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2014

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From "News"; archived 25-02-2015

December 6:

Seminar: Vitus Vestergaard (in person), PhD, Assistant Professor of Media Studies, Institute for the Study of Culture, University of Southern Denmark; Christophe Szpajdel (via Skype), internationally renowned Belgian logo artist. Sound and Symbol: Making Sense of Metal Band Logos.Thursday, December 11, 3:15 p.m. - 5 p.m. in U67, University of Southern Denmark, Campusvej 55, 5230 Odense M. Audience participation via Skype is also welcome. Poster for the seminar available HERE. This is the twelfth and final seminar during the fall of 2014 in the series Topics in the Aesthetics of Music and Sound. The schedule for all seminars during the fall 2014 semester may be found HERE. The schedule for all seminars during the spring 2015 semester may be found HERE.

November 29:

Seminar: Jacob Rendtorff, Dr. scient. adm. (doctor scientarium administrationis), Ph.D, Mag. art. & Diplom Pol. Associate Professor, Department of Communication, Business and Information, Technologies, Roskilde University.Existence and Music: From Nietzsche and Wagner to Sartre and Jazz. Thursday, December 4, 3:15 p.m. - 5 p.m. in U67, University of Southern Denmark, Campusvej 55, 5230 Odense M. Audience participation via Skype is also welcome. Poster for the seminar available HERE. This is the eleventh seminar during the fall of 2014 in the series Topics in the Aesthetics of Music and Sound. The schedule for all seminars during the semester may be found HERE.

November 22:

Seminar: Johnny Harboe, M.A. in comparative literature from The University of Southern Denmark. Fluctuating Heterotopias � An Ocean View on Modern Metal Music. Thursday, November 27, 3:15 p.m. - 5 p.m. in U67, University of Southern Denmark, Campusvej 55, 5230 Odense M. Audience participation via Skype is also welcome. Poster for the seminar available HERE. This is the tenth seminar during the fall of 2014 in the series Topics in the Aesthetics of Music and Sound. The schedule for all seminars during the semester may be found HERE.

November 16:

Seminar: Marianne B�rch, dr.phil., Professor. University of Southern Denmark, Institute for the Study of Culture - English. Musical Cosmology. Thursday, November 20, 3:15 p.m. - 5 p.m. in U67, University of Southern Denmark, Campusvej 55, 5230 Odense M. Audience participation via Skype is also welcome. Poster for the seminar available HERE. This is the ninth seminar during the fall of 2014 in the series Topics in the Aesthetics of Music and Sound. The schedule for all seminars during the semester may be found HERE.

KAMMERMUSIKFESTIVAL - LUNCHTIME CONCERT

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 2014

First concert in the 2014 Chamber Music Festival with students from the Academy of Music and Dramatic Arts, Southern Denmark (Syddansk Musikkonservatorium og Skuespillerskole-SMKS) Thursday, November 20, 12 noon - 1 p.m. on the Campus Square, University of Southern Denmark at Odense For more information, please see HERE.

November 10:

Seminar: William Westney, Paul Whitfield Horn Professor of Piano, Browning Artist-in-Residence School of Music, Texas Tech University. Franz Liszt and Metal Music - an Aesthetic Affinity? Thursday, November 13, 3:15 p.m. - 5 p.m. in U67, University of Southern Denmark, Campusvej 55, 5230 Odense M. Audience participation via Skype is also welcome. Poster for the seminar available HERE. This is the eighth seminar during the fall of 2014 in the series Topics in the Aesthetics of Music and Sound. The schedule for all seminars during the semester may be found HERE.

LUNCHTIME CONCERT with William Westney, piano. Haydn, Mendelssohn, Schumann og Kapustin. THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 2014 12 noon - 1 p.m. in THE WINTER GARDEN. Concert poster available HERE as pdf-file. Concert program with notes available HERE as pdf-file. Facebook event page available HERE.

Seminar - Viewing Piano-playing Avatars in an fMRI-Scanner: What Motion Capture and Brain Scans Reveal about (1) the Effects that Intentions Can Have on the Way Pianists Perform and (2) Audience Perception of these Performances - in Aarhus on November 12 - at Aarhus University, Center of Functionally Integrated Neuroscience, Music in the Brain with William Westney and Cynthia M. Grund; see HERE.

November 4: Mogens Davidsen, PhD, Associate Professor, Institute for the Study of Culture, University of Southern Denmark. Seminar: Serial Poetry and Music. Thursday, November 6, 3:15 p.m. - 5 p.m. in U67, University of Southern Denmark, Campusvej 55, 5230 Odense M. Audience participation via Skype is also welcome. Poster for the seminar available HERE. This is the seventh seminar during the fall of 2014 in the series Topics in the Aesthetics of Music and Sound. The schedule for all seminars during the semester may be found HERE.

October 24: Week 42 (October 13-19) was fall break at universities here in Denmark. . . . and now we are heading into the second half of the fall semester. Due to conferences and other activity the seminar series Topics in the Aesthetics of Music and Sound and the Lunchtime Concert Series will be taking a pause until primo November. Much else is happening, however:

Conference -

Thursday, October 29-Saturday, November 1

If you are in San Antonio, Texas, October 30, you are welcome to attend when William Westney and Cynthia M. Grund present Of Avatars, Musical Embodiment and Perception at

American Society for Aesthetics Annual Meeting - San Antonio, Texas - Hotel Contessa. For the complete program, please see HERE.

Conference -

Thursday, October 30, 2014, 10 a.m. - 4 p.m. in U77

Representaciones de la guerra
Diarios de vida, Biograf�as, Literatura, Pel�culas

Organized by Claudio Cifuentes-Aldunate under the sponsorship of the Department for the Study of Culture and the Department of Language and Communication.Poster available for download HERE.

Radio Interview

Wednesday, October 29, 2014 -Abigail Arroyos' radio interview with William Westney and Cynthia M. Grund airs on National Public Radio, KTTZ 89.1 FM: Inside Texas Tech: Research Bringing Music, Philosophy, Body Movement Together. Listen to the interview HERE.

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October 3: Lunchtime Concert with Louise Nordstr�m, Thursday, October 9, 12 noon -1 p.m. in The Winter Garden, University of Southern Denmark, Campusvej 55, 5230 Odense M. Please see HERE for details.

The concert will be followed by a seminar with Theo van Leeuwen, Professor of Multimodal Communication at the University of Southern Denmark and Emeritus Professor at the University of Technology, Sydney - Vox Humana - Thursday, October 9, 4:15 p.m. - 6 p.m. in in U67, University of Southern Denmark, Campusvej 55, 5230 Odense M. PLEASE NOTE THE CHANGE IN TIME TO ONE HOUR LATER. THIS IS DUE TO THE ANNUAL UNIVERSITY-WIDE HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSEN ACADEMY LECTURE BEING HELD AT 3:00 p.m.in U45: WIZARDRY WITH LIGHT WITH PROFESSOR LENE VESTERGAARD HAU. Audience participation via Skype is also welcome. Poster for the seminar available HERE. The schedule for all seminars during the semester may be found HERE.

September 27: Seminar with Cynthia M. Grund (in person), Associate Professor of Philosophy, Institute for the Study of Culture, SDU, and William Westney (via Skype), Paul Whitfield Horn Professor of Piano, Browning Artist-in-Residence School of Music, Texas Tech University: What Avatars and Brain Scans Reveal about the Effects that Intentions Can Have on the Way a Performer Plays. Thursday, October 2, 3:15 p.m. - 5 p.m. in in U67, University of Southern Denmark, Campusvej 55, 5230 Odense M. Audience participation via Skype is also welcome. Poster for the seminar available HERE. The schedule for all seminars during the semester may be found HERE.

September 19: Lunchtime Concert with Per Aage Brandt, jazz pianist,Thursday, September 25, 12 noon -1 p.m. in The Winter Garden, University of Southern Denmark, Campusvej 55, 5230 Odense M. Program HERE; poster HERE. followed by a seminar, also with

Per Aage Brandt, Professor Adj. in Cognitive Science at Case Western Reserve University. Founder of the journal Cognitive Semiotics: What Chords Are Doing: On Tonality in Jazz Improvisation and in Tonal Music in General. From Schonberg to Bill Evans. Thursday, September 25, 3:15 p.m. - 5 p.m. in in U67, University of Southern Denmark, Campusvej 55, 5230 Odense M. Audience participation via Skype is also welcome. Poster for the seminar available HERE. The schedule for all seminars during the semester may be found HERE.

eptember 14: Lunchtime Concert with Sofie K�, alternative poprock, with August Korsgaard at the piano and Laurits Brinkmann on bass. Thursday, September 18, 12 noon -1 p.m. in The Winter Garden, University of Southern Denmark, Campusvej 55, 5230 Odense M.

The concert will be followed by a seminar with Coen Elemans, PhD, Associate Professor, Institute of Biology, University of Southern Denmark - The Real "All-singing, All-dancing" Thing: Sound Production and Communication in Songbirds - Thursday, September 18

8, 3:15 p.m. - 5 p.m. in in U67, University of Southern Denmark, Campusvej 55, 5230 Odense M. Audience participation via Skype is also welcome. Poster for the seminar available HERE. The schedule for all seminars during the semester may be found HERE.

September 7: Seminar with Jakob Christensen Dalsgaard, PhD, Associate Professor, Center for Sound Communication, Institute of Biology, University of Southern Denmark - What Did the World Sound Like to the Dinosaurs?Thursday, September 11, 3:15 p.m. - 5 p.m. in in U67, University of Southern Denmark, Campusvej 55, 5230 Odense M. Audience participation via Skype is also welcome. Poster for the seminar available HERE. The schedule for all seminars during the semester may be found HERE. . .

. . . and the semester got off to a great start on September 4 with a Lunchtime Concert performed by Jens Jakob Kj�r Hansen in The Winter Garden at SDU.Program HERE. Poster HERE. . .

. . . the concert was followed by the first seminar in the series Topics in the Aesthetics of Music and Sound for the fall of 2014 -
Sound as Environment: Towards an Aesthetics of Sonic Environmentality with
Ulrik Schmidt, PhD, Assistant Professor in Performance-design at Roskilde University, Denmark. Poster for the seminar available HERE. The schedule for all seminars during the semester may be found HERE

June 17, 2014:

As observant members of our Facebook group already know, on June 11 it was announced that JMM: The Journal of Music and Meaning has had its funding from theDanish Council for Independent Research | Culture and Communication renewed for the next three years. Please see http://ufm.dk/en/research-and-innovation/funding-programmes-for-research-and-innovation/who-has-received-funding/2014/-1 under "Journals."

June 2, 2014: A visit to the archives (HERE) for The Aesthetics of Music and Sound - Cross-Disciplinary Interplay between the Humanities, Technology and Musical Practice reveals that construction of the homepage www.soundmusicresearch.org began five years ago today on June 2, 2009. So, a little celebration is in order!

As of January 1, 2014 it is also the site of the SDU-IKV Research Program The Performances of Everyday Living.

Archive

for ""Updates" and "News":

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.)

From "News"; archived 15-01-2015

NEWS:

Update medio December 2014 - medio January 2015

We hope to see you at these events!

Logo designed by Christophe Szpajdel

The exhibition Marks of Metal is scheduled to open at Brandts - Mediemuseet (link HERE) in Odense on January 15, 2015. Facebook event page HERE. The exhibition will feature work by internationally renowned logo artist Christophe Szpajdel, and is under the direction of Vitus Vestergaard. This is part of Vitus' ongoing research project in our program The Performances of Everday Living entitled Investigation of Metal Music and Visuals: Logo, Cover, Brand; for background, see HERE.

A noteworthy feature of the exhibition opening on January 15 is that Copenhagen-based black metal band Solbrud (see HERE) will be performing during the evening of the opening day from 7 p.m to 9 p.m. (please see HERE for more information about the concert).

The schedule for the spring 2015 installment of the seminar series Topics in the Aesthetics of Music and Sound - Mostly Metal is complete, and the presentation titles and abstracts of all of the 13 seminars are available HERE. As always in this series, participation via Skype is welcome. An A3-size poster that shows all presentations is available HERE as a pdf file.

Rolling updates of

The Journal of Music and Meaning

(Funded by the Danish Council for Independent Research - Culture and Communication (FKK).)

Please visit JMM: Journal of Music and Meaning (www.musicandmeaning.net) regularly. JMM is an online international double-blind peer-reviewed journal based at The Institute for the Study of Culture/Institute for Kulturvidenskaber (IKV) at SDU. Cynthia M. Grund is Editor-in-Chief and S�ren R. Frimodt-M�ller is Managing Editor. JMM has a large international editorial board as well as a large international corps of peer reviewers covering a wide range of disciplines. JMM utilizes a policy of rolling submission and publication. The most recent update was on December 10 - the publication of the double-blind peer-reviewed article "Bu�uel�s Liebestod � Wagner�s Tristan in Luis Bu�uel�s early films: Un Chien Andalou and L��ge d�Or" by Torben Sangild.

A visit to Denmark on December 9 from Toni-Matti Karjalainen (Aalto U, Helsinki) provided a fine occasion for a meet-and-greet during which some members of The Performances of Everyday Living joined with some of our presenters for the spring installment of Topics in the Aesthetics of Music and Sound - Mostly Metal for fellowship and planning of future events. Left-to-right: Toni-Matti Karjalainen, Aalto University, Helsinki; Vitus Vestergaard, The Performances of Everyday Living, SDU; Rikke Platz Cortsen, KU; Johnny Harboe, The Performances of Everyday Living, SDU; Cynthia M. Grund, The Performances of Everyday Living, SDU; Tore Tvarn� Lind, KU and Claudio Cifuentes Aldunate, The Performances of Everyday Living, SDU.

. . . and herewith The Performances of Everyday Living wishes everyone the very best Greetings of the Season and a Healthful and Happy Beginning of 2015!

Recent events in the research program

The Performances of Everyday Living:

Seminar

Thursday, December 11, 2014, 3:15-5 p.m. in U67

Sound and Symbol: Making Sense of Metal Band Logos

Vitus Vestergaard (in person), PhD, Assistant Professor of Media Studies, Institute for the Study of Culture, University of Southern Denmark

Christophe Szpajdel (via Skype), internationally renowned Belgian logo artist

Abstract: In this presentation we will investigate one of the visual sides of music, namely heavy metal band logos.

Christophe Szpajdel is a distinguished Belgian artist best known for his enormous production of logo designs for heavy metal bands. He achieved global fame when he designed the logo for the influential Norwegian black metal band Emperor. Since then he has produced in total around 8000 unique, hand drawn logos.

     Based on his great experience and artistic interaction with the genre Christophe will present his thoughts on the history, design, style and inspiration of heavy metal band logos. This touches upon important issues such as the relationship between music, band/performer identity and visual representation.

     The seminar will begin with a short introduction by Vitus Vestergaard.

Audience participation via Skype is also welcome.

Poster available as pdf fileHERE.

Facebook event pageHERE.

Seminar

Thursday, December 4, 2014, 3:15-5 p.m. in U67

Existence and Music: From Nietzsche and Wagner to Sartre and Jazz

Jacob Rendtorff, Dr. scient. adm. (doctor scientarium administrationis), Ph.D, Mag. art. & Diplom Pol. Associate Professor, Department of Communication, Business and Information, Technologies, Roskilde University



Abstract:What is the relation between music and philosophy in creative existentialist philosophy?
     Is music a part of philosophical expression or how can philosophy contribute to the understanding of music?

    Nietzsche was a critical philosopher and he expressed his deconstructive reading of the metaphysical tradition from Plato to Hegel. In particular he thought that the operas of Wagner served to illustrate his philosophical thinking. In the same way Sartre represented an existentialist criticism of the metaphysical tradition. For Sartre it was jazz music that was a real existentialist and critical philosophy. Sartre argued that jazz music was important to express the existentialist understanding of life. In this presentation we will discuss philosophy and music from the point of view of these different existentialist philosophies.

Audience participation via Skype is also welcome.

Poster available as pdf file HERE.

Facebook event page HERE.

Thursday, November 27, 2014, 3:15-5 p.m. in U67; see HERE.

Fluctuating Heterotopias � An Ocean View on Modern Metal Music

Johnny Harboe is M.A. in comparative literature from The University of Southern Denmark. He is the author of six novels and has for a number of years worked as a freelance rock and metal critic for the Danish newspaper Morgenavisen Jyllands-Posten. For almost 25 years he has been neck-deep in metal music.

Abstract: In this presentation I will attempt to show how various forms of heterotopias over the years have been expressed lyrically in metal music. Reaching from the graveyard and the autopsy room in death metal, the north and the winter in black metal, and the lunatic asylum and the prison in thrash metal, certain heterotopias seem to define specific subgenres.

