November 23, 2010: NEW RELEASES
TV-documentary: "Musik for folket!" (in Danish) on SDU's lunchtime concert Book: Music, Movement, Performance & Perception: Perspectives on Cross-Disciplinary Research an
November 10, 2010: For Theme Day: Music for the People! on November 11 - lunchtime concert with Janus Araghipour and seminars with Sigrún Lilja Einarsdóttir, Line S. Kristoffersen and Kean Andrew Bruhn, 12 noom - 5. p.m., SDU in Odense - please see HERE.
November 5, 2010: For Sigrún Lilja Einarsdóttir's guest lectures at SMKS in Odense (November 8), AAUE in Esbjerg (November 10) and SDU in Odense (November 11), please see HERE.
October 19, 2010: Lunchtime Concert, Michelle Jørgensen, soprano, & Janus Araghipour, piano. Thursday, October 21, 2010, 12 noon - 1 p.m. in Cafeteria 4, University of Southern Denmark, Campusvej 55, 5230 Odense M For program and poster, please see HERE.
October 13, 2010: NordForsk Network Kick-Off Seminar i Oslo October 14-15. NNIMIPA-Nordic Network for the Integration of Music Informatics, Performance and Aesthetics - will be represented by NNIMIPA/NordForsk Project Leader Cynthia M. Grund. For details, please see HERE.
September 28, 2010: For the panel discussion Music as Philosophical Microcosmos on Friday, October 8, in Odense at SDU with (clockwise from top left) Catherine Z. Elgin, Lars Ole Sauerberg, William Westney, Søren R. Frimodt Møller, Cynthia M. Grund and Daniel Bonevac, please see HERE.
September 28, 2010: For Søren R. Frimodt-Møllers PhD-defense on Thursday, October 7, in Odense at SDU, please see HERE.
September 15, 2010: For Barry Eaglestone's guest lectures in Esbjerg (September 20), Odense (September 23) and Copenhagen (September 24), please see HERE.
September 15, 2010: Lunchtime Concert with pianist Morten Heide Thursday, September 23 in Cafeteria 4, SDU, Odense. For program and poster please see HERE.
September 12, 2010: For Jean Penny's guest lectures in Esbjerg (September 13) and Odense (September 14), please see HERE.
May 31, 2010: For details on the June 2, 2010 Seminar on meaning formation in music from the perspectives of multi-modality and functional linguistics at SDU with William Westney and Cynthia M. Grund, please see HERE.
May 22, 2010: Benefit concert with William Westney in London today. See HERE.
May 14, 2010: SUM symposium, Thursday May, 20, 2010 10:00-16:00 – Planeten, Huset i Magstræde, Rådhusstræde 11, Copenhagen K. The Nordic SUM - Structured Understanding of Music - research project aims to develop tools and procedures that facilitate the use of emotion as a systematic parameter in the creation, analysis and performance of music in its widest sense. The workshop will present a range of concepts and tools for managing musical emotion, both in analysis and synthesis. Among these are the SUM sensor device which is a performance and measurement tool in development. See HERE for details. May 14, 2010: Details now available HERE for both the May 28 piano recital in Reykjavik with William Westney at Salurinn, Kopavogur Concert Hall here, and the May 29 research seminar Music, Meaning and Method at the University of Iceland, Reykjavik. For benefit concert with William Westney in London on May 22, see HERE for details.
May 13, 2010: Announcing a Lunchtime Concert on Monday, May 17 at 12:00 noon with William Westney at The University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Cafeteria 4. See announcement on Kultunaut HERE.
May 11, 2010: On May 12, in Aabenraa, Denmark, William Westney will hold an “Un-Master Class” 4 p.m.- 6 p.m. (see HERE) and will give a concert 6:40 p.m.- 7:20 p.m. (see HERE), both events at Deutsches Gymnasium für Nordschleswig, Svinget 26-28, 6200 Aabenraa. These events were originally to have taken place on Wednesday, February 3, but were resecheduled at the last minute due to heavy snowfall.
May 11, 2010: Today in Copenhagen 4 p.m. - 6 p.m. “Un-Master Class” workshop with William Westney. The Royal Danish Academy of Music, Rosenørns Allé 22, 1970 Frederiksberg C. See Events/Calendar entry HERE.
May 7, 2010: Homepage for the course "'If I could say it, I wouldn’t have to dance it' (Isadora Duncan): A Philosophical Investigation of Multimodality," taught by William Westney and Cynthia M. Grund at Bifröst U., Borgarnes, Iceland, May 25-28 as part of a course exchange now available. Please see the menu tab "Bifröst" HERE on this site.
May 2, 2010: Program for the 16th National Meeting of NTMSB, Music, Meaning and Empathy - An Open Research Colloquium at SDU on May 18 available HERE.
April 28, 2010: Facebook Group started for The Aesthetics of Music and Sound HERE:
April 27, 2010: Information on the lunchtime concert, "Flyglet Danser!/The Piano Dances!" taking place at SDU-Odense 11:30-12:30 on Thursday, April 29 now available HERE.
