IDEA Lectures

The IDEA Lectures (Interdisciplinary Debates on the Empirical Aesthetics of Music) aim at bringing together internationally well-known researchers who discuss questions that relate to the production and reception of music from various perspectives. Musicologists from all branches of their discipline take part as do musicians, psychologists, cognitive scientists, sociologists, philosophers and ethnologists.

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IDEA Lectures with Ophelia Deroy
Shared Experiences: Does Art Create Common Ground?

Picture yourself at the Städel Museum, standing in front of Vermeer’s Geographer. Unsurpringly, you're not alone: Others stand nearby, quietly absorbing the same scene—the man deep in thought, the soft light spilling through the window, the delicate play with colors.

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Music and Knowledge: Towards a Systematic Approach

Music and knowledge stand to each other in a complex relationship; an adequate view of it requires considerable conceptual work. s or modes of knowledge interact?

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IDEA Lecture with Tuomas Eerola
Two Tales of Music and Emotions: From the Confines of Controlled Lab Study to the Construction of Emotions in Context

This two-part talk presents a lab study about enjoyable aspects of sadness in music and then broadens the scope into a constructionist account of emotions.

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IDEA Lecture with Sandra Trehub: Musical Beginnings

This talk focuses on musicality in infancy, specifically on the skills that underlie our ability to perceive, appreciate, and produce music.

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Virtual IDEA Lecture with Aniruddh Patel:
Is music a kind of sound, or a kind of perceptual experience?

Music often has salient acoustic differences from spoken and environmental sounds, especially with respect to patterns of pitch and timing...

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Virtual IDEA Lectures with Patrick Savage:
Comparative Musicology: The Science of the World’s Music

What is music, and why did it evolve? How can we understand the unity and diversity found throughout the world’s music?

Scientific attempts to answer these questions through cross-cultural comparison stalled during the 20th century and have only recently begun to make a resurgence.

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Virtual IDEA Lectures with Renee Timmers:
Process and product in ensemble performance: from embodied interaction to ensemble aesthetics

In performing together, musicians create a shared, coordinated performance. Such ensemble performances are established dynamically and interactively, as well as through constructing and polishing a distributed notion of what the end-product of the musical performance should sound like.

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IDEA lecture with Pamela Potter:
The Nazi „Antimodernist“ Aesthetic in Postwar Arts Scholarship

In her 2016 book, Art of Suppression: Confronting the Nazi Past in Histories of the Visual and Performing Arts, Pamela Potter identifies a wide gap between what research has revealed about cultural attitudes in Nazi Germany and what the general public persistently chooses to believe.

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IDEA Lecture with Peter Keller:
Psychological and Social Foundations of Human Interaction Through Music

Making music in groups is a widespread human activity and a powerful medium for nonverbal communication, social bonding, and cultural transmission.
 

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IDEA Lecture with Raymond MacDonald:
The Art of Becoming: what is improvisation and why is it important

Improvisation is a defining feature of jazz music and a key component of jazz musicians’ musical identity. 

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IDEA Lecture with Daniel Müllensiefen
The development of musical talent: Empirical evidence, methodological challenges, and a new model.

The term talent can be problematic when used in the context of musical development because of its biased association with the nature / nurture debate. However, we suggest a new definition of musical talent that is not partisan to either side of that debate but lends itself to empirical investigations of individual differences in terms of speed and ease of musical learning.

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IDEA Lecture with Ram Mall
Conceptualizing intercultural aesthetics with special regard to Indian aesthetics

This paper wants to delineate the important concept of interculturality as clearly as possible. It therefore suggests an alternative way of conceptualizing hermeneutics, avoiding hermeneutics of total identity and of radical difference.

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IDEA Lecture with Michael McBeath
Empirical Ecologically-Based Aesthetics

I will review my research exploring ecologically-based patterns called Natural Regularities, and the related visual and auditory biases that help observers to rapidly and efficiently parse scenes into meaningful objects.

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IDEA lecture with Anne Danielsen
Timing and Sound in Musical Microrhythm: Theoretical, Aesthetic and Empirical Aspects

The first part of the lecture concerns the theoretical framework for analysis of musical microrhythm and addresses some important aesthetic aspects of groove-based music. The second part is a presentation of the first results of empirical research into the perceptual center of musical sounds from the TIME project at the University of Oslo. Ultimately, the lecture will address some challenges linked to research into micro features of rhythm.

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IDEA lecture mit Oliver Berli: Grenzüberschreitender Musikgeschmack. Symbolischer Konsum als Mittel der Distinktion und Gegenstand der Legitimation.

Unter dem Begriff der Distinktion verhandelt die Soziologie vielfältige Formen individueller wie kollektiver Besonderung.

