2023
Benedicamus Domino Conference
International conference of the European Research Council Project BENEDICAMUS, Department of Musicology, University of Oslo
Time and place: Sep. 7, 2023 9:00 AM – Sep. 8, 2023 6:00 PM, Professorboligen, University of Oslo
About the conference
For more than a millennium, the exclamation Benedicamus Domino (‘Let us bless the Lord’) has sounded in song several times a day, with various liturgical and ritual functions. This two-day conference, convened and funded by the European Research Council Project BENEDICAMUS led by Catherine A. Bradley, explores the history of the Benedicamus versicle, its musical and poetic embellishments, and its sacred, secular, and material contexts across the fullest extent of the versicle’s wide chronological and geographical span.
Programme
Thursday 7th September
9:00 Welcome
Session I Conductus, Motet, Cantio
Chair: Catherine A. Bradley (University of Oslo)
9:10–9:50 Mark Everist (University of Southampton)
The Benedicamus Domino and the Conductus: Distribution, History and Structure
9:50–10:30 Melanie Shaffer (Radboud University)
Benedicamus Domino and the Ordering of Conducti in F-Pn lat. 15139
10:30–11:00 Coffee
11:00–11:40 Joshua Stutter (University of Glasgow)
Organal Motets, Organum Prosulae, Polyphonic Tropes, Motet-Likes: The Universalisation of the Motet
11:40–12:20 Jan Ciglbauer (Charles University)
Benedicamus or Cantio? Distinctive Endings of Central European Cantiones and their Testimony of Tradition and Use
12:20–14:00 Lunch
Session II Conceptual, Political, and Hagiographical Contexts
Chair: Anne Walters Robertson (University of Chicago)
14:00–14:40 Sigbjørn Olsen Sønnesyn (University of Bristol)
“The Heart’s Cry is its Understanding”: The Augustinian Concept of Iubilus in Medieval Liturgical Theology
14:40–15:20 Sam Barrett (University of Cambridge)
Splendor patris, Stimmtausch, and Ways of Making Benedicamus Domino Songs in the Early Twelfth Century
15:20–16:00 Mary Channen Caldwell (University of Pennsylvania)
St. Nicholas and the Benedicamus Domino: Songs of an Advent Saint
16:00–16:30 Coffee
Session III Female Communities
Chair: Manon Louviot (University of Oslo)
16:30–17:10 David Merlin (University of Padova)
Echoes from a Viennese Nunnery: Situating Benedicamus Domino Chants between Shared Traditions and Local Practice
17:10–17:50 Laine Tabora (Pontifical Institute of Sacred Music)
The Unique Selection of Benedicamus Domino Melodies from Medieval Riga
19:30 Dinner (Café Tekethopa)
Friday 8th September
Session IV England
Chair: Nicholas David Yardley Ball (University of Oslo)
9:00–9:40 Samuel Cardwell (University of Toronto)
When did the Benedicamus enter the English liturgy?
9:40–10:20 Thomas Phillips (University of Bristol)
Bodleian Library, MS. Laud Misc. 4: New Insights into the Benedicamus Domino Tradition at St. Albans in the Twelfth Century
10:20–10:50 Coffee
10:50–11:20 James Tomlinson (University of Oslo)
Polyphonic Settings of the Benedicamus Domino and Deo gratias in Late Medieval English Sources
11:20–12:00 Kalina Tomova (Bulgarian Academy of Sciences)
Some Thoughts on Faburden and Fauxbourdon in the Fifteenth-Century Carol
12:00–14:00 Lunch
Session V Renaissance Polyphony in Italy and Spain
Chair: Johanna Thöne (University of Oslo)
14:00–14:40 Antonio Calvia (University of Pavia) & Anne Stone
(CUNY, Graduate Center)
A Newly-Discovered Polyphonic Benedicamus Domino in Milan
14:40–15:20 Michael O’Connor (Palm Beach Atlantic University)
Juan de Esquivel and the Polyphonic Benedicamus Domino in Late Renaissance Spain
15:20–16:00 Coffee
Session VI Lightning Papers
Chair: Alessandra Ignesti (University of Oslo)
16:00–16:20 Marit Høye (Independent)
Early Plainchant for the Benedicamus: Relationships with Kyrie Source Melodies
16:20–16:40 Giovanni Cunego (University of Pavia)
A Two-Voice Benedicamus Domino Versicle in an Eleventh-Century Source from the Capitular Library of Verona?
16:40–17:00 Martha Culshaw (University of Toronto)
Benedicamus Domino and the Order of St. Clare in Fourteenth-Century Brussels
17:00–17:20 Lucia Denk (Princeton University)
Fragmentary Benedicamus Dominos in an Early Modern Spanish Manuscript
Organizer
This conference is convened by Prof. Catherine A. Bradley and the BENEDICAMUS project team: Dr Nicholas David Yardley Ball, Dr Manon Louviot, Dr Alessandra Ignesti, and James R. Tomlinson.
