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Program Day 1 - 10th of December

09:00-09:30: Registration
09:30-10:30: Welcome & Ice Breaker
10:30-10:45: Coffee break
10:45-12:00: Keynote lecture 1 - Anja-Xiaoxing Cui

(Music Perception & Cognition)

12:00-13:00: Lunch
13:00-14:00: Talks 1 - Music perception, cognition, and psychology

Regular talks (15 min):

Alice Karbanova - Song Semantics Driven More by Music

Than Lyrics in a Conceptual Priming Experiment

Julia Yu - Exploring EEG Markers of Memory for Music

Short talks (5 min):

Markus Foramitti - Collective Emotion in Flux: Rising Stress and Negativity in Lyrics Interrupted by Societal Crises (1973–2023)

Tiannan Ye - Shared Musical Understanding in Live Performance: A Review and Conceptual Framework

Lisa Fischer - Same Music, Same Effect? – Analysis of the Reactions of People with Dementia to the Song “Griechischer Wein” by Udo Jürgens

14:00-14:15: Coffee break
14:15-16:00: Poster Session 1

Talip Ata Aydin, Florian Giering, Janina Groebler, Kirsty Hawkins, Sylwia Kocot, Jeanette Kilicci, Anna Niemand

16:00-16:15: Coffee break
16:15-16:45: Lab Tour Acoustics Research Institute
16:45-19:00: Break
19:00-21:00: Conference Dinner in the Rathauskeller (located in the basement of the Vienna City Hall)

Program Day 2 - 11th of December

09:00-09:30: Arrival
09:30-10:30: Talks 2 - Music sociology and education;

Music and culture, semiotics, and philosophy

Regular talks (15 min):

Laura Oberloher - Künstliche Intelligenz in der Musik: Zwischen kreativer Chance und kultureller Skepsis

Anna Blasko - Towards an Inclusive Soundscape - Beat the Silence: An Acoustically Accessible Concert Series

Short talks (5 min):

Oana Bobic - Developing pedagogical and musical skills to future teachers of early childhood education through community activities

Célest Lang - Zentralperspektive und Tonika – Zur formalen Dekonstruktion in Musik und Malerei um 1910

Susanne Reiterer - How Listening to Music with Lyrics Shapes Our Perception of Languages

10:30-10:45: Coffee break
10:45-12:00: Keynote lecture 2 - Arno Boehler

(Music Philosophy)

12:00-13:00: Lunch
13:00-14:15: Keynote lecture 3 - Marisa Hoeschele

(Biomusicology)

14:15-14:30: Coffee break
14:30-15:30: Talks 3 - Comparative behavioral research and biomusicology; Developmental research

Regular talks (15 min):

Thomas McGillavry - Exploring Dance in a Broad Sense: what can we learn from avian courtship displays?

Ingrid Schachner - Disentangling music and language perception during song perception in infancy

Caroline Owen - Children’s free descriptions of subjective responses to experimenter-selected musical extracts reveal new taxonomy of music-evoked experience

15:30-15:45: Coffee break
15:45-16:45: Poster session 2

Chiara Apa, Julian Bass-Krueger, Cesc Bayle, Jonas Günther, Tommaso Graiff, Daniel-Alex Milencovici & Mihai Popean, Zoe Eleutheria Nikolakis

16:45-17:00: Break
17:00-18:00: Concert (Die schlaue Bildkröte) and get-together
18:00 - open end: Social activities

Program Day 3 - 12th of December

9:00-10:00: Workshop Media Lab
10:00-10:45: Coffee break
10:45-12:00: Keynote 4 - Anja Brunner & Cornelia Gruber

(Ethnomusicology)

12:00-13:00: Lunch
13:00-14:00: Talks 4 - Music modeling and acoustics; Methodology

Regular talks (15 min):

Adrian Kempf - A novel computational method for evaluating musical creativity.

Adléta Hanžlová - Spectral characteristics of affective timbre in the singing voice: a preliminary study

Joshua Frank - Modelling roughness and harmonicity from musical audio

14:00-14:15: Coffee
14:15-14:45: Panel discussion
14:45-15:00: Closing remarks
15:00-18:00: Optional - Informal Gathering

If you'd like to hang out at the venue after the conference, feel free to do so.

15:00-18:00: Optional - Networking Event and General Assembly by the Federal Student Council for the DACH region (BFM)

Activities

Conference Dinner 10th of December: in the Rathauskeller (located in the basement of the Vienna City Hall)

Keynote Talks

Marisa Hoeschele

Marisa Hoeschele holds a PhD in psychology with a focus on comparative cognition and behavior from the University of Alberta in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. Since October 2018, she has headed the Biology Cluster at the Acoustics Research Institute of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, an interdisciplinary research institution in which researchers from various disciplines work on fundamental questions of acoustics. Her own research group, the “Musicality and Bioacoustics Group”, for which she set up a “budgerigar laboratory”, investigates parallels between humans and other animals in terms of their acoustic perception and production. In December 2022, she received her habilitation from the University of Vienna.

Anja-Xiaoxing Cui

Anja-Xiaoxing Cui studied psychology and piano and is now researching human music perception and cognition as an assistant professor (tenure track) at the Department of Musicology at the University of Vienna. She is interested in the underlying central and peripheral physiological mechanisms as well as interactions with psycholinguistic processes and potential applications of music making in the neurological and neurorehabilitative fields.

Arno Böhler

Arno Böhler is a habilitated university lecturer at the Department of Philosophy at the University of Vienna and teaches philosophy/aesthetics at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna. He is currently Principle Investigator of the research project “Philosophy In The Arts : Arts In Philosophy. Cross-Cultural Research On The Significance Of The Heart in Artistic Research (AR) and Performance Philosophy (PP)”, funded by the Austrian Science Fund (FWF).

He pursues research formats such as Philosophy On Stage, Arts-based-Philosophy and Philosophy as Artistic Research, which have also been tested interculturally in South India since 2016.

Anja Brunner

Anja Brunner is Assistant Professor of Ethnomusicology at the Department of Folk Music Research and Ethnomusicology at the mdw University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna. Together with Conny Gruber, she is currently leading the research project “Reverse Ethnomusicology: Migrant Musicians as Researchers” (2023-25) at the Music and Minorities Research Center (mdw), funded by the Austrian Science Fund FWF. From 2020 to 2024, she led the FWF-funded project "Syrian Women Musicians: Performance, Networks, Belongings after Migration". Anja Brunner completed her doctorate at the University of Vienna in 2014 with an ethnographic-historical thesis on Bikutsi, a pop music in Cameroon. She was a university assistant for ethnomusicology at the University of Vienna (2010-15) and at the University of Bern (2016-18). From 2016 to 2021 she was Secretary General of IASPM D-A-CH. Her current research interests include intersectional approaches to music and ethnicity/nationality, postcolonial power relations and decolonization, applied music research, and music and migration.

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