesthetics of Music and Sound and to the Lunchtime Concert Series.
From "News"; archived 21-10-2012
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SEMINAR THURSDAY, OCTOBER 11 Seminar 3:15-5 p.m. in U73 Participation by Skype also welcome!
Elucidating the Significance of Statistical Learning in Music Cognition through Behavioural Experiments and Computational Modelling
Poster for the seminar available here.
Schedule for series Topics in the Aesthetics of Music and Sound
All are welcome both to the seminar series Topics in the Aesthetics of Music and Sound and to the Lunchtime Concert Series.
From "News"; archived 05-10-2012
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THURSDAY, OCTOBER 4: LUNCHTIME CONCERT AND SEMINAR
Lunchtime Concert 12:00 noon -1 p.m. on Campustorvet - The Campus Square - Campusvej 55, University of Southern Denmark, Odense We celebrate our 20th concert in the Lunchtime Concert Series by holding the concert on the Campus Square.
Concert program with program notes available as pdf-file HERE . Poster for the concert available as pdf-file HERE.
Seminar 3:15-5 p.m. in U73
Improving Sight-Reading by Combining Ear, Eye and Instrument
Inge Bjarke, Lecturer in aural training at The Academy of Music and Dramatic Arts, Southern Denmark; Educated as a pianist, a piano teacher and a teacher in aural training. The author of three textbooks: Musikkens Grundbegreber (“The Fundamental Concepts of Music”) (MUFO 1991); Rytmer med Toner (“Rhythms with Tones”) (MUFO 1994); SNAPSHOT- An Introduction to Sight-Reading (MUFO 2009, English version 2011)
Sight-reading is an important part of professional musicianship, and to be able to imagine the sound in advance of playing is a necessity for good phrasing and intonation. The connection between sign and sound is trained in sight-singing as a part of aural skills, but to many students, this may be quite difficult, and not corresponding to their instrumental level. It seems as if there is a missing link in the way we learn music - compared to text reading, where the sign immediately gives an impression of the sound.
Learning the language of music mostly happens through playing an instrument, with quite much focus on the technical mastering of the instrument. In this process, the written notes might be seen merely as a sign of where to put the fingers on the instrument, rather than being perceived as symbols of sounds.
To help the student to develop all these skills, I have written the textbook SNAPSHOT – An Introduction to Sight-Reading, which consists of a large number of short exercises and examples from classical, tonal music.
Poster for the seminar available HERE.
Schedule for series Topics in the Aesthetics of Music and Sound
All are welcome both to the seminar series Topics in the Aesthetics of Music and Sound and to the Lunchtime Concert Series.
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Seminar 3:15-5 p.m. in U73
Tchaikovsky's Romeo and Juliet Fantasy Overture as an Example of How Semiotics Can Inform Hermeneutics
Daniel John Carroll, BA, Graduate Teaching Assistant, School of Music, Boston University. (Via Skype)
The literature on the narrative potential of instrumental musical compositions (those without a written text) encompasses a wide spectrum between the extreme formalists who believe that such works do not have any semantic nature at all but are purely “tonally moving forms,” and those who posit that they can indeed be interpreted for their underlying narrative structures which convey not only a plot in musical language, but even implicit ideological endorsements. As for the ability for music to fulfill the latter condition, the two main modes of interpretation are semiotics, which generally focuses on the individual musical gestures as they can be said to be signs in a signifier-signified relationship, and hermeneutics, which generally entails the discernment of larger narrative schemes that encompass the entire composition.
Poster for the seminar available HERE.
