Institute for the Study of Culture (Institut for Kulturvidenskaber - IKV)   Research Director for The Aesthetics of Music and Sound and Editor and Webmaster for www.soundmusicresearch.org: Cynthia M. Grund cmgrund@sdu.dk   Updates   Archive for ""Updates" and "News": Click HERE.       April 28, 2013: Concert: Thursday, May 2, 2013, 12 noon - 1 p.m. on the Campus Square - Campustorvet, University of Southern Denmark, Campusvej 55, 5230 Odense M. Giacomo di Tollo, piano, performs A Festival of Italian Operatic, Belle Époque and Contemporary Piano Transcriptions. Poster for the concert available HERE as a pdf-file. Program (with notes) available HERE as pdf-file. Please see HERE for more detailed information on the Lunchtime Concert Series at the University of Southern Denmark. Following the concert there will be a seminar with Giacomo di Tolo, PhD, LISIC -- Université du Littoral Côte d'Opale, Calais France: An Application of Cycles to Twelve-tone Structures, Thursday, May 2, 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 spring 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. For the fall 2013 seminar series, please see HERE.   April 23, 2013: Concert: Wednesday, April 24, 2013, 2:30 p.m. - 3:30 p.m. in Cafeteria 4 , University of Southern Denmark, Campusvej 55, 5230 Odense M. Janus Araghipour, piano, plays music of Beethoven, Nielsen, Bach, Debussy, Schumann og Chopin. Poster for the concert available HERE as a pdf-file. Program (with notes) available HERE as pdf-file. Please see HERE for more detailed information on the Lunchtime Concert Series at the University of Southern Denmark. On Thursday, April 25, there will be a seminar with Carla Cash, PhD, Assistant Professor of Piano and Piano Pedagogy; Chair, Keyboard Area, School of Music;Texas Tech University; Lubbock, TX, via Skype: Optimizing Music Learning: The Neuroscience of Skill Practice and Memory Formation, Thursday, April 25, 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 spring 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.   April 14, 2013: Concert: Thursday, April 18, 2013, 12 noon - 1 p.m. on the Campus Square - Campustorvet, University of Southern Denmark, Campusvej 55, 5230 Odense M. Morten Heide, piano, celebrates that 2013 is the bicentennial birthday year for Charle-Valentin Alkan. Poster for the concert available HERE as a pdf-file. Program (with notes) available HERE as pdf-file. Please see HERE for more detailed information on the Lunchtime Concert Series at the University of Southern Denmark. Following the concert there will be a seminar with Morten Heide, Pianist and Choral Director; NNIMIPA (Nordic Network for the Integration of Music Informatics, Performance and Aesthetics) delegate-at-large representing The Academy of Music and Dramatic Arts, Southern Denmark (AMDA), Odense, Denmark. Charles-Valentin Alkan: The Pros and Cons of Virtuosity, Thursday, April 18, 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 spring 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.   April 6, 2013: Mogens Davidsen, PhD, Associate Professor, Institute for the Study of Culture, University of Southern Denmark. The Correlative Properties of the Unresolved Discord, Thursday, April 11, 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 ninth seminar during the spring 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.   April 2, 2013: Mårten Nehrfors, PhD Candidate, Dept. of Musicology and Performance Studies, Stockholm U. (Via Skype). Shaping the Community through Song - Ideology in the Song Collections of Johann Friedrich Reichardt, Thursday, April 4, 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 eighth seminar during the spring 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.   March 15, 2013: Concert: Thursday, March 21, 2013, 12 noon - 1 p.m. on the Campus Square (Campustorvet), University of Southern Denmark, Campusvej 55, 5230 Odense M. Emma Oemann, soprano, and Teresemarie Lisiux, piano, celebrate the arrival of spring with Britten, Mozart, Puccini and Bernstein. Please seeHEREfor more detailed information on the Lunchtime Concert Series at the University of Southern Denmark. Following the concert there will be a seminar withTeresemarie Lisiux, Cand. Musicae, Master of Music - main subject: classical piano. The Academy of Music and Dramatic Arts, Southern Denmark. Progress in Piano Pedagogy through Research, Thursday, March 21, 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. This is the seventh seminar during the spring 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.   