Archived posts from January - May 2012
For archived posts from 2011, please see here.
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For archived posts from 2010, please see here.
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April 28, 2012: Concert -Thursday, May 3, 2012, 12 noon - 1 p.m. in Cafeteria 4, University of Southern Denmark, Campusvej 55, 5230 Odense M. The piano quartet PAÏAN - Martin Vestergård Hansen, piano; Peter Andreas Nielsen, violin; Josefine Weber Hansen, bratsch & Josefine Opsahl, cello, play Bach, Vestergård Hansen and Korngold. Concert poster available HERE. Concert program available HERE. Followed by a seminar in the series Topics in the Aesthetics of Music and Sound with Daniel Bonevac (via Skype), Professor of Philosophy, University of Texas at Austin. The seminar is entitled Rhetorical and Musical Structures and takes place, Thursday, May 3, 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. This is the concluding seminar in a series of 13 seminars during the spring of 2012. For spring series information and updates, please see HERE. Planning is in progress for the fall 2012 series. Please keep an eye out for updates here and on www.soundmusicresearch.org.
Thanks to all who contributed to the success of the seminar in the series Topics in the Aesthetics of Music and Sound - Is Narrative in Music Possible? - presented via Skype by Malgorzata Pawlowska, Assistant in the Department of Theory and Interpretation of the Musical Work of the Academy of Music in Kraków; Lecturer in Music History, Musical Analysis, Music Literature and Ear Training; PhD student in Music Theory on Thursday, April 26, 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. This was the twelfth seminar in a series of 13 seminars during the spring. For series information and updates, please see HERE.
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April 22, 2012: Friday, April 20, 2012 I had the pleasure of representing The Aesthetics of Music and Sound and NNIMIPA: Nordic Network for the Integration of Music Informatics, Performance and Aesthetics in The Festival of Research coordinated by The Danish Agency for Science, Technology, and Innovation. I gave presentations about cross-disciplinary music research for 7th and 8th graders at Breum School in Northern Jutland and for music and theatre students (college age) at The Danish Music and Theatre folk high schoolin Toftund, Southern Jutland. For description of the presentation, please seehere.
April 13, 2012: . . . and it's time for an update as to what has happened in the last half year or so with regard to the work William Westney and I are doing: Seminar in the series Topics in the Aesthetics of Music and Sound - Research Initiatives in the Study of Music, Meaning and the Body - presented by William Westney, Paul Whitfield Horn Professor of Piano, Browning Artist-in-Residence School of Music, Texas Tech University (via Skype) and Cynthia M. Grund, Associate Professor, Institute of Philosophy, Education, and the Study of Religions; University of Southern Denmark. Thursday, April 19, 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. This is the eleventh seminar in a series of 13 seminars during the spring. For series information and updates, please see HERE.
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April 5, 2012: Concert: Thursday, April 12, 2012, 12 noon - 1 p.m. in Cafeteria 4, University of Southern Denmark, Campusvej 55, 5230 Odense M. Janus Araghipour, piano. Concert poster available HERE. For concert program please see HERE. Followed by a seminar in the series Topics in the Aesthetics of Music and Sound with Janus Araghipour, Pianist, Bachelor of Fine Arts, currently enrolled in the Masters Program in Performance at The Academy of Music and Dramatic Arts, Odense. The seminar is entitled Performing Debussyand takes place, Thursday, April 12, 2:15 p.m.-4:00 p.m. in U73, University of Southern Denmark, Campusvej 55, 5230 Odense M. Poster for the seminar availableHERE. This is the tenth seminar in a series of 13 seminars during the spring. For series information and updates, please see HERE.
March 24, 2012: Goodgrief! So much has been going on, I see that I have neglected the updating of this page since mid-January! I hope that all who are interested have been able to get an idea of what has been happening on, for example, www.soundmusicresearch.org or on Facebook. One of the updates here on this site as of today is that posts from 2011 have been moved to their own page, www.cynthiamgrund.dk/Archive2011.html.
Here are all the updates that should have been appearing regularly since January 2012:
March 23, 2012: Seminar in the series Topics in the Aesthetics of Music and Sound: Witttenstein and the Limits of Musical Grammar(via Skype). Presented by Hanne Appelqvist, Postdoctoral Fellow (Academy of Finland); Theoretical Philosophy, University of Helsinki. Thursday, March 29, 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. This is the ninth seminar in a series of 13 seminars during the spring. For series information and updates, please see HERE.
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March 16, 2012: Seminar in the series Topics in the Aesthetics of Music and Sound The Polyfunctionality of Music in Some Dramas by Henrik Ibsen, presented via Skype by Sofija Todić (via Skype) PhD Student in Studies of Culture and Part-time Lecturer at the University of Belgrade, Serbia. Thursday, March 22, 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. This is the eighth seminar in a series of 13 seminars during the spring. For series information and updates, please see HERE.
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March 10, 2012: Concert: Thursday, March 15, 2012, 12 noon - 1 p.m. in Cafeteria 4, University of Southern Denmark, Campusvej 55, 5230 Odense M. Martin Vestergård Hansen, piano, & Josefine Opsahl, cello, play Bach, Brahms, Busoni and Debusssy Concert poster available HERE. Concert program available HERE. Followed by a seminar in the series Topics in the Aesthetics of Music and Sound with Peter Møller Juhl, Assoc. Prof., Institute of Technology and Innovation, University of Southern Denmark. The seminar is entitled Room Acoustics How Does the Room Influence Speech and Music? and takes place, Thursday, March 15, 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. This is the seventh seminar in a series of 13 seminars during the spring. For series information and updates, please see HERE.