     Furthermore, my hypothesis is, that the appearance of post metal in the early 2000s established the ocean as a new heterotopia in metal music � a heterotopia which can be perceived as an unfolding of the former heterotopias, not only being expressed lyrically, but also musically, creating a whole new self-reinforcing interdependence between metal music and lyrics.

Poster available as pdf file HERE.

Facebook event page HERE.

Audience participation via Skype is also welcome.

Concert, SDU-Odense

KAMMERMUSIKFESTIVAL - LUNCHTIME CONCERT

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 2014

First concert in the 2014 Chamber Music Festival

with students from the

Academy of Music and Dramatic Arts, Southern Denmark

(Syddansk Musikkonservatorium og Skuespillerskole-SMKS)

Thursday, November 20, 12 noon - 1 p.m. on the

Campus Square, University of Southern Denmark at Odense

For more information, please see HERE.

Seminar

Thursday, November 20, 2014, 3:15-5 p.m. in U67

Musical Cosmology

Marianne B�rch, dr.phil., Professor. University of Southern Denmark, Institute for the Study of Culture - English.

Abstract: The Music of the Spheres is a well-known concept, and even after the collapse of the world picture that underpinned it, composers have continued to expound and explore the idea. The presentation will discuss the implications of the notion of the cosmos as a huge symphony, a cosmic concord rife with discordant elements held together by means of Love. Principal reference will be made to medieval and renaissance literary works (Dante, Shakespeare, Davies, Traherne); furthermore, the later collaboration between Dryden and Purcell will be used to explore an increasing alienation between word and music that starts when the spherical music becomes heuristic-symbolic rather than literal-analogous.

Poster available as pdf file HERE.

Facebook event page HERE.

Audience participation via Skype is also welcome.

Seminar

Thursday, November 13, 2014, 3:15-5 p.m. in U67

Franz Liszt and Metal Music - an Aesthetic Affinity?

William Westney, Paul Whitfield Horn Professor of Piano, Browning Artist-in-Residence School of Music, Texas Tech University.

(in person; also Lunchtime Concert 12 noon - 1 p.m.)

Abstract: One of the refreshing aspects of this SDU seminar series is its focus on musical experience itself, which offers the possibility of exploring common ground between musical genres that are customarily considered quite distinct or even far away from each other. For many classically trained musicians like myself, the world of heavy metal, death metal, and related styles has been not only an unfamiliar and opaque one, but has even seemed somewhat deplorable in its perceived violence and commercialism. However, observing the discerning and sophisticated analysis that metal experts bring to their subject, and acknowledging the widespread popularity of metal among music lovers, my curiosity has grown. Are there affinities between metal and traditional classical music? If so, what can we learn from them?

     The presentation will trace some ways in which that affinity appears convincing, and also consider some of the differences between the genres. I will view this comparison through the prism of the unique career of virtuoso pianist/composer Franz Liszt (1811 - 1886) - the so-called �first rock star of music.� Among the questions that emerge: What are the implications of what Robert Walser calls the �fetishism of instrumental technique�? What are the links between Romanticism, rock-star charisma, and recurring themes of death? What sort of performer/audience dynamics occur in these two styles? How should pianists approach the written scores of Liszt? Does commercialism taint aesthetic worth?
     Integrated into the lecture will be excerpts at the piano as well as sound and video clips.

Poster available as pdf file HERE.

Facebook event page available HERE.

Audience participation via Skype is also welcome.

Concert, SDU-Odense

LUNCHTIME CONCERT with William Westney, piano.

Haydn, Mendelssohn, Schumann og Kapustin

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 2014

12 noon - 1 p.m. in THE WINTER GARDEN:

Concert poster available HERE as pdf-file.

Concert program with notes available HERE as pdf-file.

Facebook event page available HERE.

Seminar in Aarhus

Viewing Piano-playing Avatars in an fMRI-Scanner: What Motion Capture and Brain Scans Reveal about (1) the Effects that Intentions Can Have on the Way Pianists Perform and (2) Audience Perception of these Performances

November 12 - at Aarhus University, Center of Functionally Integrated Neuroscience, Music in the Brain with William Westney and Cynthia M. Grund; see HERE

Seminar

Thursday, November 6, 2014, 3:15-5 p.m. in U67

Serial Poetry and Music

Mogens Davidsen, PhD, Associate Professor of Literature, Institute for the Study of Culture, University of Southern Denmark.

Abstract: In this presentation I investigate the relations between serial music and serial poetry, understood through the notion of entropy. Entropy is a phenomenon in thermodynamics as well as in information theory (Norbert Wiener's book The Human use of Human Beings - 1950, revised 1954 -  is fundamental for the understanding of entropy - or rather "negentropy" - in information). My thesis is that with a notion of entropy in both the physical world and in the "symbolic" world of information (and art), we may have a tool for establishing a connection between the world and the arts, different from a traditional, predominantly symbolic understanding. We may even be able to formulate a theory of correlativity, which calls for a reevaluation of the mimetic paradigm of the arts.

All are welcome!

Poster available as pdf file HERE.

Facebook event page HERE.

Audience participation via Skype is also welcome

From "News"; archived 12-12-2014

NEWS: December 6 Update

We hope to see you at these events!

Seminar

Thursday, December 11, 2014, 3:15-5 p.m. in U67

Sound and Symbol: Making Sense of Metal Band Logos

Vitus Vestergaard (in person), PhD, Assistant Professor of Media Studies, Institute for the Study of Culture, University of Southern Denmark

Christophe Szpajdel (via Skype), internationally renowned Belgian logo artist

Abstract: In this presentation we will investigate one of the visual sides of music, namely heavy metal band logos.

Christophe Szpajdel is a distinguished Belgian artist best known for his enormous production of logo designs for heavy metal bands. He achieved global fame when he designed the logo for the influential Norwegian black metal band Emperor. Since then he has produced in total around 8000 unique, hand drawn logos.

     Based on his great experience and artistic interaction with the genre Christophe will present his thoughts on the history, design, style and inspiration of heavy metal band logos. This touches upon important issues such as the relationship between music, band/performer identity and visual representation.

     The seminar will begin with a short introduction by Vitus Vestergaard.

Audience participation via Skype is also welcome.

Poster available as pdf file HERE.

Facebook event page HERE.

Looking ahead:

The schedule for the spring 2015 installment of the seminar series Topics in the Aesthetics of Music and Sound is rapidly nearing completion, and the majority of presentation titles and abstracts - as well as the list of who is speaking when - are available HERE. As always in this series, participation via Skype is welcome.

Logo designed by Christophe Spzajdel

Please keep an eye out here for updates on the exhibition Marks of Metal, which is scheduled to open at Brandts - Mediemuseet (link HERE) in Odense on January 15, 2015. The exhibition will feature work by internationally renowned logo artist Christophe Szpajdel, and is under the direction of Vitus Vestergaard. This is part of Vitus' ongoing research project in our program The Performances of Everday Living entitled Investigation of Metal Music and Visuals: Logo, Cover, Brand; for background, see HERE. You can hear and see more about this exhibition during the December 11 seminar with Christophe and Vitus - see link above. A noteworthy feature of the exhibition opening on January 15 is that Copenhagen-based black metal band Solbrud (see HERE) will be performing.

Here in November and December we are kick starting/ have kick started our subseries within Topics in the Aesthetics of Music and Sound dealing with metal music, theory and culture with talks on November 13, November 27 and December 11. Ten of the thirteen seminars in our spring series will be dealing with metal-related topics, so, once again, please keep an eye out as more details become available HERE.

Recent events in the research program The Performances of Everyday Living:

Seminar

Thursday, December 4, 2014, 3:15-5 p.m. in U67

Existence and Music: From Nietzsche and Wagner to Sartre and Jazz

Jacob Rendtorff, Dr. scient. adm. (doctor scientarium administrationis), Ph.D, Mag. art. & Diplom Pol. Associate Professor, Department of Communication, Business and Information, Technologies, Roskilde University



Abstract:What is the relation between music and philosophy in creative existentialist philosophy?
     Is music a part of philosophical expression or how can philosophy contribute to the understanding of music?

    Nietzsche was a critical philosopher and he expressed his deconstructive reading of the metaphysical tradition from Plato to Hegel. In particular he thought that the operas of Wagner served to illustrate his philosophical thinking. In the same way Sartre represented an existentialist criticism of the metaphysical tradition. For Sartre it was jazz music that was a real existentialist and critical philosophy. Sartre argued that jazz music was important to express the existentialist understanding of life. In this presentation we will discuss philosophy and music from the point of view of these different existentialist philosophies.

Audience participation via Skype is also welcome.

Poster available as pdf file HERE.

Facebook event page HERE.

Thursday, November 27, 2014, 3:15-5 p.m. in U67; see HERE.

Fluctuating Heterotopias � An Ocean View on Modern Metal Music

Johnny Harboe is M.A. in comparative literature from The University of Southern Denmark. He is the author of six novels and has for a number of years worked as a freelance rock and metal critic for the Danish newspaper Morgenavisen Jyllands-Posten. For almost 25 years he has been neck-deep in metal music.

Abstract: In this presentation I will attempt to show how various forms of heterotopias over the years have been expressed lyrically in metal music. Reaching from the graveyard and the autopsy room in death metal, the north and the winter in black metal, and the lunatic asylum and the prison in thrash metal, certain heterotopias seem to define specific subgenres.

     Furthermore, my hypothesis is, that the appearance of post metal in the early 2000s established the ocean as a new heterotopia in metal music � a heterotopia which can be perceived as an unfolding of the former heterotopias, not only being expressed lyrically, but also musically, creating a whole new self-reinforcing interdependence between metal music and lyrics.

Poster available as pdf file HERE.

Facebook event page HERE.

Audience participation via Skype is also welcome.

Concert, SDU-Odense

KAMMERMUSIKFESTIVAL - LUNCHTIME CONCERT

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 2014

First concert in the 2014 Chamber Music Festival

with students from the

Academy of Music and Dramatic Arts, Southern Denmark

(Syddansk Musikkonservatorium og Skuespillerskole-SMKS)

Thursday, November 20, 12 noon - 1 p.m. on the

Campus Square, University of Southern Denmark at Odense

For more information, please see HERE.

Seminar

Thursday, November 20, 2014, 3:15-5 p.m. in U67

Musical Cosmology

Marianne B�rch, dr.phil., Professor. University of Southern Denmark, Institute for the Study of Culture - English.

Abstract: The Music of the Spheres is a well-known concept, and even after the collapse of the world picture that underpinned it, composers have continued to expound and explore the idea. The presentation will discuss the implications of the notion of the cosmos as a huge symphony, a cosmic concord rife with discordant elements held together by means of Love. Principal reference will be made to medieval and renaissance literary works (Dante, Shakespeare, Davies, Traherne); furthermore, the later collaboration between Dryden and Purcell will be used to explore an increasing alienation between word and music that starts when the spherical music becomes heuristic-symbolic rather than literal-analogous.

Poster available as pdf file HERE.

Facebook event page HERE.

Audience participation via Skype is also welcome.

Seminar

Thursday, November 13, 2014, 3:15-5 p.m. in U67

Franz Liszt and Metal Music - an Aesthetic Affinity?

William Westney, Paul Whitfield Horn Professor of Piano, Browning Artist-in-Residence School of Music, Texas Tech University.

(in person; also Lunchtime Concert 12 noon - 1 p.m.)

Abstract: One of the refreshing aspects of this SDU seminar series is its focus on musical experience itself, which offers the possibility of exploring common ground between musical genres that are customarily considered quite distinct or even far away from each other. For many classically trained musicians like myself, the world of heavy metal, death metal, and related styles has been not only an unfamiliar and opaque one, but has even seemed somewhat deplorable in its perceived violence and commercialism. However, observing the discerning and sophisticated analysis that metal experts bring to their subject, and acknowledging the widespread popularity of metal among music lovers, my curiosity has grown. Are there affinities between metal and traditional classical music? If so, what can we learn from them?

     The presentation will trace some ways in which that affinity appears convincing, and also consider some of the differences between the genres. I will view this comparison through the prism of the unique career of virtuoso pianist/composer Franz Liszt (1811 - 1886) - the so-called �first rock star of music.� Among the questions that emerge: What are the implications of what Robert Walser calls the �fetishism of instrumental technique�? What are the links between Romanticism, rock-star charisma, and recurring themes of death? What sort of performer/audience dynamics occur in these two styles? How should pianists approach the written scores of Liszt? Does commercialism taint aesthetic worth?
     Integrated into the lecture will be excerpts at the piano as well as sound and video clips.

Poster available as pdf file HERE.

Facebook event page available HERE.

Audience participation via Skype is also welcome.

Concert, SDU-Odense

LUNCHTIME CONCERT with William Westney, piano.

Haydn, Mendelssohn, Schumann og Kapustin

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 2014

12 noon - 1 p.m. in THE WINTER GARDEN:

Concert poster available HERE as pdf-file.

Concert program with notes available HERE as pdf-file.

Facebook event page available HERE.

Seminar in Aarhus

Viewing Piano-playing Avatars in an fMRI-Scanner: What Motion Capture and Brain Scans Reveal about (1) the Effects that Intentions Can Have on the Way Pianists Perform and (2) Audience Perception of these Performances

November 12 - at Aarhus University, Center of Functionally Integrated Neuroscience, Music in the Brain with William Westney and Cynthia M. Grund; see HERE

Seminar

Thursday, November 6, 2014, 3:15-5 p.m. in U67

Serial Poetry and Music

Mogens Davidsen, PhD, Associate Professor of Literature, Institute for the Study of Culture, University of Southern Denmark.

Abstract: In this presentation I investigate the relations between serial music and serial poetry, understood through the notion of entropy. Entropy is a phenomenon in thermodynamics as well as in information theory (Norbert Wiener's book The Human use of Human Beings - 1950, revised 1954 -  is fundamental for the understanding of entropy - or rather "negentropy" - in information). My thesis is that with a notion of entropy in both the physical world and in the "symbolic" world of information (and art), we may have a tool for establishing a connection between the world and the arts, different from a traditional, predominantly symbolic understanding. We may even be able to formulate a theory of correlativity, which calls for a reevaluation of the mimetic paradigm of the arts.

All are welcome!

Poster available as pdf file HERE.

Facebook event page HERE.

Audience participation via Skype is also welcome

From "News"; archived 07-12-2014

NEWS: November 29 Update

We hope to see you at these events!

Seminar

Thursday, December 4, 2014, 3:15-5 p.m. in U67

Existence and Music: From Nietzsche and Wagner to Sartre and Jazz

Jacob Rendtorff, Dr. scient. adm. (doctor scientarium administrationis), Ph.D, Mag. art. & Diplom Pol. Associate Professor, Department of Communication, Business and Information, Technologies, Roskilde University



Abstract:What is the relation between music and philosophy in creative existentialist philosophy?
     Is music a part of philosophical expression or how can philosophy contribute to the understanding of music?

    Nietzsche was a critical philosopher and he expressed his deconstructive reading of the metaphysical tradition from Plato to Hegel. In particular he thought that the operas of Wagner served to illustrate his philosophical thinking. In the same way Sartre represented an existentialist criticism of the metaphysical tradition. For Sartre it was jazz music that was a real existentialist and critical philosophy. Sartre argued that jazz music was important to express the existentialist understanding of life. In this presentation we will discuss philosophy and music from the point of view of these different existentialist philosophies.

Audience participation via Skype is also welcome.

Poster available as pdf file HERE.

Facebook event page HERE.

. . . and the upcoming seminar:

December 11 - at SDU with Christophe Szpajdel and Vitus Vestergaard; see HERE.

Looking ahead:

The schedule for the spring 2015 installment of the seminar series Topics in the Aesthetics of Music and Sound is rapidly nearing completion, and the list of who is speaking when is available HERE. Presentation titles and abstracts will soon be made available. As always in this series, participation via Skype is welcome.

Logo designed by Christophe Spzajdel

Please keep an eye out here for updateson the exhibition Marks of Metal, which is scheduled to open at Brandts - Mediemuseet (link HERE) in Odense on January 15, 2015. The exhibition will feature work by internationally renowned logo artist Christophe Spzajdel, and is under the direction of Vitus Vestergaard. This is part of Vitus' ongoing research project in our program The Performances of Everday Living entitled Investigation of Metal Music and Visuals: Logo, Cover, Brand; for background, see HERE. You can hear and see more about this exhibition during the December 11 seminar with Christophe and Vitus - see link above. A noteworthy feature of the exhibition opening on January 15 is that Copenhagen-based black metal band Solbrud (see HERE) will be performing.