From "News"; archived 21-09-2012
Seminar 3:15-5 p.m. in U73
Ludim R. Pedroza, PhD, Assistant Professor of Music, Texas State University School of Music. (Via Skype)
Franz Liszt and Clara Schumann have each been historicized as representatives of performative dichotomies: Liszt as the uninhibited virtuoso who drove audiences into wild ecstasy, Schumann as the “priestess” who upheld the dogma of the Werktreue and delivered the “pure” musical work in the most sober manner. Nevertheless, closer inspection into the writings and performative lives of each challenges their stereotypical personae and reveals an interesting interplay between the emotional and the conceptual, between ecstasy and dogma. Through the lens of anthropologist Victor Turner’s concept of Communitas we see these artists negotiating both experience and idealization; we encounter a Liszt who idealized musical experience as the basis for societal transformation, and we also envisage Schumann’s private, emotional relationship with music, which drove her to idealize the musical work as an autonomous entity. Ultimately my goal is not to synthesize a philosophy of performance but to offer a socio-historical framework within which we can expand the dialogue on our own performative approaches and the lingering echoes of Liszt and Schumann’s aesthetics in them.
Poster for the seminar available HERE.
From "News"; archived 14-09-2012
The Aesthetics of Music and Sound THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 13: LUNCHTIME CONCERT AND SEMINAR Lunchtime Concert 12:00 noon -1 p.m. in Cafeteria 4, Campusvej 55, University of Southern Denmark, Odensen Concert program with program notes available as pdf-file here. Poster for the concert available as pdf-file here. Seminar 3:15-5 p.m. in U73 Morten Heide, Pianist and Choral Director, NNIMIPA delegate-at-large representing The Academy of Music and Dramatic Arts, Southern Denmark (AMDA), Odense, Denmark. http://mortenheide.dk/home (Expanded version of a talk originally given at NNIMIPA Network Meeting, King's College, London, July 22, 2012: http://www.nnimipa.org/PROGRAM_LONDON_2012_A5.pdf) After several years of performing Messiaen's music, I decided to record his vast piano cycle Vingt Regards sur l’Enfant-Jésus/ Twenty Gazes upon the Infant Jesus. 2010 was the year of preparation for this recording which I completed in the early summer of 2011. During the process of preparation, recording and finally the editing of many hours of recorded material, I found myself obliged to make many choices and to engage in much serious contemplation. My goal with this short presentation is to shed some light on the process I (we) as (a) musician(s) go through when recording a piece of music - from the very first note played (when we perhaps hadn't even thought of recording the piece later on) until the final result. It's not so much the final result that is important in this lecture, but the process, since it's a process of trying to approach perfection. And my idea of the "perfect" Messiaen recording surely differs from that of other musicians or musicologists. Those were but some of the many questions and considerations that consciously and unconsciously went through my mind during these three steps (preparing, recording and editing) of completing the recording. A lot of this is very difficult to put into words since, as always with music, it's to a great extent a matter of feelings, sense and emotions, of culture and traditions/schools, etc. In other words please don't expect this presentation to provide any final answers regarding the search for perfection in recording, but rather to work towards providing an articulation of some of the relevant questions which should be asked. Poster for the seminar available as pdf-file here.
Schedule for series Topics in the Aesthetics of Music and Sound
From "News"; archived 08-09-2012
The Aesthetics of Music and Sound September 3, 2012: Welcome back from summer vacation! Updates are now in the process of being uploaded throughout the site. Please pay special attention to the "kick-off" for the seminar series Topics in the Aesthetics of Music and Sound on September 6 and have a look at the schedule for all 13 seminars during the semester here. Thursday, September 6, 3:15-5 p.m. in U73 The Role of Routines in Music Performance and in the Accomplishment of Work in Organizations Markus Becker, Professor in the Strategic Organization Design Unit, Department of Marketing & Management, SDU. www.sdu.dk/ansat/mab How do groups coordinate their actions in a successful performance? This question is essential not only for music ensembles, but also for workplaces and organizations in general with regard to performing any group task. Poster for the seminar available as pdf-file here.
