Recorded on: 28.09.2020

Language: DE

Short description: RA Prof. Dr Alexander Bretz und Prof. Dr. Martin Zierold kommen ins Gespräch über das Wechselverhältnis von Kultur und Innovation, moderiert von Dr. Robert Peper.

Host: Dr. Robert Peper

Guest(s): RA Prof. Dr. Alexander Bretz; Prof. Dr. Martin Zierold

Audio production: Víctor Gutiérrez Cuiza

License: CC BY SA 4.0

History and Practice of Multimedia – Online Lecture Series

This online English language lecture series focuses on the History and Practice of Multimedia with an emphasis on music. We have invited members of the HfMT multimedia department as well as international scholars and practitioners to present on their respective fields of specialization (Constantin Basica, Kerstin Evert, Teoma Naccarato, Cat Hope, Johannes Kreidler, Randall Packer, and others). Topics include the definition, history, and appearances of multimedia. The lecture series will take place during the summer term, every Wednesday at 18:30h starting on April 7.

This lecture series is part of the Hamburg Open Online University (HOOU) and serves as the basis for a new class within the Music Technology Online Repository (MUTOR).

May 5, 2021, 6:30pm CET / 12:30pm EST
Constantin Basica (CCRMA, Stanford University)
Event link: https://zoom.us/j/93844741848?pwd=QlJoQ3VucTVtQURjVklvL0FDQk1jdz09

The unification of music and visual arts has been attempted throughout history, with opera being one instance. In the 20th Century, sounds and moving images have been syncretized in various art forms, such as film or video art, as well as in popular culture (television, music video, the Internet, etc.). Today, with rapid technological advancement and accessible hardware/software tools, artists employ both sonic and visual elements in their performance practice. What are the interrelations between music, video, and performers? Briefly touching on historical examples from the lineage of audiovisual genres, we will look at various theoretical frameworks and practices of engaging audiovisual media in the context of stage performance, with a focus on the scene of new music. Following the recent increase of works by composers who fuse video with music performance in similar ways, there is a need to delineate a new subgenre of multimedia, which will be proposed in this lecture.

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Constantin Basica is a Romanian composer living in the San Francisco Bay Area, whose current work focuses on symbiotic interrelations between music, video, and performers. His portfolio includes pieces for solo instruments, chamber ensembles, orchestra, electronics, and video, which have been performed in Europe, North America, and Asia at various venues, festivals, and conferences. Constantin earned a DMA in Composition at Stanford University under the guidance of Jaroslaw Kapuscinski, Brian Ferneyhough, Mark Applebaum, and Erik Ulman. His previous mentors were Georg Hajdu, Manfred Stahnke, Fredrik Schwenk, and Peter Michael Hamel during his MA and Erasmus Scholarship at the Hamburg University of Music and Drama (DE), as well as Dan Dediu and Bogdan Voda during his BA studies in Composition and Conducting at the National University of Music Bucharest (RO). As an educator, he has taught courses and conducted workshops at Stanford University, Escuela Superior de Música in Mexico City (MX), the 2016 SMC Summer School in Hamburg (DE), the International Center For Research And Education In Innovative Creative Technologies (CINETic) in Bucharest (RO), and the 2021 Network Performing Arts Production Workshops. Currently, Constantin is a postdoctoral scholar and the concert coordinator at Stanford’s Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics (CCRMA).

More information: https://mutor-2.github.io/HistoryAndPracticeOfMultimedia/

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This online English language lecture series focuses on the History and Practice of Multimedia with an emphasis on music. We have invited members of the HfMT multimedia department as well as international scholars and practitioners to present on their respective fields of specialization (Constantin Basica, Kerstin Evert, Teoma Naccarato, Cat Hope, Johannes Kreidler, Randall Packer, and others). Topics include the definition, history, and appearances of multimedia. The lecture series will take place during the summer term, every Wednesday at 18:30h starting on April 7.

The third lecture is:

Post-Digitality and Virtuality (as Compositional Practices)

April 21, 2021, 6:30pm 

A Lecture by Alexander Schubert (HfMT)

HFMT Event link: https://zoom.us/j/93844741848?pwd=QlJoQ3VucTVtQURjVklvL0FDQk1jdz09

In the context of postdigitality, artistic practices can be understood as tools for making digital influences visible. This approach is based on the assumption that today the use of digital tools and forms of representation is no longer the exception but the rule, and that our interactions, ways of seeing, and images of the body are now significantly shaped by this circumstance. In particular, these approaches explore the question of whether, in this newly established condition, our view of the analog, non-digitally mediated environment has also changed. Post-digitality can be understood as a shift in perception. This readjustment of a viewpoint that is digitally influenced or reflective of the digital will be presented as a compositional strategy. This practice can be considered as a technique that actively thematizes the interpenetration of the analog by the digital and their interplay, thus making it possible to experience. The reconciliation of virtual and physical worlds and their artistic decoupling will be presented as a compositional approach and method of artistic research that attempts not only to convey these implications theoretically, but also to make them comprehensible to the senses.

Alexander Schubert (1979) studied bioinformatics, multimedia composition. He’s a professor at the Musikhochschule Hamburg. Schubert’s interest explores the border between the acoustic and electronic world. In music composition, immersive installation and staged pieces he examines the interplay between the digital and the analogue. He creates pieces that realize test settings or interaction spaces that question modes of perception and representation. Continuing topics in this field are authenticity and virtuality. The influence and framing of digital media on aesthetic views and communication is researched in a post-digital perspective. Recent research topics in his works were virtual reality, artificial intelligence and online-mediated artworks. Schubert is a founding member of ensembles such as ‚Decoder’.