Getting to the Conference
For information about how to get to the University of Oslo, please click here.
Contact
For further information, contact c.a.bradley@imv.uio.no
The conference is part of the project ‘BENEDICAMUS: Musical and Poetic Creativity for a Unique Moment in the Western Christian Liturgy c.1000–1500’ led by Catherine A. Bradley and funded by a European Research Council (ERC) Consolidator Grant under the European Union Horizon 2020 Programme for Research and Innovation (Grant number 864174).
Talk and concert with asamisimasa
asamisimasa will present a short programme of music in connection with the conference "The Aesthetics of Absence in Music of the 21st Century"
Time and place: May 25, 2023 6:00 PM – 7:00 PM, Realfagsbiblioteket / The Science Library
asamisimasa was founded in 2001 and has since premiered numerous cross-media works dedicated to them, often contextualized with classical repertoire and historical avant-garde work.
asamisimasa has collaborated with composers such as Helmut Lachenmann, Mathias Spahlinger, Nicolaus A. Huber, Aldo Clementi, Alvin Lucier, Brian Ferneyhough, Helmut Oehring, Clemens Gadenstätter, Klaus Lang, Johannes Kreidler, Joanna Bailie, and extensively with cross-media composers such as Simon Steen-Andersen, Øyvind Torvund, Martin Schüttler, Matthew Shlomowitz, and Trond Reinholdtsen.
They recently premiered a new piece dedicated to them by Mathias Spahlinger at the Berlin Philharmonie and have been performed on Deutschlandradio Kultur, WDR Cologne, Darmstadt, and at Donaueschingen, Ultraschall, Ultima, Huddersfield, Rainy Days, Monday Evening Concerts LA, Other Minds Festival (San Francisco) Cutting Edge (London), Angelica and SPOR among others. Their first two recordings, with music by Simon Steen-Andersen (DK) and Øyvind Torvund (NO) were awarded the Norwegian Grammy (Spellemann) for best contemporary music record of the year. Further recordings include portrait CDs with composers Matthew Shlomowitz, Laurence Crane, and Trond Reinholdtsen.
Today Ellen Ugelvik, Tanja Orning and Anders Førisdal will perform 3 solo works by Joanna Bailie, Johannes Kreidler and Laurence Crane.
NB.: Ellen Ugelvik will perform at 4:30pm in the Salen at the Department of Musicology, ZEB-building, while the rest of the programme will be performed at the Science Library (Realfagsbiblioteket) as part of the event at 6pm.
The event is organised by the Department of Musicology in collaboration with the Science Library.
Click here for full conference programme.
The Aesthetics of Absence in Music of the Twenty-First Century
International conference at the Department of Musicology, University of Oslo, in collaboration with the Department of Musicology, Uppsala University
Time and place: May 25, 2023 9:00 AM – May 26, 2023 6:00 PM, Department of Musicology, University of Oslo
About the conference
Absence connotes a lack of presence; the not-there, the what-is-not, the empty void of nothingness. Ever since antiquity, essentialist philosophy has challenged the legitimacy of such an idea: while reality is defined by what we say about it through positive assertions, it does not make sense to refer to that which is absent and is therefore not real. Yet absence is a vital part of our lived experience; we talk of absence and invoke the non-present in doing so.
Over the past decades, numerous societal and technological changes and challenges have amplified the experience of absence in everyday life, with issues of isolation, remoteness, loneliness, and even death, of ever-increasing global concern. The influence of these issues has also been felt in the arts and in a range of music that draws inspiration from longstanding traditions of artistic engagement with silence, emptiness and other types of absence.
This conference asks: how has the continued relevance of absence as a creative and aesthetic impulse been expressed, felt, and understood in recent years? How do new musical expressions of absence say something about the ways in which we engage and interact with and make sense of the world in which we live today? And how might music help us to understand the status of absence where language falls short?
This conference sets out to explore the many ways in which absence is activated and explored in music of the twenty-first century and aims to stimulate a broad and interdisciplinary conversation. We warmly invite perspectives from across all domains of music studies, including those of performance and composition, and related disciplines, such as aesthetics, critical theory, and cultural studies.
Keynote speaker: Professor Judy Lochhead - Stony Brook University
(See full programme and book of abstracts below)
Live stream
The conference was streamed live on YouTube.
Themes
Presentations address – but are by no means limited to – music of the twenty-first century and:
- Notions of absence and its related themes (e.g. nothingness, voids, and boredom)
- The (perceived) absence of musical conventions, traditions, parameters or events (e.g. silence, formlessness, decay, lo-fi, virtuality, white noise)
- Absences of the self (e.g. death, disassociation, disappearance, prostheses, the subconscious, the virtual)
- Absences of the other (e.g. isolation, loneliness, remoteness, distance, longing, desire)
- The no-longer-there (e.g. phantoms, ghosts, nostalgia, memory, melancholia)
- Near-absences (e.g. ‘soft and quiet’ aesthetics, reductions and abstractions of form and content)
- Absence in relation to its counterpole (e.g. excess, overload, maximalism)
Abstracts
The closing date for abstract submissions was 1 December 2022. See final programme below.
