Academia’s Responsibility to Our Climate
Conference attendance, lecture tours, guest lectureships: research is international and produces an enormous ecological footprint. So how can it be made to function in a more climate-friendly manner?
“Up in the Air” – Artistic Careers in Times of Climate Crisis
In the September 2019 issue of the music periodical nmz (Neue Musikzeitung) , German composer and concert educator Bernhard König published an essay entitled “Monteverdi und der Klimawandel” [Monteverdi and Climate Change]. What König wrote there represented some important food for thought for many at our institution.
Review: Musik und Schrift. Interdisziplinäre Perspektiven auf musikalische Notationen
Writing about writing is a paradoxical act—seeing as it involves articulating oneself using the very tool that one is attempting to describe.
Heroes, Canons, Cults. Critical Inquiries: isaScience Conference, 2020 Dagmar Abfalter, Karoline Feyertag, Marko Kölbl, Rosa Reitsamer, Fritz Trümpi
In the run-up to the 30th International Summer Academy of the mdw, the present year will also see the Semmering region host the eighth edition of isaScience. This conference invites researchers, arts professionals, and activists of all academic levels and from various academic disciplines relevant to music and the performing arts in general to join in the discourse on “Heroes?!”, this year’s thematic emphasis at isa.
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.
A Broad Diversity of Interdisciplinary Projects: Nine Artistic Research Pilot Projects at the mdw
Back in 2018, the mdw began offering internal financial support for pilot projects in the field of artistic research.
Just P(l)ay! Music as Labour
The Theme of isaScience19 as a Scholarly Reinterpretation of Just Play!?
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