Network Coordinator, NNIMIPA;  Editor and Webmaster for www.nnimipa.org: Cynthia M. Grund cmgrund@ifpr.sdu.dk     News     December 31, 2011: NNIMIPA wishes everyone a very Happy New Year and hopes that 2012 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 the website for updates regarding activities during 2012.   December 12, 2011: Concert: Thursday, December 15, 2011, 12  noon - 1 p.m.  in Cafeteria 4, University of Southern Denmark, Campusvej 55, 5230 Odense M. Nu er det jul with Nikolaj Nottlemann, tenor, and Cynthia M. Grund, piano. Concert poster available HERE. Concert program available HERE.     December 12, 2011: Seminar in the series Topics in the Aesthetics of Music and Sound, Thursday, December 15, 2011, 2:15 -4:00 p.m. in U73, University of Southern Denmark, Campusvej 55.  5230 Odense M.   Sigrún Lilja Einarsdóttir, PhD student in Sociology – University of Exeter, England; Part time lecturer – Bifröst University, Iceland. Presentation via Skype: Bach in Everyday Life: ´Choral Capital´As Well-Being and the Socio-Musical Identities of Amateur Choristers Who Perform Art Music. Abstract available HERE. Poster for the seminar available HERE.     December 7, 2011: ArtsIT-Second International ICST Conference on Arts and Technology, December 7-8, Esbjerg, Denmark. http://artsit.org/show/home     November 25, 2011:Seminar in the series Topics in the Aesthetics of Music and Sound, Thursday, December 1, 2011, 2:15 -4:00 p.m. in U73, University of Southern Denmark, Campusvej 55.  5230 Odense M. David Clowney, Associate Professor, Rowan University, Glassboro, New Jersey, USA  presents a talk entitled Limits, Risks and Accomplishment in Musical Performance. Via Skype. Abstract available HERE. Poster for the seminar available HERE.    November 18, 2011: Concert: Thursday, November 24, 2011, 12  noon - 1 p.m.  in Cafeteria 4, University of Southern Denmark, Campusvej 55, 5230 Odense M. Pianist and Professor William Westney plays a program of Bach, Scriabin, Albeniz and Brahms..Concert poster available HERE. Concert program available HERE.   November 18, 2011: Seminar in the series Topics in the Aesthetics of Music and Sound, Thursday, November 24, 2011, 2:15 -4:00 p.m. in U73, University of Southern Denmark, Campusvej 55.  5230 Odense M. William Westney (Texas Tech U) and Cynthia M. Grund (SDU) present a talk entitled David Hume's Theories of Beauty and Utility Applied to Issues of Musical Performance – A Cross-Disciplinary Dialogue. Abstract available HERE. Poster for the seminar available HERE   November 18, 2011:  New Directions in Musical Performance. Workshop and seminar in the Concert Hall, Academy of Music and Dramatic Arts, Southern Denmark/Syddansk Musikkonservatorium og Skuespillerskole (AMDA/SMKS), Islandsgade 2, Odense, Denmark. 9:30 -14:00,  November 21, 2011. For details, please see HERE.   November 14, 2011: Seminar in the series Topics in the Aesthetics of Music and Sound, Thursday, November 17, 2011, 2:15 -4:00 p.m. in U73, University of Southern Denmark, Campusvej 55.  5230 Odense M. We welcome Catherine Z. Elgin, Professor of the Philosophy of Education, Graduate School of Education, Harvard University, who will present a talk entitled Two Dogmas and the Arts via Skype. Abstract availableHERE. Poster for the seminar availableHERE.     At 7:30 p.m. on November 17, 2011, William Westney will be giving a concert in the Concert Hall at the The Academy of Music and Dramatic Arts, Southern Denmark (AMDA), Islandsgade 2, 5000 Odense C. William Westney is Paul Whitfield Horn Professor of Piano and Browning Artist-in-Residence, School of Music, Texas Tech University and was appointed H.C. Andersen Visiting Professorial Fellow at The University of Southern Denmark during the 2009-2010 academic year, affiliated with The Aesthetics of Music and Sound. Dr. Westney's program will include works by Bach, Albeniz, Brahms and Scriabin. For detailed program, please seeHERE. For more information on Dr. Westney, please see HERE.     November 6, 2011: Concert: Thursday, November 10, 2011, 12  noon - 1 p.m.  in Cafeteria 4, University of Southern Denmark, Campusvej 55, 5230 Odense M. Pianist Morten Heide plays a program of character pieces, the titles of which suggest that they have been inspired by the song of birds or the sounds of flowing water..Concert poster available HERE. Concert program available HERE.   