Activities 2013

8 January 2013, Centre:
Yuko Arthurs (Sheffield) gives a guest lecture about “Perception of augmented and diminished triads in musical contexts”.

9 January 2013, Leipzig, Germany:
Brabec de Mori gives a guest lecture entitled “Schönheit: Kunst, Musik und Religion” at the Anthropology Department of Leipzig University and a public evening lecture at Grassi Museum about “Wesen in Schall und Rauch. Magische Gesänge in Westamazonien”.

14 January 2013, Paris, France:
Brabec de Mori talks on “How to Charge a Voice with Power: Magical Singing in the Amazon Lowlands (Peru)” at the University Paris Oueste, Nanterre.

21 January 2013, Paris, France:
Brabec de Mori gives a talk about “Agentes No-humanos en canciones, una forma transicional ontológica? Investigaciones en el valle del rio Ucayali, Peru” at Ecole Pratique de Hautes Etudes on the invitation of Andrea Luz Gutierrez Choquevilca.

22 January 2013, Centre:
Anke Slana (Ljubljana) gives a guest presentation on “The effect of harmonic context on the perception of pitch class”.

29 January 2013, Centre:
Thomas Kupsch (Maranhão, Brazil) gives a guest lecture entitled “The sense of time: Wilhelm Wundt, Karl Vierordt and modern music psychology”.

1 February 2013:
Brabec de Mori returns from leave (he taught one semester at the Institute of Ethnomusicology, KUG) and resumes duties as assistant at the centre, replacing Ella Prem.

8 March 2013, Nashville/TN, U.S.A.:
Brabec de Mori is invited by Jean Langdon to participate in the conference of the Society for the Anthropology of Lowland South America (SALSA). His talk is entitled “Transformation and Sonic Production. Standing Up for an Auditory Anthropology”.

18 – 21 March 2013, Centre and KUG:
Estelle Amy de la Breteque (Lisboa) and Victor A. Stoichiţă (Paris) are invited to the centre. Estelle gives a talk at KUG’s Institute of Ethnomusicology, while Victor talks at the centre about “The Ontologies of Musical Experience: an Anthropological Approach”.

22 March 2013, Lugano, Switzerland:
Bisesi is invited to the Conservatorio della Svizzera Italiana, Lugano, to talk about “Expression, emotion and imagery in music performance”.

22 March 2013, Graz, Institute of Linguistics:
Brabec de Mori gives a lecture about “Ethnomusikologische Feldforschung: Methoden und Probleme” in a seminar about field research.

23 April 2013. Centre:
Karin Bindu from Vienna gives a guest lecture on “Percussion art forms: Aspects in production and communication of south Indian talas in the Kutiyattam”.

May 2013, Graz:
Parncutt, in collaboration with Gerd Grupe (KUG), receives a grant of 85K € from Zukunftsfond Land Steiermark for their project Musik, Religion, Integration: MuslimInnen in der Steiermark which starts on 1 October.

7 May 2013, University of Vienna:
Brabec de Mori is guest speaker in a seminar at the Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology. His talk is entitled “Religion, Heilung, Transformation, oder: Warum wir den Ton nicht abstellen sollten”.

15 May 2013, Helsinki, Finland:
At the 34th American Indian Workshop, Brabec de Mori initiates a series of collaborative multimedia conference installations together with Hein Schoer (Maastricht) and Matthias Lewy (Berlin). Their co-organised conference panel “The Sounding Museum: Auditory Ethnography and the Sound of Indigeneity” is complemented by a sound installation by Hein Schoer. Brabec de Mori addresses “The Ontology of the Sonic. Examples from the Western Amazon”.

22 May 2013, Institute of Ethnomusicology, KUG:
Together with two competitors, Brabec de Mori is invited to give a guest lecture for a job offered by the institute. Bernd talks about “Verwandlungen und Klangproduktion. Magische und ethnomusikologische Methoden in Westamazonien”. He is offered and accepts a five-year, half-time contract as “senior scientist”.