March 9, 2013: Tere Vadén, Professor, Dept. of Art; School of Art, Design and Architecture; Aalto University, Helsinki (Via Skype). Dwelling “In-Between”: The Ineffability of Musical Meaning as an Asubjective Phenomenon, Thursday, March 14, 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 sixth seminar during the spring of 2013 in the series Topics in the Aesthetics of Music and Sound. The schedule for all seminars during the semester is currently under construction and may be found HERE.   March 1, 2013: Mary L. Tuck, currently in the MA Ethnomusicology program at Kent State University, Kent, Ohio. What Music Tells Us About Ourselves and Our Cultural Experience, Thursday, March 7, 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 spring 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.   February 22, 2013: Nereya Otieno, Master's Candidate in Cognition and Communication, Center for Subjectivity Research, University of Copenhagen.Music, Rhythm and Embodied Cognition, Thursday, February 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 fourth seminar during the spring 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.   February 17, 2013: Concert: Thursday, February 21, 2013, 12 noon - 1 p.m. in Cafeteria 4, University of Southern Denmark, Campusvej 55, 5230 Odense M. Minako Jensen, piano, plays Chopin, Scriabin, Liszt and Brahms. Concert poster available HERE. Concert program available HERE. The concert is followed by a seminar with S. Alex Ruthmann, PhD, Assistant Professor of Music Education, Department of Music; Faculty Fellow in Residence, Commonwealth Honors Program, University of Massachusetts Lowell; President, Association for Technology in Music Instruction; Co-Editor, International Journal of Education & the Arts:Aesthetics and Pedagogies for Making Music with New Media (Via Skype) on Thursday, February 21, 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.This is the third seminar during the spring of 2013 in the series Topics in the Aesthetics of Music and Sound. The schedule for all seminars during the semester may be foundHERE.   February 10, 2013: Golan Gur, MA, Doctoral Candidate, Institute of Musicology and Media Studies, Humboldt University of Berlin (Via Skype). Oracular Music: Musical Modernism and the Ideology of Progress, Thursday, February 14, 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 second seminar during the spring of 2013 in the series Topics in the Aesthetics of Music and Sound. The schedule for all seminars during the semester is currently under construction and may be found HERE.   February 2, 2013: Matthias Bode, Associate Professor, Dept. of Marketing & Management, U. of Southern Denmark. On the Meanings of the Sounds of Commerce, Thursday, February 7, 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 first seminar during the spring of 2013 in the series Topics in the Aesthetics of Music and Sound. The schedule for all seminars during the semester is currently under construction and may be found HERE.   February 1, 2013: This is the first day of the spring 2013 university semester here in Denmark, so welcome back to all who have spent the month of January either taking or grading exams!   This site will be updated during the next few days to reflect all that will be happening during the spring term. Please keep an eye out especially for the Lunchtime Concert Series and the seminar series Topics in the Aesthetics of Music and Sound, and please check the site's calendar periodically for the other activities which will also be taking place throughout the spring semester.     December 10, 2012: Concert: Wednesday, December 12, 2012, 12 noon - 1 p.m. on the Campus Square (Campustorvet) University of Southern Denmark, Campusvej 55, 5230 Odense M. Nu er det jul with Nikolaj Nottelmann, tenor, and Cynthia M. Grund, piano. Concert poster available HERE. Concert program available HERE. The seminar in the series Topics in the Aesthetics of Music and Sound with Anne Helle Jespersen, Research Librarian in Music, Head of Music Section; Library of the University of Southern Denmark, entitled 'Rhythmical Building Blocks': Creating Creativity which was scheduled to take place on Thursday, December 13, 3:15 p.m.-5:00 p.m. in U73, University of Southern Denmark, Campusvej 55, 5230 Odense M, IS BEING RESCHEDULED AS PART OF OUR SPRING SERIES. PLEASE WATCH FOR NEW DATE DURING THE SPRING! Poster for the seminar available HERE. For fall 2012 series information and updates, please see HERE.   