Primary artistic supervision

Doctoral programs in the Vice Rectorate for Research (artistic research and contemporary performance practice)

Topics for dissertations

  • Instrumental performance studies
  • Performance practice in contemporary music and multimedia
  • Embodiment in instrumental practice
  • Interdisciplinary issues in the relationship between composer, performer and audience (collaboration, participatory art, charisma)
  • Artistic research
  • The effect of game elements in multimedia art

Institute for Early Music and Historical Performance Practice

Topics for dissertations

  • historically informed performance practice, with a specialization in basso continuo

Topic areas for dissertations

  • 1500–1850: Historical performance practice with a particular specialisation in melodic instruments

Institute of Dance Arts (IDA)

Topics for dissertations

  • Labanotation
  • Scores and movement compositions
  • Movement research as a dance-choreographic practice
  • Improvisation techniques
  • Philosophical foundations of somatics in the 20th century
  • Rehearsing notated dance repertoires
  • Austrian expressionist dance
  • Postmodern choreographies

Institute for Composition, Conducting and Computer Music

Topics for dissertations

  • Electroacoustic Composition, Digital Music
  • Composition practice in its media contexts
  • Sonic Art/audible art

Topics for dissertations

  • Instrumental and vocal composition
  • Music theatre
  • Interdisciplinarity and composition
  • Text and music
  • Performative music

Topics for dissertations

  • Composition – electroacoustic, algorithmic, instrumental, audiovisual, interactive
  • Electronic music – real-time processes, time-based (real-time – non real-time), spatialization
  • The computer as an instrument – performance
  • improvisation – contemporary at the interface of improvisation, composition and real-time computer calculations