Activities 2010

1 January 2010, Centre:
Michaela Schwarz begins work as full-time secretary.

18 January 2010, Centre, Foyer:
Poster presentation by 26 Students (Seminar Music Psychology). Prices are awarded to Eva Matlschweiger (best content), Marcus Steinberger (best layout) and Nina Ortner (best talk).

1 March 2010, Centre:
Martin Winter begins work as a student assistant (methods in social sciences).

23 March 2010, Mehrzwecksaal (Wall), University of Graz:
Guest lecture by Cynthia Quiroga Murcia, University of Frankfurt: “Effects of dancing on subjective and psychobiological parameters” (Effekte des Tanzens auf subjektive und psychobiologische Parameter).

7 – 10 April 2010, Resowi, Graz:
The Conference on Applied Interculturality Research was held with about 100 participants from Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, China, Croatia, Denmark,Germany, Italy, Latvia, Netherlands, Poland,Portugal,Russia, United Arab Emirates, the UK and the USA.
Further information: cAIR10.
Including research presentation (poster) by Erica Bisesi and Brabec de Mori on “The representation of time among different cultures and musical systems”.

27 May 2010, Mehrzwecksaal (Wall), University of Graz:
Guest lecture by Marcello Sorce Keller (University of Malta): „Why we should view and understand Beethoven ethnomusicologically (or: why studying classical music pertains to ethnomusicology)" (Warum wir Beethoven ethnologischbetrachten und verstehen sollten oder: wieso das Studium der klassischen Musik der Musikethnologie gehört).

28 May 2010, University of Arts, Graz:
Brabec de Mori presents “Die Lieder der Richtigen Menschen. Vokalmusik und Identität in indigenen Gemeinschaften im peruanischen Regenwald: Ethnohistorie und Ethnogenese“ at the Annual Docorate Student’s Forum in Ethnomusicology.

18 June 2010, Innsbruck:
Brabec de Mori presents „Die Lieder der Richtigen Menschen. Musikalische Kulturanthropologie in Westamazonien: Musik und Körperkonzepte“ at the Annual Meeting of the Austrian National Committee of the ICTM.

5 – 8 July, University of London Royal Holloway, Egham, Surrey, GB:
Research presentation by Richard Parncutt at Medieval and Renaissance Music Conference (Med-Ren) on “Historical origins of major-minor tonality: A psychological approach”.

23 – 28 August 2010, Seattle, USA:
Research presentations at 11th International Conference on Music Perception and Cognition (ICMPC) by Erica Bisesi and Richard Parncutt on “The informal vocabulary of professional musicians for describing expression and interpretation”, Bryony Buck and Nick Bailey on “The effect of instrumental experience on the communication of phrasing and tension in music performance”, Sarah Kettner and Richard Parncutt on “Narcissism in music performance: Singers versus instrumentalists”, and Richard Parncutt on “The origins of music: Comparative evaluation of competing theories”.

31 August 2010, Centre:
First meeting of the centre’s advisory board: Gerhard Eckel (Electronic Music and Acoustics, KUG), Andreas Dorschel (Music Aesthetics, KUG) and Annemarie Seither-Preisler (Psychology, KFU, unable to attend) meet with Richard Parncutt and Bernd Brabec.

16 September 2010, Salzburg:
Richard Parncutt speaks about music psychology on “Gut Leben” in Servus TV.

16 – 18 September 2010, Klagenfurt:
Bisesi presents the paper "Can the tempo be exactly doubled?" (co-authored by Gratton und Vicario) at the 9th Alps-Adria Psychology Conference.

19 – 21 September 2010, MUW Vienna:
Bisesi presents at the Second Vienna Talk on Music Acoustics a paper entitled “An accent-based approach to automatic rendering of piano performance” (co-authored by Parncutt).

29 September – 3 October 2010, Marburg, Germany:
Invited research presentations at 5. Treffen deutschsprachiger Südamerika- und KaribikforscherInnen by Brabec de Mori on “Human and Non-human Music among the Shipibo-Konibo: Towards an Ecological Understanding of Consciousness” and “Eine kurze Geschichte der Zeit: Drogentourismus in Ucayali/Peru und die indianische Interpretation von ‘Tradition’”; by Laida Mori Silvano de Brabec on “El arte indígena invisible: como el arte contemporáneo construye a la historia”; and ethnographic film premiere by Yvonne Schaffler (with discussant Brabec de Mori) entitled “Zurück zum Altar. Portrait einer Heilerin aus der Dominikanischen Republik”.

1 October 2010, Centre:
Fabio Kaiser begins work as a student assistant (computation).

7 – 10 October 2010, Würzburg University, Germany:
At the Kongress der Gesellschaft für Musiktheorie: Kreativität, Struktur und Emotion, Bisesi presents a poster (co-authored by Parncutt) entitled “An accent-based approach to music analysis. Preliminary Results”.

11 October 2010, Centre:
Guest lecture presented by Daniele Buccio (Italien) entitled Historical reception of Carl Stumpf's theory of perceptualfusion as a psychological basis for musical consonance.

22 October 2010, Museum of Ethnology, Vienna:
Opening of the ethnographic photo exhibition Unsichtbare Welten - Mensch / Natur / Übernatur. Brabec contributes with title and concept; organisation by the association EMLAAK. Brabec provides four exhibits. Open from 22.10.2010 to 14.2.2011.

3 and 9 November 2010, Resowi (University of Graz/Centre):
Guest Lectures by Bruno Gingras (Montreal/London) in individual courses about "Music performance research: An overview of the developments in the last twenty years" (in Music Performance Research) and about "Expressive strategies and artistic individuality in organ performance" (in Kolloquium zu aktuellen Forschungsfragen).