December 1, 2012: Matthias Bode, Associate Professor, Dept. of Marketing & Management, U. of Southern Denmark. On the Meanings of the Sounds of Commerce, Thursday, December 6, 3:15 p.m. - 5 p.m. in U73, University of Southern Denmark, Campusvej 55, 5230 Odense M. NOTE: M. BODE RESCHEDULED - WATCH FOR NEW DATE DURING THE SPRING! Audience participation via Skype is also welcome. Poster for the seminar available HERE. This is the twelfth seminar in a series of 13 seminars during the fall of 2012. The schedule for all 13 seminars during the semester may be found HERE.   November 25, 2012: Oded Ben-Horin, Associate Professor, Stord Haugesund University College, Norway, Faculty of Learning and Culture (Music Dept.) - via Skype. Write a Science Opera on Thursday, November 29, 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 in a series of 13 seminars during the fall of 2012. The schedule for all 13 seminars during the semester may be found HERE.   -forskning i æstetiske læreprocesser gennem lyd i krop, kultur og kunst (Soundtracks - research in aesthetic learning processes involving sound in the body, culture and art) please see HERE; poster available HERE. The course is offered in Danish by IKV-SDU on Tuesday, November 27, 2012. Pages with course materials HERE.   November 19, 2012: Concert: Thursday, November 22, 2012, 12 noon - 1 p.m. on the Campus Square (Campustorvet) University of Southern Denmark, Campusvej 55, 5230 Odense M. Den første koncert i Syddansk Musikkonservatorium & Skuespillerskoles Kammermusikfestival 2012. Concert poster available HERE. Concert program available HERE. Followed by a seminar in the series Topics in the Aesthetics of Music and Sound with Tom Eide Osa, Associate Professor, University of Bergen, The Grieg Academy. The seminar is entitled Wittgenstein and Music Performance as Aesthetic Practice and takes place, Thursday, November 22, 3:15 p.m.-5:00 p.m. in U73, University of Southern Denmark, Campusvej 55, 5230 Odense M. Poster for the seminar available HERE. This is the tenth seminar in a series of 13 seminars during the fall of 2012. For series information and updates, please see HERE.   November 11, 2012: Tomas McAuley, PhD Candidate, Department of Music, King's College London (via Skype). Music and Epistemology: The Case of Friedrich Schlegel on Thursday, November 15, 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. This is the ninth seminar in a series of 13 seminars during the fall of 2012. The schedule for all 13 seminars during the semester may be found HERE.   November 2, 2012: S. Alex Ruthmann, PhD, Assistant Professor of Music Education, Department of Music; Faculty Fellow in Residence, Commonwealth Honors Program, University of Massachusetts Lowell; President, Association for Technology in Music Instruction; Co-Editor, International Journal of Education & the Arts: Aesthetics and Pedagogies for Making Music with New Media (Via Skype)on Thursday, November 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. (NOTE: A. RUTHMANN RESCHEDULED - WATCH FOR NEW DATE! On November 8, Oded Ben-Horin gives us a "preview of coming attractions" for his talk on November 29.) Poster for the seminar available HERE. This is the eighth seminar in a series of 13 seminars during the fall of 2012. The schedule for all 13 seminars during the semester may be found HERE.   October 27, 2012: Concert: Thursday, November 1, 2012, 12 noon - 1 p.m. on the Campus Square (Campustorvet) University of Southern Denmark, Campusvej 55, 5230 Odense M. Martin Vestergård Hansen, piano, & Josefine Opsahl, cello, play Cassadó, Bach and Debussy. Concert poster available HERE. Concert program available HERE. Followed by a seminar in the series Topics in the Aesthetics of Music and Sound with Matias Vestergård Hansen, currently studying piano with Amalie Malling at the Royal Danish Conservatory of Music. The seminar is entitled Composition as Inquiry and takes place, Thursday, November 1, 4:15 p.m.-6:00 p.m. in U73, University of Southern Denmark, Campusvej 55, 5230 Odense M. PLEASE NOTE THAT THE TIME OF THE SEMINAR HAS BEEN CHANGED TO 4:15 P.M. SO AS NOT TO COLLIDE WITH THE HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSEN ACADEMY ANNUAL LECTURE AT SDU AT 3:00 P.M. Poster for the seminar available HERE. This is the seventh seminar in a series of 13 seminars during the fall of 2012. For series information and updates, please see HERE.   