As part of the Bruckner University Research Forum, two major research projects by our doctoral supervisors Carolin Stahrenberg and Rose Breuss will be presented on 15.1.25 from 17:00 in the großen Hörsaal of the Institute for Theory and History and in Tanzsaal 2 (H.0.309).
“Atlas of Smooth Spaces. Notating, Communicating and Composing Spaces in Audio-Corporeal Practices” (FWF: AR-640)
On January 10, 2025, the Atlas of Smooth Spaces project team provided insights into three and a half years of artistic research in the disciplines of choral conducting, original sound (film), mathematics, rhythm and dance in the MDW’s Klangtheater. In a lecture performance, a journey through the labs, projects and results of the interdisciplinary artistic research was conducted.
The object of investigation and experimentation is the space that is created around the performers, that is shaped by the performers and to which the performers have access. Instead of detaching the performer as a subject from their embedding in the surrounding space, the project deals clearly and decisively with this very space itself, namely with the perceptual space that complements the performers, with the inherent quality of this space and its own dynamics.
We congratulate the team on the successful completion of the project and are pleased that the Bruckner University, through Prof. Rose Breuss as a cooperation partner in the FWF project, is now also celebrating the completion of the three and a half years of research.
“Atlas of Smooth Spaces. Notating, Communicating and Composing Spaces in Audio-Corporeal Practices”
Dance: Rose Breuss, Damián Cortés Alberti, Marcela Lopez, Maria Shurkhal
Eurhythmics: Hanne Pilgrim
Composition: Adrián Artacho
Mathematics: Leonhard Horstmeyer
“PopPrints. The Production of Popular Music in Austria and Germany 1930–1950”
Professor Carolin Stahrenberg, Roxane Lindlacher and the Bruckner University doctoral candidate Lukas Mantovan present the research project “PopPrints. The Production of Popular Music in Austria and Germany 1930–1950.”
The project examines artistic agency in the production of popular music during the Nazi regime and Austrofascism, with a focus on the period from 1930 to 1950, focusing on all those involved in the production process, i.e. not only composers and lyricists, but also arrangers, performers, publishers, etc.
A central starting point for musicological source research and analysis are printed and published sources, which can be viewed today in publishing and state archives as well as in composers' estates, though they were inaccessible for a long time. Rich collections of sheet music and related archives provide insight into repertoire, marketing and target group strategies as well as into the media networks in which popular music was produced, received, consumed and circulated—between performances on the music theater and concert stage, in printed sheet music, in music films and on sound recordings.
PopPrints is a joint research project (Weave) of the Paris Lodron University Salzburg (AT), the University of Greifswald (DE) and the Anton Bruckner Private University Linz (AT), funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG) and the Austrian Science Fund (FWF).