Download book of conference abstracts (click here)
Getting to the Conference
For information about how to get to the University of Oslo, please click here.
The conference took place in Salen (the main hall) in the ZEB building, on the main Blindern Campus. The street address is: Sem Sælands vei 2.
The conference was free and open for all.
Organizer
This conference was convened by Christine Dysers (Department of Musicology, Uppsala University) and Peter Edwards (Department of Musicology, University of Oslo).
Scientific committee:
Christine Dysers (Uppsala Univ.), Peter Edwards (UiO), Nanette Nielsen (UiO), Erling Guldbrandsen (UiO), Emil Bernhardt (UiO), Halvor Hosar (Uppsala Univ.), Meghan Quinlan (Uppsala Univ.), Jonas Lundblad (Uppsala Univ.)
Conference Programme
All times are in Central European Time (CET), UTC +1
Conference papers should be maximum 20 minutes, followed by 10 minutes for questions
Thursday 25 May 2023
- 9:15 Coffee and registration
- 9:45 Welcome Christine Dysers & Peter Edwards
Session 1: Absence and the Socio-Political
- 10:00 Arturo Irisarri Izquierdo The Music of Trauma: Tracing the Real in Wang Xilin’s Piano Concerto Op. 56 Hong Kong Baptist University
- 10:30 Luis Velasco-Pufleau Sounding Out Absent Bodies: Ghost Harmonies, Resonances and Remembering in Marisol Jiménez’s XLIII Memoriam Vivere University of Bern / McGill University
- 11:00 Monika Żyła The Formulations of Absence in Philip Venables' Answer Machine Tape, 1987 (2022) University of Salzburg
11:30 Lunch
Session 2: Absence in Popular Culture
- 12:30 Mattia Merlini Voidgaze and Phantom Genres: Functions and Dysfunctions of Music Genres on Streaming Platforms University of Milan
- 13:00 Alec Wood Vaporwave and the Paradox of Intentionality Yale University
- 13:30 Lorenzo Montefinese Presentifying Absence: Memorial Practices in 21st Century Popular Music IULM University Milan
14:00 Break
Session 3: The Possibility of Meaning
- 14:30 Mark Berry Absence, Non-Absence, Words, and Music in Kurtág’s Fin de partie Royal Holloway, University of London
- 15:00 Christine Dysers The Unspeakable: Music in the Age of Uncertainty Uppsala University
- 15:30 Kristina Socanski Celik Octoechos: Contemporary Music and Spirituality University of Oslo
- 16:00 Payam Pilvar Women Sing Freedom: The Absence of Women’s Singing in Post-Revolutionary Iran University of Ottawa
16:30 Closing remarks and musical interlude
17:00 Reception and buffet for conference delegates (speakers only)
18:00 Talk followed by concert with asamisimasa
- Ellen Ugelvik - piano
- Tanja Orning - cello
- Anders Førisdal - electric guitar
At the Realfagsbibliotek
(The Science Library).
Not streamed.
Friday 26 May 2023
9:15 Coffee
Session 4: In-Between Presence and Absence / Experiencing Absence
- 9:30 Jelena Novak What's Not There? Heiner Goebbels’ Aesthetics of Absence and Division Between Visual and Acoustic Stage in Recent Opera and Musical Theatre CESEM, FCSH, Universidade NOVA de Lisboa
- 10:00 Martina Bratić Olga Neuwirth’s CoronAtion Cycle: Into the Void and Beyond University of Graz
- 10:30 Peter Adams Small-Screen Silents: Contemporary Television and the Neo-Silent Aesthetic Cambridge University
- 11:00 Jakob Maria Schermann Transitions into Absence. On the Musical Aesthetics of Disappearance University for Music and Performing Arts Vienna
11:30 Lunch
12:30 Keynote address: Judy Lochhead: Affective Ephemera: Sounding Absence in the 21st Century Stony Brook University
14.00 Break
Session 5: Excess
- 14:15 Dominika Micał Two Studies in Losing. Richard Ayres’ “No. 51” and “No. 52” Krzysztof Penderecki Academy of Music, Kraków
- 14:45 Marina Sudo Listening within the Absence: Peter Ablinger’s Composition and the Musical Potential of Noise KU Leuven
- 15:15 Mark Hutchinson The Texture of Memory: Quotation as Absent Presence in Caroline Shaw’s Gustave Le Gray University of York
15:45 Break
Session 6: Articulating the Ineffable
- 16:00 Clare Lesser Lacuna and Parergon in Late Vocal Works by Hans Joachim Hespos NYU Abu Dhabi
- 16:30 Tobias Plebuch Thinking Absence in George Crumb’s Black Angels Uppsala University
- 17:00 Peter Edwards Music of the Future and Sense-Making. Performing György Kurtág’s Fin de partie University of Oslo
17:30 Closing remarks
17:45 End
2022
International Seminar on Sonic Design
The seminar explored sonic design from multiple angles and celebrated the achievements of Professor Rolf Inge Godøy.
