Idling refers to the operation of a system or machine without it doing the work for which it is intended. When does an activity make sense? Is idling a reset? a cure? a pause? What happens during the idle time?
The students approached the design through different parameters: For one, the starting point was movement, for another the material, for a third the form or even the target group, and for the last the function. Courage! and laziness! are terms that the various objects proudly trumpet to their future users.
On the design of everyday life: As part of the design project "I (discover) the table", eleven students of the subject Design: Technology.Textiles asked themselves questions about eating together. How do I eat? What do I eat? Where do I eat? With what do I eat? With whom do I eat? And how do the others eat?
With the beginning of the winter semester 2018/19, the Mozarteum University gets four more top-class professors*: Martin Grubinger for Percussion Instruments - Classical Multipercussion Instruments, Benjamin Kammerer for Piano and Piano Didactics in Innsbruck, Johannes Maria Staud for Composition and Corina Forthuber for Design: Technology. Textile.
The 13th International Mozart Competition of the University Mozarteum Salzburg came to an end with the final concert of the vocal section on February 15 in the Great Hall of the Mozarteum Foundation. The 1st prize of 15,000 euros, donated by the International Salzburg Association, went to the soprano Anna ElKhashem.
The European research project "Schools@Concerts - Tuning up for the music experience", which is anchored at the University Mozarteum Salzburg, focuses on cooperations between schools and concert organizers and researches them from different perspectives through a multiple case study.
schnitt # stellen is an interdisciplinary project that incorporates perspectives from artistic research as well as cultural and media pedagogical research. The focus of interest is on interactions and potential synergies between the media cultural lifeworlds of young people attending an urban secondary school and the field of contemporary media art.
A variety of projects will explore opportunities for instructional development to provide students with diverse and appropriate learning opportunities, developing and documenting various formats and presenting them at professional and interdisciplinary conferences.
Students of the master's project Textiles in Motion at the University Mozarteum Salzburg first dealt with their location in the city of Salzburg, the city in which they moved every day. The question arose as to their very personal 'favourite places' within the city.
An autograph from the hand of Joseph Mohr, written around 1820, is the oldest surviving autograph of a carol which, starting in Oberndorf, quickly spread throughout the 'old' and 'new' world. Silent Night" is a song that - translated into many languages - has become an integral part of the Christmas message of peace. To what extent can a 100-year-old song appeal to young people today and become an impulse for creative work? Pupils of the BORG Oberndorf and the BORG-Gastein are invited to deal imaginatively with the topics opened up by the song and to reflect on and evaluate the products of their work together.
The project sets out to accomplish a data-driven study in musical interpretation, connecting information from human analyses of a number of performances by Karajan, with algorithmically derived data spanning several decades of recordings. Although the project is conceived as a case study on Karajan, we wish to demonstrate the promise of data-intensive, interdisciplinary approaches to musicological studies of expressive performance, and help in establishing this as a new open standard approach in empirical musicology.
The aim of the project is to develop professional opportunities and artistic co-productions exploring the ways diverse theatre traditions can effectively converse and contribute to quality artistic diversity and creativity in Europe. The objective of the Pl.ETA is therefore also to create a new artistic value out of the interaction between various theatre traditions and specialties.
Four work contracts were awarded to gather more detailed information on the history and development of schlager, folk music, rock and pop music, and dance schools in the city of Salzburg in the run-up to the symposium "Those were the days. Salzburg's popular music cultures in the 1950s and 1960s". Soundtracks, newspaper clippings, and other materials were collected; the focus of the survey, however, was an oral history project, in the context of which numerous interviews were conducted and documented with eyewitnesses or people who had provided information.
In this work package, strategies are to be developed on how universities and museums can better know and benefit from each other. The HRSM project "Instrument Collections in Salzburg and Innsbruck" is exemplary. The aim is to develop a concept on how the potential between universities and museums could be better used, to increase knowledge transfer and to implement a contact person for museums at the universities.
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The libretti of cantatas, oratorios and operas in Salzburg's archives and libraries were listed.