The concert will be filmed for television broadcast and is followed by a seminar in the series Topics in the Aesthetics of Music and Sound entitled: The Cognitive Semantics of Musical Tension with Jens Hjortkjær, PhD, Research Assistant, Department of Arts and Cultural Studies, University of Copenhagen. The seminar will take place on Thursday, November 10,  2:15 p.m.-4:00 p.m. in U73, University of Southern Denmark, Campusvej 55, 5230 Odense M. Poster for the seminar available HERE.     October 29, 2011: Seminar in the series Topics in the Aesthetics of Music and Sound- Romantic Ballet: Features, Conventions and Narratives with Dr. Astrid Bernkopf, Programme Leader Dance Studies, Dept. of Performing Arts, Middlesex U., Trent Park Campus, London. Presentation via Skype. Audience participation via Skype also welcome. Thursday, November 3, 2:15 p.m.-4:00 p.m. in U73, University of Southern Denmark, Campusvej 55, 5230 Odense M. Poster for seminar available HERE.     October 7, 2011: Seminar in the series Topics in the Aesthetics of Music and Sound - Musicianship, Musical Interpretation, and Cultural Identity: Challenges for Philosophy and the Social Sciences with David G. Hebert, PhD, Professor of Music, Grieg Academy, Faculty of Education, Bergen University College. Presentation via Skype.Thursday, October 13, 2:15 p.m.-4:00 p.m. in U73, University of Southern Denmark, Campusvej 55, 5230 Odense M. Poster for seminar available HERE.     October 2, 2011: Seminar in the series Topics in the Aesthetics of Music and Sound - Goals for Cross-Disciplinary Research and Education in Music and IT with Dr. Barry Eaglestone, Senior  Lecturer, U of Sheffield, UK (RetiredI). Presentation via Skype.Thursday, October 6, 2:15 p.m.-4:00 p.m. in U73, University of Southern Denmark, Campusvej 55, 5230 Odense M. Poster for seminar available HERE.   September 26, 2011: A TV-documentary in English about a Lunchtime Concert with pianist Gustav Krogh Hansen Piekut earlier this year at The University of Southern Denmark, SDU, at Odense airs throughout the week of September 26 - October 2, 2011 on ALT, Aabenraa Lokal TV on the TV Sønderjylland (TV-SDJ) network. The program will be permanently available HERE and during the broadcast week also HERE.  In addition to concert clips, the program features interviews in which Gustav Krogh Hansen Piekut, Assoc. Prof. Cynthia M. Grund and Søren R. Frimodt-Møller, PhD participate.   September 24, 2011: Seminar in the series Topics in the Aesthetics of Music and Sound - Norms of the Performance Context with Søren R. Frimodt-Møller, PhD. Thursday, September 29  2:15 p.m.-4:00 p.m. in U73, University of Southern Denmark, Campusvej 55, 5230 Odense M. Poster for seminar available HERE.   Public lecture in fulfillment of the requirements for the magister degree. Stud.mag. Daniel Frandsen holds a public lecture addressing the following topic: Discuss the role played by authenticity in analysis of musical meaning and of musical value, taking into account considerations involving the connection between aesthetic value and ethical value. The lecture will be given in English and takes place on Friday, September 30 at 1:15 p.m. in U150, University of Southern Denmark, Campusvej 55, 5230 Odense M.     September 20, 2011: Musikkens og lydens æstetik: en tværvidenskabelig tilgang til nutidens Parnassus/The Aesthetics of Music and Sound: A Cross-Disciplinary Approach to a Present-Day Parnassus with Cynthia M. Grund. Assoc. Prof. of Philosophy, University of Southern Denmark at Odense.  Opening lecture for the fall 2011 semester, Netværk for Kvinder i Filosofiske Fag (KIFF), Friday, September 23, 2 p.m. - 4 p.m, Room 1467-517, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark, followed by a reception. Poster available HERE.   September 16, 2011: Seminar in the series Topics in the Aesthetics of Music and Sound - Immanuel Kant and Eighteenth-Century Musical Thought with Tomas McAuley, PhD Candidate, Department of Music, King's College, London (via Skype). Thursday, September 22  2:15 p.m.