Time and place: May 5, 2022 10:00 AM – May 6, 2022 5:00 PM, Salen, ZEB building, Department of Musicology / Zoom
Introduction
The seminar is set up to celebrate the achievements of Professor Rolf Inge Godøy and continue discussing some of the topics he has contributed to throughout his career. After studying musicology, philosophy, and the history of ideas at the University of Oslo, Professor Godøy moved on to obtain diplomas in music theory and composition from the Norwegian Academy of Music. He then worked as a freelance composer for several years before returning to academia to undertake a PhD in musicology. As a professor of music theory at the University of Oslo for almost 30 years he has taught and supervised several generations of students in a broad range of musicological sub-disciplines.
During most of his academic career, Professor Godøy has developed Pierre Schaeffer's concept of the sonic object into his own embodied sound and music theory. During the last decades, he has also been central in establishing the fourMs Lab as a world-leading infrastructure for research into music-related body motion. He is a principal investigator at RITMO Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies in Rhythm, Time, and Motion, a Norwegian Centre of Excellence, until his retirement.
Sonic Design
Professor Godøy has over the years proposed the concept of sonic design as an amalgam between artistic and scientific approaches to the creation and study of (musical) sound. On one side, sonic design includes the practices of synthesising entirely new sounds or recording, editing and mixing acoustic sounds. Over the years, these practices have merged with composition and orchestration techniques and various music production methods to allow for previously unheard of sonic results. In addition to such creative applications, sonic design can also encompass different sonification strategies aiming to create “objective” representations of data through sound.
Underlying all the practical approaches to the creation of sounds for various purposes are several basic research perspectives, including music theory, music perception, embodied cognition, phenomenology, acoustics, cognitive neuroscience, and digital signal processing, to mention just a few. As such, sonic design can be seen as a meeting point between basic and applied research, "soft" and "hard" approaches, and creative and analytic perspectives.
As a longtime practitioner, researcher, teacher, and supervisor, Professor Godøy has been central in developing a holistic approach to sonic design, from theory to practice. While much of his early work focused on sound as sound, he has extended his approach to considering the embodied aspects of both the performance and perception of music over the last decades. He is particularly known for his work on Musical Imagery (2001) and Musical Gestures (2010) and has over the last decade focused his attention on sonic and bodily (co)articulations.
Programme
Thursday 5 May 2022
9:30 Coffee and registration
10:00 Welcome Zafer Özgen University of Oslo
10:10 Sonic design and the power-theory of music Marc Leman Ghent University
10:30 Connecting theories of music performance and expression for sonic design Dahl, Sofia Aalborg University
10:50 A Grammar of Conducting Expressive Gestures Gibet, Sylvie University of South Brittany
11:10 Break
11:25 Empirical Analysis of Gestural Sonic Objects Combining Qualitative and Quantitative Methods Visi, Federico Luleå University of Technology
11:45 Cecil Taylor's Gestural Designs Stover, Chris Griffith University
12:05 Excitations and resonances: Misinterpreted actions in Neon Meditations Holopainen, Risto
12:25 Introducing the Self-playing guitars installation Erdem, Cagri University of Oslo
12:27 Introducing the Dr Squiggles installation Krzyzaniak, Michael University of Oslo
12:30 Lunch
13:15 Sonic Objects and Motor-mimetic Cognition: Promises, Limitations, and Emotive Affordances Aksnes, Hallgjerd University of Oslo
13:35 Music and Enactive Time Design: Glitches, (Dis-)Orientations, and the Ethics of Hesitation Kozak, Mariusz Columbia University
13:55 The Gestural Sonorous Other Kelkar, Tejaswinee University of Oslo
14:15 Break
14:30 Analyzing kinematics of complex embodied music interaction Toiviainen, Petri University of Jyväskylä
14:50 Embodied pitch while walking to music Migotti, Léo Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris
15:10 Sonic design and spatial morphology Ulf A. S. Holbrook
15:30 Break
15:45 A Motion Capture Story from Facebook to the New York Times Kobb, Christina
16:05 Different attitudes of expressive movements awareness in professional musicians through a phenomenological approach Minafra, Annamaria Conservatorio di Musica "N. Piccinni"-Bari
16:25 Gestures and instrument design Wanderley, Marcelo McGill University
16:45 Break
17:20 The Listening Body: Sound and the Sensory Apprehension of Movement Gemma Crowe Emily Carr University of Art + Design
17:40 Modifying audio parameters as we move: a site-specific approach to sonic design Thomas, Denez University of Rennes 2
18:00 Bubbles and tapas
Friday 6 May 2022
9:30 Coffee
10:00 Interactive Music Performance Erdem, Cagri and Lan, Qichao University of Oslo
10:15 Acoustic Metamaterials for Sonically Designing Musical Instruments and Room Acoustics Bader, Rolf University of Hamburg