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IDEA lecture: Daniel Müllensiefen
The psychology of aesthetic experience from three angles: Stimulus features, psychometrics and behavioral economics

Describing aesthetics experiences with scientific models is a complex task, but there seems to be an emerging consensus that three main areas contribute to psychological experiences of aesthetic stimuli: 1) elements of the aesthetic object itself, 2) characteristics of the person, and 3) situational as well as contextual information. Taking music as an example domain we will demonstrate rigorous approaches that allow the construction of empirical models within each of the three areas. 1) We suggest that the comprehensive computational analysis of stimulus features of aesthetic objects can be employed to describe relationships with psychological responses (Jakubowski, Müllensiefen & Stewart, 2016; van Balen et al., 2015). In addition we will discuss new strategies going beyond mere feature analysis to gain a deeper understanding of how elements of the aesthetic object are causally linked to perceptual and cognitive responses. 2) For assessing characteristics of the individual we advocate the use of modern psychometric techniques such as item response theory, automatic item generation and adaptive testing (e.g. Harrison, Collins & Müllensiefen, 2017). Through examples we’ll show how ambiguous empirical results are often caused by fundamental measurement problems and by ignoring individual differences. 3) In addition, we’ll present experimental approaches (Anglada-Tort & Müllensiefen, 2017) inspired by paradigms from behavioral economics (Kahneman, 2011) that aim to assess the degree to which biases and heuristics introduced through the situational context affect human judgements of aesthetic stimuli.
The unifying conceptual bracket of these approaches is a thorough understanding of causality (Pearl, 2011) and its implementation in experimental and observational research. Finally, we’ll make sure the talk will be more fun than this abstract is able to convey!

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IDEA lecture mit Steffen Lepa: Die Rolle der Audiomedien für das Emotionserleben beim alltäglichen Musikhören

Musik wird heute im Alltag vorwiegend mit Hilfe von Audiomedien gehört. Diese sich wandelnden Technologien verändern seit über 100 Jahren, wie Musik klingt, wie sie in soziale Kontexte eingebettet werden kann und wie sich ihre Hörer dabei körperlich erfahren. Dennoch wird die Rolle der Audiomedien bei der Entstehung musikalischer Emotionen von der musikpsychologischen Forschung heute noch größtenteils ausgeklammert. Der Vortrag stellt dieser Forschungslücke eigene und fremde empirische Arbeiten transdisziplinärer Audiomedienforschung gegenüber, die versuchen, der spezifischen Rolle der Technologien für den emotionalen Musikgenuss auf die Spur zu kommen.

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IDEA-Lecture mit Ralf von Appen: Zur Ästhetik populärer Musik – Erfahren, Analysieren, Verstehen

IDEA-Lecture mit Ralf von Appen

Dr. Ralf von Appen ist wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter am Institut für Musikwissenschaft und Musikpädagogik der Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen. Seine Arbeitsschwerpunkte sind Geschichte, Theorie, Analyse und Ästhetik der populären Musik sowie Musikästhetik und Musikpsychologie.

Ausgewählte Publikationen:
Der Wert der Musik. Zur Ästhetik des Populären. (= texte zur populären Musik Bd. 4). Bielefeld: Transcript

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IDEA-Lecture mit Frank Hentschel:
Ausdruckstypen in der Orchestermusik des 19. Jahrhunderts

Die expressive Qualität von historischer Musik zu bestimmen, ist ein überaus schwieriges Unterfangen, weil sich kaum Zeugnisse ausfindig machen lassen, die die emotionale Erfahrung von Musik schildern. In dem Vortrag möchte ich ein geplantes Forschungsunternehmen vorstellen, das nach Wegen sucht, diese Schwierigkeit zu überwinden. Das Projekt soll historisch-interpretierende Verfahren mit Methoden der Digital Humanities verknüpfen, indem das Konzept des Musters Anwendung findet. Die Identifizierung von Mustern in der Orchestermusik soll es ermöglichen, die Aussagekraft der nur sporadisch vorliegenden Zeugnisse zu erhöhen.

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IDEA lecture mit Wolfgang Auhagen:
Methoden und Ergebnisse der musikalischen Wirkungsforschung

Wolfgang Auhagen, Professor für Systematische Musikwissenschaft an der Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg.

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IDEA lecture mit Jürgen Stolzenberg:
Musik und Bewusstsein

Prof. Dr. phil. Jürgen Stolzenberg, Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg. Einer seiner Schwerpunkte in Lehre und Forschung ist die Philosophie der Musik.

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IDEA lectures mit Dagmar Danko:
Zur Soziologie der Ästhetik

Dr. Dagmar Danko lebt und arbeitet als Soziologin in Freiburg und Berlin. Sie ist Sprecherin des Arbeitskreises Soziologie der Künste innerhalb der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Soziologie.

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IDEA lectures with Meinard Müller
Beethoven, Bach, and Billions of Bytes - Music meets Computer Science

Meinard Müller  studied mathematics (Diplom) and computer science (Ph.D.) at the University of Bonn, Germany.

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IDEA lectures with David Hargreaves
Musical likes and dislikes

David Hargreaves ist Professor für Erziehungswissenschaften an der University of Roehampton und Froebel Research Fellow.

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IDEA lectures: Oscillatory brain dynamics underlying perception of pitch, rhythm and emotion in music and speech

Vom 9. bis 10. Dezember ist Frank Russo, Direktor des SMART Lab in Ryerson University, Gast der Abteilung Neurowissenschaften. Während seines  Aufenthalts wird er in der Reihe IDEA lectures einen Vortrag halten.

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IDEA lectures: Manfred Bierwisch (ZAS und HU Berlin)

Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. mult. Manfred Bierwisch über semiotische Bedingungen und Konsequenzen in Sprache, Musik und Bild.

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IDEA lectures
Die Hand des Stechers

Prof. Dr. Hans-Jörg Rheinberger über die Begegnung zwischen dem Wissenschaftsphilosophen Gaston Bachelard und dem Kupferstecher Albert Flocon.

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