Here in November and December we are kick starting/ have kick started our subseries within Topics in the Aesthetics of Music and Sound dealing with metal music, theory and culture with talks on November 13, November 27 and December 11. Nine of the thirteen seminars in our spring series will be dealing with metal-related topics, so, once again, please keep an eye out as more details become available HERE.

Recent events in the research program The Performances of Everyday Living:

Seminar

Thursday, November 27, 2014, 3:15-5 p.m. in U67; see HERE.

Fluctuating Heterotopias � An Ocean View on Modern Metal Music

Johnny Harboe is M.A. in comparative literature from The University of Southern Denmark. He is the author of six novels and has for a number of years worked as a freelance rock and metal critic for the Danish newspaper Morgenavisen Jyllands-Posten. For almost 25 years he has been neck-deep in metal music.

Abstract: In this presentation I will attempt to show how various forms of heterotopias over the years have been expressed lyrically in metal music. Reaching from the graveyard and the autopsy room in death metal, the north and the winter in black metal, and the lunatic asylum and the prison in thrash metal, certain heterotopias seem to define specific subgenres.

     Furthermore, my hypothesis is, that the appearance of post metal in the early 2000s established the ocean as a new heterotopia in metal music � a heterotopia which can be perceived as an unfolding of the former heterotopias, not only being expressed lyrically, but also musically, creating a whole new self-reinforcing interdependence between metal music and lyrics.

Poster available as pdf file HERE.

Facebook event page HERE.

Audience participation via Skype is also welcome.

Concert, SDU-Odense

KAMMERMUSIKFESTIVAL - LUNCHTIME CONCERT

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 2014

First concert in the 2014 Chamber Music Festival

with students from the

Academy of Music and Dramatic Arts, Southern Denmark

(Syddansk Musikkonservatorium og Skuespillerskole-SMKS)

Thursday, November 20, 12 noon - 1 p.m. on the

Campus Square, University of Southern Denmark at Odense

For more information, please see HERE.

Seminar

Thursday, November 20, 2014, 3:15-5 p.m. in U67

Musical Cosmology

Marianne B�rch, dr.phil., Professor. University of Southern Denmark, Institute for the Study of Culture - English.

Abstract: The Music of the Spheres is a well-known concept, and even after the collapse of the world picture that underpinned it, composers have continued to expound and explore the idea. The presentation will discuss the implications of the notion of the cosmos as a huge symphony, a cosmic concord rife with discordant elements held together by means of Love. Principal reference will be made to medieval and renaissance literary works (Dante, Shakespeare, Davies, Traherne); furthermore, the later collaboration between Dryden and Purcell will be used to explore an increasing alienation between word and music that starts when the spherical music becomes heuristic-symbolic rather than literal-analogous.

Poster available as pdf file HERE.

Facebook event page HERE.

Audience participation via Skype is also welcome.

Seminar

Thursday, November 13, 2014, 3:15-5 p.m. in U67

Franz Liszt and Metal Music - an Aesthetic Affinity?

William Westney, Paul Whitfield Horn Professor of Piano, Browning Artist-in-Residence School of Music, Texas Tech University.

(in person; also Lunchtime Concert 12 noon - 1 p.m.)

Abstract: One of the refreshing aspects of this SDU seminar series is its focus on musical experience itself, which offers the possibility of exploring common ground between musical genres that are customarily considered quite distinct or even far away from each other. For many classically trained musicians like myself, the world of heavy metal, death metal, and related styles has been not only an unfamiliar and opaque one, but has even seemed somewhat deplorable in its perceived violence and commercialism. However, observing the discerning and sophisticated analysis that metal experts bring to their subject, and acknowledging the widespread popularity of metal among music lovers, my curiosity has grown. Are there affinities between metal and traditional classical music? If so, what can we learn from them?

     The presentation will trace some ways in which that affinity appears convincing, and also consider some of the differences between the genres. I will view this comparison through the prism of the unique career of virtuoso pianist/composer Franz Liszt (1811 - 1886) - the so-called �first rock star of music.� Among the questions that emerge: What are the implications of what Robert Walser calls the �fetishism of instrumental technique�? What are the links between Romanticism, rock-star charisma, and recurring themes of death? What sort of performer/audience dynamics occur in these two styles? How should pianists approach the written scores of Liszt? Does commercialism taint aesthetic worth?
     Integrated into the lecture will be excerpts at the piano as well as sound and video clips.

Poster available as pdf file HERE.

Facebook event page available HERE.

Audience participation via Skype is also welcome.

Concert, SDU-Odense

LUNCHTIME CONCERT with William Westney, piano.

Haydn, Mendelssohn, Schumann og Kapustin

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 2014

12 noon - 1 p.m. in THE WINTER GARDEN:

Concert poster available HERE as pdf-file.

Concert program with notes available HERE as pdf-file.

Facebook event page available HERE.

Seminar in Aarhus

Viewing Piano-playing Avatars in an fMRI-Scanner: What Motion Capture and Brain Scans Reveal about (1) the Effects that Intentions Can Have on the Way Pianists Perform and (2) Audience Perception of these Performances

November 12 - at Aarhus University, Center of Functionally Integrated Neuroscience, Music in the Brain with William Westney and Cynthia M. Grund; see HERE

Seminar

Thursday, November 6, 2014, 3:15-5 p.m. in U67

Serial Poetry and Music

Mogens Davidsen, PhD, Associate Professor of Literature, Institute for the Study of Culture, University of Southern Denmark.

Abstract: In this presentation I investigate the relations between serial music and serial poetry, understood through the notion of entropy. Entropy is a phenomenon in thermodynamics as well as in information theory (Norbert Wiener's book The Human use of Human Beings - 1950, revised 1954 -  is fundamental for the understanding of entropy - or rather "negentropy" - in information). My thesis is that with a notion of entropy in both the physical world and in the "symbolic" world of information (and art), we may have a tool for establishing a connection between the world and the arts, different from a traditional, predominantly symbolic understanding. We may even be able to formulate a theory of correlativity, which calls for a reevaluation of the mimetic paradigm of the arts.

All are welcome!

Poster available as pdf file HERE.

Facebook event page HERE.

Audience participation via Skype is also welcome

From "News"; archived 29-11-2014

NEWS: November 22 Update

We hope to see you at these events!

Seminar

Thursday, November 27, 2014, 3:15-5 p.m. in U67; see HERE.

Fluctuating Heterotopias � An Ocean View on Modern Metal Music

Johnny Harboe is M.A. in comparative literature from The University of Southern Denmark. He is the author of six novels and has for a number of years worked as a freelance rock and metal critic for the Danish newspaper Morgenavisen Jyllands-Posten. For almost 25 years he has been neck-deep in metal music.

Abstract: In this presentation I will attempt to show how various forms of heterotopias over the years have been expressed lyrically in metal music. Reaching from the graveyard and the autopsy room in death metal, the north and the winter in black metal, and the lunatic asylum and the prison in thrash metal, certain heterotopias seem to define specific subgenres.

     Furthermore, my hypothesis is, that the appearance of post metal in the early 2000s established the ocean as a new heterotopia in metal music � a heterotopia which can be perceived as an unfolding of the former heterotopias, not only being expressed lyrically, but also musically, creating a whole new self-reinforcing interdependence between metal music and lyrics.

Poster available as pdf file HERE.

Facebook event page HERE.

Audience participation via Skype is also welcome.

. . . and upcoming seminars:

December 4 - at SDU with Jacob Rendtorff; see HERE.

December 11 - at SDU with Christophe Szpajdel and Vitus Vestergaard; see HERE.

Looking ahead:

The schedule for the spring 2015 installment of the seminar series Topics in the Aesthetics of Music and Sound is rapidly nearing completion, and the list of who is speaking when is available HERE. Presentation titles and abstracts will soon be made available. As always in this series, participation via Skype is welcome.

Logo designed by Christophe Spzajdel

Please keep an eye out here for updateson the exhibition Marks of Metal, which is scheduled to open at Brandts - Mediemuseet (link HERE) in Odense on January 15, 2015. The exhibition will feature work by internationally renowned logo artist Christophe Spzajdel, and is under the direction of Vitus Vestergaard. This is part of Vitus' ongoing research project in our program The Performances of Everday Living entitled Investigation of Metal Music and Visuals: Logo, Cover, Brand; for background, see HERE. You can hear and see more about this exhibition during the December 11 seminar with Christophe and Vitus - see link above. A noteworthy feature of the exhibition opening on January 15 is that Copenhagen-based black metal band Solbrud (see HERE) will be performing.

Here in November and December we are kick starting/ have kick started our subseries within Topics in the Aesthetics of Music and Sound dealing with metal music, theory and culture with talks on November 13, November 27 and December 11. Nine of the thirteen seminars in our spring series will be dealing with metal-related topics, so, once again, please keep an eye out as more details become available HERE.

Recent events in the research program The Performances of Everyday Living:

Concert, SDU-Odense

KAMMERMUSIKFESTIVAL - LUNCHTIME CONCERT

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 2014

First concert in the 2014 Chamber Music Festival

with students from the

Academy of Music and Dramatic Arts, Southern Denmark

(Syddansk Musikkonservatorium og Skuespillerskole-SMKS)

Thursday, November 20, 12 noon - 1 p.m. on the

Campus Square, University of Southern Denmark at Odense

For more information, please see HERE.

Seminar

Thursday, November 20, 2014, 3:15-5 p.m. in U67

Musical Cosmology

Marianne B�rch, dr.phil., Professor. University of Southern Denmark, Institute for the Study of Culture - English.

Abstract: The Music of the Spheres is a well-known concept, and even after the collapse of the world picture that underpinned it, composers have continued to expound and explore the idea. The presentation will discuss the implications of the notion of the cosmos as a huge symphony, a cosmic concord rife with discordant elements held together by means of Love. Principal reference will be made to medieval and renaissance literary works (Dante, Shakespeare, Davies, Traherne); furthermore, the later collaboration between Dryden and Purcell will be used to explore an increasing alienation between word and music that starts when the spherical music becomes heuristic-symbolic rather than literal-analogous.

Poster available as pdf file HERE.

Facebook event page HERE.

Audience participation via Skype is also welcome.

Seminar

Thursday, November 13, 2014, 3:15-5 p.m. in U67

Franz Liszt and Metal Music - an Aesthetic Affinity?

William Westney, Paul Whitfield Horn Professor of Piano, Browning Artist-in-Residence School of Music, Texas Tech University.

(in person; also Lunchtime Concert 12 noon - 1 p.m.)

Abstract: One of the refreshing aspects of this SDU seminar series is its focus on musical experience itself, which offers the possibility of exploring common ground between musical genres that are customarily considered quite distinct or even far away from each other. For many classically trained musicians like myself, the world of heavy metal, death metal, and related styles has been not only an unfamiliar and opaque one, but has even seemed somewhat deplorable in its perceived violence and commercialism. However, observing the discerning and sophisticated analysis that metal experts bring to their subject, and acknowledging the widespread popularity of metal among music lovers, my curiosity has grown. Are there affinities between metal and traditional classical music? If so, what can we learn from them?

     The presentation will trace some ways in which that affinity appears convincing, and also consider some of the differences between the genres. I will view this comparison through the prism of the unique career of virtuoso pianist/composer Franz Liszt (1811 - 1886) - the so-called �first rock star of music.� Among the questions that emerge: What are the implications of what Robert Walser calls the �fetishism of instrumental technique�? What are the links between Romanticism, rock-star charisma, and recurring themes of death? What sort of performer/audience dynamics occur in these two styles? How should pianists approach the written scores of Liszt? Does commercialism taint aesthetic worth?
     Integrated into the lecture will be excerpts at the piano as well as sound and video clips.

Poster available as pdf file HERE.

Facebook event page available HERE.

Audience participation via Skype is also welcome.

Concert, SDU-Odense

LUNCHTIME CONCERT with William Westney, piano.

Haydn, Mendelssohn, Schumann og Kapustin

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 2014

12 noon - 1 p.m. in THE WINTER GARDEN:

Concert poster available HERE as pdf-file.

Concert program with notes available HERE as pdf-file.

Facebook event page available HERE.

Seminar in Aarhus

Viewing Piano-playing Avatars in an fMRI-Scanner: What Motion Capture and Brain Scans Reveal about (1) the Effects that Intentions Can Have on the Way Pianists Perform and (2) Audience Perception of these Performances

November 12 - at Aarhus University, Center of Functionally Integrated Neuroscience, Music in the Brain with William Westney and Cynthia M. Grund; see HERE

Seminar

Thursday, November 6, 2014, 3:15-5 p.m. in U67

Serial Poetry and Music

Mogens Davidsen, PhD, Associate Professor of Literature, Institute for the Study of Culture, University of Southern Denmark.

Abstract: In this presentation I investigate the relations between serial music and serial poetry, understood through the notion of entropy. Entropy is a phenomenon in thermodynamics as well as in information theory (Norbert Wiener's book The Human use of Human Beings - 1950, revised 1954 -  is fundamental for the understanding of entropy - or rather "negentropy" - in information). My thesis is that with a notion of entropy in both the physical world and in the "symbolic" world of information (and art), we may have a tool for establishing a connection between the world and the arts, different from a traditional, predominantly symbolic understanding. We may even be able to formulate a theory of correlativity, which calls for a reevaluation of the mimetic paradigm of the arts.

All are welcome!

Poster available as pdf file HERE.

Facebook event page HERE.

Audience participation via Skype is also welcome

From "News"; archived 22-11-2014

NEWS: November 16 Update

We hope to see you at these events!

Concert, SDU-Odense

KAMMERMUSIKFESTIVAL - LUNCHTIME CONCERT

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 2014

First concert in the 2014 Chamber Music Festival

with students from the

Academy of Music and Dramatic Arts, Southern Denmark

(Syddansk Musikkonservatorium og Skuespillerskole-SMKS)

Thursday, November 20, 12 noon - 1 p.m. on the

Campus Square, University of Southern Denmark at Odense

For more information, please see HERE.

Seminar

Thursday, November 20, 2014, 3:15-5 p.m. in U67

Musical Cosmology

Marianne B�rch, dr.phil., Professor. University of Southern Denmark, Institute for the Study of Culture - English.

Abstract: The Music of the Spheres is a well-known concept, and even after the collapse of the world picture that underpinned it, composers have continued to expound and explore the idea. The presentation will discuss the implications of the notion of the cosmos as a huge symphony, a cosmic concord rife with discordant elements held together by means of Love. Principal reference will be made to medieval and renaissance literary works (Dante, Shakespeare, Davies, Traherne); furthermore, the later collaboration between Dryden and Purcell will be used to explore an increasing alienation between word and music that starts when the spherical music becomes heuristic-symbolic rather than literal-analogous.

Poster available as pdf file HERE.

Facebook event page HERE.

Audience participation via Skype is also welcome.

. . . as well as seminars:

November 27 - at SDU with Johnny Harboe; see HERE.

December 4 - at SDU with Jacob Rendtorff; see HERE.

December 11 - at SDU with Christophe Szpajdel and Vitus Vestergaard; see HERE.

Recent events in the research program The Performances of Everyday Living:

Seminar

Thursday, November 13, 2014, 3:15-5 p.m. in U67

Franz Liszt and Metal Music - an Aesthetic Affinity?

William Westney, Paul Whitfield Horn Professor of Piano, Browning Artist-in-Residence School of Music, Texas Tech University.

(in person; also Lunchtime Concert 12 noon - 1 p.m.)

Abstract: One of the refreshing aspects of this SDU seminar series is its focus on musical experience itself, which offers the possibility of exploring common ground between musical genres that are customarily considered quite distinct or even far away from each other. For many classically trained musicians like myself, the world of heavy metal, death metal, and related styles has been not only an unfamiliar and opaque one, but has even seemed somewhat deplorable in its perceived violence and commercialism. However, observing the discerning and sophisticated analysis that metal experts bring to their subject, and acknowledging the widespread popularity of metal among music lovers, my curiosity has grown. Are there affinities between metal and traditional classical music? If so, what can we learn from them?

     The presentation will trace some ways in which that affinity appears convincing, and also consider some of the differences between the genres. I will view this comparison through the prism of the unique career of virtuoso pianist/composer Franz Liszt (1811 - 1886) - the so-called �first rock star of music.� Among the questions that emerge: What are the implications of what Robert Walser calls the �fetishism of instrumental technique�? What are the links between Romanticism, rock-star charisma, and recurring themes of death? What sort of performer/audience dynamics occur in these two styles? How should pianists approach the written scores of Liszt? Does commercialism taint aesthetic worth?
     Integrated into the lecture will be excerpts at the piano as well as sound and video clips.