10:35 From a squeak to something general Halmrast, Tor University of Oslo / Cowi
10:55 Wearable musical instrument in rehabilitation Louhivuori, Jukka University of Jyväskylä
11:15 Break
11:30 Sonic Design in Augmented Reality Wang Yichen Australian National University
11:50 Rendering Collected Ephemera Audible: Sonic Design as Attending to Multiplicity Sagesser, Marcel Zaes Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen
12:10 Broadcast Signals that Enable Sustained Concurrent Action Upham, Finn University of Oslo
12:30 Lunch
13:15 Metrical Shapes Haugen, Mari Romarheim University of Oslo
13:35 My 50-year stroll through Sonic Design and Embodiment Van Noorden, Leon Ghent University
13:55 Embodied sound design of robots to reflect desired personality traits Coca, Andres Edinburgh Napier University
14:15 Break
14:30 The evolution of electroacoustic music in a live SuperCollider composition Christodoulou, Anna-Maria National and Kapodistrian University of Athens / University of Oslo
14:50 Computational detection and characterisation of sonic shapes: Towards a Toolbox des objets sonores Olivier Lartillot, Rolf Inge Godøy, Anna-Maria Christodoulou University of Oslo
15:10 Break
15:20 Sonic design Rolf Inge Godøy University of Oslo
15:50 Reflections on sound and structure Anne Danielsen University of Oslo
16:00 Closing of seminar Alexander Refsum Jensenius University of Oslo
16:15 End of program
Performances and installations
During the seminar there will be several installations and performances.
Self-playing guitars installation
Cagri Erdem and Sebastian Fongen Langslet
The Self-playing Guitars is a platform for exploring the meeting point between acoustic and digital sound production in a collection of self-playing instruments. As part of our “out-of-lab” experimentations at the RITMO centre, this platform has formed the basis for various types of scientific research into sensors used for detecting people's motion, digital sound generation, and mappings between action and sound. We explore the artistic possibilities of self-playing guitars through several public performances and exhibitions, including researching the differences between performing and perceiving an instrument and investigating the differences between acoustic and electroacoustic instruments. We will present a new installation piece for the International Seminar on Sonic Design. The participants will experience a multi-agent system that generates a variety of textures depending on the interaction of people passing by.
Dr. Squiggles installation
Michael Joseph Krzyzaniak
Dr. Squiggles is an interactive rhythmic tapping robot that can listen to music and play along. In this installation, visitors can tap rhythms on a tabletop. Several Dr. Squiggles robots listen to the tapping and play along by tapping their own rhythms on glockenspiels and other objects. Dr. Squiggles was developed at the UiO RITMO Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies in Rhythm, Time and Motion.
Interactive music performance
Students from the course MUS2830, directed by Cagri Erdem and Qichao Lan
The Interactive Music (MUS2830) is an elective course tailored for the bachelor programme at the Department of Musicology, focusing on diversifying students’ artistic repertoire via interactive music technologies. In this performance, the students will present a special series of short musical performance acts using the interactive music systems they have developed as part of their coursework. These systems span a wide range of analog and digital tools from Victorian synthesizers to sensor-based control of computer music software, live coding, and Eurorack systems. While some acts will be based on pre-composed musical ideas for solo performance, some will be entirely free improvised in ensemble settings. This course provides students with knowledge and skills in designing, building, and performing with various types of musical instruments and interactive music systems.
2017
Kyma International Sound Symposium
Explore the theme of Augmenting Reality through talks, live performances, hands-on workshops, and lively discussions.
Time and place: Oct. 12, 2017 5:00 PM–Oct. 15, 2017 7:00 PM, Teknisk Museum, IMV, Victoria Jazzscene og NMH
Sound and music are the original augmented reality technology. Throughout human history, sound and music have played an intrinsic role in magic, ritual, ceremony, and celebration, transforming the mundane into the sublime, marking everyday events as memorable milestones, and enhancing the flow of experience. Acoustic archeologists speculate that certain acoustic properties of ancient monuments were intentionally designed to transform the human voice into something supernatural and that, throughout history, centers of power have been constructed as polished stone surfaces enclosing vast spaces in order to augment the sounds created within them — creating mysterious, impressive, and transformative experiences.
The Norwegian Academy of Music, the University of Oslo Department of Musicology, NOTAM and Symbolic Sound invite you to join us as we explore the theme of Augmenting Reality through talks, live performances, hands-on workshops, and lively discussions at the Kyma International Sound Symposium, KISS 2017 in Oslo Norway 12-15 October 2017.
