✨ 🎵 In Zusammenarbeit mit @hermes_datenkompetenzzentrum veranstalten wir einen zweiteiligen, englischsprachigen Online-Workshop zum Thema “Scores, Text & Audio: How to Enrich your Research with Annotation Tools and Metadata”.
📅 Mo, 6.07. und Di, 7.07. von jeweils 10 – 13 Uhr.
✏️ Anmeldung: events.nfdi4culture.de/event/55/.
Nähere Infos zum Event und zum Programm: https://nfdi4culture.de/id/E6794
Today's blog post: Pandemic music was not always about remembrance. Sometimes it was about distraction: parody songs, TikTok dances, sea shanties, Boccaccio, and the long, liminal hours in the shade of crisis. Plus a Kermit the Frog reference.
https://silencesandsounds.blogspot.com
#PandemicMusic #Musicology #CulturalMemory #SoundStudies #blog #research #distraction #CulturalAmnesia #Boccaccio #TikTok #parody
New in our electronic collection:
➡️ Comparative #Musicology: Evolution, universals, and the #science of the world’s #music
🔗 https://doi.org/10.1093/9780191872303.001.0001
#anthropology #diversity #evolution #psychology #history #books #bookstodon #OpenScience #OpenAccess
@MistralAI Check it out:
I'm using Mistral Small to power a music theory engine ideally using the Socratic method:
It's super cool that you allow use of that API free of charge for testing. We should talk partnerships.

Editors Forum: Ethnomusicology, Migration, and Anti-Migrant Politics
Ethnomusicology Forum
Focuses on #Migration, #Ethnomusicology, and anti-migrant politics, exploring musical life, displacement, borders, and the politics of sound and culture.
Deadline: 08/05/2026
https://bfe.org.uk/news/ef-journal-editors-forum-call-papers
University Professor in Ethnomusicology
📍University of Music and Performing Arts #Graz, Austria
Full professorship covering research and teaching across ethnomusicology (multiple regions/approaches). Includes supervision, project leadership, and development of interdisciplinary research and curricula.
Deadline: 06/05/2026
https://aec-music.eu/vacancy/university-professorship-fmd-for-ethnomusicology-1775048080