Poster available as pdf file HERE.

Facebook event page available HERE.

Audience participation via Skype is also welcome.

Concert, SDU-Odense

LUNCHTIME CONCERT with William Westney, piano.

Haydn, Mendelssohn, Schumann og Kapustin

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 2014

12 noon - 1 p.m. in THE WINTER GARDEN:

Concert poster available HERE as pdf-file.

Concert program with notes available HERE as pdf-file.

Facebook event page available HERE.

Seminar in Aarhus

November 12- at Aarhus University, Center of Functionally Integrated Neuroscience, Music in the Brain with William Westney and Cynthia M. Grund; see HERE

Seminar

Thursday, November 6, 2014, 3:15-5p.m. in U67

Serial Poetry and Music

Mogens Davidsen, PhD, Associate Professor of Literature, Institute for the Study of Culture, University of Southern Denmark.

Abstract: In this presentation I investigate the relations between serial music and serial poetry, understood through the notion of entropy. Entropy is a phenomenon in thermodynamics as well as in information theory (Norbert Wiener's book The Human use of Human Beings - 1950, revised 1954 -  is fundamental for the understanding of entropy - or rather "negentropy" - in information). My thesis is that with a notion of entropy in both the physical world and in the "symbolic" world of information (and art), we may have a tool for establishing a connection between the world and the arts, different from a traditional, predominantly symbolic understanding. We may even be able to formulate a theory of correlativity, which calls for a reevaluation of the mimetic paradigm of the arts.

All are welcome!

Poster available as pdf file HERE.

Facebook event page HERE.

Audience participation via Skype is also welcome

. . . and if you were in San Antonio, Texas, October 30, you were welcome to attend when William Westney and Cynthia M. Grund present Of Avatars, Musical Embodiment and Perception at

Conference

Thursday, October 29-Saturday, November 1

American Society for Aesthetics Annual Meeting

San Antonio, Texas

Hotel Contessa

For the complete program, please see HERE.

Conference

Thursday, October 30, 2014, 10 a.m. - 4 p.m. in U77

Representaciones de la guerra
Diarios de vida, Biograf�as, Literatura, Pel�culas

Organized by Claudio Cifuentes-Aldunate under the sponsorship of the Department for the Study of Culture and the Department of Language and Communication.

Poster available for download HERE.

Radio Interview

Wednesday, October 29, 2014 - Abigail Arroyos' interview with William Westney and Cynthia M. Grund aired on National Public Radio, KTTZ 89.1 FM: Inside Texas Tech: Research Bringing Music, Philosophy, Body Movement Together. Listen to the interview HERE.

From "News"; archived 16-11-2014

NEWS: November 10 Update

We hope to see you at these events!

Seminar in Aarhus

November 12- at Aarhus University, Center of Functionally Integrated Neuroscience, Music in the Brain with William Westney and Cynthia M. Grund; see HERE

Concert, SDU-Odense

LUNCHTIME CONCERT with William Westney, piano.

Haydn, Mendelssohn, Schumann og Kapustin

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 2014

12 noon - 1 p.m. in THE WINTER GARDEN:

Concert poster available HERE as pdf-file.

Concert program with notes available HERE as pdf-file.

Facebook event page available HERE.

Seminar

Thursday, November 13, 2014, 3:15-5 p.m. in U67

Franz Liszt and Metal Music - an Aesthetic Affinity?

William Westney, Paul Whitfield Horn Professor of Piano, Browning Artist-in-Residence School of Music, Texas Tech University.

(in person; also Lunchtime Concert 12 noon - 1 p.m.)

Abstract: One of the refreshing aspects of this SDU seminar series is its focus on musical experience itself, which offers the possibility of exploring common ground between musical genres that are customarily considered quite distinct or even far away from each other. For many classically trained musicians like myself, the world of heavy metal, death metal, and related styles has been not only an unfamiliar and opaque one, but has even seemed somewhat deplorable in its perceived violence and commercialism. However, observing the discerning and sophisticated analysis that metal experts bring to their subject, and acknowledging the widespread popularity of metal among music lovers, my curiosity has grown. Are there affinities between metal and traditional classical music? If so, what can we learn from them?

     The presentation will trace some ways in which that affinity appears convincing, and also consider some of the differences between the genres. I will view this comparison through the prism of the unique career of virtuoso pianist/composer Franz Liszt (1811 - 1886) - the so-called �first rock star of music.� Among the questions that emerge: What are the implications of what Robert Walser calls the �fetishism of instrumental technique�? What are the links between Romanticism, rock-star charisma, and recurring themes of death? What sort of performer/audience dynamics occur in these two styles? How should pianists approach the written scores of Liszt? Does commercialism taint aesthetic worth?
     Integrated into the lecture will be excerpts at the piano as well as sound and video clips.

Poster available as pdf file HERE.

Facebook event page available HERE.

Audience participation via Skype is also welcome.

. . . as well as seminars:

November 20 - at SDU with Marianne B�rch; see HERE and

November 27 - at SDU with Johnny Harboe; see HERE

December 4 - at SDU with Jacob Rendtorff; see HERE

December 11 - at SDU with Christophe Szpajdel and Vitus Vestergaard; see HERE

Recent events in the research program The Performances of Everyday Living:

Seminar

Thursday, November 6, 2014, 3:15-5p.m. in U67

Serial Poetry and Music

Mogens Davidsen, PhD, Associate Professor of Literature, Institute for the Study of Culture, University of Southern Denmark.

Abstract: In this presentation I investigate the relations between serial music and serial poetry, understood through the notion of entropy. Entropy is a phenomenon in thermodynamics as well as in information theory (Norbert Wiener's book The Human use of Human Beings - 1950, revised 1954 -  is fundamental for the understanding of entropy - or rather "negentropy" - in information). My thesis is that with a notion of entropy in both the physical world and in the "symbolic" world of information (and art), we may have a tool for establishing a connection between the world and the arts, different from a traditional, predominantly symbolic understanding. We may even be able to formulate a theory of correlativity, which calls for a reevaluation of the mimetic paradigm of the arts.

All are welcome!

Poster available as pdf file HERE.

Facebook event page HERE.

Audience participation via Skype is also welcome

. . . and if you were in San Antonio, Texas, October 30, you were welcome to attend when William Westney and Cynthia M. Grund present Of Avatars, Musical Embodiment and Perception at

Conference

Thursday, October 29-Saturday, November 1

American Society for Aesthetics Annual Meeting

San Antonio, Texas

Hotel Contessa

For the complete program, please see HERE.

Conference

Thursday, October 30, 2014, 10 a.m. - 4 p.m. in U77

Representaciones de la guerra
Diarios de vida, Biograf�as, Literatura, Pel�culas

Organized by Claudio Cifuentes-Aldunate under the sponsorship of the Department for the Study of Culture and the Department of Language and Communication.

Poster available for download HERE.

Radio Interview

Wednesday, October 29, 2014 - Abigail Arroyos' interview with William Westney and Cynthia M. Grund aired on National Public Radio, KTTZ 89.1 FM: Inside Texas Tech: Research Bringing Music, Philosophy, Body Movement Together. Listen to the interview HERE.

From "News"; archived 10-11-2014

NEWS: October 29 Update

Week 42 (October 13-19) was fall break at universities here in Denmark. . . . and now we are heading into the second half of the fall semester. There are lots of exciting things happening during the rest of the term here in the research program The Performances of Everyday Living, and you already can see some of these under the buttons "Topics in the Aesthetics of Music and Sound - Seminar Series" and "Lunchtime Concert Series" at the top of this page.

Due to conferences and other activity the seminar series Topics in the Aesthetics of Music and Sound and the Lunchtime Concert Series will be taking a pause until primo November. Much else is happening, however:

Radio Interview

Wednesday, October 29, 2014 - Abigail Arroyos' interview with William Westney and Cynthia M. Grund airs on National Public Radio, KTTZ 89.1 FM: Inside Texas Tech: Research Bringing Music, Philosophy, Body Movement Together. Listen to the interview HERE.

Conference

Thursday, October 30, 2014, 10 a.m. - 4 p.m. in U77

Representaciones de la guerra
Diarios de vida, Biograf�as, Literatura, Pel�culas

Organized by Claudio Cifuentes-Aldunate under the sponsorship of the Department for the Study of Culture and the Department of Language and Communication.

Poster available for download HERE.

. . . and if you are in San Antonio, Texas, October 30, you are welcome to attend when William Westney and Cynthia M. Grund present Of Avatars, Musical Embodiment and Perception at

Conference

Thursday, October 29-Saturday, November 1

American Society for Aesthetics Annual Meeting

San Antonio, Texas

Hotel Contessa

For the complete program, please see HERE.

. . . and when we resume our seminar series in November:

Seminar

Thursday, November 6, 2014, 3:15-5p.m. in U67

Serial Poetry and Music

Mogens Davidsen, PhD, Associate Professor of Literature, Institute for the Study of Culture, University of Southern Denmark.

Abstract: In this presentation I investigate the relations between serial music and serial poetry, understood through the notion of entropy. Entropy is a phenomenon in thermodynamics as well as in information theory (Norbert Wiener's book The Human use of Human Beings - 1950, revised 1954 - is fundamental for the understanding of entropy - or rather "negentropy" - in information). My thesis is that with a notion of entropy in both the physical world and in the "symbolic" world of information (and art), we may have a tool for establishing a connection between the world and the arts, different from a traditional, predominantly symbolic understanding. We may even be able to formulate a theory of correlativity, which calls for a reevaluation of the mimetic paradigm of the arts.

All are welcome!

Poster available as pdf file HERE.

Facebook event page HERE.

Audience participation via Skype is also welcome.

. . . as well as seminars:

November 12- at Aarhus University, Center of Functionally Integrated Neuroscience, Music in the Brain with William Westney and Cynthia M. Grund; see HERE

November 13 - at SDU with William Westney; see HERE

November 20 - at SDU with Marianne B�rch; see HERE and

November 27 - at SDU with Johnny Harboe; see HERE

December 4 - at SDU with Jacob Rendtorff; see HERE

December 11 - at SDU with Christophe Szpajdel and Vitus Vestergaard; see HERE

. . . and a Lunchtime Concert:

November 13 - at SDU with William Westney; see HERE.

We hope to see you at these events!

From "News"; archived 20-10-2014

NEWS:

Concert and seminar.

LUNCHTIME CONCERT with LOUISE NORDSTR�M

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 9, 2014

12 noon - 1 p.m. in THE WINTER GARDEN:

Concert poster available HERE as pdf-file.

Concert program with available HERE as pdf-file.

Facebook event page HERE.

. . . and a seminar:

Thursday, October 9, 2014, 4:15-6 p.m. in U67

PLEASE NOTE THE CHANGE IN TIME TO ONE HOUR LATER. THIS IS DUE TO THE ANNUAL UNIVERSITY-WIDE HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSEN ACADEMY LECTURE BEING HELD AT 3:00 p.m.in U45: WIZARDRY WITH LIGHT WITH PROFESSOR LENE VESTERGAARD HAU.



Vox Humana

Theo van Leeuwen is Professor of Multimodal Communication at the University of Southern Denmark and Emeritus Professor at the University of Technology, Sydney. He has published widely in the areas of social semiotics, multimodal communication and critical discourse analysis. His books include Reading Images � The Grammar of Visual Design (with Gunther Kress); Speech, Music, Sound; Multimodal Discourse � the Modes and Media of Contemporary Communication (with Gunther Kress); Global Media Discourse (with David Machin), Introducing Social Semiotics; Discourse and Practice � New Tools for Critical Discourse Analysis, and The Language of Colour. He is a founding editor of the journal Visual Communication.

Abstract: People have long dreamt of making musical instruments sound like the human voice. �If the violin stop is added�, wrote Father Mersenne in his Harmonie Universelle of 1636, �it seems that there will be nothing more to desire in the organ unless it be that the pipes should sound the vowels and the syllables. ..this it seems must not be hoped for because of the great difficulties encountered.�

     Today�s electronic instruments do �sound the syllables and the vowels�, but human voices now use technologies such as autotune and vocoder to produce sounds which reach beyond the natural human range, sustain beyond the natural duration of the human breath, and produce timbres and effects the human voice cannot naturally produce.

     This paper will sketch the history of the interaction between the voice and technology and discuss the values that are at stake in this interaction.

Poster available as pdf file HERE.

Facebook event page HERE.

Audience participation via Skype is also welcome.

From "News"; archived 03-10-2014

NEWS:

Seminar - Topics in the Aesthetics of Music and Sound.

Thursday, October 2, 2014, 3:15-5 p.m. in U67

What Avatars and Brain Scans Reveal about the Effects that  Intentions Can Have on the Way a Performer Plays

Cynthia M. Grund (in person), Associate Professor of Philosophy, Institute for the Study of Culture, SDU

William Westney (via Skype), Paul Whitfield Horn Professor of Piano, Browning Artist-in-Residence, School of Music, Texas Tech University.

Abstract: In this presentation, we expand and elaborate upon the talk entitled "Feeling and Form � An Empirical Coupling" which Cynthia gave on behalf of our joint SDU-TTU research group (see HERE) at the 4th Annual Conference of the Royal Musical Association Music and Philosophy Study Group at King�s College London on 27-28 June 2014:

Joint center analysis, a technique commonly used for posture and motion analysis in human modeling and biomechanics, turns out to be quite revealing when used on pianists in order to determine if there is a significant difference in movement when pianists are asked to play in one of two ways: focusing on correctness or on enjoyment. These precise techniques of tracking and measuring allow for classification, identification and comparison of movement patterns with regard to shape and location, thus providing "objective correlates" against which to test our subjective impressions and judgments.

Part of the process employed in joint center analysis involves capturing the motions of performing musicians by infrared camera tracking of sensors placed on relevant parts of their bodies. When these dots subsequently are connected on the resulting video, a byproduct of this analysis of a performing musician emerges: a 3D video rendering showing an animated point light �stick figure� which may be observed by simple inspection in its own right. This animated avatar is a concrete manifestation of the abstracted formal motion of the musician. This is a truly new tool in the history of methods available to us for empirical music research, allowing for the exhibition of qualities of the performing musician that previously only could be abstracted in our imagination.

fMRI technology permits us to observe the brain activity of someone watching and listening to such an avatar. In the experiment that provides the basis for this presentation, four pianists each performed the same two short pieces while fitted with sensors in a motion capture laboratory. Unaware of each other�s experimental experience, each was first asked to perform each piece as correctly as he or she could, and, the second time around, simply to enjoy playing the piece. Eight (other) subjects were then placed in an fMRI scanner � four trained musicians and four non-musicians who were identified as appreciators of classical music. Each of these eight fMRI subjects watched and listened to performances by the avatars (the performances were varied across fMRI subjects). The subjects each had to answer the same battery of questions about each performance witnessed while in the fMRI machine - questions posed so as to be answerable on a 7-point Likert scale.

One result was that the enjoyment mode was more attention-getting for the audience members than the correct mode, though primarily for musicians -- less so for non-musicians. Interestingly, this attention grabbing may take the form of ��empathic� emotional connectedness with the musicians as the enjoyment mode tends to produce a more emotional (right hemisphere) response in them (as seen in the Parahippocampal Gyrus) , whereas the correct mode tends to activate frontal regions in the left hemisphere -- regions that might be associated with a technical "evaluation" of the performance as perceived by musicians, but not by non-musicians.

Further analysis of the data suggests that evidence is provided that is consistent with the activation of mirror neurons in the musicians, but not in the non-musicians. Musicians activate this region in both the correct and the enjoyment mode, but more so in the enjoyment mode. The activation of this region is pretty much non-existent in the non-musicians who do not know how to play the piano, but presumably could move their fingers and wave their arms in a similar but meaningless way, so there is probably some minor activation of this region in them as well.

This presentation will thus

(1)    Briefly outline the details of the experimental setup.

(2)    Show what motion capture analysis alone reveals about the movement characteristics of pianists when playing in varied intentional states.

(3)    Present the implications that the coupling of motion capture with fMRI analysis suggests for further research on the relationship between the quality of engagement a musician manifests in performance and the reception of the performance by audience members.

(4)    Discuss some of the new perspectives this experiment and ones like it can cast on the role of form in philosophical aesthetics of music

Facebook event page available HERE.

Poster available as pdf file HERE.

Audience participation via Skype is also welcome.

From "News"; archived 27-09-2014

NEWS:

Concert and seminar.