Schedule for series Topics in the Aesthetics of Music and Sound
From "Updates"-column; archived 08-09-2012
April 28, 2012: Concert -Thursday, May 3, 2012, 12 noon - 1 p.m. in Cafeteria 4, University of Southern Denmark, Campusvej 55, 5230 Odense M. The piano quartet PAÏAN - Martin Vestergård Hansen, piano; Peter Andreas Nielsen, violin; Josefine Weber Hansen, bratsch & Josefine Opsahl, cello, play Bach, Vestergård Hansen and Korngold. Concert poster available HERE. Concert program available HERE. Followed by a seminar in the series Topics in the Aesthetic
April 23, 2012: Seminar in the series Topics in the Aesthetics of Music and Sound - Is Narrative in Music Possible? -presented via Skype by Malgorzata Pawlowska, Assistant in the Department of Theory and Interpretation of the Musical Work of the Academy of Music in Kraków; Lecturer in Music History, Musical Analysis, Music Literature and Ear Training; PhD student in Music Theory. Thursday, April 26, 2:15 p.m.-4:00 p.m. in U73, University of Southern Denmark, Campusvej 55, 5230 Odense M. Poster for the seminar available HERE. This is the twelfth seminar in a series of 13 seminars during the spring. For series information and updates, please see HERE.
April 22, 2012: Friday, April 20, 2012, Cynthia M. Grund represented The Aesthetics of Music and Sound and NNIMIPA: Nordic Network for the Integration of Music Informatics, Performance and Aesthetics in The Festival of Research coordinated by The Danish Agency for Science, Technology, and Innovation. Cynthia gave presentations about cross-disciplinary music research for 7th and 8th graders at Breum School in Northern Jutland and for music and theatre students (college age) in Toftlund, Southern Jutland, at The Danish Music and Theatre folk high school. For description of the presentation, please see here.
April 13, 2012: Seminar in the series Topics in the Aesthetics of Music and Sound - Research Initiatives in the Study of Music, Meaning and the Body -presented by William Westney,
March 23, 2012: Seminar in the series Topics in the Aesthetics of Music and Sound: Witttenstein and the Limits of Musical Grammar(via Skype). Presented by Hanne Appelqvist,Postdoctoral Fellow (Academy of Finland); Theoretical Philosophy, University of Helsinki.Thursday, March 29, 2:15 p.m.-4:00 p.m. in U73, University of Southern Denmark, Campusvej 55, 5230 Odense M. Poster for the seminar available HERE. This is the ninth seminar in a series of 13 seminars during the spring. For series information and updates, please see HERE.
March 16, 2012: Seminar in the series Topics in the Aesthetics of Music and Sound The Polyfunctionality of Music in Some Dramas by Henrik Ibsen, presented via Skype by Sofija Todić, PhD Student in Studies of Culture and Part-time Lecturer at the University of Belgrade, Serbia. Thursday, March 22, 2:15 p.m.-4:00 p.m. in U73, University of Southern Denmark, Campusvej 55, 5230 Odense M. Poster for the seminar available HERE. This is the eighth seminar in a series of 13 seminars during the spring. For series information and updates, please see HERE.
March 5, 2012: Seminar in the series Topics in the Aesthetics of Music and Sound: Reflections on Improvisational Artistry and Style in Live Dance and Music Performance (via Skype). Presented by Aili W. Bresnahan,PhD Candidate in Philosophy, Temple University, Philadelphia; Editor, American Society of Aesthetics Graduate E-journal (ASAGE); and former professional-level ballet dancer and lawyer. Thursday, March 8, 2:15 p.m.-4:00 p.m. in U73, University of Southern Denmark, Campusvej 55, 5230 Odense M. Poster for the seminar available HERE. This is the sixth seminar in a series of 13 seminars during the spring. For series information and updates, please see HERE.
March 2, 2012: Annual Meeting of the Danish Philosophcial Association, March 2 & 3, 2012 Roskilde University, Roskilde, Denmark. For general information, please seeHERE. For presentations by members afffiliated with The Aesthetics of Music and Sound, please see HERE and HERE.
February 25, 2012: Seminar in the series Topics in the Aesthetics of Music and Sound: Is Music Healthy for Your Ears? Presented by Jesper Hvass Schmidt, M.D., PhD. Center for Musicians' Health, Clinical Institute, U. of Southern Denmark; Dept. of Audiology, Odense University Hospital; Dept. of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, Odense University Hospital. Thursday, March 1, 2:15 p.m.-4:00 p.m. in U73, University of Southern Denmark, Campusvej 55, 5230 Odense M. Poster for the seminar available HERE. This is the fifth seminar in a series of 13 seminars during the spring. For series information and updates, please see HERE.
