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Showing posts with label music research. Show all posts
Showing posts with label music research. Show all posts

Friday, July 29, 2022

A Summery

Musik ist die Fähigkeit des Menschen, Schallwellen mit Bedeutung aufzuladen, sie als Bedeutungsträger zu gestalten, zu nutzen und ihnen Identitätskonkretheit und kulturelle Verbindlichkeit zuzuschreiben. Aufgabe der Musikforschung ist es, sonische Bedeutungsträger in ihrem kulturellen Kontext zu beobachten, zu beschreiben und gegebenenfalls didaktische Vermittlungsentwürfe auf der Basis einfühlender Erfahrungsorientierung anzubieten.

Wenn wir als außenstehende Beobachter*innen Diskurse über Begrifflichkeiten verfolgen, stellen wir zusammenfassend fest, dass das Ringen um eine Erklärung hinsichtlich eines Begriffs erfolglos bleibt. Es zeigt im wesentlichen verschiedene Bedeutungszuweisungen von Menschen, Geisteswissenschaftlern mit ganz unterschiedlichen Perspektiven auf bestimmte Termini. Das überrascht nicht, denn die verinselten Gehirne von menschlichen Beobachtern können ja nichts anderes wahrnehmen und beschreiben als das, was sie aufgrund ihrer Sozialisation und Kulturalisierung verinnerlicht haben und sei es mit noch so ausgeprägter, im Wissenschaftsbetrieb erworbener Fähigkeit zu mentaler Distanzierung. Letztlich geht es dann doch wieder um Machtgefüge, einen mehr oder minder sportlich fairen Wettkampf darum, wessen Bedeutungszuschreibung das Zeug hat, sich durchzusetzen. Unternimmt man das mentale Experiment, Machtdominanz wegzudenken, lässt sich eigentlich nur folgern, dass eine Annäherung an einen Begriff aus der Summe der diskursiv motivierten Einzelperspektiven bestehen könnte, die sich mehr oder minder unscharf und in unendlicher Annäherung auf ihn zubewegen.



Music is the human ability to charge sound waves with meaning, to shape them as carriers of meaning, to use them, and to ascribe to them concreteness of identity and cultural commitment. It is the task of music research to observe sonic carriers of meaning in their cultural context, to describe them and, if necessary, to offer didactic mediation designs on the basis of empathetic experience orientation.

When we, as outside observers, follow discourses on terminology, we notice in summary that the struggle for an explanation regarding a term remains unsuccessful. It essentially shows different assignments of meaning by people, humanities scholars with very different perspectives on certain terms. This is not surprising, because the insular brains of human observers cannot perceive and describe anything other than what they have internalized due to their socialization and culturalization, and be it with even the most pronounced ability for mental distancing acquired in the academic field. Ultimately, it is again a matter of power structures, a more or less sportingly fair competition about whose attribution of meaning has what it takes to prevail. If one undertakes the mental experiment of thinking away power dominance, one can actually only conclude that an approach to a concept could consist of the sum of discursively motivated individual perspectives that move toward it in a more or less blurred and infinite approximation.

Friday, July 31, 2020

KunQu - Southern Opera In China

The page about the Chinese South Opera KunQu is online and all links are working:
https://www.ethnomusicscape.de/kunju.htm .
The material can be didacticized as a modular learning-arrangement with around 10 stations.
Tests at the end are available on the page:

Wednesday, August 17, 2016

MUREL is back!

After a long sleep the MUREL-Blog will be reactivated from now. 
The main intention is to comment the new concept of the project EthnoMusicScape. This concept has the focus to extend the documentation of music styles and cultures not only on web-pages but also in a 3D-environment of a virtual reality like Second Life or OS. All webpages of EthnoMusicScape will be re-processed in the next time and get a link to an immersive interactive virtual scenery.
The first finished ones are:

- Music in Afghanistan and


- Music of the Maldives:


The virtual scenery can be visited here:
http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Space%204%20Art/122/93/22 .
With clicking on a rezzer-box, the scenery will appear and can be explored. Links guide the visitor back to the webpage for further information.
Of course requires a participation in a virtual world an account and the creation of an avatar as well as the download and installation of a viewer-software. 

Monday, January 12, 2009

Wednesday, December 10, 2008

EthnoMusicScape neu!

Dear members, friends and interested persons, the eLearning web-basis of our study group http://www.ethnomusicscape.de/ has got a new shape/scape and provides some useful webgadgets for the daily work, like translating, library-search and music search functions. The general presentation as a mindmap structure has been retained, although the common sense to create pages seems to angle off, using a horizontal and a vertical frame and a linear structure opposite to all educational research results of challenging the brain with non-linear structures like mindmaps to appeal both brain parts, the left and the right one in a balanced way. This idea is suitable to the internet structure in general, because a complex network is never linear... but that does not mean, that it is chaotic, it is only not linear...there is a difference and at last: the chaos produces creativity - isn't it?