• Last Thursday was just great, and this coming Thursday we are looking forward to welcoming Oded Ben-Horin, Associate Professor, Stord Haugesund University College, Norway, Faculty of Learning and Culture (Music Dept.) - via Skype presenting 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.

• November 19, 2012: Many thanks to participants from California, Texas, Ohio, London, York, Aalborg and Odense who made last week's seminar such a success! Now we look forward to a "double header" this coming Thursday: 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 is the date for our upcoming seminar in Topics in the Aesthetics of Music and Sound with 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: Thanks to all who contributed to the success of Thursday's Lunchtime Concert and the subsequent seminar (see below). Our next seminar  in the series Topics in the Aesthetics of Music and Sound features 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, who (via Skype) will present Aesthetics and Pedagogies for Making Music with New Media 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. Welcome!

• 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 23, 2012: Daniel John Carroll, BA, Graduate Teaching Assistant, School of Music, Boston University (Via Skype). Tchaikovsky's Romeo and Juliet Fantasy Overture as anExample 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 9, 2012: Summer already seems far away now that we are just one week into the fall semester! Hope everyone has had a pleasant and rewarding time of it during July and August. To read about our summer research network acitivities within NNIMIPA - Nordic Network for the Integration of Music Informatics, Performance and Aesthetics - please see, below and www.nnimipa.org. 

 

You might have noticed a change in the "Thanks for stopping by"-paragraph: some reconfiguring of the departmental landscape at the University of Southern Denmark has resulted in the dissolution of the Institute of Philosophy, Education and the Study of Religions (IFPR) and the creation of the Insitute for the Study of Culture. This is now the Institute with which Philosophy is affiliated. This has also entailed a change in our e-mail addresses, which formerly ended with @ifpr.sdu.dk; now they end with @sdu.dk Please note that mine still starts with cmgrund, but that it now has the new ending @sdu.dk.

 

This fall our series of seminars Topics in the Aesthetics of Music and Sound within the IKV research progam The Aesthetics of Music and Sound (www.soundmusicresearch.org)  will be held Thursdays, 3:15 p.m. - 5 p.m. in U73 at SDU in Odense and participation via Skype is welcome. (For full semester schedule, please see here. We kicked the series off last week with 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, presenting The Role of Routines in Music Performance and in the Accomplishment of Work in Organizations. Thanks to all who participated both in situ in Odense and on Skype and who gave the series a really good start this fall!

 

Please not that this coming Thursday, September 13, 2012, there will be both a Lunchtime Concert and a seminar.

 

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 Heide  entitled 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. 

 

Hope to see you there! if you would like to participate via Skype, please let me know in advance of the meeting, and make sure that you  have the most recent version of Skype, a functioning webcam, and that you are wearing a headset to insure sound qualtiy.

 

As always, please keep an eye on www.soundmusicresarch.org and www.nnimipa.org for updates.