February 19, 2012: Seminar in the series Topics in the Aesthetics of Music and Sound
February 12, 2012: Concert: Thursday, February 16, 2012, 12 noon - 1 p.m. in Cafeteria 4, University of Southern Denmark, Campusvej 55, 5230 Odense M. Sound Seeds: Live Concert with Jensen-Georges. Concert poster available HERE. Concert program available HERE. Followed by a seminar in the series Topics in the Aesthetics of Music and Sound with Kristoffer Jensen, Assoc. Prof., Dept. of Architecture, Design and Media Technology, Aalborg University Esbjerg, and Laurent "Saxi" Georges, musician, composer, researcher. The seminar is entitled Sonification: From Signal to Sound and takes place, Thursday, February 16, 2:15 p.m.-4:00 p.m. in U73, University of Southern Denmark, Campusvej 55, 5230 Odense M. Poster for the seminar available HERE. This is the third seminar in a series of 13 seminars during the spring. For series information and updates, please see HERE.
February 3, 2012: Seminar in the series Topics in the Aesthetics of Music and Sound with Composing as Adventurous Applied Science , presented by Jan Flessel, composer and instrumentalist, Thursday, February 9, 2:15 p.m.-4:00 p.m. in U73, University of Southern Denmark, Campusvej 55, 5230 Odense M. Poster for the seminar availableHERE. This is the second seminar in a series of 13 seminars during the spring. For series information and updates, please see HERE.
January 31 2012: The spring semester 2012 begins on February 1, 2012 in Denmark, and we get off to a running start on February 2 in the series Topics in the Aesthetics of Music and Sound with On Sound Segregation and Music, presented by Jakob Christensen-Dalsgaard, PhD, Associate Professor, Center for Sound Communication, Institute of Biology, University of Southern Denmark on Thursday, February 2, 2:15 p.m.-4:00 p.m. in U73, University of Southern Denmark, Campusvej 55, 5230 Odense M. Poster for the seminar available HERE. This is the first in a series of 13 seminars during the spring. For series information and updates, please see HERE.
January is examination month at Danish universities and the spring term officially begins on February 1. Please watch the website for updates regarding activities during 2012.
December 12, 2011: Seminar in the series Topics in the Aesthetics of Music and Sound, Thursday, December 15, 2011, 2:15 -4:00 p.m. in U73, University of Southern Denmark, Campusvej 55. 5230 Odense M. Sigrún Lilja Einarsdóttir, PhD student in Sociology – University of Exeter, England; Part time lecturer – Bifröst University, Iceland. Presentation via Skype: Bach in Everyday Life: ´Choral Capital´As Well-Being and the Socio-Musical Identities of Amateur Choristers Who Perform Art Music. Abstract available HERE.
December 7, 2011: ArtsIT-Second International ICST Conference on Arts and Technology, December 7-8, Esbjerg, Denmark. http://artsit.org/show/home
November 25, 2011:Seminar in the series Topics in the Aesthetics of Music and Sound, Thursday, December 1, 2011, 2:15 -4:00 p.m. in U73, University of Southern Denmark, Campusvej 55. 5230 Odense M. David Clowney, Associate Professor, Rowan University, Glassboro, New Jersey, USA presents a talk entitled Limits, Risks and Accomplishment in Musical Performance. Via Skype. Abstract available HERE. Poster for the seminar available HERE.
November 18, 2011:Seminar in the series Topics in the Aesthetics of Music and Sound, Thursday, November 24, 2011, 2:15 -4:00 p.m. in U73, University of Southern Denmark, Campusvej 55. 5230 Odense M. William Westney (Texas Tech U) and Cynthia M. Grund (SDU) present a talk entitled David Hume's Theories of Beauty and Utility Applied to Issues of Musical Performance – A Cross-Disciplinary Dialogue. Abstract available HERE. Poster for the seminar available HERE.
