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University Professorship (f/m/d) for Ethnomusicology - Vacancy | AEC

University Professorship (f/m/d) for Ethnomusicology INSTITUTE OF ETHNOMUSICOLOGYSTART DATE: winter semester 2027/28 EMPLOYMENT LEVEL: full-time employment APPLICATION DEADLINE: 06.05.2(...)

Bandi incarichi post-doc:Università Ca' Foscari Venezia

Bandi incarichi post-doc

Conference: Sounding Dutch Coloniality

  Call for Papers: Sounding Dutch Coloniality – 29-31 October 2026 This interdisciplinary conference brings together researchers, musicians, and artists to address the role of music, sound, and silence in the history and present of Dutch colonialism and coloniality. Music is interwoven with many different aspects of colonial history: it has been used as a means of establishing as well as resisting colonial power, it is deeply involved in constructions…

Emo Con 2026

CALL FOR APPLICATIONS: isaResearch Summer School "Across Moving Grounds. Music, Performing Arts, and the Politics of Mobility" | mdw – University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna | 22–27 July 2026 | Deadline: 30 April 2026 • FID Darstellende Kunst

The Voynich Manuscript: A Systematic Reconstruction of Its Motoric Notation System and Acoustic Function

This monograph presents a comprehensive structural reconstruction of the Voynich Manuscript (Beinecke MS 408) based solely on its observable formal properties. Using a systemic, transcription‑independent analytical framework, the study demonstrates that the manuscript does not encode linguistic, cryptographic, botanical, medical, or cosmological content. Instead, it constitutes a functional, multimodal system integrating modular motoric sequences, cyclical diagrammatic architectures, layered operational structures, and resonance‑based dynamics. The analysis identifies the manuscript as a bimanual motoric notation system whose internal logic corresponds to the technique of a Gothic harp with a double‑string bordun. Glyph sequences function as modular action units; diagrams provide cyclical and spatial form models; iconographic elements depict bodily coordination, acoustic resonance, and regenerative procedures. Together, these components form a coherent operational ecology for the execution of structured acoustic and motoric processes. The study situates the manuscript within a premodern workshop environment involving multiple scribes, embedded in a socially coordinated acoustic practice rather than a textual or symbolic tradition. This contextualization supports the manuscript’s authenticity and explains its multimodal, practice‑oriented structure. The monograph offers the first internally consistent explanation of the manuscript’s architecture, providing a reproducible analytical method, a functional classification, and a complete reconstruction of its structural logic.