LUNCHTIME CONCERT with PER AAGE BRANDT

- Jazz at the Piano -

THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 25, 2014

12 noon - 1 p.m. in THE WINTER GARDEN:

Concert poster available HERE as pdf-file.

Concert program with notes (in Danish) available HERE as pdf-file.

Facebook event page: available HERE.

. . . and a seminar:

Thursday, September 25, 2014, 3:15-5 p.m. in U67

What Chords Are Doing: On Tonality in Jazz Improvisation and in Tonal Music in General. From Sch�nberg to Bill Evans

Per Aage Brandt, Professor Adj. in Cognitive Science at Case Western Reserve University. Founder of the journal Cognitive Semiotics. Jazz pianist.

Abstract: This will seem very elementary to you: Tonality is based on the very peculiar phenomenon of tone, truly parallel to that of symbolic units such as, speech sounds (phonemes) and graphs in writing (graphemes) and certain colors (chromemes). A tone is a sound with a clear F0 (zero formant); it does not refer to its source but instead to other tones � mental entities that 1) form syntactic compositions 2) associated with meanings and 3) admitting widely variable expression.
Tones are identified by octaves, whereas non-tonal sounds do not have octaves. The tonal octave gives rise to a huge array of possible scales that again feed the melodics of tonal phrases; this is as far as we know a universal phenomenon, which also determine the configuration of musical instruments. The scale-to-phrase relation is basic in all forms of music, musical transmission and musical learning. But in many forms of written and unwritten music, something happens between scale and phrase, namely so-called harmony, a practice built on selections of tones from a given scale that are allowed to be sounding simultaneously for a number of beats in so-called measures, or �bars�: chords (a term motivated by the instruments that can easily do this). One chord at a time. The phrase will consequently sound as figure on a �ground� created by the chord. The next step that complicates the situation is modulation, that is, an autonomous use of changes from chord to chord that altersthe underlying scale! This move creates a new situation for the formation of phrases. Now the phrase will have to conform to changing scales, so that the eligibility of tones changes, sometimes instantly. The musician will know when that happens by listening to the chord changes and swiftly calculate what they do to the scale that a piece, or tune, started with or otherwise is dominated by (and which has a base tone called the �tonic� or key note and an internal so-called �functional� order based on the formants of the base tone), so that the melodic phrasing does not get out of �tune�. Modulation with changing basic tones now becomes a highly sophisticated sport, until so-called atonal and serial music stopped the entire process of complexification and reverted to inventive forms of the scale-to-phrase organization.
Arnold Sch�nberg has a nice dynamic interpretation of the internal principles of functionality and modulation, as they were developed from the Renaissance music and up to late Romantic harmonization. Here is historically where jazz music takes over by developing canonical and cyclic patterns that allow musicians to coordinate their inter-playing online and cultivate polyphonic but personalized improvisation as a new art form. I will study a couple of examples from great masters incl. saxophonist Coltrane (Giant Steps) and pianist Bill Evans (Time Remembered).

Kamraan Z. Gill & Dale Purves 2009, �A Biological Rationale for Musical Scales� offers a wonderful overview of scales in the world�s music.
Arnold Sch�nberg, (1911) 1922, Harmonielehre, Universal Edition.

Facebook event page: available HERE.

Audience participation via Skype is also welcome.

Poster available as pdf file HERE.

From "News"; archived 19-09-2014

NEWS:

Concert and seminar.

LUNCHTIME CONCERT with Sofie K�

- Alternative Poprock-

with August Korsgaard, piano

Laurits Brinkmann, bass

THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 2014

12 noon - 1 p.m. in THE WINTER GARDEN:

Concert poster available HERE as pdf-file.

Concert program with notes (in Danish) available HERE as pdf-file.

Facebook event page: available HERE.

. . . and a seminar:

Thursday, September 18, 2024, 3:15-5 p.m. in U67

Facebook event page: available HERE.

The Real "All-singing, All-dancing" Thing: Sound Production and Communication in Songbirds

Coen Elemans, PhD

Associate Professor

Institute of Biology, University of Southern Denmark

Abstract: Humans possess the ability to learn language-specific sounds from other humans in a process called vocal imitation learning. Surprisingly, our genetically closest relatives, the great apes, are not capable of vocal learning and all their vocalizations are innate. While considered a uniquely human feature long ago, we now know many other animals can learn their vocalizations, such as bats, whales, and many birds. Especially the songbirds have developed into an important model system for vocal learning, but also for answering some of the most fundamental questions in behavioral neuroscience. Song behavior depends on the integrated action of neural systems for auditory perception, song production, song learning and the processing of social information. Interestingly, while we have identified many components of the specialized and interacting neural circuits, we lack mechanistic insights into their function. In this presentation I introduce the beautiful birdsong system and discuss similarities and differences in mechanisms of sound production and control with humans.

Audience participation via Skype is also welcome.

Poster available as pdf file HERE.

From "News"; archived 14-09-2014

NEWS:

Seminar - Topics in the Aesthetics of Music and Sound

Thursday, September 11, 2024, 3:15-5 p.m. in U67

What Did the World Sound Like to the Dinosaurs?

Jakob Christensen-Dalsgaard, PhD

Associate Professor
Center for Sound Communication
Institute of Biology, University of Southern Denmark

Abstract: When listening to the rich and varied sound repertoire of animals, for example bird song, it is often compared to music. Yet, as far as we know, animal sound communication is completely different in the sense that it always seems to have a well-defined biological function � animals do not make sounds for fun, for sound communication has a cost, either directly or indirectly (increased risk of predation).
A similar biological role is harder to see for music. On the other hand, the ubiquity of music in the human species suggests that it originated early in our evolution and that it plays some biological role. Many such roles have been proposed, and I reviewed them in my paper �Music and the Origin of Speeches� ten years ago (in JMM: The Journal of Music and Meaning 2, Spring 2004 (HERE).
In this talk, I will give an updated view of the current status of the biological bases of music and the relation of music to animal sound communication.

Audience participation via Skype is also welcome.

Poster available as pdf file HERE.

From "Updates"; archived 10-09-2014

Now and in the weeks to come we continue our series of features on the people and projects within the research program The Performances of Everyday Living. As of this update, we highlight the work of Mogens Davidsen. SeeHERE.

May 19, 2014: Watch for Videnskab.dk-interview with Vitus Vestergaard regarding the newly-launched research project on metal music and logos.

Emperor-logo by Christophe Szpajdel

. . . and don't miss the "bonus" Lunchtime Concert with pianist Janus Araghipour on Tuesday, May 27 noon-1 p.m. in The Wintergarden across from Cafeteria 4, University of Southern Denmark, Campusvej 55, 5230 Odense M. Poster available HERE. Program available HERE.

May 12, 2014: We begin our series of features on the people and projects within the research program The Performances of Everyday Living. This week, we highlight a couple of projects in which Vitus Vestergaard is involved.

Please see HERE.

May 5, 2014: Two events on Thursday, May 8, 2014 -

First, pianist Giacomo di Tollo gives the final LUNCHTIME CONCERT during the spring semester on May 8, 12 noon - 1 p.m. in The Winter Garden across from Cafeteria 4. Poster available HERE and program available HERE.

Next - Seminar with Giacomo di Tollo, PhD. LAGIS- �cole Centrale de Lille, Lille, France - Organizing the Half Tones and Working with Dissonance on Thursday, May 8, 3:15 p.m. - 5 p.m. in in U73, University of Southern Denmark, Campusvej 55, 5230 Odense M. Audience participation via Skype is also welcome. Poster for the seminar available HERE. The schedule for all seminars during the spring semester 2014 may be found HERE. The under-construction schedule for Topics in the Aesthetics of Music and Sound for the fall semester of 2014 may be found HERE. Please keep an eye out HERE for Lunchtime Concerts during the fall of 2014.

April 26:

Seminar with Vitus Vestergaard, PhD, Assistant Professor of Media Studies, Institute for the Study of Culture, University of Southern Denmark - Musical Visuals: An Investigation of the Metal Band Logo on Thursday, May 1, 3:15 p.m. - 5 p.m. in in U73, University of Southern Denmark, Campusvej 55, 5230 Odense M. Audience participation via Skype is also welcome. Poster for the seminar available HERE. The schedule for all seminars during the semester may be found HERE.

April 6, 2014: Our next seminar in the series Topics in the Aesthetics of Music and Sound will take place on April 24 with Claudio Cifuentes-Aldunate. Please see here.

There will also be a Lunchtime Concert on April 24. Please see here.

LUNCHTIME CONCERT with Teresemarie Lisiux and Claus Ladekj�r Wilson Thursday, April 24, 2014, 12 noon - 1 p.m. in The Winter Garden:

Concert poster available HERE as pdf-file. Concert program available HERE as pdf-file.

Seminar with Claudio Cifuentes-Aldunate, Dr. Phil in Latin American Literature, Universit� de Fribourg, Schweiz; Master in Latin American Literature, Universidad de Concepci�n, Chile; Bachelor in Language and Literature, Universidad Cat�lica de Valpara�so, Chile. He is Associate Professor of Spanish and Latin American Studies at the Institute for the Study of Culture, University of Southern Denmark - The Religious Sublime in Music, Literature and Architecture on Thursday, April 24, 3:15 p.m. - 5 p.m. in in U73, University of Southern Denmark, Campusvej 55, 5230 Odense M. Audience participation via Skype is also welcome. Poster for the seminar available HERE. The schedule for all seminars during the semester may be found HERE.

Friday, April 25, Cynthia M. Grund will represent The Performances of Everyday Living/The Aesthetics of Music and Sound and NNIMIPA: Nordic Network for the Integration of Music Informatics, Performance and Aesthetics in The Festival of Research (Forskningens D�gn) coordinated by The Danish Agency for Science, Technology, and Innovation. Cynthia will give presentations about the current cross-disciplinary music research project Technological and Aesthetic Investigations of the Physical Movements of Pianists involving Texas Tech U and SDU (see HERE)
- 9:45 a.m. at �stre Farimagsgade Skole, �sterfarimagsgade 40, 2100 K�benhavn �
- 6.30 p.m. at StudieStuen, Nedergade 12, Odense C 5000

CANCELLED

April 5, 2014: The tenth seminar in the series Topics in the Aesthetics of Music and Sound for the spring of 2014 will be presented on Thursday, April 10, 15:15-17 at University of Southern Denmark (SDU), Campusvej 55, 5230 Odense M. in U73 by Fritz Gerhard Bertelsen, professional clarinetist and bass clarinetist: Electroacoustic Expressions: Musical Phrases Conceived, Developed and Delivered in the Interactions among Human � Machine and Performer � Composer/Creator.Audience participation via Skype is also welcome. Poster for the seminar available HERE. The schedule for the entire spring 2014 seminar series is available HERE.

March 29, 2014:

M*U*S*I*C-Music Union for Student Interaction and Creativity holds its first general meeting on Monday, March 31, 2014 4-6 p.m. in Room U52 at the University of Southern Denmark. Here the official and organizational formation of M.U.S.I.C. will take place; including elections of the management team and the planning of future activities. For more information on M*U*S*I*C, please see the M*U*S*I*C Facebook group HERE.

Niels Chr. Hansen; Center of Functionally Integrative Neuroscience, Aarhus University Hospital; Centre for Digital Music, Queen Mary, University of London, United Kingdom; Royal Academy of Music Aarhus. Systematic Musicology Meets Historical Musicology: Quantitative Support for Historical Changes in Rhythmic Variability of European Art on Thursday, April 3, 3:15 p.m. - 5 p.m. in in U73, University of Southern Denmark, Campusvej 55, 5230 Odense M. Audience participation via Skype is also welcome. Poster for the seminar availableHERE. This is the ninth seminar in a series of 13 seminars during the spring of 2014. The schedule for all 13 seminars during the semester may be found HERE.

March 23, 2014: The eighth

seminar in the series Topics in the Aesthetics of Music and Sound for the spring of 2014 will be presented on Thursday, March 27, 15:15-17 at University of Southern Denmark (SDU), Campusvej 55, 5230 Odense M. in U73 by Andreas Lenander �gidius, PhD Student (1st year), Institute for the Study of Culture - Media Studies, University of Southern Denmark: The (Possible) Application of Format Theory in the Study of the Use of Immaterial Music Formats. Audience participation via Skype is also welcome. Poster for the seminar available HERE. The schedule for the entire spring 2014 seminar series is available HERE.

March 14, 2014: Much is happening during the week beginning with Monday, March 17!

First - A new, student-run music association is seeing the light of day at SDU - M*U*S*I*C-Music Union for Student Interaction and Creativity. We wish this initiative the very best of luck! For more information, come to M*U*S*I*C* info meeting March 17, 12:30-2 p.m. in U51 and listen to the Odense band Etagen Under. See the M*U*S*I*C Facebook group HERE.

Next - Etagen Under gives the second Lunchtime Concert during the spring semester on March 20, 12 noon - 1 p.m. in The Winter Garden across from Cafeteria 4. Poster and program available HERE.

Last - but absolutely not least! - Mogens Davidsen, PhD, Associate Professor, Institute for the Study of Culture, University of Southern Denmark.

Natural Movement and Proprioception: Some Possible Implications for Practicing Musicians. Thursday, March 20, 3:15 p.m. - 5 p.m. in U73, University of Southern Denmark, Campusvej 55, 5230 Odense M. Audience participation via Skype is also welcome. Poster for the seminar available HERE. This is the seventh seminar during the spring of 2014 in the series Topics in the Aesthetics of Music and Sound. The schedule for all seminars during the semester may be found HERE.

March 8, 2014: The sixth seminar in the series Topics in the Aesthetics of Music and Sound for the spring of 2014 will be presented on Thursday, March 13, 15:15-17 at University of Southern Denmark (SDU), Campusvej 55, 5230 Odense M. in U73 by Susanne J�rgensen, Master of Arts in Education and B.A in International Business and Modern languages:
Applying Methods of Musical Interaction to the Classroom in a Multicultural Environment. Audience participation via Skype is also welcome. Poster for the seminar available HERE. The schedule for the entire spring 2014 seminar series is available HERE.

February 28, 2014: The fifth seminar in the series Topics in the Aesthetics of Music and Sound for the spring of 2014 will be presented on Thursday, March 6, 15:15-17 at University of Southern Denmark (SDU), Campusvej 55, 5230 Odense M. in U73 by Daniel Frandsen, mag.art i Filosofi (MA in Philosophy): "Real" Heavy Metal - The Notion of Authenticity and Its Implications for Musical Aesthetics. Audience participation via Skype is also welcome. Poster for the seminar available HERE. The schedule for the entire spring 2014 seminar series is available HERE.

February 23, 2014: The fourth seminar in the series Topics in the Aesthetics of Music and Sound for the spring of 2014 will be presented on Thursday, February 27, 15:15-17 at University of Southern Denmark (SDU), Campusvej 55, 5230 Odense M. in U73 by Mikkel Snorre Wilms Boysen, Associate professor, University College Zealand, Denmark; cand.mag and Master from the University of Copenhagen and the University of Aarhus; PhD student at the University of Southern Denmark: To Be Wrong in an Appropriate Way - How to Understand and Facilitate Creativity among Children in a Technological Context. Audience participation via Skype is also welcome. Poster for the seminar available HERE. The schedule for the entire spring 2014 seminar series is available HERE.

February 15, 2014: The third seminar in the series Topics in the Aesthetics of Music and Sound for the spring of 2014 will be presented on Thursday, February 20, 3:15 p.m.- 5 p.m. at University of Southern Denmark (SDU), Campusvej 55, 5230 Odense M. in U73 by Fernando Bravo, PhD Candidate (3rd year) in Music, U. of Cambridge: The Effects of Music upon the Emotional Processing of Visual Information from a Neuroscientific Perspective. Fernando Bravo will also be giving the Lunchtime Concert, Thursday, February 20, 12 noon - 1 p.m., in The Winter Garden: Music, Multimodality and Emotion. Two seminar/workshops will also be given by Fernando Bravo on Friday, February 21: 10:15 a.m. - 12 noon, in Comenius, IKV: Das Unheimliche and Musical Dissonance - Mentalizing, Self-Other Distinction, Metaphor and Cross-Modal Mechanisms in the Brain, and in the same location 2:15 p.m. - 4 p.m.: Music Technology and Psychological Research - An Introduction to Max/MSP/Jitter for Artistic and Scientific Purposes. Please see HERE for more information about and posters for all three seminars with Fernando Bravo. Please see HERE for information about and poster for the Lunchtime Concert with Fernando Bravo.

