The Conferences on Interdisciplinary Musicology promote collaborations between sciences and humanities, between theory and practice, as well as interdisciplinary combinations that are new, unusual, creative, or otherwise especially promising. CIM10 will focus on the relationship between nature and culture in musical behaviour, thinking and sound.
With the influence of evolutionary theory, and the interpenetration of the approaches and methods of the sciences and arts, researchers from many different fields have become interested in how culture and biology shape musical phenomena. To what extent is the music that gets made (its materials and structure) a direct product of physical and biological properties? How is the experience of music governed by biological mechanisms and cultural processes?
The conference aims to bring together representatives of the arts and humanities, the sciences, and musical practice who are involved in research on culture and nature in music. Researchers from all relevant disciplines are invited to contribute theoretical, empirical and computational studies.
The following topic areas illustrate the scope of the conference theme:
• Music’s evolutionary origins
• Cross-cultural comparison of musical phenomena
• Linguistic influences on music cognition
• How culture and biology shape the phenomenal experience of musical expectation
• Biological and cultural influences on the experience of emotions with music
• Relationship between emotional experience with music and emotions in daily life
• Development of musical skills
• Musical universals and musical specializations
• Cognitive and physical constraints shaping musical materials and compositional practices
International Conference on Music Perception and Cognition (ICMCP 11)
University of Washington School of Music 23. August 2010 bis 27. August 2010
The International Conference on Music Perception and Cognition is an interdisciplinary conference devoted to the dissemination of new, unpublished research relating to the field of music perception and cognition. The conference is relevant for university and industry researchers and graduate students working in psychology, cognitive neuroscience, music theory and composition, psychophysics, music performance, music education, music therapy and music medicine, neurophysiology, ethnomusicology, developmental psychology, linguistics, artificial intelligence, computer technology, and other related fields of inquiry. The 11th biennial meeting of the conference will be held in Seattle, Washington on the campus of the University of Washington.
21th Biennial Congress of the International Association of Empirical Aesthetics
Dresden 24.08.2010-28.08.2010
While the Dresden Congress of the IAEA will focus on its traditional topics in the science of aesthetics, there will be an additional emphasis on the connection between aesthetics and its connections to the various fields of design.
Traditionally the biennial conferences have focused on aspects of experimental psychology and the empirical social sciences as they pertain to the study of arts, the environment, or the role of the creative process. It is our intention with this conference to strengthen the discussion of the more recently emerging fields of neurocognitive approaches to aesthetics as well.
While one of the main focii of aesthetic research have been the traditional arts, from painting sculpture, music, literature and dance to architecture, but also to the areas of design such as graphic art and product design; however, there has been little involvement from members of these disciplines themselves. With this conference we would like to especially encourage them to participate in the discussion. Can any findings from experimental aesthetics indeed be applied to the artistic and design practice?
One of the intentions of this Congress will be the opening of a dialogue between research and practice, between questions asked and answers by all of the fields. We therefore deliberately invite designers, architects, computer designers, fashion designers, photographers and all others in the design disciplines to contribute to the discussions within this symposium.
26.02.2010 Die Luzerner Musikhochschule im Umbruch Konflikte rund um die HSLU M illustrieren die Verunsicherungen, welche die Reformen der Fachhochschulen mit sich bringen.
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