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Master's Course on MUSIC INFORMATICS, PERFORMANCE AND AESTHETICS,
March 29-April 3, 2009, Esbjerg, Denmark
A lot of background information about the master's course in 2009 and about NNIMIPA in general is readily available on the internet sites which were used to promote the master's course in 2009 and to which links are provided below:
A document (clickable link) produced and updated from November 2009 through March 2009 in order to disseminate information regarding the Master's Course on Music Informatics, Performance and Aesthetics held in Esbjerg, Denmark March 29-April 2, 2009 on the campi of VMK, SDU and AAUE under the auspices of NNIMIPA and with the participation of all of the six institutions who were members during the 2008-2009 academic year;
A detailed program for the Master's Course held March 29-April 3, 2009, including syllabus and course schedule and descriptions that may be found here. Most of the program had also been made publicly available in advance of the course on the NNIMIPA Google calendar; just request the appropriate dates on the NNIMIPA Google calendar at the bottom of the page here;
The program for the excursion Wednesday afternoon and evening may be found here;
The student evaluations of Music Informatics, Performance and Aesthetics (completed on site at the conclusion of the course's classes on April 2, 2009) were encouragingly positive, and we have taken note of constructive suggestions and will do our best to integrate them in the planning of future courses.
A slideshow of pictures from Music Informatics, Performance and Aesthetics in Esbjerg is under preparation.
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June 30, 2010: NordForsk awards a grant of 571,239 Norwegian kroner to NNIMIPA for 2010-2013.
The Nordic Network for the Integration of Music Informatics, Performance and Aesthetics (NNIMIPA - www.nnimipa.org) becomes a research network under NordForsk (www.nordforsk.org) on September 1, 2010. Nordforsk contacted chief applicant Cynthia M. Grund on June 30 to announce the award of 571,239 Norwegian kroner (ca. 535,000 Danish kroner/88,000 US dollars) for 2010-2013. The decision was made by the director of NordForsk following an evaluation carried out by a panel of independent experts.
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 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 24, 2010: Presentation of some of the motion-capture work done in Oslo during NNIMIPA coordination meeitng February 18-19, 2010 for Dansk Selskab for Musikforskning/ Danish Musicological Society Annual Meeting in Copenhagen by Cynthia M. Grund. See here.
April 16, 2010: Documentary slideshow and summary report now available for Music, Meaning and Gesture, NordPlus Master's Course held 22-26 March, 2010 at SDU-Odense here.
April 9, 2010: Information now available regarding course on Nordic National Romanticism, fall 2010, at The University of Southern Denmark (SDU), Odense. This is an upper-level course being offered during the fall semester 2010 which will focus on the philosophy and music associated with this complex of cultural and intellectual attitudes. The course will be conducted in English and will include cross-disciplinary elements. Please see here for detailed information.
April 5, 2010: JMM: The Journal of Music and Meaning. JMM8 available online as of April 5, 2010 here.
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