November 18, 2011: New Directions in Musical Performance. Workshop and seminar in the Concert Hall, Academy of Music and Dramatic Arts, Southern Denmark/Syddansk Musikkonservatorium og Skuespillerskole (AMDA/SMKS), Islandsgade 2, Odense, Denmark. 9:30 -14:00, November 21, 2011. For details, please see HERE.
November 14, 2011: Seminar in the series Topics in the Aesthetics of Music and Sound, Thursday, November 17, 2011, 2:15 -4:00 p.m. in U73, University of Southern Denmark, Campusvej 55. 5230 Odense M. We welcome Catherine Z. Elgin, Professor of the Philosophy of Education, Graduate School of Education, Harvard University, who will present a talk entitled Two Dogmas and the Arts via Skype. Abstract available HERE. Poster for the seminar available HERE.
At 7:30 p.m. on November 17, 2011, William Westney will be giving a concert in the Concert Hall at the The Academy of Music and Dramatic Arts, Southern Denmark (AMDA), Islandsgade 2, 5000 Odense C. William Westney is Paul Whitfield Horn Professor of Piano and Browning Artist-in-Residence, School of Music, Texas Tech University and was appointed H.C. Andersen Visiting Professorial Fellow at The University of Southern Denmark during the 2009-2010 academic year, affiliated with The Aesthetics of Music and Sound. Dr. Westney's program will include works by Bach, Albeniz, Brahms and Scriabin. For detailed program, please seeHERE. For more information on Dr. Westney, please see HERE.
November 6, 2011: Concert: Thursday, November 10, 2011, 12 noon - 1 p.m. in Cafeteria 4, University of Southern Denmark, Campusvej 55, 5230 Odense M. Pianist Morten Heide plays a program of character pieces, the titles of which suggest that they have been inspired by the song of birds or the sounds of flowing water..Concert poster available HERE. Concert program available HERE.
The concert will be filmed for television broadcast and is followed by a seminar in the series Topics in the Aesthetics of Music and Sound entitled: The Cognitive Semantics of Musical Tension with Jens Hjortkjær, PhD, Research Assistant, Department of Arts and Cultural Studies, University of Copenhagen. The seminar will take place on Thursday, November 10, 2:15 p.m.-4:00 p.m. in U73, University of Southern Denmark, Campusvej 55, 5230 Odense M. Poster for the seminar available HERE.
October 7, 2011: Seminar in the series Topics in the Aesthetics of Music and Sound - Musicianship, Musical Interpretation, and Cultural Identity: Challenges for Philosophy and the Social Sciences with David G. Hebert, PhD, Professor of Music, Grieg Academy, Faculty of Education, Bergen University College. Presentation via Skype.Thursday, October 13, 2:15 p.m.-4:00 p.m. in U73, University of Southern Denmark, Campusvej 55, 5230 Odense M. Poster for seminar available HERE.
October 2, 2011: Seminar in the series Topics in the Aesthetics of Music and Sound - Goals for Cross-Disciplinary Research and Education in Music and IT with Dr. Barry Eaglestone, Senior Lecturer, U of Sheffield, UK (RetiredI). Presentation via Skype.Thursday, October 6, 2:15 p.m.-4:00 p.m. in U73, University of Southern Denmark, Campusvej 55, 5230 Odense M. Poster for seminar available HERE.
September 24, 2011: Seminar in the series Topics in the Aesthetics of Music and Sound - Norms of the Performance Context with Søren R. Frimodt-Møller, PhD. Thursday, September 29 2:15 p.m.-4:00 p.m. in U73, University of Southern Denmark, Campusvej 55, 5230 Odense M. Poster for seminar available HERE.
Public lecture in fulfillment of the requirements for the magister degree. Stud.mag. Daniel Frandsen holds a public lecture addressing the following topic: Discuss the role played by authenticity in analysis of musical meaning and of musical value, taking into account considerations involving the connection between aesthetic value and ethical value. The lecture will be given in English and takes place on Friday, September 30 at 1:15 p.m. in U150, University of Southern Denmark, Campusvej 55, 5230 Odense M.