-4:00 p.m. in U73, University of Southern Denmark, Campusvej 55, 5230 Odense M. Poster for seminar available HERE.   September 16, 2011: With all that has been going on as the fall semester gets off to a start, we neglected to include this important update! The website for JMM10, the tenth issue of The Journal of Music and Meaning www.musicandmeaning.net was launched on July 20, 2011. From this issue and onwards, JMM will publish articles as they become camera-ready - a publication strategy we call ”rolling publication”. Two articles are already online and more are on their way.      We are also delighted to announce that the Danish Council for Independent Research| Humanities (FKK) has recently renewed its support for JMM with a grant of 90,000 Danish crowns (ca. 17,000 US dollars at current rates of exchange) for 2011/2012, 2012/2013 and 2013/2014. All of us at JMM are very grateful to FKK for its continuing support.     September 9, 2011: Seminar in the series Topics in the Aesthetics of Music and Sound - Markerless Motion Capture with Alex Czarowicz, Vice President of Sales for Organic Motion, Thursday, September 15  2:15 p.m.-4:00 p.m. in U73, University of Southern Denmark, Campusvej 55, 5230 Odense M. Poster for seminar available HERE. The abstract for the presentation is available HERE.   September 2, 2011: Welcome back from summer vacation! Updates are now in the process of being uploaded throughout the site. Please pay special attention to the "kick-off" for both the lunchtime concert series and the seminar series Topics in the Aesthetics of Music and Sound on September 8 at the University of Southern Denmark at Odense:   Concert: Thursday, September 8, 2011, 12  noon - 1 p.m.  in Cafeteria 4, University of Southern Denmark, Campusvej 55, 5230 Odense M. Tango quintet RABO DEL GATO plays a program of Astor Piazzolla's tango compositions. Concert poster available HERE. Flyer introducing RABO DEL GATO (in Danish) HERE.     The concert will be filmed for television broadcast and is followed by a seminar in the series Topics in the Aesthetics of Music and Sound entitled: Lyric and Meaning in Tango’s Poetry with Claudio Cifuentes-Aldunate, Associate Professor of Spanish at The University of Southern Denmark. The seminar will take place on Thursday, September 8  2:15 p.m.-4:00 p.m. in U73, University of Southern Denmark, Campusvej 55, 5230 Odense M. Poster for the seminar available HERE.     June 26, 2011: Four-day multi-event in London June 30-July 3 on the occasion of the inaugural annual conference of the RMA-MPSG which will be held at King’s College London on 1-2 July 2011. See HERE.     May 30, 2011: NIME - New Interfaces for Musical Expression - 2011 in Oslo, Norway, May 30- June 1, 2011. Please see http://www.nime2011.org/ for detailed information.     May 14, 2011: Texas Tech Discoveriesis the publication of the Texas Tech University Office of the Vice President for Research and its first issue was officially launched May 14, 2011. William Westney is profiled in a feature article that provides detailed coverage of the research on which he and Cynthia M. Grund are currently working as well as Westney's iassociation with NNIMIPA. Please see HERE.   April 15, 2011: Lunchtime Concert with Jan Beck Eriksson, Thursday, April 28, 2011 in Cafeteria 4, SDU, Odense 12 noon - 1 p.m.  Please see HERE for details. The concert is followed by a seminar with Jan Beck Eriksson as part of the series Topics in the Aesthetics of Music and Sound and entitled "The Cultural, Aesthetic and Historical Significance of the Piano," 2:15 - 4:00 p.m. in U70 on April 28, 2011. Please see HERE for details. Since the seminar deals with the cultural, aesthetic and historical significance of the piano, Jan will also present a detailed examination of the Steinway grand, which will be left standing in Cafeteria 4 for a while after the concert for this purpose.   April 11, 2011: Lunchtime Concert with  pianist Janus Araghipour and friends, Thursday,  April  14, 2011 in  Cafeteria 4, SDU, Odense 12 noon-1 p.m.  