Art and research may not be things that one would directly associate with each other at first blush.
Artistic Research
Posted on 25. November 2019
“Good Soun is Our Obsession” – A Day with the mdw’s Streaming Team
Concerts, panel discussions, ceremonies, and opera performances: more and more mdw events can now be streamed live as well as watched after the fact via the mdwMediathek.
Creative (Mis)Understandings – Methodologies of Inspiration
Since 2005, the violist Wei-Ya Lin (who has since also become an ethnomusicologist) and Johannes Kretz (a composer specialised in electronic sound production) have been paying regular visits to the Tao community.
“The Body as a Stage”: Learning from Aleksandar Acev at the Max Reinhardt Seminar
“The body already does a lot of things right on its own; the training that we do here acts as a ‘helping hand’,” says Aleksandar Acev, who’s been a professor of basic physical training and physical theatre at the Max Reinhardt Seminar since this October.
Einander – A Collaborative Music Project
In May 2019, a very special transformational concert set an entire school building resonating and reverberating.
Music
Alumni in Focus: Alessandro Baticci
Next year, Alessandro Baticci will be returning to what's now his alma mater with a project of his own: DigitAize – Digitised String Instruments.
Fifty-Fifty in 2030?
Even in music, the gender gap is finally beginning to close … at least here and there.
Pfingstfestival Stetteldorf
A New Collaborative Project Between the mdw’s Career Center and the Department of Cultural Management and Gender Studies,
Beatles: Reimagined
Conceiving, arranging, producing, and performing with guidance from the internationally renowned artist Steve Sidwell.
Drama
Alumni in Focus: Sarantos Georgios Zervoulakos
For the Greco-German stage director Sarantos Georgios Zervoulakos, settling on theatre was a big step.
Love Is the Best Glue
In April of 2018, the mdw sent Beverly Blankenship and Anna Maria Krassnigg to the Hanoi Academy of Theatre and Cinema, an ASEA-UNINET partner institution, to join students there in developing a condensed stage version of William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet.
Taking the Plunge into Theatrical Reality
Max Reinhardt Seminar Students in a Production by Nicolas Charaux at the Vestibül.
Training to Master the Challenge of Acting Auditions
Rita Waszilovics and casting director Deborah Congia spoke with mdw Magazine about their work.
Film
I can be everything. I can be nothing.
The artistic research project Confronting Realities delves into the hot topic of artists’ social backgrounds while also shedding light on film production’s limitations and opportunities.
“Your body no longer realises that you’ve still got solid ground beneath your feet.”
Virtual Reality in Film: One needn’t be a tech nerd to find virtual reality fascinating.
A Day at Film Academy Vienna
Saskia Arth is working on her BA in Production. We followed her and her team through a typical day of filming work.
Music videos: A Kind of Experimental Laboratory
A Calling Card, not an Income Source
Research
Review: Roads to Music Sociology
This anthology arose as a follow-up publication to a 2015 conference with which the mdw’s Department of Music Sociology celebrated 50 years of existence.
The Development of Cultural Funding in Vienna Norbert Hofer
Norbert Hofer, a doctoral candidate at the mdw, provides a glimpse into his work in the field of cultural institutions studies and describes how cultural funding by the City of Vienna has developed since 1998.
Shifting Perspectives on Heinrich Schenker
February 2019 witnessed the launch of the three-year third party-funded project Heinrich Schenker’s Diaries 1915–1919: An Annotated Edition. It marks the latest climax in the recent historical interest in this Viennese theoretician.
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