September 20, 2011: Musikkens og lydens æstetik: en tværvidenskabelig tilgang til nutidens Parnassus/The Aesthetics of Music and Sound: A Cross-Disciplinary Approach to a Present-Day Parnassus with Cynthia M. Grund. Assoc. Prof. of Philosophy, University of Southern Denmark at Odense. Opening lecture for the fall 2011 semester, Netværk for Kvinder i Filosofiske Fag (KIFF), Friday, September 23, 2 p.m. - 4 p.m, Room 1467-517, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark, followed by a reception. Poster available HERE.
With all that has been going on as the fall semester gets off to a start, we neglected to include this important update! The website for JMM10, the tenth issue of The Journal of Music and Meaning www.musicandmeaning.net was launched on July 20, 2011. From this issue and onwards, JMM will publish articles as they become camera-ready - a publication strategy we call ”rolling publication”. Two articles are already online and more are on their way. We are also delighted to announce that the Danish Council for Independent Research| Humanities (FKK) has recently renewed its support for JMM with a grant of 90,000 Danish crowns (ca. 17,000 US dollars at current rates of exchange) for 2011/2012, 2012/2013 and 2013/2014. All of us at JMM are very grateful to FKK for its continuing support.
September 2, 2011: Welcome back from summer vacation! Updates are now in the process of being uploaded throughout the site. Please pay special attention to the "kick-off" for both the lunchtime concert series and the seminar series Topics in the Aesthetics of Music and Sound on September 8:
Concert: Thursday, September 8, 2011, 12 noon - 1 p.m. in Cafeteria 4, University of Southern Denmark, Campusvej 55, 5230 Odense M. Tango quintet RABO DEL GATO plays a program of Astor Piazzolla's tango compositions. Concert poster available HERE. Flyer introducing RABO DEL GATO (in Danish) HERE.
The concert will be filmed for television broadcast and is followed by a seminar in the series Topics in the Aesthetics of Music and Sound entitled: Lyric and Meaning in Tango’s Poetry with Claudio Cifuentes-Aldunate, Associate Professor of Spanish at The University of Southern Denmark. The seminar will take place on Thursday, September 8 2:15 p.m.-4:00 p.m. in U73, University of Southern Denmark, Campusvej 55, 5230 Odense M. Poster for the seminar available HERE.
June 26, 2011: Four-day multi-event in London June 30-July 3 on the occasion of the inaugural annual conference of the RMA-MPSG which will be held at King’s College London on 1-2 July 2011. See HERE.
From "News"; archived 03-09-2012
The Aesthetics of Music and Sound Summer is finally here, and our NordForsk-sponsored Nordic Network for the Integration of Music Informatics, Performance and Aesthetics (NNIMIPA) hits the road, holding events in
(Click on the city names for information about the events.) . . . and we will be back this fall with the Lunchtime Concert Series and the seminar series Topics in the Aesthetics of Music and Sound
Schedule for series Topics in the Aesthetics of Music and Sound
Have a wonderful summer!
From "News"; archived 06-06-2012
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Schedule for series Topics in the Aesthetics of Music and Sound LUNCHTIME CONCERT & SEMINAR , MAY 3, 2012
LUNCHTIME CONCERT, May 3, 2012: SEMINAR, May 3, 2012:
Audience participation via Skype is also most welcome. Please get in touch with Cynthia M. Grund in advance of the meeting to make arrangements.
A TV-documentary in English about a Lunchtime Concert with Gustav Krogh Hansen Piekut earlier this year at The University of Southern Denmark, SDU, at Odense airs throughout the week of September 26 - October 2, 2011 on ALT, Aabenraa Lokal TV on the TV Sønderjylland (TV-SDJ) network. The program will be permanently availableHERE and during the broadcast week also HERE. In addition to concert clips, the program features interviews in which Gustav Krogh Hansen Piekut, Assoc. Prof. Cynthia M. Grund and Søren R. Frimodt-Møller, PhD participate.
