PROJECTS
2025-2027: (Un)heard Neighbors? An Urban Ethnomusicology of Proximity.
A Research Project funded by the Austrian Science Fund (FWF).
Principal Investigator: Isabel Frey, PhD; Co-investigator: Ioannis Christidis, PhD
2026–2027: Gerlinde Haid's Field Recordings
A project funded by the mdw.
Project lead: Hande Sağlam; Advisors: Evelyn Fink, Thomas Nußbaumer
2024–2027: Historicity of African musical instrument technology. A Research Project funded by the Austrian Science Fund (FWF).
Principal Investigator: Gerhard Kubik
► 2025: Grätzlgesänge - Die Klänge religiöser Minderheiten in Fünfhaus. Gefördert durch das Wissenschatsstipendium der Stadt Wien.
Projektleitung: Isabel Frey, Projektassistenz: Ioannis Christidis
2023–2025: Reverse Ethnomusicology: Migrant Musicians as Researchers. A Research Project funded by the Austrian Science Fund (FWF).
Principal Investigators: Ass.Prof. Dr. Anja Brunner (IVE/MMRC) and Dr. Conny Gruber (Phonogrammarchive, Austrian Academy of Sciences)
2022–2023: Transmission of Knowledges: The Master-Apprentice Relationship in the Âşık Tradition.
A research project funded by the European Commission as part of the Horizon 2020 Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions COFUND program “Co-Funded Brain Circulation2 Scheme (CoCirculation2).”
Principal Investigator: Hande Sağlam, PhD.
2018: traditional ||:performance:|| art. Ethnographische Forschung auf der Bühne
Ein Artistic Research Pilotprojekt, gefördert von der Stabstelle für Forschungsförderung - mdw
2016-2018: Musical identifications of young refugees
A research project (pilot project) of the Institute for Folk Music Research and Ethnomusicology in collaboration with young refugees.
► External advisor: Dr. Razia Sultanova
► Project Report (in German)
► Project Application (in German)
► Progress Report (in German)
2017-ongoing: Voice - The Sonic Dimension of Gender. Interdisciplinary Views on Voice in Opera, Pop and Traditional Music
2016-2017: Research Project Bi-/Multimusicality, as a part of the mdw-project"Changing mdw" (as a part of the mdw-project Bilder-Welten/Gedächtnisort)
► results report Bi-/Multimusikalität (in German)
► project information Research Project Bi-/Multimusikalität (in German)
►"Changing mdw" (in German)
2015: Musik ohne Grenzen - Mehrsprachigkeit in der Musik (Bi- bzw. Multimusikalität) und das Verstehen des "Anderen", "Unvertrauten".
Ein gemeinsames Forschungsprojekt des Franz Schubert Instituts mit dem Institut für Volksmusikforschung und Ethnomusikologie, gefördert vom bmwfw
► Project Description: Music Without Borders
► Antrag_Projekt Musik ohne Grenzen (in German)
► Endbericht Musik ohne Grenzen (in German)
2013 –2015: Cohabitation/partnership – (field) research community
The role of partners in folk music research and ethnomusicology in Austria
► project information (in German)
► results report (in German)
2010: ► Bi- or Multi-Musicality and Intercultural Dialog
2009 ► Einwanderer-Kulturen in Vorarlberg: ein musikalisches Feldforschungsprojekt (in German)
2007: ► Embedded Industries. Cultural entrepreneurs in different immigrant communities of Vienna
2006: ► Folk Terminology and Musical Phenomena
2005: ► Immigrant Music Culture in Vienna (in German)
2004: ► Tunes and chants of italian workers who emigrated to austria
2003: ► Multipart Singing in the Balkans and in the Mediterranean
1997: ► Preservation of the Sound Recording Archive of Walter Deutsch (in German)