Thursday 12 October 2017
- 16:30 Registration, Norwegian Museum of Science & Technology
- 17:00 Reception & Museum Tour
- 18:00 Concert
- 20:00 Dinner together (included with conference registration), Science Museum
Friday 13 October 2017
- 09:30 Coffee, University of Oslo (Helga Engs Hus)
- 10:00 Morning Session, Helga Engs Hus
- 12:30 Lunch together (included with conference registration), Helga Engs Hus
- 14:00 Afternoon Session, Helga Engs Hus
- 16:00 Desktop Demos & Kyma Open Lab, University of Oslo (IMV)
- 18:00 Concert I, Salen IMV
- 19:00 Dinner together (included with conference registration), IMV
- 21:00 Concert II, Victoria Jazz Club
Saturday 14 October 2017
- 09:30 Coffee, Norwegian Academy of Music (NMH)
- 10:00 Morning Session, NMH
- 12:30 Lunch together (included with conference registration), NMH
- 14:00 Afternoon Session, NMH
- 16:00 Desktop Demos & Kyma Open Lab, IMV
- 18:00 Concert, Levinsalen NMH
- 20:00 Dinner together (included with conference registration), NMH
Sunday 15 October 2017
- 11:00 Coffee, NMH
- 11:30 Morning Session, NMH
- 13:00 Lunch together (included with conference registration), NMH
- 14:30 Afternoon Session I, NMH
- 16:00 Concert, Salen IMV
- 17:15 Afternoon Session II, Salen IMV
- 20:00 Dinner together (no host)
Organizer
Symbolic Sound, NOTAM, IMV and NMH
IASPM Norden & Nordic Sounds
Popular Music in the Nordic Countries
A Study Day co-hosted by IASPM Norden & Nordic Sounds
All are invited to the International Association for the Study of Popular Music (IASPM Norden) Study Day at the Department of Musicology, University of Oslo on September 14 2017.
Time and place: Sep. 14, 2017 10:00 AM–5:30 PM, ZEB-bygningen
The theme of the day is the study of popular music in the Nordic countries. Professor Stan Hawkins will introduce the event, which is co- hosted by our department’s Nordic Sounds: Critical Music Research Group.
We invite proposals in the form of a short abstract/description of what you are studying within popular music research (max. 100 words). Participants will be selected on the following criterion:
Topic that fits with the theme of popular music within the Nordic
- countries (e.g. if you study a specific Nordic band, artist, composer, producer, subgroup, festival, etc.)
- Quality of the abstract / research questions / methodologies
- IASPM Norden-members are given priority, but all IASPM members welcome to apply
Please send proposals as electronic mail attachment in doc/docx/pdf format to organisers Hans T. Zeiner-Henriksen & Áine Mangaoang as soon as possible, no later than March 15, 2017.
Any questions about the event, contact Áine or Hans.
2016
Research workshop on musical rhythm
Time and place: Sep. 23, 2016 9:00 AM–4:00 PM, Seminar room 1, ZEB
Programme
Timing and Reference Structures
- Rainer Polak (Cologne Univeristy of Music) et al.: How to empirically tell temporal reference structures from timing variations: Arguing “swing meter” in Malian drumming
- Tellef Kvifte (Telemark University College): Precision in timing as an emergent property
Timing and Sound
- Hans T. Zeiner-Henriksen (University of Oslo): Sound modulations and pulse perception
- Anne Danielsen (University of Oslo): Investigating the perception of sound-timing relationships.
Rhythm and the Body I
- Peter Vuust (Center for Music in the Brain, Aarhus)
- Maria Witek (Center for Music in the Brain, Aarhus): Filling in: Syncopation, pleasure and distributed embodiment in groove
Rhythm and the Body II
- Justin London (Carleton College): Speed on the dance floor: auditory and visual cues for musical tempo
- Rolf Inge Godøy (University of Oslo): Coarticulation in rhythm
Organizer: Anne Danielsen
2014
Making Music – Producing Sound: the Nordic angle.
Time and place: Dec. 3, 2014 11:00 AM–Dec. 4, 2014 10:30 PM, ZEB-building, Blindern
The Nordic popular music scene is an active arena of ambitious bands and artists striving for success, on a national as well as an international level.
Notably, we would like to excavate and question the overarching ideological perspectives of reputation, positions and hierarchies, instrumental incentives like governmental subsidies and support for education and training, new technologies of production and mediation and the negotiation of identity and subjectivity.
Organizer
IASPM Norden, Department of Musicology and Nordic Culture Fond
About IASPM
IASPM is an international organization established to promote inquiry, scholarship and analysis in the area of popular music. Founded in 1981, IASPM has grown into an international network of more that 700 members world-wide.
Listening to the 20th Century and Beyond
This three day conference explores the question of musical listening with regard to a wide variety of musical genres and artists. November 11 and 12: Auditorium U 35 in Helga Eng's house from 9:30, November 13: room 103 ZEB from 9:30.
Time and place: Nov. 11, 2014 9:30 AM–Nov. 13, 2014 7:30 PM, Auditorium U 35 in Helga Engs house
A wide variety of musical genres will be explored from Ligeti to The Beatles, from Mahler to Nordheim, from James Brown and jazz standards to Stockhausen, Boulez, Maja Ratkje and Nordic folk Music.