For program and poster please see HERE. . . . and. the seminar which is part of the series Topics in the Aesthetics of Music and Sound and is entitled ”Music, Logic and Language" will take place after the lunchtime concert on April 14, 14:15-16:00 in U70.Theseminar will feature  (via Skype from Texas) Daniel Bonevac,  Professor of  Philosophy at the University of Texas at Austin and author of The Art and Science of Logic, the text used for the first-year course Theory of Argumentation  in the Philosophy Dept. at SDU. Please see HERE for more information about the seminar. All are welcome!   March 23, 2011: With so much going on during the past two months, this has been the first opportunity to pause and announce the launch of JMM9, the ninth issue of The Journal of Music and Meaning www.musicandmeaning.net on February 12, 2011.  This issue showcases a new, updated website format.   March 20. 2011: Josué Moreno and Dāvis Ozoliņš have just completed a NNIMIPA/NordForsk-funded week (March 13-19, 2011) of coordinating, compiling and editing video and motion capture footage at the fourM's lab, University of Oslo  (please see HERE). This footage was generated during the  February 2010 NNIMIPA workshop in Oslo (please see HERE) in preparation for the March 2010 NordPlus master's course at SDU in Odense (please see HERE). Both Josué and Dāvis are specializing in music and technology at the Sibelius Academy, Helsinki, Finland. Josué attended the NNIMIPA-NordPlus master's courses in Esberg, Denmark, 2009, and in Odense, Denmark, 2010. Dāvis attended the NNIMIPA-NordPlus master's course in Odense, 2010. The work completed by Josué and Dāvis during this March 2011 visit to the fourM's lab in Oslo will enable NNIMIPA-members to carry out further research in performance studies and aesthetics based on materal generated through network cooperation. Please see HERE for a sample.   March 15, 2011: Lunchtime Concert with  Nordphone Sax Quartet, Thursday, March 17, 2011, 2011 in  Cafeteria 4, SDU, Odense 12 noon-1 p.m.  For program and poster please see HERE. . . . and. in the afternoon there will be a seminar in series Topics in the Aesthetics of Music and Sound  entitled ”Soul from Plato to Motown." The seminar will take place after the lunchtime concert on March 17 14:15-16:00 in U70. The seminar will feature philosopher Joel Rudinow - with us via Skype from California - who will talk about his new book Soul Music: Tracking the Spiritual Roots of Pop from Plato to Motown (2010, The University of Michigan Press)  Please see HERE for more information about the seminar. All are welcome!      February 15, 2011:  Book a researcher from The Aesthetics of Music and Sound as a speaker at your event during the Danish Festival of Research (Forskningens Døgn)  April 28-30, 2011. For Søren R. Frimodt Møller, see HERE. For Cynthia M. Grund, see HERE. Booking is open February 15, 2011-April 1, 2011.   February 9, 2011: Lunchtime Concert with  pianist Gustav Krogh Hansen Piekut, Thursday, February 10, 2011 in  Cafeteria 4, SDU, Odense 12 noon-1 p.m.  For program and poster please see HERE. . . . and. the seminar which  kicks off the series Topics in the Aesthetics of Music and Sound is entitled ”Aspects of the Philosophy of Musical Performance” and will take place after the lunchtime concert on February 10 14:15-16:00 in U70. The seminar will feature a panel discussion with Gustav Piekut, William Westney (HCA Academy Guest Professorial Fellow SDU 2009-10, pianist – via Skype from Texas); Søren R. Frimodt-Møller (PhD Philosophy  SDU 2010) and Cynthia M. Grund. Please see HERE for more information about the seminar. All are welcome!             January 21, 2011 - Welcome back! As we segue out of the fall semester 2010 into the spring semester of 2011 (begins February 1 here in Denmark), the collection of a new round of news from NNIMIPA members around the Nordic area is in progress. An update of this website is also in progress.   From the University of Southern Denmark at Odense we can report that seminars in the series Topics in the Aesthetics of Music and Sound are now being scheduled for the spring semester and as a rule will be held following lunchtime concerts in room U70, 2:15 -4 p.m. (please see here).  Please keep an eye out for further updates.   Best wishes for a good wind-up of the fall semester 2010 and a great start for the spring semester of 2011! - Cynthia M. Grund, Network Coordinator   News Archive   HERE.