February 7, 2014: The second seminar in the series Topics in the Aesthetics of Music and Sound for the spring of 2014 will be presented on Thursday, February 13, 15:15-17 at University of Southern Denmark (SDU), Campusvej 55, 5230 Odense M. in U73 by Alisa Smirnova, who recently graduated from SDU with a Master's degree in Economics and Business Administration (cand.merc): The Dynamics of Materiality and Digitalization in the Practices of Music Consumption. Audience participation via Skype is also welcome. Poster for the seminar available HERE. The schedule for the entire spring 2014 seminar series is available HERE.

January 27, 2014: This is the last week of examinations for the fall semester at Danish universities, and the spring semester starts on Monday, February 3. The first seminar in the series Topics in the Aesthetics of Music and Sound for the spring of 2014 will be presented on Thursday, February 6, 15:15-17 at University of Southern Denmark, Campusvej 55, 5230 Odense M. in U73 by Matthias Bode, Assoc. Professor, Dept. of Marketing and Management, SDU: Sounds a Lot like Research. A Collaborative Art-Based Research Project about and in Sound. Audience participation via Skype is also welcome. Poster for the seminar available HERE. The schedule for the entire spring 2014 seminar series is nearly complete, and please keep an eye out HERE for updates! Hope to see you there as we kick off the spring term.

December 22, 2013: All of us at The Aesthetics of Music and Sound wish you very Happy Holidays and a Happy New Year, and hope that 2014 will be a healthy and rewarding year for all!

January is examination month at Danish universities and the spring term officially begins on February 1. Please watch this website for updates regarding activities during 2014, particulary those in connection with our new research program, The Performances of Everyday Living. with our continuing seminar series, Topics in the Aesthetics of Music and Sound and with our continuing series of Lunchtime Concerts.

From "News"; archived 07-09-2014

NEWS:

Welcome to the start of the fall 2014 semester!

We kick off the term on September 4 with two events:

A concert. . .

LUNCHTIME CONCERT with JENS JAKOB KJ�R HANSEN, piano.

Schumann, Brahms and Liszt

THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, 2014

12 noon - 1 p.m. in THE WINTER GARDEN:

Concert poster available HERE as pdf-file.

Concert program with notes (in Danish) available HERE as pdf-file.

Facebook event page: HERE.

. . . and a seminar:

Thursday, September 4, 2024, 3:15-5 p.m. in U67

Facebook event page:HERE.

Sound as Environment: Towards an Aesthetics of Sonic Environmentality

Ulrik Schmidt, PhD, Assistant Professor in Performance-design at Roskilde University, Denmark. His main research is in cross-aesthetic issues in modern and contemporary culture. Schmidt has published in Danish and English on various topics including music production, sound art and sound design, ubiquituous computing, modern architecture, digital art, minimalism, silent comedy, surreal documentary, light art, and psychedelic animation. His book The Ambient � Sensation, Mediatization, Environment, Aarhus University Press, 2013 (in Danish), investigates the ambient as a major aspect of modern aesthetization in media, art, music, film, architecture, design, and urban culture.

Abstract: What is a sonic environment? What does it do? What are the performative and aesthetic aspects of sound as environment? Taking such questions as a starting point, this presentation will present and explore the concept of sonic environmentality as a central category in contemporary sound art. I understand sonic environmentality as the performative dimension of a sonic environment: what a sonic environment does and how it is presented and experienced as environment.
On this background, I will investigate the environmental qualities of different areas of aesthetic sound production such as the acoustic environment, sound as material, sonic media, the installation space, and the space of perception as aesthetic environment. Finally, I will propose three basic forms of sonic environmentality: atmosphere, ecology and ambient space.

Audience participation via Skype is also welcome.

From "News"; archived 28-08-2014

NEWS: JULY 2014

(updated July 11)

  Exams are now over and summer is finally upon us at Danish universities. Here at soundmusicresearch.org we  continue our series of features on the people and projects within the research program The Performances of Everyday Living. In this NEWS update, we highlight the work of Claudio Cifuentes Aldunate and report about other goings on within the research program:

The Dialog of the Signifiers: Reflecting upon the Various Arts by Means of an Aesthetic of Intermediality

My research interest is mainly focused on the experience of aesthetic enjoyment and its understanding. This understanding arises from the analysis of the components of the aesthetic object - its semic units - together with an analysis of the additive processes involved in forming the sense of the object. This process appeals to the perceptual subjectivity experienced when encountering the artistic phenomenon. We could call this a semio-aestetic approach. The analytical procedure is performed textually, intertextually and intermedially. The signifiers� dance moves from literature to music, from music to its performance space (architecture), from music to its bodily reaction (movement, dance). This drift has led me through the musicality of language, encountering the dialogue between the words and the music of which they are part (e.g. the tango and its dysphoria, dancing the absence, moving with sadness, i.e. to make sublime the pathos of the everyday).

These reflections have resulted in papers about the body and its meaning, the tango as a multimodal phenomenon of music, lyric and dance, as well as a lecture on the sublime in a particular dialogue between literature, music and architecture.

As with the other projects being carried out by core members of The Performances of Everyday Living, Claudio's ongoing project will be documented on a dedicated webpage here at www.soundmusicresearch.org. Claudio's page is  HERE and is also available via the button at the top of the entry page at www.soundmusicresearch.org.

  The interview with Vitus Vestergaard regarding the research project Investigations of Metal Music and Visuals: Logo, Cover, Brand (see HERE) in Videnskab.dk appeared on July 3 and can be read HERE - in Danish.

There one can also read comments by Christian Mosb�k Johannessen, Assistant Professor, Dept. of Language and Communication, SDU (Centre for Human Interactivity & Centre for Multimodal Communication). Christian has recently joined The Performances of Everyday Living as an Affiliated Member, and we are very pleased to welcome Christian to our research group!

In addition to the interview in Videnskab.dk, an interview with Vitus Vestergaard was aired on Danish Radio station DR3 during the morning of July 7. You can hear it (in Danish) HERE at 2:08:40 (2 hours, 8 minutes and 40 seconds into the program).

  Cynthia M. Grund returned on July 8 from a two-week research-related junket that included giving a paper at the Fourth Annual Conference of the Royal Musical Association's Music and Philosophy Study Group (see p. 31 in the conference program HERE) at King's College, London; working meetings with Fernando Bravo at University of Cambridge, Queen's College (see HERE for Fernando Bravo's presentations in the seminar series Topics in the Aesthetics of Music and Sound at SDU February 20 and 21, 2014); and working meetings in Yorkshire with Jenny Carter and Samad Ahmadi of De Montfort University as well as Barry Eaglestone, University of Sheffield (Retired) - see, for example, HERE for some of the cooperative efforts with The Aesthetics of Music and Sound/NNIMIPA in which these researchers have been involved.

As previously mentioned on the page devoted to his ongoing research project, Dissonance and Moment HERE, Mogens Davidsen will be on the road this summer and early autumn

in connection with the Hans Christian Andersen Festival in Odense ("Hans Christian Andersen and the Image")

at �regaard Museum ("German Expressionism and WWI"), and

at the H.C. �rsted Institute, Copenhagen ("Entropy in Art and Reality").

Information regarding times and venues will be available here on www.soundmusicresearch.org.

More July news will appear here shortly. . . .

From "News"; archived 09-07-2014

NEWS: JUNE 17 - JUNE 30, 2014

We are now in the midst of the university examination period in Denmark, so those of us who teach as well as conduct research are occupied with exam-related activities morning to evening every day.

One very good research-related piece of news did come our way here at The Aesthetics of Music and Sound and The Performances of Everyday Living last week, however.

As observant members of our Facebook group* already know, on June 11 it was announced that JMM: The Journal of Music and Meaning has had its funding from the Danish Council for Independent Research | Culture and Communication renewed for the next three years. Please see http://ufm.dk/en/research-and-innovation/funding-programmes-for-research-and-innovation/who-has-received-funding/2014/-1 under "Journals."

You can always find JMM: The Journal of Music and Meaning at www.musicandmeaning.net.

* Not a member of the Facebook group for The Aesthetics of Music and Sound and The Performances of Everyday Living? You are welcome to apply for membership HERE. The group numbers 668 members as of June 17, 2014 and provides a very international platform for sharing news and views regarding topics related to The Aesthetics of Music and Sound and The Performances of Everyday Living.

From "News"; archived 17-06-2014

NEWS: JUNE 2 - JUNE 16, 2014

A visit to the archives (HERE) for

The Aesthetics of Music and Sound -

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

reveals that construction of the homepage www.soundmusicresearch.org began five years ago today on June 2, 2009.

So, a little celebration is in order!

As of January 1, 2014 it is also the site of the SDU-IKV Research Program The Performances of Everyday Living.

Now and in the weeks to come we continue our series of features on the people and projects within the research program The Performances of Everyday Living. In this NEWS update, we highlight the work of Mogens Davidsen:

Dissonance and Moment

My research is cross-aesthetic with a point of departure in literature. I am primarily interested in the relation between art and reality from a point of view which assumes that certain artistic expressions tell us something about aspects of reality not normally appreciated by us in our everyday awareness. This calls for the further assumption that our everyday consciousness is �literary� of nature, oriented towards causal explanations and aiming at a final �closure� of the experienced reality, understood as a narrative or as tonal or chromatic harmony, depending on the art form. My focus is thus on dissonance, unresolved expressions and fragmentation in music, literature and pictorial art.

My idea of art as an objective correlation of reality, sharing qualitative properties with the world as such, has brought me to regard quantum physics as a related objectification to that of art, formalizing indeterminacy, indepictability and paradox.

In late summer and autumn 2014, I will present the framework of my research (at different levels)

in connection with the Hans Christian Andersen Festival in Odense ("Hans Christian Andersen and the Image")

at �regaard Museum ("German Expressionism and WWI"), and

at the H.C. �rsted Institute, Copenhagen ("Entropy in Art and Reality").

(Editor's note: Watch for dates and times here on www.soundmusicresearch.org.)

Watch for the upcoming interview with Vitus Vestergaard (see HERE) in Videnskab.dk.

Thursday, June 5, is a holiday in Denmark that for many entails a five-day weekend this year, since June 9 is also a holiday. Watch for more updates here as of June 16.

From "News"; archived 02-06-2014

NEWS: MAY 19 - JUNE 1, 2014

Watch for the upcoming interview with Vitus Vestergaard in Videnskab.dk.

Vitus will be interviewed about the new research project Investigations of Metal Music and Visuals: Logo, Cover, Brand. Project period: May 2014 � (in progress).

This project focuses on the connection between metal music and visuals, especially band logos and cover art. From the 1980s and onwards, metal genres such as death metal, black metal and doom metal have developed a range of distinct features not only musically but also visually.

The metal band logo is one example, and although metal band logos belong to different �families� they tend to share some of the same features (bilateral symmetry, monochromacy, basis in hand drawn gothic scripts, etcetera). In many logos there are also clear relationships with art nouveau and art deco. These relationships are interesting and rather unexplored; as interesting - and even less explored - are the relationships between the sonic material in metal songs and the visual material associated with them. This project aims to explore, analyze and conceptualize such connections through a multidisciplinary approach based in aesthetics, musicology, semiotics, media studies, brand research and more.

The project collaborates with the renowned Belgian logo artist Christophe Szpajdel who has created around 8.000 logos, primarily for metal bands. As a way of communicating the research findings to a broad audience, the PEL project group and The Media Museum collaborate on an exhibition featuring, among other things, Szpajdel's logos. The exhibition will open January 15, 2015.

Emperor-logo by Christophe Szpajdel

Lunchtime Concert with Janus Araghipour in The Winter Garden, SDU, Tuesday, May 27, 2014.

We have the good fortune to be able to offer a "bonus" Lunchtime Concert this spring on May 27, when pianist Janus Araghipour performs in The Winter Garden at University of Southern Denmark 12 noon - 1 p.m. Program and poster available HERE.

Thursday, May 29, is a holiday in Denmark that for many entails a four-day weekend. Watch for more updates here as of June 2.

From "News"; archived 19-05-2014

NEWS: MAY 12 - MAY 18, 2014

As the spring semester begins to move towards it conclusion. . .

Thanks to all who have shown interest in our seminar series Topics in the Aesthetics of Music and Sound throughout the spring term. We held our last seminar in the series for the spring of 2014 on Thursday, May 8, and we are looking forward to the startup of the seminars once again at the beginning of the fall semester. You can see how the fall series is shaping up HERE, and revisit our spring 2014 series HERE

We have the good fortune to be able to offer a bonus Lunchtime Concert this spring on May 27, when pianist Janus Araghipour performs in The Winter Garden at University of Southern Denmark 12 noon - 1 p.m. Details will be available HERE, and there you also can see the programs and posters from the four concerts, we already have held this spring.

. . . we will be featuring news about the people and the projects within the research program The Performances of Everyday Living (see purple box below).

This week we will highlight a couple of projects in which Vitus Vestergaard is involved:

- The first project is entitled 1864.NU � The Sound of War and is an exhibition project in collaboration with Give Egnens Museum. Vitus Vestergaard became involved in the project through his previous research on exhibition design, especially the use of digital audiovisual media in exhibitions. The 1864.NU (literally 1864.NOW) project focuses on the soldier in the Second Schleswig War in 1864 and the soldier of today. The realities of being a soldier e.g. topics such as fear, excitement, heroism, loss, celebration and alienation are portrayed through an extensive use of sound. The sonic material ranges from gunfire to interviews with veterans and sound clips from various media.

The idea is that sound such as gunfire or the human voice can insert the visitor into a situation - even into the mind of a soldier - in a way that would be difficult to do with visuals. Sound producer Tim Hinman has produced eight audio montages available on http://1864nu.dk/ and the exhibition audio is based on the same audio material. Since visiting an exhibition is a complex and fragmented experience, however, a lot of work has been put into presenting the sound material in a different, more abstract and nonlinear fashion. For example Vitus Vestergaard programmed an algorithmic audio cloud based on voice actors reading letters aloud from soldiers to their families. The audio cloud mixes statements from letters dating from 1864 and recent letters, thus highlighting the differences and commonalities in the themes and tone of communication. As the exhibition continues, Vitus Vestergaard will evaluate user experience and interpretation to increase our knowledge of the use of audio in physical exhibition spaces. Read more about the exhibition on the Give Egnens Museum website: http://www.gem.dk/ (in Danish).

- The second project is in its initial phases and also focuses on audiovisual interconnections, only this time with the main emphasis on visuals. The project examines metal band logos and is a part of the larger Metal Music and Culture themeof The Performances of Everyday Living research program. The logo project is planned to run through the rest of 2014 and the beginning of 2015. Belgian logo artist Christophe Szpajdel - who has created around 8,000 logos, primarily for metal bands - is a partner in the project. As a way of communicating the research findings to a broad audience, the PEL program and The Media Museum will collaborate on an exhibition featuring, among other things, Szpajdels logos. The exhibition will open January 15, 2015.
Next week the national research portal Videnskab.dk will feature an article on the upcoming logo project and there is also a lot more information to come here on soundmusicresearch.org. Stay tuned!

From "News"; archived 12-05-2014

NEWS: MAY 5 - MAY 9, 2014

May 8: Concert and Seminar, SDU

May 8 - Concert

LUNCHTIME CONCERT with GIACOMO DI TOLLO:

Opera Transcriptions: Love and Hate at the Piano

THURSDAY, MAY 8, 2014

12 noon - 1 p.m. in THE WINTER GARDEN:

Concert poster available HERE as pdf-file.

Concert program available HERE as pdf-file.

Facebook - http://www.facebook.com/events/1412563439019463

May 8 - Seminar

with Giacomo di Tollo

3:15-5 p.m. in U73

Thursday, May 8, 2014

Seminar poster available as pdf-file HERE.

Facebook - http://www.facebook.com/events/1561011597458495

Audience participation via Skype is also welcome. Please contact Cynthia M. Grund in advance of the seminar.

Organizing the Half Tones and Working with Dissonance

Giacomo di Tollo, PhD. LAGIS- �cole Centrale de Lille, Lille, France

Abstract: Some scholars claim that contemporary music was conventionally born when Schoenberg wrote Six Little Piano Pieces op. 19, a work that explores the possibilities provided by dissonance as such. After this, some composers have preferred to deal with a free treatment of dissonance, others have developed ways of organizing the twelve tones that make up the totale cromatico. During the seminar I will present some approaches for dealing with dissonance that stem from research methods in artificial intelligence. These are based on the theories of block designs (Tom Johnson), cycles and kaleidocycles (Luigi Verdi), and magic stars (Sergei Zagny). These, together with the notion of stochasticity (for instance, John Cage) and brute force (again, Tom Johnson), can provide frameworks for help composers and practitioners' to deal with the task of working with dissonance.

