isaResearch Summer School "Across Moving Grounds. Music, Performing Arts, and the Politics of Mobility"
22–27 July 2026
mdw – University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna 22–27 July 2026
Deadline: 30 April 2026
👉 Further information: https://www.performing-arts.eu/de/news/newsstream/call-for-applications-isaresearch-across-moving-grounds-music-performing-arts-and-the-politics-of-mobility-mdw-vienna/
#mdw #performingarts #musicology #artisticresearch #dancestudies #performancestudies #earlystageresearchers #phd #vienna
Across Moving Grounds: Music, Performing Arts, and the Politics of Mobility
isaResearch Summer School 2026
📍 Vienna & Online
📅 22–25 July 2026
Interdisciplinary summer school exploring #mobility, #migration, #postmigration and #decolonial perspectives in music, sound, and performing arts.
PhD students & early-career researchers welcome.
Deadline: 30/04/2026
New three-part publication set presenting a comprehensive system-theoretical framework for the structural reconstruction of the Voynich Manuscript:
Monograph: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.19410209
Entry Note: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.19410808
Executive Summary: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.19410495
Author ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0000-1546-7234
#Voynich #AcademicResearch #SystemsTheory #Musicology #Archaeology #Philology #CognitiveScience #MediaStudies #DigitalHumanities
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.
📢 Are you interested in #musicology and/or #ai? Would you like to help researchers search through data in a #knowlegdegraph without being a SPARQL expert?
Then register now for the new #Data #challenge:
🔗♫ From Notes to Nodes – Develop an AI-driven exploration tool for musicological data in the #Culture Knowledge Graph
Visit https://hermes-hub.de/forschen/datachallenges/challenges/challenge-2026.html for detailed information on the task, the registration form as well as the Kick Off presentations.
⏰ 31 March 2026, 11:59 PM
@nfdi4culture
There is an article on the #wiki about #form (still a draft):
http://musicgames.wikidot.com/wiki:form
It covers structure of both #music and #boardgames and holds two print-and-play decks of cards for form which in our case is marked with:
- letters for repeated parts,
- apostrophes for variation,
- parentheses for optional repetition.
A question for #composers #musicTheory or #musicology people:
Do you know some common reused and describable forms, that may be notated like that? We need a lot!
Added so far:
British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship (EOI)
📍University of Aberdeen, UK
EOI for British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowships (2026–27). Open to early career researchers (PhD awarded 2024–2027) in #music, #film #visualculture, #folklore, and #ethnology, including interdisciplinary projects.
Deadline: 08/06/2026
https://www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/funding/schemes/postdoctoral-fellowships/
‘A Breeze in God’: The Spirituality of Music and Song
International conference exploring connections between music, spirituality, religion, and sonic experience across disciplines. Contributions may include papers, performances, and creative formats.
📍 Naples
📅 10–11 September 2026
Deadline: 30/04/2026
#Ethnomusicology #Musicology #Spirituality #SacredMusic #SoundStudies
Beyond the Fifth: Teaching Music Intuitively
maerchen1313 on Twitch 🇨🇦
FID Darstellende Kunst
Petr Nuska
J. A. Jones
HERMES Datenkompetenzzentrum
Games for Music wiki / G4M
Thorsten Hindrichs
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