October 5, 2012: 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. Elucidating the Significance of Statistical Learning in Music Cognition through Behavioural Experiments and Computational Modelling on Thursday, October 11, 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. This is the sixth seminar in a series of 13 seminars during the fall of 2012. The schedule for all 13 seminars during the semester may be found HERE.   September 29, 2012: Thursday, October 4, 2012, 12 noon - 1 p.m. in , University of Southern Denmark, Campusvej 55, 5230 Odense M. Minako Jensen, piano, performs works by Chopin, Schubert og Liszt. Concert poster available HERE. Concert program available HERE. Followed by a seminar in the series Topics in the Aesthetics of Music and Sound with Inge Bjarke entitled Improving Sight-Reading by Combining Ear, Eye and Instrument and taking place Thursday, October 4, 3:15 p.m.-5:00 p.m. in U73, University of Southern Denmark, Campusvej 55, 5230 Odense M. Poster for the seminar available HERE. This is the fifth seminar in a series of 13 seminars during the fall of 2012. The schedule for all 13 seminars during the semester HERE.   September 21, 2012: Daniel John Carroll, BA, Graduate Teaching Assistant, School of Music, Boston University (Via Skype). Tchaikovsky's Romeo and Juliet Fantasy Overture as an Example of How Semiotics Can Inform Hermeneutics on Thursday, September 27, 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. This is the fourth seminar in a series of 13 seminars during the fall of 2012. The schedule for all 13 seminars during the semester may be found HERE.   September 14, 2012: Ludim R. Pedroza, PhD, Assistant Professor of Music, Texas State University School of Music (via Skype). Music as Communitas: Ecstasy and Dogma in the Performance Aesthetics of Franz Liszt and Clara Schumann on Thursday, September 20, 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. This is the third seminar in a series of 13 seminars during the fall of 2012. The schedule for all 13 seminars during the semester may be found HERE.   September 8, 2012: Thursday, September 13, 2012, 12 noon - 1 p.m. in Cafeteria 4, University of Southern Denmark, Campusvej 55, 5230 Odense M. Morten Heide, piano, performs Tchaikovsky's The Seasons.Concert poster available HERE. Concert program available HERE. Followed by a seminar in the series Topics in the Aesthetics of Music and Sound with Morten Heideentitled The Search for Musical Perfection When Preparing a Piece for Recording – Beyond the Musical Score and taking place, Thursday, September 13, 3:15 p.m.-5:00 p.m. in U73, University of Southern Denmark, Campusvej 55, 5230 Odense M. Poster for the seminar available HERE. This is the second seminar in a series of 13 seminars during the fall of 2012. The schedule for all 13 seminars during the semester HERE.   September 3, 2012: Welcome back from summer vacation! Updates are now in the process of being uploaded throughout the site. Please pay special attention to the "kick-off" for the seminar series Topics in the Aesthetics of Music and Sound on September 6 and have a look at the schedule for all 13 seminars during the semester  HERE.   Markus Becker, Professor in the Strategic Organization Design Unit, Department of Marketing & Management, SDU and Søren R. Frimodt-Møller, Assistant Professor, Dept. of Architecture, Design and Media Technology, Aalborg University Esbjerg, will present The Role of Routines in Music Performance and in the Accomplishment of Work in Organizations on Thrusday, September 6, 3:15 p.m. - 5 p.m. in in U73, University of Southern Denmark, Campusvej 55, 5230 Odense M. Poster for seminar available HERE.   June 5, 2012: NNIMIPA joins with the RMA-MPSG for a four-day multi-event in London July 19-July 22, 2012 on the occasion of the second annual conference of the RMA-MPSG held at King’s College London on 20-21 July 2012. Please see HERE.   June 5, 2012: NNIMIPA joins with the Grieg Research School in Inter-disciplinary Music Studies for the June 2012 event UNDERSTANDING MUSICALITY in Bergen, NorwayJune 22, 2012. Please see HERE for information. This event is in extension of the GRS international research seminar Researching Music Practices – Methodological Approaches, June 18-21. For more information on the GRS seminar, please see HERE.   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.)