Please Note: Giacomo di Tollo will be giving the May 8 Lunchtime Concert at the University of Southern Denmark. Please see HERE for details.

From "News"; archived 04-05-2014

NEWS: APRIL 28 - MAY 2, 2014

May 1 - Seminar

with Vitus Vestergaard

3:15-5 p.m. in U73

Thursday, May 1, 2014

Poster available as pdf-file HERE.

https://www.facebook.com/events/1445742888998818

Audience participation via Skype is also welcome. Please contact Cynthia M. Grund in advance of the seminar.

Musical Visuals: An Investigation of the Metal Band Logo

Vitus Vestergaard, PhD, Assistant Professor of Media Studies, Institute for the Study of Culture, University of Southern Denmark

Abstract: The design of metal band logos has evolved into a visually unique style, drawing upon design styles such as art deco and art nouveau. The logos reflect the same metal aesthetics that can be found in metal songs, however. During this seminar the intimate connection between logo and music will be discussed and substantiated by a range of examples.

From "News"; archived 26-04-2014

NEWS: APRIL 14 - APRIL 25, 2014

April 15 - April 21 is Spring Break at SDU. Much is happening, however, right after the university is in session again as of April 22:

April 24, 2014: Concert and Seminar, SDU

April 25, 2014: Forskningens D�gn/The Festival of Reseach

April 24 - Concert

LUNCHTIME CONCERT with TERESEMARIE LISIUX and CLAUS LADEKJ�R WILSON

THURSDAY, APRIL 24, 2014

12 noon - 1 p.m. in THE WINTER GARDEN:

Concert poster available HERE as pdf-file.

Concert program available HERE as pdf-file.

Facebook:

https://www.facebook.com/events/737621919603357/.

April 24 - Seminar

with Claudio Cifuentes-Aldunate

3:15-5 p.m. in U73

Thursday, April 24, 2014

Poster available as pdf-file HERE.

Facebook:

https://www.facebook.com/events/438309969605644/.

Audience participation via Skype is also welcome. Please contact Cynthia M. Grund in advance of the seminar.

The Religious Sublime in Music, Literature and Architecture

Claudio Cifuentes-Aldunate. Dr. Phil in Latin American Literature, Universit� de Fribourg, Schweiz; Master in Latin American Literature, Universidad de Concepci�n, Chile; Bachelor in Language and Literature, Universidad Cat�lica de Valpara�so, Chile. He is Associate Professor of Spanish and Latin American Studies at the Institute for the Study of Culture, University of Southern Denmark.

Abstract: In this presentation I will attempt to indicate the semiotic aspect that produces the �religious-sublime�. (I am convinced that there are many modalities of the sublime). Most of the semiotic characteristics that we use to represent (and produce) the signifiers of the religious-sublime nevertheless share their mechanisms with other modalities of �sublimeness�. The sublime will be regarded as the representation (in the sense of staging) of a perception. I will demonstrate how this subjective perception � in this case �of the divinity� - is (re)constructed by the subject in a piece of Spanish Gothic literature, in sacred music and in architecture � the room which houses the subjective perception of the divinity.

April 25 - Forskningens D�gn/The Festival of Research

Friday,   April 25,   Cynthia M. Grund   will represent The Performances of Everyday Living/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 will give presentations about the current cross-disciplinary music research project Technological and Aesthetic Investigations of the Physical Movements of Pianists involving Texas Tech U and SDU (see HERE).

    - 9:45 a.m. at �stre Farimagsgade Skole, �sterfarimagsgade 40, 2100 K�benhavn � http://www.oef.kk.dk

    - 6.30 p.m. at StudieStuen, Nedergade 12, Odense C 5000

https://www.facebook.com/events/608200199270986

http://kalender.oplev.odense.dk/perl/arrmore/type-odense5?ArrNr=6756851

http://www.thisisodense.dk/10151/the-meaning-of-music#.U1UnkWeKBaR

From "News"; archived 17-04-2014

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HEADS UP!

5 PHD GRANTS AVAILABLE AT THE

INSTITUTE FOR THE STUDY OF CULTURE,

UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK.

DEADLINE: APRIL 15, 2014

SEE

http://www.sdu.dk/en/servicenavigation/right/ledige_stillinger

For description of the research program

The Performances of Everyday Living

please scroll down to the purple box below.

NEWS: APRIL 7 - APRIL 11, 2014

Our next seminar in the series Topics in the Aesthetics of Music and Sound will take place on April 24 with Claudio Cifuentes-Aldunate. Please see here.

April 10, 2014 CANCELLED

Seminar

with Fritz Gerhard Berthelsen

3:15-5 p.m. in U73

Thursday, April 10, 2014

Poster available as pdf-file HERE.

http://www.facebook.com/events/772400102783984

Audience participation via Skype is also welcome.

Electroacoustic Expressions: Musical Phrases Conceived, Developed and Delivered in the Interactions among Human � Machine and Performer � Composer/Creator.

Fritz Gerhard Bertelsen, professional clarinetist and bass clarinetist

Since 1996 I have as a classically trained clarinetist and bass clarinetist worked closely together with classical electrocoustic composer Ejnar Kanding (www.kanding.com). Together, with the ensemble Contemporanea (www.contemporanea.dk), we have specialized in performing music involving acoustic and electronic sound in various ways. These range from performing pieces with tape or simple effect processing of the instruments, to more elaborated sound processing and interaction between performer and computer. We have avoided a conventional approach according to which the composer/creator becomes inspired, composes a piece and then hands it over to the performer/musician, who then rehearses this in order to subsequently interpret the work for/to an audience. We have instead worked together throughout the entire process. In this ping pong process, we continue to leave ourselves open to surprises regarding the sensitive musical phrase that can occur when we, armed with the "old" virtues - classical music aesthetic, work and preferences - as impeti, have moved into a new universe where the computer is a real-time and - fortunately -completely unpredictable partner in musical interaction.

Audience participation via Skype is also welcome. Please contact Cynthia M. Grund in advance of the seminar.

From "News"; archived 05-04-2014

NEWS: MARCH 31-APRIL 4, 2014

March 31, 2014

General Meeting

New student-run music association at SDU!

M*U*S*I*C - Music Union for Student Interaction and Creativity.

M.U.S.I.C. invites all interested students and staff to join its first general meeting and to take part in forming the new music association at SDU.

Monday, March 31, 2014, 4 - 6 p.m. in Room U52 at the University of Southern Denmark the official and organizational formation of M.U.S.I.C. will take place; including elections of the management team and the planning of future activities.

A team of dedicated students have initiated this new, exciting music association that will work towards bringing music into the everyday lives of students at the University of Southern Denmark. M*U*S*I*C aspires to develop the musical talents of SDU by means of collaborative student activities such as concerts, workshops, jam nights etc.

For more information on M*U*S*I*C, please see the M*U*S*I*C Facebook group HERE.

April 3, 2014

Seminar

with Niels Christian Hansen

3:15-5 p.m. in U73

Thursday, April 3, 2014

Poster available as pdf-file HERE.

Audience participation via Skype is also welcome.

Systematic Musicology Meets Historical Musicology: Quantitative Support for Historical Changes in Rhythmic Variability of European Art Music

Niels Christian Hansen, MSc (Music, Mind & Brain), MMus (music theory), BA (classical piano), is a PhD student at the Music in the Brain Group at the Royal Academy of Music Aarhus, the Center of Functionally Integrative Neuroscience, and the Department of Aesthetics and Communication, Aarhus University. His current research focuses on the mechanisms of musical expectation and on the behavioural and neural correlates of statistical learning and expertise in music. This talk represents collaborative work with Makiko Sadakata (University of Amsterdm & Donders Institute, Nijmegen) and Marcus Pearce (Queen Mary, London).

Abstract: Among music historians it is a long-held belief that the prosody of composers� native languages is reflected in the rhythmic and melodic properties of their music. During the last decade, researchers have finally provided quantitative support for a relationship between durational variability in language and music. This was achieved by applying the normalised Pairwise Variability Index (nPVI) to speech alongside musical scores. Such studies capitalise on the fact that syllable-timed languages like Italian and French have low linguistic nPVI while stress-timed languages like German have higher linguistic nPVI. Extending this approach to analyses of historical developments, a recent paper reported linearly increasing nPVI in Austro-German, but not in Italian music. This finding was ascribed to waning Italian influence and increasing German influence on the musical style of Austro-German music composed in the years following the Baroque Era. Critically, this was a post-hoc hypothesis, and since we cannot perform controlled experiments on historical data, replication with more sensitive methods and new repertoire is strongly required.

This project replicates, refines and extends previous studies by including French composers, who represent another Central-European country with considerable linguistic and cultural influence often associated with a particularly strong national identity. We hypothesise both an initial increase and a subsequent decrease in nPVI, based on documented increasing German influence on French music after the Baroque, and reported decreasing nPVI in French vocal music composed 1840-1900. To enable us to detect these predicted non-linear trends, more sophisticated analytical strategies are adopted, namely polynomial modelling.

Clearly, when juxtaposed with systematic musicology, this work provides quantitative support for key accounts from historical musicology concerning an Italian-dominated Baroque (1600-1750) followed by a Classical Era (1750-1820) with Austro-German centres of gravity (e.g. Mannheim, Vienna), and a Romantic Era (1820-1900) with greater focus on independent national identities.

�There is neither measure nor melody in French music, because the language is not capable of them�
(Jean-Jacques Rousseau, 1753)

Audience participation via Skype is also welcome. Please contact Cynthia M. Grund in advance of the seminar.

From "News"; archived 29-03-2014

NEWS: MARCH 24-28, 2014

March 27, 2014

Seminar with Andreas Lenander �gidius

3:15-5 p.m. in U73

Poster available as pdf-file HERE.

Audience participation via Skype is also welcome.

The (Possible) Application of Format Theory in the Study of the Use of Immaterial Music Formats

Andreas Lenander �gidius, PhD Student (1st year), Institute for the Study of Culture - Media Studies, University of Southern Denmark.

Abstract: I would like to investigate the ways in which format theory might be applicable to the study of how we handle immaterial music formats. Jonathan Sterne tentatively puts the idea of a format theory forward in relation to his historical analysis of the development of the MP3 format: MP3 � The Meaning of a Format (2013). Sterne demonstrates that formats, standards and infrastructures � and the need for content to fit inside them � are every bit as central to communication as the boxes we call �media�. The theory references earlier arguments from the study of technology and science (STS) but distinguishes itself due to its distinct focus on formats: �Format Theory would ask us to modulate the scale of our analysis of media somewhat differently. Mediality happens on multiple scales and time frames. Studying formats highlights smaller registers like software, operating standards, and codes, as well as larger registers like infrastructures, international corporate consortia, and whole technical systems.� (Sterne 2013, p. 11). This approach would have us look at that which functions �beneath, beyond and behind� our reliance on digital infrastructures for media use. Questions as to what format theory is good for and how I propose to use it as part of a sociocultural approach are framed by my overall PhD research question: How do users, creators and distributors of music handle immaterial music formats in the cross field between downloading and streaming? I would like to include a discussion of theoretical merits and possible research questions since I have no empirical data yet here in my first year of a PhD-project where I am still neck deep in theory.

Audience participation via Skype is also welcome.

From "News"; archived 23-03-2014

NEWS: MARCH 17-21, 2014

March 17, 2014

New student-run music association at SDU!

M*U*S*I*C - Music Union for Student Interaction and Creativity.

A team of dedicated students have created a new, exciting music association which will work towards bringing music into the everyday lives of students at the University of Southern Denmark. M*U*S*I*C aspires to develop the musical talents of SDU by means of collaborative student activities such as concerts, workshops, jam nights etc.

For more information on M*U*S*I*C, please see the M*U*S*I*C Facebookgroup HERE.

In addition, an info meeting is being held on Monday, March 17, 12:30 p.m.. - 2. p.m. in U51. Music will be provided by the Odense band Etagen Under. Etagen Under will also be giving this semester's second Lunchtime Concert on Thursday, March 20, for which M*U*S*I*C is one of the sponsors coorperating with The Performances of Everday Living. Please see below.

March 20, 2014

Lunchtime Concert with Etagen Under

12 noon - 1 p.m. in THE WINTER GARDEN:

Concert poster available HERE as pdf-file.

Concert program available HERE as pdf-file.

followed by

Seminar with Mogens Davidsen

3:15-5 p.m. in U73

Poster available as pdf-file HERE.

Facebook eventHERE.

Audience participation via Skype is also welcome.

Natural Movement and Proprioception: Some Possible Implications for Practicing Musicians

Mogens Davidsen, PhD, Associate Professor of Literature, Institute for the Study of Culture, University of Southern Denmark.

Abstract: The area of musical performance is a fascinating area for closer study that naturally blurs the boundaries between detached academic reflection and practical physical engagement. In today�s lecture I will examine and discuss theoretical and practical aspects of proprioception. As a researcher within the humanities, specifically areas dealing with aesthetics, I am examining the manner in which serious attention to proprioception appears to provide mediating conceptual and practical tools for achieving increased understanding of a variety of issues connected with aesthetic appreciation and practice. Issues within musical aesthetics and faced by the practicing musician will be addressed in the course of the lecture.

Simply put, the proprioceptive system enables the brain and the motor muscles to communicate. If the system doesn�t function properly, then the brain will not automatically know what the muscles in the body are �doing�, and damage to the motor apparatus and other injuries are often the result.

Many athletes with injuries and long-lasting joint and muscle damage have found relief and even a cure as a result of focusing on dysfunctions in the proprioceptive system. To the extent that musicians are athletes in their field, it is therefore relevant to ask whether or not possible proprioceptive dysfunctions related to the performance of music will lead to a broader understanding of the challenges to natural movement that the performance of music presents.

In a larger perspective, proprioceptive dysfunction may be seen as the result of the (lack of) physical challenges faced by modern humans. Increased awareness of the implications of the numerous virtually immobile "activities" in which we are increasingly engaged from childhood on can be vital when addressing lifestyle diseases in a welfare society.

In this lecture, in addition to presenting theoretical background, I will also draw upon personal experience of proprioceptive treatment as this is practiced locally (at the Aktiv Form Center here in Odense). In conclusion, I will reflect on the ways I have found that the theory and practice that ground proprioceptive therapy provide a framework for a humanistic and holistic approach to the study of the relations between human and environment, an approach that directly addresses many of the physical problems and aesthetic challenges of modern life in a constructive manner. Suggestions for further research will be presented and examined.

From "News"; archived 14-03-2014

March 13, 2014

Seminar with Susanne J�rgensen

Thursday, March 13, 2024, 3:15-5 p.m. in U73

Applying Methods of Musical Interaction to the Classroom in a Multicultural Environment

Susanne J�rgensen, Master of Arts in Education and B.A in International Business and Modern languages

Abstract: Traditional teaching approaches are generally teacher directed and based upon a hierarchical power relationship between teacher and students. Today, this has been challenged by many non-traditional learning strategies that are more dialogue oriented (e.g. co-operative learning), expecting students to be more active and engaged in the classroom. Challenges still occur, however, especially in multicultural environments.

During previous work with learning strategies, I interviewed engineering students with varied cultural backgrounds in order to compare their individual learning strategies (among others, students from Vollsmose). The students often preferred working with co-students who were somewhat similar to themselves regarding time management, skills and work mentality. Instant understanding, meaning and work efficiency were top priorities. Development of meaning and understanding, across cultural backgrounds, was not.

That students prefer working with those who are similar to themselves is not new. Today, the urgent need to develop a better understanding of youngsters from Vollsmose and other areas with social challenges, is. I want to find out how modern learning strategies can encourage healthy curiosity in the classroom, without fear of misunderstandings. And that was when I thought of music.

Musical interaction requires all participants to be alert (listening to dynamics, time and rhythm) regardless of whatever part they play in a given composition or song. To the listener (and the good musician), the total experience awakens emotions, a sense of meaning and understanding. I ask if it's possible to create some sort of jazz fusion, in the classroom, where different backgrounds are the crucial instruments for success? In brief, I want to discuss the possibilities of applying methods of musical interaction to the classroom. As my point of departure, I will present the ways in which music is applied in different social contexts, with a special emphasis on Vollsmose.

Audience participation via Skype is also welcome.

Poster available as pdf-file HERE.

Facebook event HERE.

From "News"; archived 08-03-2014

March 6, 2014

Seminar with Daniel Frandsen

Thursday, March 6, 2014, 3:15-5 p.m. in U73

"Real" Heavy Metal - The Notion of Authenticity and Its Implications for Musical Aesthetics

Daniel Frandsen, mag.art i Filosofi (MA in Philosophy).

