“I’m afraid of…” isn’t necessarily something that’s easy to say. But even so, we all know it: anxiety. Anxieties—along with bouts of their more immediate cousin, fear—accompany many of us our whole lives long. Some of these we succeed in overcoming, while others we might even turn out to need a bit, and still others seem impossible to shake.

Ulrike Demal is a clinical psychologist and a psychotherapist and provides mdw Magazine with a basic overview of anxiety and fear.

Using Music Therapy to Treat Anxiety Disorders

There exists virtually no form of human fear or anxiety that hasn’t at some point been employed in thrillers or horror movies.

The mdw’s Department of Organ, Organ Research, and Church Music is a place devoted to caring for the “humus of Western music”.

1971 saw the establishment of the Institute of Organological Research and Documentation at what was then the Academy of Music and Performing Arts Vienna.

Those who believe that church music consists simply of a few songs that they once heard in church, might be quite surprised indeed to learn just how diverse musica sacra can be.

2 × 7 Metaphorical Cutaway Views Concerning the Situation of (not just) Contemporary Music. A Monologic Dialogue.

Georg Nussbaumer and hundreds of students will realise a walk-in symphony on the mdw Campus for Wien Modern