From "News"; archived 27-04-2012
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Schedule for series Topics in the Aesthetics of Music and Sound SEMINAR April 26, 2012:
Audience participation via Skype is also most welcome. Please get in touch with Cynthia M. Grund in advance of the meeting to make arrangements.
From "News"; archived 23-04-2012
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Schedule for series Topics in the Aesthetics of Music and Sound SEMINAR April 19, 2012:
Audience participation via Skype is also most welcome. Please get in touch with Cynthia M. Grund in advance of the meeting to make arrangements.
From "News"; archived 13-04-2012
The Aesthetics of Music and Sound APRIL 12, 2012: LUNCHTIME CONCERT AND SEMINAR
Schedule for series Topics in the Aesthetics of Music and Sound LUNCHTIME CONCERT APRIL 12, 2012: Program: C. Debussy (1862 – 1918) Études (1915), Prèmier Livre (25 min) F. Liszt (1811 – 1886) From Années de Pèlerinage, Italie (20 min) Aprés une lecture de Dante: Fantasia Quasi Sonata (1849) SEMINAR April 12, 2012: Audience participation via Skype is also most welcome. Please get in touch with Cynthia M. Grund in advance of the meeting to make arrangements.
From "News"; archived 03-04-2012
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Schedule for series Topics in the Aesthetics of Music and Sound SEMINAR March 29, 2012:
Audience participation via Skype is also most welcome. Please get in touch with Cynthia M. Grund in advance of the meeting to make arrangements.
From "News"; archived 23-03-2012
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Schedule for series Topics in the Aesthetics of Music and Sound SEMINAR March 22, 2012:
Audience participation via Skype is also most welcome. Please get in touch with Cynthia M. Grund in advance of the meeting to make arrangements.
From "News"; archived 16-03-2012
The Aesthetics of Music and Sound March 15, 2012: Lunchtime Concert and Seminar
Schedule for series Topics in the Aesthetics of Music and Sound LUNCHTIME CONCERT March 15, 2012: SEMINAR March 15, 2012:
Audience participation via Skype is also most welcome. Please get in touch with Cynthia M. Grund in advance of the meeting to make arrangements.
From "News"; archived 09-03-2012
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Schedule for series Topics in the Aesthetics of Music and Sound SEMINAR MARCH 8, 2012: Audience participation via Skype is also most welcome. Please get in touch with Cynthia M. Grund in advance of the meeting to make arrangements.
From "News"; archived 05-03-2012
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Schedule for series Topics in the Aesthetics of Music and Sound SEMINAR MARCH 1, 2012: Audience participation via Skype is also most welcome. Please get in touch with Cynthia M. Grund in advance of the meeting to make arrangements.
From "News"; archived 25-02-2012
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Schedule for series Topics in the Aesthetics of Music and Sound SEMINAR FEBRUARY 23, 2012: Audience participation via Skype is also most welcome. Please get in touch with Cynthia M. Grund in advance of the meeting to make arrangements.
From "News"; archived 19-02-2012
The Aesthetics of Music and Sound February 16, 2012: Lunchtime Concert and Seminar
Schedule for series Topics in the Aesthetics of Music and Sound LUNCHTIME CONCERT FEBRUARY 16, 2012: SEMINAR FEBRUARY 16, 2012:
Audience participation via Skype is also most welcome. Please get in touch with Cynthia M. Grund in advance of the meeting to make arrangements.
From "News"; archived 12-02-2012
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Schedule for series Topics in the Aesthetics of Music and Sound SEMINAR FEBRUARY 9, 2012:
Audience participation via Skype is also most welcome. Please get in touch with Cynthia M. Grund in advance of the meeting to make arrangements.
From "News"; archived 03-02-2012
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Schedule for series Topics in the Aesthetics of Music and Sound SEMINAR FEBRUARY 2, 2012:
Audience participation via Skype is also most welcome. Please get in touch with Cynthia M. Grund in advance of the meeting to make arrangements.