Abstract: When working with topics in musical ontology, one is often led into a debate about musical aesthetics. Ascribing the property of authenticity to a piece of music will in many cases be interpreted as a statement about the aesthetic value of that piece of music and not just a claim about ontological matters. This can confuse the issue. Not helping the matter is the fact that the notion of authenticity is mostly underspecified in the philosophical literature. But does the ascription of authenticity have any implications for musical aesthetics? In order to answer this question we must at the outset, analyze the notion of authenticity isolated from the field of aesthetics. Secondly, it is necessary to determine what is of aesthetic relevance for the piece of music in question, without implying that it is merely a matter of personal taste.

In this presentation I will attempt to show in what sense musical authenticity and musical aesthetics are related, and under which circumstances the ascription of authenticity is merely an ontological matter. This will be done with reference to theories advanced by Joel Rudinow, Peter Kivy and Matthew Kieran among others - and mainly addressed through examples from heavy metal music, due to the complexity of the genre from a musical standpoint, on the one hand, and the nature of the mileu-internal musical discourse, on the other.

Audience participation via Skype is also welcome.

Poster available as pdf-file HERE.

Facebook event page: HERE.

From "News"; archived 28-02-2014

This Week: February 27, 2014

Seminar with Mikkel Snorre Wilms Boysen

Thursday, February 27, 2024, 3:15-5 p.m. in U73

To Be Wrong in an Appropriate Way

- How to Understand and Facilitate Creativity among Children in a Technological Context

Mikkel Snorre Wilms Boysen, Associate professor, University College Zealand, Denmark; cand.mag and Master from the University of Copenhagen and the University of Aarhus; PhD student at the University of Southern Denmark.

Creativity is a concept filled with paradoxes. One of the main contradictions is that creativity apparently involves breaking rules as well as following rules at the same time. In a didactical context this dilemma is often resolved by applying a developmental argument; the individual has to learn the rules in order to know how to break them. This notion is challenged, however, by contemporary trends such as technology, globalization and individualization. What are in fact the proper rules? Do we need to learn basic skills if we can apply technology? How can general rules and individual preferences coexist? In the presentation, such questions are addressed from the perspective of an investigation of music-technology courses in Danish schools. In addition to creativity, concepts such as intentionality, autonomy, authenticity, network, learning, and play-culture will play a significant part in the discussion.

This presentation is a continuation of the presentation given in the series on December 12 (see here), but participation in that seminar is not a prerequisite for participation in this seminar. All are welcome.

Audience participation via Skype is also welcome.

Poster available as pdf-file HERE.

Facebook event page: HERE

From "News"; archived 23-02-2014

This Week: February 20 and 21, 2014

Lunchtime Concert and Three Seminars with Guest Lecturer Fernando Bravo, U. of Cambridge

Please see HEREfor information about and poster for the Lunchtime Concert with Fernando Bravo.

Please seeHERE for more information about and posters for all three seminars with Fernando Bravo:

The Effects of Music upon the Emotional Processing of Visual Information from a Neuroscientific Perspective

Das Unheimliche and Musical Dissonance - Mentalizing, Self-Other Distinction, Metaphor and Cross-Modal Mechanisms in the Brain

Music Technology and Psychological Research - An Introduction to Max/MSP/Jitter for Artistic and Scientific Purposes

From "Updates"; archived 14-03-2014

December 15, 2013: Mary L. Tuck, currently in the MA Ethnomusicology program at Kent State University, Kent, Ohio. Via Skype.

The seminar is entitled Human Interaction with Wavelengths in Sound and Light: A Look at the Culture of the Sufi Tradition and takes place Thursday, December 19, 3:15 p.m. - 5 p.m. in U73, University of Southern Denmark, Campusvej 55, 5230 Odense M. Audience participation via Skype is also welcome. Poster for the seminar available HERE. This is the twelfth - and final - seminar during the fall of 2013 in the series Topics in the Aesthetics of Music and Sound. The schedule for Topics in the Aesthetics of Music and Sound for the spring 2014 semester is currently under construction. Please keep an eye out HERE for updates!

December 4, 2013: Concert: Thursday, December 12, 2013, 12 noon - 1 p.m. in The Winter Garden, University of Southern Denmark, Campusvej 55, 5230 Odense M. Nu er det jul/Christmas Time Is Here with Nikolaj Nottelmann, tenor, and Cynthia M. Grund, piano.Concert poster available HERE. Concert program available HERE. The concert is followed by a seminar in the series Topics in the Aesthetics of Music and Sound with Mikkel Snorre Wilms Boysen, Associate professor, University College Zealand, Denmark; cand.mag and Master from the University of Copenhagen and the University of Aarhus; PhD student at the University of Southern Denmark. The seminar is entitled The Search for the Autonomous Creative Composer and takes place Thursday, December 12, 3:15 p.m. - 5 p.m. in U73, University of Southern Denmark, Campusvej 55, 5230 Odense M. Audience participation via Skype is also welcome. Poster for the seminar available HERE. This is the eleventh seminar during the fall of 2013 in the series Topics in the Aesthetics of Music and Sound. For fall 2013 series information and updates, please see HERE.

November 23, 2013: Lau Lindquist. Lau holds a master's degree in Performance Design and Philosophy from Roskilde University and is a VJ teacher at Engelsholm Folk High School. The seminar is entitled Audiovisual Relationships in VJing (Live Video-Musical-Performance) and takes placeThursday, November 28, 3:15 p.m. - 5 p.m. in U73, University of Southern Denmark, Campusvej 55, 5230 Odense M. Audience participation via Skype is also welcome. Poster for the seminar available HERE. This is the tenth seminar during the fall of 2013 in the series Topics in the Aesthetics of Music and Sound. The schedule for all seminars during the semester may be found HERE.

November 16, 2013: Concert: Thursday, November 21, 2013, 12 noon - 1 p.m. on The Campus Square (Campustorvet), University of Southern Denmark, Campusvej 55, 5230 Odense M. Brass and Tango with the SMKS Brass Ensemble and TengoTango. Concert poster available HERE. Concert program available HERE. The concert is followed by a seminar in the series Topics in the Aesthetics of Music and Sound with Mika Sihvonen, Senior Researcher in The School of Information Sciences, University of Tampere; Master of Arts in Ethnomusicology; Lic.Phil in Music Education. University of Tampere Coordinator for NNIMIPA (Nordic Network for the Integration of Music Informatics, Performance and Aesthetics) entitlted Mobile Video as a Tool for Music Education on Thursday, November 21, 3:15 p.m.-5:00 p.m. in U73, University of Southern Denmark, Campusvej 55, 5230 Odense M. Audience participation via Skype is also welcome. Poster for the seminar available HERE. This is the ninth seminar during the fall of 2013 in the series Topics in the Aesthetics of Music and Sound. For fall 2013 series information and updates, please see HERE.

November 8, 2013: S�ren Schauser, Educated as a violinist and music historian; holds a PhD in Philosophy from the University of Southern Denmark; works as a cultural journalist and music critic for the newspaper Berlingske in Copenhagen. Via Skype. Music of the Visible. Thursday, November 14, 4:15 p.m. -6 p.m. in U73, University of Southern Denmark, Campusvej 55, 5230 Odense M. PLEASE NOTE THAT THIS SEMINAR TAKES PLACE AN HOUR LATER THAN IS CUSTOMARY FOR THE SEMINARS IN THIS SERIES! Audience participation via Skype is also welcome. Poster for the seminar available HERE. This is the eighth seminar during the fall of 2013 in the series Topics in the Aesthetics of Music and Sound. The schedule for all seminars during the semester may be found HERE.

November 2, 2013: Concert: Thursday, November 7, 2013, 12 noon - 1 p.m. on the Campus Square (Campustorvet). University of Southern Denmark, Campusvej 55, 5230 Odense M. Elements with students from the Academy of Music and Dramatic Arts, Southern Denmark. Concert poster available HERE. Concert program available HERE. The concert is followed by a seminar in the series Topics in the Aesthetics of Music and Sound with Sigr�n Lilja Einarsd�ttir, Assistant professor, Bifr�st University, Iceland. NNIMIPA Coordinator, Bifr�st University, Iceland. Via Skype.Choral Capital and Choral Identity in the Academic Context: The Oxford Choral Scholars on Thursday, November 7, 3:15 p.m.-5:00 p.m. in U73, University of Southern Denmark, Campusvej 55, 5230 Odense M. Audience participation via Skype is also welcome. Poster for the seminar available HERE. This is the seventh seminar during the fall of 2013 in the series Topics in the Aesthetics of Music and Sound. For fall 2013 series information and updates, please see HERE.

November 7, 2013: Sigr�ns talk was POSTPONED UNTIL A LATER DATE DUE TO ILLNESS. Instead, Cynthia M. Grund , Associate Professor, Philosophy; Institute for the Study of Culture; University of Southern Denmark, offered A Presentation of Recent International Conference Activity of Interest to Participants in Topics in the Aesthetics of Music and Sound. See update on http://www.soundmusicresearch.org

/seminarsfall2013.html.

October 5, 2013: Concert: Thursday, October 10, 2013, 12 noon - 1 p.m. in the Winter Garden across from Cafeteria 4. University of Southern Denmark, Campusvej 55, 5230 Odense M. Schuberts Winterreise with Anders Bloch, baryton and Christian Verdoner Larsen, klaver.Concert poster available HERE. Concert program available HERE. The concert is followed by a seminar in the series Topics in the Aesthetics of Music and Sound with Christian Verdoner Larsen, cand.mag./Master in the History of Ideas and BA in Classical Piano entitlted
Kierkegaard, Music and Truth

on Thursday, October 10, 3:15 p.m.-5:00 p.m. in U73, University of Southern Denmark, Campusvej 55, 5230 Odense M. Audience participation via Skype is also welcome. Poster for the seminar available HERE. This is the sixth seminar during the fall of 2013 in the series Topics in the Aesthetics of Music and Sound. For fall 2013 series information and updates, please see HERE.

September 27, 2013: Simon H�ffding, Center for Subjectivity Research, Department of Media, Cognition and Communication, Faculty of Humanities, University of Copenhagen. Via Skype. Musical Immersion - What Does It Amount To? Thursday, October 3, 3:15 p.m. - 5 p.m. in U73, University of Southern Denmark, Campusvej 55, 5230 Odense M. Audience participation via Skype is also welcome. Poster for the seminar available HERE. This is the fifth seminar during the fall of 2013 in the series Topics in the Aesthetics of Music and Sound. The schedule for all seminars during the semester may be found HERE.

September 20, 2013:Nereya Otieno, Master's Candidate in Cognition and Communication, Center for Subjectivity Research, University of Copenhagen. Hearing with the Whole Body, Thursday, September 26, 3:15 p.m. - 5 p.m. in U73, University of Southern Denmark, Campusvej 55, 5230 Odense M. Audience participation via Skype is also welcome. Poster for the seminar available HERE.This is the fourth seminar during the fall of 2013 in the series Topics in the Aesthetics of Music and Sound. The schedule for all seminars during the semester may be found HERE.

September 13, 2013:

Mogens Davidsen, PhD, Associate Professor, Institute for the Study of Culture, University of Southern Denmark. Beat, Bebop and Pop, Thursday, September 19, 3:15 p.m. - 5 p.m. in U73, University of Southern Denmark, Campusvej 55, 5230 Odense M. Audience participation via Skype is also welcome. Poster for the seminar available HERE. This is the third seminar during the fall of 2013 in the series Topics in the Aesthetics of Music and Sound. The schedule for all seminars during the semester may be found HERE.

September 9, 2013: Concert: Thursday, September 12, 2013, 12 noon - 1 p.m. in the Winter Garden across from Cafeteria 4. University of Southern Denmark, Campusvej 55, 5230 Odense M. With Janus H�gfeldt Araghipour, klaver; Sidse Malene Bohm, sopran; Anders Christensen, baryton;and Maria Due Marstal, sopran.Concert poster available HERE. Concert program available HERE.

The concert is followed by a seminar in the series Topics in the Aesthetics 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 and an MA student of Dr. Andrzej Jasinski, Katowice, Poland, and Cynthia M. Grund, Associate Professor, Philosophy; Institute for the Study of Culture; University of Southern Denmark.entitled 'Content v. Competition, or Is Music Really So Different from - Sport? on Thursday, September 12, 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. For fall 2013 series information and updates, please see HERE.

August 21, 2013:

Here's hoping that everyone has had an enjoyable summer break! Now that fall is coming, we can look forward to a succession of exciting seminars in our ongoing series Topics in the Aesthetics of Music and Sound. We kick off with

Erik Christensen, PhD, Aalborg U, who will give a presentation entitled

Music in the Brain and Body, Thursday, September 5, 3:15 p.m. - 5 p.m. in U73, University of Southern Denmark, Campusvej 55, 5230 Odense M. Audience participation via Skype is also welcome. Poster for the seminar available HERE. The schedule for all seminars in Topics in the Aesthetics of Music and Sound during the fall semester of 2013 may be found HERE.

July 1, 2013: Ah, the summer break now begins in Denmark! Much has been happening, is happening and will be happening - activities post-dating May 2 and extending into the future may be found in between the two rows of ******s below . . . and as the summer progresses, more information will be available regarding our fall 2013 seminar series Topics in the Aesthetics of Music and Soundhere and information regarding our fall 2013 Lunchtime Concert Series will be available here. Have a wonderful summer!

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October 15-18, 2013:

NNIMIPA goes to Marseille to hold a meeting in conjunction with The 10th International Symposium on Computer Music Multidisciplinary Research (CMMR) themed Sound, Music and Motion. Please see http://www.cmmr2013.cnrs-mrs.fr/. More details available here regarding NNIMIPA's session and meeting in conjunction with the CMMR symposium.

July 17-July 22, 2013:

NNIMIPA goes to London once again to meet in conjunction with the Annual Meeting of the Royal Music Association Music and Philosophy Study Group. NNIMIPA will be holding two sessions of presentations on Thursday, July 18, a day of coordination meetings on Sunday, July 21, and some NNIMIPA delegates will also be presenting at the main RMA-MPSG meeting on July 19 and 20. Watch for updateshereon the NNIMIPA site.

June 28, 2013: Nordic connections are further strengthened as Cynthia M. Grund acts as opponent for the doctoral dissertation Ideas of Time in Music: A Philosophico-Logical Investigation Applied to Works of Alberto Ginastera (1916-1983) by Marianela Calleja, presented with the permission of the Faculty of Arts of the University of Helsinki, for public examination in Auditorium XII, Univerisity Main Building, on June 28, 2013, at 12. noon. Dissertation advisors: Gabriel Sandu and Alfonso Padilla.

June 8, 2013

Kristoffer Jensen, David Hebert and Cynthia M. Grund raise their glasses to toast NNIMIPA as Kristoffer and David kicked off several days of work on NNIMIPA-related collaborative projects in Copenhagen.

Primo June 2013: A reminder to everyone to periodically check into JMM:The Journal of Music and Meaning

athttp://www.musicandmeaning.net. For some time JMM has had a rolling acceptance AND publication policy, and new articles appeared as part of an update of JMM 11.

Friday, May 10 - Friday May 17, 2013, William Westney, Michael O'Boyle, and James Yang, all from Texas Tech University (TTU), Lubbock, Texas together with Cynthia M. Grund, University of Southern Denmark, carried out the next phase of empirical work connected with the project Technological and Aesthetic Investigations of the Physical Movements of Pianists together with the terrific staff of the TTU Neuroimaging Institute. For more on the project, please see HERE.

Friday, May 3, 2013 and Saturday, May 4, 2013, 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 the current cross-disciplinary music research project Technological and Aesthetic Investigations of the Physical Movements of Pianists involving Texas Tech U and SDU (see HERE) to gymnasium (upper-level secondary school) students at Greve Gymnasium and Odsherred Gymnasium on May 3, andfor the general public at K�ge Library on May 4. For a description (in Danish) of the presentation, please see HERE.

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PLEASE NOTE: During the month of March 2015 and possibly extending into April/May 2015, heavy construction will be taking place on this website behind the scenes as it "migrates" to new editing software. Please be patient with us during this period if occasionally some pages take on a strange appearance, or if updating seems to be a bit erratic. All efforts will be made to maintain the integrity of the page with the schedule for the seminar series Topics in the Aesthetics of Music and Sound: Mostly Metal here, but it will nevertheless be a good idea also to keep an eye on our Facebook group here and the regularly occurring announcements of events on it during this period. Thank you for your patience!

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Please seeHERE for more information about and posters for all three seminars with Fernando Bravo:

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