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March 5, 2012: Seminar in the series Topics in the Aesthetics of Music and Sound: Reflections on Improvisational Artistry and Style in Live Dance and Music Performance (via Skype). Presented by Aili W. Bresnahan,PhD Candidate in Philosophy, Temple University, Philadelphia; Editor, American Society of Aesthetics Graduate E-journal (ASAGE); and former professional-level ballet dancer and lawyer. Thursday, March 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. This is the sixth seminar in a series of 13 seminars during the spring. For series information and updates, please see HERE.
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March 2, 2012: Annual Meeting of the Danish Philosophcial Association, March 2 & 3, 2012 Roskilde University, Roskilde, Denmark. For general information, please see HERE. For presentations by members afffiliated with The Aesthetics of Music and Sound, please see HERE and HERE.
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February 25, 2012: Seminar in the series Topics in the Aesthetics of Music and Sound: Is Music Healthy for Your Ears? Presented by Jesper Hvass Schmidt, M.D., PhD. Center for Musicians' Health, Clinical Institute, U. of Southern Denmark; Dept. of Audiology, Odense University Hospital; Dept. of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, Odense University Hospital. Thursday, March 1, 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. This is the fith seminar in a series of 13 seminars during the spring. For series information and updates, please see HERE.
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February 19, 2012: Seminar in the series Topics in the Aesthetics of Music and Sound, Wagner and iek on the Revolutionary Potential of Music, presented via Skype by Tere Vadén, Professor, Department of Art, Design and Architecture, Aalto University, Helsinki.Thursday, February 23, 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. This is the fourth seminar in a series of 13 seminars during the spring. For series information and updates, please see HERE.
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February 12, 2012: Concert: Thursday, February 16, 2012, 12 noon - 1 p.m. in Cafeteria 4, University of Southern Denmark, Campusvej 55, 5230 Odense M. Sound Seeds: Live Concert with Jensen-Georges. Concert poster available HERE. Concert program available HERE. Followed by a seminar in the series Topics in the Aesthetics of Music and Sound with Kristoffer Jensen, Assoc. Prof., Dept. of Architecture, Design and Media Technology, Aalborg University Esbjerg, and Laurent "Saxi" Georges, musician, composer, researcher. The seminar is entitled Sonification: From Signal to Sound and takes place, Thursday, February 16, 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. This is the third seminar in a series of 13 seminars during the spring. For series information and updates, please see HERE.
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February 3, 2012: Seminar in the series Topics in the Aesthetics of Music and Sound with Composing as Adventurous Applied Science , presented by Jan Flessel, composer and instrumentalist, Thursday, February 9, 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. This is the second seminar in a series of 13 seminars during the spring. For series information and updates, please see HERE.
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January 31 2012: The spring semester 2012 begins on February 1, 2012 in Denmark, and we get off to a running start on February 2 in the series Topics in the Aesthetics of Music and Sound with On Sound Segregation and Music, presented by Jakob Christensen-Dalsgaard, PhD, Associate Professor, Center for Sound Communication, Institute of Biology, University of Southern Denmark on Thursday, February 2, 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. This is the first in a series of 13 seminars during the spring. For series information and updates, please see HERE.
December 31, 2011: A very Happy New Year to everyone and the very best wishes for a healthy and rewarding 2012!
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.
Peace.
Cynthia
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Websites & Webpages:
Brief Bio»
www.cynthiamgrund.dk/
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Selective CV (including contact information and selected publications)»
www.cynthiamgrund.dk/
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The Aesthetics of Music and Sound -
Cross-Disciplinary Interplay Between the Humanities, Technology and Musical Practice»
www.soundmusicresearch.org
Nordic Network for the Integration
of Music Informatics, Performance and Aesthetics»
www.nnimipa.org
JMM: The Journal of Music and Meaning»
www.musicandmeaning.net
NTSMB: The Cross-Disciplinary Network for Studies of Music and Meaning»
www.ntsmb.dk
The Philosophy Meets Popular
Culture Initiative»
www.philpopculture.dk
Wikipedia article (in Danish)»
da.wikipedia.org/wiki/
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Recent media»
- Episode in the documentary television program series about the Lunchtime Concert Series at SDU, University of Southern Denmark at Odense. The nearly half-hour long (23:46) episode features concert clips from the February 10, 2011 Lunchtime Concert at SDU as well as interviews in which Gustav Krogh Hansen Piekut, Assoc. Prof. Cynthia M. Grund and Søren R. Frimodt-Møller, PhD participate. Aabenraa, ALT: Aabenraa Lokal TV. Grund, C.M. and Daniel Tosovic, producers» http://vimeo.com/channels/musikmedalt.
TV-documentary "Musik for folket!" (in Danish) on SDU's lunchtime concert series airs November 22-29, 2010 on ALTV and is permanently available from November 22, 2010 at »
http://vimeo.com/channels/musikmedalt.
"Music and Meaning: Duets and Dialogues. TV broadcast (in English after a short voiceover in Danish)»
http://vimeo.com/channels/musikmedalt.
Guided tour of Percipitopia and interview in the person of avatar Gunhild Soderstrom»
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