NNIMIPA  

Nordic Network for the Integration of Music Informatics, Performance and Aesthetics

Participating NNIMIPA institutions,

coordinators and committees.

DENMARK

NNIMIPA-Committee, Syddansk Universitet/University of Southern Denmark – SDU (member since 2007):

Cynthia M. Grund cmgrund@ifpr.sdu.dk  (Chief Coordinator for NNIMIPA and NNIMIPA-coordinator for SDU; NordForsk Project Manager; philosophy; Editor-in-Chief for JMM: The Journal of Music and Meaning www.musicandmeaning.net)

Søren R. Frimodt-Møller soren@frimodt-moller.dk  (Philosophy; Managing Editor for JMM: The Journal of Music and Meaning www.musicandmeaning.net)

Bent Nielsen bnil@bib.sdu.dk(Music pedagogy SMKS/ librarian SDU with responsibility for the jazz collection of the SDU Library; saxophonist)

Peter E. Nissen peternissen@bib.sdu.dk (Librarian; musicologist; member of the steering committee for Den Virtuelle Musikbibliotek, www.dvm.nu)

William Westney bill.westney@gmail.com (Hans Christian Andersen Guest Professorial Fellow at SDU 2009-2010; Paul Whitfield Horn Professor of Piano, Browning Artist-in-Residence, School of Music, Texas Tech University; piano, music pedagogy and philosophy of performance)                      

NNIMIPA-Committee, Syddansk Musikkonservatorium og Skuespillerskole – SMKS (member since 2007 while still Vestjysk Musikkonservatorium/Academy of Music and Music Communication, Esbjerg, Denmark (VMK); as of 1/1-2010 renamed Academy of Music and Dramatic Arts/Syddansk Musikkonservatorium & Skuespillerskole (SMKS) after merging with the Carl Nielsen Academy of Music Odense/Det Fynske Musikkonservatorium (DFM) and The School of Dramatic Arts Odense/Skuespillerskolen ved Odense Teater (SkO)):

Fredrik Søegaard fsoegaard10@smksnet.dk  (NNIMIPA-Coordinator for SMKS, guitar)

Hanne Bramsen Buhl habuhl10@smksnet.dk (Piano)

Guri Frenning gufr@bib.sdu.dk (Librarian/musicologist/percussionist)

Morten Heide post@mortenheide.dk (Piano/choral direction)

NNIMIPA-Committee, Aalborg University Esbjerg (a.k.a. Esbjerg Institute of Technology) – AUE (member since 2007):

Kristoffer Jensen krist@create.aau.dk (NNIMIPA-Coordinator for AUE; Music informatics, electroacoustic composition and performance)

FINLAND

NNIMIPA-Coordinator, University of Tampere – UTA (member since 2007):

Tere Vadén tereensio@gmail.com (Philosophy, hypermedia, practice-based research)

NNIMIPA-Coordinator, Sibelius Academy, Helsinki – SiBa (member since 2007):

Lauri Vakeva lauri.vakeva@siba.fi (Music Education) NNIMIPA/NordPlus Coordinator: 2007-2008 Ulla-Britta Broman-Kananen; NNIMIPA/NordPlus /NordForsk Coordinator 2009- mid 2010 David Hebert.

ICELAND

NNIMIPA-Coordinator, Bifröst University – BU (Member as of September 2010):

Sigrún Lilja Einarsdóttir sigrunlilja@bifrost.is (Socio-musicology with emphasis on choral culture); followed Njörður Sigurjónsson as NNIMIPA-Coordinator for BU)

NNIMIPA-Coordinator, University of Iceland – UI (Member as of September 2010):

Helga Rut Guðmundsdóttir helgarut@hi.is (Music education with emphasis on early childhood)          

NORWAY

NNIMIPA-Coordinator, Grieg Academy, Bergen University College – GA-BUC (member as of 2011):

David Hebert davidgabrielmusic@yahoo.com (Ethnomusicology;music technology studies)

NNIMIPA-Coordinator at University of Oslo – UiO (member since 2009)

Alexander Refsum Jensenius a.r.jensenius@imv.uio.no (Musicology, music informatics, piano)

SWEDEN

NNIMIPA-Coordinator, Kungliga Tekniska Hogskolan/Royal Institute of Technology– KTH, Stockholm (member since 2007):

Anders Friberg afriberg@kth.se  (Music informatics, piano)

NNIMIPA-Coordinator, Malmö Academy of Music, Lund University – MHM-LU (member since December 2010)

Stefan Östersjö Stefan.Ostersjo@mhm.lu.se (Practice-based research, performance studies, guitar)