Music & Technology
The PhD project Music & Technology places itself in the cross-section between teaching, performance and perception of music on one side and music technology on the other. Especially within classical music, challenges occur, both of a practical and artistic nature, when technology and music meet. But with a better integration of music and technology music can also be developed and shared in new ways.
The meetings between music and technology will be investigated by working within two areas, where music is mediated through technology:
1: Music for the hearing impaired (users of Cochlear Implants)
Music technology can expand access to music for people with a profound hearing loss and even deafness. The project will work towards understanding and enhancing the music perception for users of cochlear implants. The majority of development of CI’s have had a focus on speech-perception. And even though there has been some research in music perception, there is still a great demand on further research in this area.
The project will work on getting a better understanding of the actual music perception of CI-users. And also investigate possibilities for enhancing music perception by adding other sensory inputs like vibration and visuals. Finally, a number of workshops and a concert will be arranged to try out new concert formats for CI-users, involving initial findings from the project and also incorporating immersive audio (3D audio) and music written especially for CI-users.
2: Distance Learning
In videoconferencing-based synchronous distance learning, music technology can help bring teachers and students closer. And by using dedicated research- and educational internet connections, there is a great potential for exchange, sharing of knowledge, benchmarking and networking, while minimizing the carbon-footprint.
In this part of the project, the following questions will be investigated:
- How can we further overcome the technical and artistic challenges that distance learning poses to classical music?
- How does teachers and students react to different playback systems (loudspeakers, headphones, 3D-audio?
- How does data-compression and other processing (for instance echo-cancelling and error-correction) affect the perception of the above mentioned?
- What influence does the sound pressure itself have on the sense of presence?
- How can the outcome of distance learning sessions be systematically evaluated, including the sense of social presence?
Music & Technology is a cross-institutional cooperation between RDAM and the Institute of Architecture, Design and Media-technology at Aalborg University.
Outcome
Besides a primary article for each topic, the project will amount to a row of smaller articles. By the conclusion of the project, the articles will be written together and also rewritten in other forms than academic papers, to assure that the results can be applied directly to music teaching and within music technology in general.
Besides the articles, concerts and workshops, the project will be presented in the ongoing PodCast called ”Andersens PHD-Podcast”
Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/.../andersens.../id1493644996...
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/0d7vyZXQUBIJPYefhnw8r9...
The project is finansed with support of the research funds from the Danish Ministery of Culture and is being carried out by Jesper Andersen, who is associate professor and head of Tonmeister studies at RDAM.
Below is a list of workshops and presentations related to the project. And after that a list of already published articles and articles on their way.
Workshop- og presentations
April 2nd 2020
Presentation at “Networked Performing Arts Production Workshop”, New York (moved online)
May 14th 2020
Presentation at “Teaching Music Online In Higher Music Education, Melbourne (moved online)
May 19th 2020
Presentation at “Online Learning workshop”, Berklee College of Music (online)
August 12th 2020
Presentation at “Online Learning in Higher Music Education Workshop”, University of Memphis (moved online)
October 23rd 2020
Participation workshop “Digital Music Teaching Online”, Nordplus-project, Helsinki, Copenhagen, Tallin, Vilnius (moved online)
October 30th 2020
Presentation on Beethovens hearing loss at RDAM Beethoven Festival, Copenhagen
November 19th 2020
Guest lecture to Royal College of Music, London on the topic of “Distance Learning”
January 4th 2021
Presentation at RDAM conference for music pedagogy on the topic of “Distance Learning”
January 20th 2021
Presentation at webinar for “Danish music- and cultural schools” on the topic of “Distance Learning”
Articles and “posters"
1: Virtual Reconstruction of a the Ambisonic Concert Hall of the Royal Danish Academy of Music
With Anders Riddersholm Bargum, Devansh Kandpal, Oddur Ingi Kristjansson, Simon Rostami Mosen and Stefania Serafin
2: Haptic augmentation for music listening
With Razvan Paisa and Stefania Serafin
3: Music and Cochlea Implants - review