April 9, 2010: Information now available regarding course on Nordic National Romanticism, fall 2010, at The University of Southern Denmark (SDU), Odense. This is an upper-level course being offered during the fall semester 2010 which will focus on the philosophy and music associated with this complex of cultural and intellectual attitudes. The course will be conducted in English and will include cross-disciplinary elements. Please see HEREfor detailed information. April 5, 2010: JMM: The Journal of Music and Meaning. JMM8 available online as of April 5 , 2010 HERE.
March 12, 2010: Prince Joachim and Princess Marie to attend William Westney's concert at Pumpehuset, Tønder on March 17.
- For story in Jydske Vestkysten, see HERE; - For coverage in Kulturfokus, see HERE; - For the Royal Calendar, see HERE; - For coverage on the SDU website, see HERE.
March 7, 2010: .pdf-version of the program for Music, Meaning and Gesture - including schedule, lecture descriptions and readings - is now available.
Please click HERE.
February 27, 2010: Norwegian coverage of NNIMIPA.
On February 22 2010, the Norwegian cultural site www.kulturkompasset.com began running a story HEREafter the NNIMIPA: Nordic Network for the Integration of Music Informatics, Performance an Aesthetics coordination meeting in Oslo at the Department of Musicology, during which William Westney gave a concert, an Un-Master Class and participated in a variety of motion-capture experiments designed to shed light on the role of gesture in musical performance.
February 22, 2010: New comprehensive website for NNIMIPA: Nordic Network for the Integration of MusicInformatics, Performance and Aesthetics.
For more information regarding NNIMIPA: Nordic Network for the Integration of Music Informatics, Performance and Aesthetics, the network behind Music, Meaning and Gesture, please see www.nnimipa.org.
February 21, 2010: Course schedule now up for NordPlus-sponsored Nordic Master's Course on Music, Meaning and Gesture, SDU-Odense March 22-26, 2010.
After a productive coordination meeting in Oslo February 18-19, there is now a course schedule available HERE for Music, Meaning and Gesture. Please check regularly for updated information.
February 15, 2010: Televised documentary "Music and Meaning: Duets and Dialogues" with WILLIAM WESTNEY and CYNTHIA M. GRUND.
During the week of February 15-February 22, 2010, ALT-Aabenraa Lokal TV will be airing "Music and Meaning: Duets and Dialogues" with H.C. Andersen Guest Professor William Westney and Cynthia M. Grund, Research Director for The Aesthetics of Music and Sound (AMS). To view the documentary on ALTV's homepage, please click HERE. This program includes interviews with Westney and Grund, gives an overview of the activities of AMS, tells the story behind William Westney's connection with the Institute of Philosophy, Education and the Study of Religions at The University of Southern Denmark (SDU), and includes clips from the conference held at SDU-Odense on November 6, 2009: Art and/or Entertainment? The Fifth Anniversary Conference on Philosophy and Popular Culture.
February 8, 2010: Televised documentary on the Un-Master Class with WILLIAM WESTNEY.
The Aesthetics of Music and Sound (AMS) hopes that everyone has experienced a good start to the spring semester, 2010. We are pleased to present more television coverage of the activities of William Westney during his tenure as H.C. Andersen Guest Professor her at the Institute of Philosophy, Education and the Study of Religions at SDU 2009-2010. This time it is a documentary about William Westney's Un-Master Class, filmed at Alsion Concert Hall in Sønderborg November 24, 2009 and broadcast for the first time on ALT-Aabenraa Lokal TV during the week of February 8, 2010. To view the documentary, please click HERE in order to access the segment directly on ALT's homepage. To keep up with what is going on in AMS during the spring semester of 2010, please keep and eye on the "Events" page - you can click HERE - for details as these become available.
January 5, 2010: Televised concert with WILLIAM WESTNEY.
The Aesthetics of Music and Sound wishes everyone a very Happy New Year and is pleased to bring you a New Year's concert. ALT-Aabenraa Lokal TV has broadcast a concert with H.C. Andersen Guest Professor William Westney recorded live on November 24, 2009 at Alsion Concert Hall, Sønderborg. To view the program as a pdf-file, please click HERE. To see and hear the concert, please click HERE. The broadcast is of the concert in its entirety and divided into two parts. The first part contains music by Haydn, Fauré, Liszt, Harburg/Arlen, and Arlen as well as the first piece by Gershwin. The second part contains the Gershwin/Wild Fantasy on Porgy and Bess and the Burgmüller encore.
2010 For 2014, please see HERE; For 2013, please see HERE; For 2012, please see HERE; For 2011, please see HERE; For 2009, please see HERE; site construction began June 2, 2009.
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series airs November 22-29, 2010 on ALTV and is permanently available from November 22 
d Teaching within NNIMIPA - Nordic Network for the Integration of Music Informatics, Performance and Aesthetics. An essay in words and pictures recounting the NordPlus-sponsored Coordination Meeting for NNIMIPA held at the University of Oslo, February 18-19, 2010. Text: Cynthia M. Grund and William Westney. Photography: Cynthia M. Grund. Print release on November 11, 2010. Online version available 