Recorded on: 16.01.2020

Language: EN

Short description: Prof. Dr. Christopher Azzara (Eastman School of Music Rochester/NY USA) in interview with Prof. Dr. Almuth Süberkrüb on the topic of basic questions in audiation based music learning

Host: Prof. Dr. Almuth Süberkrüb

Guest: Prof. Dr. Christopher Azzara

Audio production: Víctor Gutiérrez Cuiza

Recorded on: 9th October 2019

Language: EN and DE

Short description: Im Podcast- Format wird über Improvisationsansätze und Übungsmöglichkeiten gesprochen, welche im HOOU- Lernangebot Musikalischer Dialog mit Improvisierenden Jazzsängern als PDFs angeboten werden.

Host: Yasmina Zack

Guest: Prof. Judy Niemack

Bildmaterial: Leo Wieling, Yasmina Zack, Oliver Brosmann.
Bildbearbeitung: Michael Burger Design.
Schnitt/ Tonbearbeitung: Victor Ernesto Gutierrez Cuiza 

Recorded on: 5th August 2019

Language: EN and DE

Im Podcast- Format wird über Improvisationsansätze und Übungsmöglichkeiten gesprochen, welche im HOOU- Lernangebot „Musikalischer Dialog mit improvisierenden Jazzsängern“ als PDFs angeboten werden.
Sequenzen: https://youtu.be/7WjAIFlR0lk?t=1788

Host: Yasmina Zack

Guest: Prof. Ken Norris

Bildmaterial: Leo Wieling, Yasmina Zack, Oliver Brosmann.
Bildbearbeitung: Michael Burger Design.
Schnitt/ Tonbearbeitung: Victor Ernesto Gutierrez Cuiza

Ein HOOU Podcast der HfMT

Recorded on: 17.07.2019

Language: DE

Als Musiklehrerin und als Musiklehrer kennt man die Herausforderung in der Gymnasialen Oberstufe: Wie kann man zu einem kreativen Arbeiten mit den Schüler*innen kommen? In dem Podcast zeigen wir einen Weg auf, wie Schüler*innen durch Anleitung und mit medialer Unterstützung zu eigenen Songs kommen.

Host:
Hans Bäßler

Guest:
Ole Oltmann

Ein HOOU Podcast der HfMT Hamburg

Recorded on: 03.04.2019

Language: DE

Immer mehr Menschen interessieren sich für die Kultur sowie der Entwicklung der Musikinstrumente der Seidenstraße. Für den Podcast haben wir vier Gäste in unser Studio eingeladen, die sich unterschiedlich mit dem Thema Seidenstrasse und Hackbrett beschäftigen.

Host:
Xiao Fu

Guests:
Georg Hajdu
Lin Chen
Andreas Luederwaldt
Jiaxin Li

A podcast of the HfMT Hamburg

Recorded on: 06.03.2019

Language: EN

Microtonal music is nowadays experiencing a revival and is becoming ever more present in styles ranging from folk to metal music. In this podcast we are discussing its various facets the saxophone brings with it to the table, especially in jazz and contemporary classical music.

Host:
Vincent Dombrowski

Guests:
Vlatko Kucan
Asya Fatayeva
Phillip Gerschlauer
Hayden Chisholm

Am 06.09.2019 fand in Essen die Jahrestagung der DH.NRW mit dem Leitthema: Digitalisierung an Hochschulen in NRW: Strategien, Konzepte, Umsetzungen statt.

Prof. Dr. Sönke Knutzen, Dr. Tina Ladwig und Goran Lazarevic waren eingeladen, von ihren Erfahrungen aus der Hamburger Landesinitiative der Hamburg Open Online University zu berichten. Im Mittelpunkt stand hierbei die Betrachtung von Potenzialen der Digitalisierung für Kooperationen in der Hochschulbildung.

Kooperationen sind mehr denn je ein wichtiges Instrument im Kontext des digitalen Wandels an Hochschulen – ob in NRW, in Hamburg oder in weiteren Bundesländern. Mehr und mehr werden Hochschulverbünde initiiert und finanziell gefördert, die Themen wie Studium und Lehre, Forschung, Verwaltung und Third Mission in digitalen Zeiten im bundesweiten Hochschulkontext in den Fokus nehmen und hierfür Strategien, Konzepte und Umsetzungen entwickeln.

Der Vortrag von Frau Dr. Tina Ladwig und Goran Lazarevic beleuchtet das Thema Kooperationen in der digitalen Hochschulbildung aus zwei Perspektiven. Zum einen hat Goran Lazarevic von den Erfahrungen aus der Hochschule für Musik und Theater Hamburg im Rahmen der Hamburger Landesinitiative HOOU (Hamburg Open Online University) berichtet. Zum anderen hat Frau Dr. Tina Ladwig von der Technischen Universität Hamburg einen Überblick zu bestehenden Landesinitiativen im Rahmen der digitalen Hochschulbildung gegeben und erste Ergebnisse aus einer Umfrage zu netzwerk- und bundeslandübergreifender Zusammenarbeit im Kontext der digitalen Hochschulbildung vorgestellt.

Hochschulkooperationen und ihre Potenziale waren auch das zentrale Thema in der abschließenden Podiumsdiskussion, in der Prof. Dr. Sönke Knutzen neben weiteren Podiumsmitgliedern al auf die Chancen und Zielsetzungen der Vernetzung der verschiedenen Landesinitiativen eingegangen ist.