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Music as Communitas: Ecstasy and Dogma in 
The Search for Musical Perfection When Preparing a Piece for Recording – Beyond the Musical Score
s of Music and Sound with Daniel Bonevac (via Skype), Professor of Philosophy, University of Texas at Austin. The seminar is entitled Rhetorical and Musical Structures 
April 3, 2012: 
s of Music and Sound with Janus Araghipour, Pianist, Bachelor of Fine Arts, currently enrolled in the Master’s Program in Performance at The Academy of Music and Dramatic Arts, Odense. The seminar is entitled Performing Debussy
March 10, 2012: 
University of Southern Denmark, Campusvej 55, 5230 Odense M. Martin Vestergård Hansen, piano, & Josefine Opsahl, cello, play Bach, Brahms, Busoni and Debussy Concert poster available 
December 31, 2011: The Aesthetics of Music and Sound wishes everyone a very Happy New Year and hopes that 2012 will be a healthy and rewarding year for all!
December
November 18, 2011: Concert: Thursday, November 24, 2011, 12 noon - 1 p.m. in Cafeteria 4, University of Southern Denmark, Campusvej 55, 5230 Odense M. Pianist and Professor William Westney plays a program of Bach, Scriabin, Albeniz and Brahms..Concert poster available 
October 29, 2011: Seminar in the series Topics in the Aesthetics of Music and Sound- Romantic Ballet: Features, Conventions and Narratives with Dr. Astrid Bernkopf, Programme Leader Dance Studies, Dept. of Performing Arts, Middlesex U., Trent Park Campus, London. 
September 26, 2011: A TV-documentary in English about a Lunchtime Concert with pianist Gustav Krogh Hansen Piekut earlier this year at The University of Southern Denmark, SDU, at Odense airs throughout the week of September 26 - October 2, 2011 on ALT, Aabenraa Lokal TV on the TV Sønderjylland (TV-SDJ) network. The program will be permanently available 
September 16, 2011: Seminar in the series Topics in the Aesthetics of Music and Sound - Immanuel Kant and Eighteenth-Century Musical Thought withTomas McAuley, PhD Candidate, Department of Music, King's College, London (via Skype). Thursday, September 22 2:15 p.m.-4:00 p.m. in U73, University of Southern Denmark, Campusvej 55, 5230 Odense M. 
September 
September 9, 2011: Seminar in the series Topics in the Aesthetics of Music and Sound - Markerless Motion Capture withAlex Czarowicz, Vice President of Sales for Organic Motion, Thursday, September 15 2:15 p.m.-4:00 p.m. in U73, University of Southern Denmark, Campusvej 55, 5230 Odense M. 
April 28, 2013: 
seminar with Carla Cash, PhD, Assistant Professor of Piano and Piano Pedagogy; Chair, Keyboard Area, School of Music;Texas Tech University; Lubbock, TX, via Skype:
April 14, 2013: 
Research Librarian in Music, Head of Music Section; Library of the University of Southern Denmark, entitled 'Rhythmical Building Blocks': Creating Creativity which was scheduled to take place on Thursday, December 13, 3:15 p.m.-5:00 p.m. in U73, University of Southern Denmark, Campusvej 55, 5230 Odense M, IS BEING RESCHEDULED AS PART OF OUR SPRING SERIES.PLEASE WATCH FOR NEW DATE DURING THE SPRING! Poster for the seminar available HERE. For fall 2012 series information and updates, please see HERE.
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The seminar is entitled Wittgenstein and Music Performance as Aesthetic Practice and takes place, Thursday, November 22, 3:15 p.m.-5:00 p.m. in U73, University of Southern Denmark, Campusvej 55, 5230 Odense M. Poster for the seminar available HERE. This is the tenth seminar in a series of 13 seminars during the fall of 2012. For series information and updates, please see HERE.
October 27, 2012: 
currently studying piano with Amalie Malling at the Royal Danish Conservatory of Music. The seminar is entitled Composition as Inquiry 