November 11
- Julian Johnson (London): Listening for the Voice
- Paper presentations by students at the Department of Musicology
- Darla Crispin (London): Critical Listening; Listening as Criticism: ‘curating’ performances of Schoenberg as a route to new audience insights
- Paper presentations by students at the Department of Musicology
November 12
- Charles Wilson: Listening in the Contemporary Moment
- Paper presentations by students at the Department of Musicology Thursday
November 13
- Paper presentations by students at the Department of Musicology, UiO
Organizer: Department of Musicology
Contact: Tanja Orning
Symposium: Popular Music & Gender in a Transnational Context
This international symposium marks the end of the NFR-financed Project: Popular Music & Gender in a Transcultural Context. The symposium is open to the general public.
Time and place: June 3, 2014 1:30 PM–6:00 PM, Undervisningrom 2 Universitetsbiblioteket
- Opening Remarks: Alexander Refsum Jensenius, Head of Department
- Introductory Remarks: Stan Hawkins, Project Leader
- “Performativity, Performance and Musical Genres” - Antoine Hennion, Research Director, Centre de Sociologie de l’Innovation, Paris
- “Popular Music & Gender in a Transcultural Context” - Stan Hawkins, Mats Johansson, Jon Mikkel Broch Ålvik, Birgitte Sandve
- "Sites of Memory: Public Emotionality, Gender and Nationhood in the Music of Googoosh”. Laudan Nooshin, Senior Lecturer, City University London
Organizer
Department of Musicology
Contact
Stan Hawkins
2011
Music and Health: Generative mechanisms
Nordic Network of Research in Music, Culture, and Health: Announcement of the First Network Conference March 14-16 2011.
Time and place: Mar. 14, 2011 9:00 AM–Mar. 16, 2011 5:00 PM, Olavsgården
The first Nordic network conference on Music, Culture, and Health (MUCH) will be held at Olavsgården (outside Oslo).
Guest lecturers
- Professor Suzanne Hanser, Berklee College of Music
- Professor Tia DeNora, Exeter university
- Professor Stephen Clift, Sidney De Haan Research Centre for Arts and Health, UK
From the MUCH-Network:
- Associate professor Kari Bjerke Batt-Rawden
- Professor Brynjulf Stige, University of Bergen
Kari Bjerke Batt-Rawden will speak about her action research on the use of music with persons with long-term illness. Brynjulf Stige will speak about criteria for the use of qualitative research methods.
Contact
Kristin Kjølberg, Ph.D., Norwegian Academy of Music, will assist in the process of planning the conference. She will be serving the address muchconference@nmh.no, please use this address for further communication
We are looking forward to welcome you to this great event!
Organizer
Nordic Network of Research in Music, Culture, and Health
NIME 2011: 11th International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression
Time: May 30, 2011 9:00 AM–June 1, 2011
The International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression (NIME) is an annual interdisciplinary conference gathering 200-500 participants from all over the world to share their knowledge and late-breaking work on new musical interface design.
In 2011 this conference will be organised by the Department of Musicology, University of Oslo and the Norwegian Academy of Music, in collaboration with NOTAM, BEK, NTNU and Simula.
Please visit www.nime2011.org for more information about calls, submission and programme.
Organizer
The Department of Musicology and The Norwegian Academy of Music
2010
Musical Heritage. Editing Historical Music in the 21st Century
The National Library and the Department of Musicology, University of Oslo are pleased to announce the international conference "Musical Heritage. Music Editing in the 21st Century".
Time and place: Dec. 10, 2010 11:30 AM–Dec. 11, 2010 3:30 PM, The National Library, Henrik Ibsens gate 110, 0255 Oslo
About the conference
The seminar addresses the challenges of editing and publishing historical music in the 21st century. The long tradition of historical music editions, from Charles Burney’s La Musica che si canta nella cappella pontificia (1771) to Carl Nielsen Udgaven (2009), reflects the changing interests in historical music over the ages.
The choice of music for edition, the editing principles themselves and the modes of publication have changed according to cultural and technological conditions, and so has the market for historical music in print.
The seminar will explore the present conditions for enterprises in the field against the background of recent developments in musical scholarship, new historigraphical perspectives, the present state of concert life, and the role of historical music in contemporary cultures.
Special attention will be given to publication strategies between the monumental edition in quarto, and the scenario of a more fluid and interactive multimedia version on the Internet.
Final date for registration: 1 December 2010
Registration form (N.B. In Norwegian. Please contact a.c.wesnes@imv.uio.no if you need help with Your registration) - See list of registered participants
All interested parties are welcome to take part. The conference is free of charge.