23 – 26 May 2013, Bonn, Germany:
Together with Matthias Lewy, Brabec de Mori convenes the panel “Auditive Anthropologie in den Americas” at the 6. Treffen deutschsprachiger Südamerika-, Mesoamerika- und KaribikforscherInnen. Part of this panel was the collaborative lecture “The Ethnographer’s Ear” (by Brabec, Lewy and Schoer), and a corresponding sound installation.

27 May 2013, Centre:
Sylvain Caron (Montréal) is invited to talk about “Mapping musical emotion: Finding meeting points between psychology, analysis and aesthetics”. On the same day, Bisesi gives a public lecture entitled “How does music expression depend on structure?”

28 – 31 May 2013, Université Paris 8, Saint Denis, France:
Schoer, Brabec de Mori and Lewy present a mobile sound installation at the international conference Musique et ecologies du son and give a joint talk entitled “The Sounding Museum: The Ethnographer’s Ear”.

31 May - 1 June 2013, Burgeis, South Tyrol, Italy:
Brabec de Mori speaks on “The Ethnographer's Ear: Imaginary Soundscapes or an Auditory Epistemology?” at the joint meeting of the ICTM National Committees of Austria, Italy and Switzerland with the theme “Music and Space”.

10 June 2013, Centre:
Patrick Boenke (Vienna) gives a guest talk entitled “Hören wir den Ursatz? Zur kognitiven Relevanz der Schichtenlehre Heinrich Schenkers”.

11 – 15 June 2013, Jyväskylä, Finland:
SysMusGraz shows strong presence at the 3rd International Conference on Music and Emotion in Jyväskylä. The following talks were presented: “Listeners’ informal vocabulary for emotions and free associations in piano music” (Bisesi, Bodinger, Parncutt); “Ambivalent Emotions in Music: We Like Sad Music When It Makes Us Happy” (Weth, Kickinger, Parncutt); “Style-dependency of melodic expectation: Changing the rules in real time” (Cenkerová, Parncutt); “Schenkerien prolongation and the emotional connotations of major-minor tonality” (Parncutt); “What emotions and free associations characterize different musical styles?” (Bisesi, Eckl, Parncutt).

17 June 2013, Centre:
Markus Neuwirth (Leuven) gives a guest lecture about “Formanalytische Konzepte und ihre kognitive Relevanz”.

25 June 2013, Innsbruck:
Brabec de Mori is invited to give a talk at Haus der Begegnung about “Heilung in Schall und Rauch. Zur Bedeutung ritueller Musik in Westamazonien”.

8 July 2013, Lodz, Poland:
Katharina Vogt presents her collaborative research with Visda Goudarzi and Parncutt at the 19th International Conference on Auditory Display with “Empirical aesthetic evaluation of sonifications ”.

23 July 2013, Centre:
Hande Sağlam is offered and accepts a position as a project assistant for Grupe and Parncutt’s project Musik, Religion, Integration: MuslimInnen in der Steiermark.

30 July – 3 August 2013, Stockholm, Sweden:
At the Sound and Music Computing Conference SMC 2013, Parncutt, Bisesi, and Anders Friberg present their collaborative paper “A preliminary computational model of immanent accent salience in tonal music”. Immediately preceding the conference, Bisesi, Friberg and Parncutt take part in Rencon 2013 (Music Performance Rendering Contest for Computer Systems).

28 – 31 August, Vienna:
SysMusGraz impresses at the International Symposium on Performance Science ISPS 2013 with a series of collaborative talks: “Structural communication in piano duos: Musical compatibility and individual differences in interpretation” (Bisesi, MacRitchie, Parncutt); “Error tolerance and error prevention in music performance: Risk versus error management” (Kruse-Weber, Parncutt); “Intervals as distances, not ratios: Evidence from tuning and intonation” (Parncutt, Hair); and “Piano touch, timbre, ecological psychology, and cross-modal interference” (Parncutt).