Programme
1st Session: Historiographical perspectives on music editing in the 21st century - Friday 10 December
- Opening, Professor Ståle Wikshåland, University of Oslo
- Professor Leo Treitler, New York University: «The mimetic Heritage»
- Professor Jim Samson, University of London: «Interpreting the Chopin Sources»
- Research fellow Morten Christophersen, University of Oslo: «Johan Svendsen’s (1840-1911) lost or unfinished symphony. Realizing sketches into performance»
2nd Session: Music editing in a digital age - Saturday 11 December
- Introduction, Kristin Bakken, The National Library, Oslo
- Professor Niels Krabbe, Danish Centre for Music Publication (DCM), The Royal Library, Copenhagen «Danish Centre for Music Publication: visions - results - problems after the first 15 months»
- Doktor Frans Wiering, University of Utrecht: «Music Information Retrieval and Musicology: what do the two have in common?»
- Researcher Jørgen Langdalen, The National Library, Oslo: «Editing historical Music in the Age of Globalization and Digitization»
- Presentation of the project ”Musical Heritage”
- Panel discussion
The conference will be held in English. N.B. There might be changes in the programme.
Speakers
Bjørn Morten Christophersen
Bjørn Morten Christophersen (1976-) has a Cand.philol. degree in musicology from the University of Oslo and MA in Composing for Film and TV from Kingston University in London. He has composed choral, orchestral and chamber music, music for several large scaled TV dramas for the Norwegian Broadcasting Company (NRK), as well as for the stage.
He has also worked as an arranger for the Norwegian Radio Orchestra, Stavanger Symphony Orchestra and Kristiansand Symphony Orchestra. In addition he has taught harmony, counterpoint, orchestration and arranging at the University of Oslo since 2003.
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Niels Krabbe
Niels Krabbe is at present research professor and leader of the Danish Centre for Music Publication (DCM) at the Royal Library, Copenhagen. He has been in charge of the team and the publication of the Carl Nielsen Edition. For years he was leader of the Music and Theatre Department in the Library, and he has also been teaching musicology at the Copenhagen University.
Jørgen Langdalen
Jørgen Langdalen earned his Ph.D. in music history at the University of Oslo with a thesis on Gluck and Rousseau and has recently concluded a post doctoral research project on the public entertainment in early eighteenth-century Copenhagen. He is presently engaged as researcher at the National Library of Norway, taking part in the Musical Heritage Project, where he conducts research on the music of Johan Svendsen.
Jim Samson
Jim Samson is at present professor and chair of the Department of Music at Royal Holloway, former professor at the Universities of Exeter and Bristol. He has published several important books and is also in the leader troika of The Complete Chopin: A New Critical Edition (Peters Edition, in progress). His edition of the Chopin Ballades (Peters Edition) was named '2009 Edition of the Year' in the International Piano Awards.
Leo Treitler is Distinguished Professor of Music Emeritus at the Graduate Center of City University of New York. He has taught at the University of Chicago, Brandeis University, Stony Brook University and CUNY Graduate Center. He has published a number of books, articles and essays on music history and historiography, music criticism and hermeneutics, and philosophy of music. Among these are Music and the Historical Imagination (Harvard U. Press 1989), Strunk’s Source Readings in Music History, Revised Edition (W.W.Norton, 1998), and With Voice and Pen: Coming to Know Medieval Song and How it was Made (Oxford University Press, 2003, revised edition 2007). He has also participated at a number of recearch seminars in Norway.
Frans Wiering
Dr. Frans Wiering has for years worked both in informatics and in musicology and has contributed to forming the interdisciplinary subject Music Information Retrieval (MIR). In this work he has also published on digital critical editions of music. He is working at Department of Information and Computing Sciences, Utrecht University, and he was organizer and host for the ISMIR conference of 2010.
Organizer
The National Library, Oslo and Department of Musicology, University of Oslo
Kanon I: Sigmund Freud, Moses and the Gender of Monotheism
Time and place: Sep. 15, 2010 1:15 PM–6:30 PM, Undervisningsrom 1 Georg Sverdrups hus
Contributors
- Ilana Pardes, Professor of Arts and Letters, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
- Roland Boer, Associate Professor, Education and Arts, University of Newcastle, Australia
- Erik Steinskog, Associate Professor of Musicology, Department of Arts and Cultural Studies, University of Copenhagen
- Hedda Høgåsen-Hallesby, Ph.D.-fellow, Centre for Gender Research, University of Oslo
- Øystein Gullvåg Holter, Professor of Gender Equality and Masculinities, Centre for Gender Research, University of Oslo
About the seminar
The seminar will focus on the religious critique of Sigmund Freud in a gender perspective. The occasion for the seminar is Ilana Pardes and Ruth Ginsburg's recent volume New Perspectives on Freud's 'Moses and Monotheism' (Niemeyer 2006). With Freud's Religionskritik as a point of departure, and in the spirit of Pardes and Ginsburg's volume, the seminar will focus on connections between monotheism and constructions of masculinity - and gender models more in general.
It is also a stated aim of the seminar to have an interdisciplinary conversation on the status of Freud's cultural critique in a range of humanities disciplines.
Organizer
Senter for tverrfaglig kjønnsforskning