Interdisciplinary Music Research - a Stockholm example

• Collaborations between universities and institutions are a part of the commitment of higher education. However, finding relevant and practical openings can be challenging.A collaboration between KMH Royal College of Music and KTH Royal Institute of Technology Institute in Stockholm has provided for teachers at KMH to participate in Ph.D. training programs within the field of Sound and Music Computing at KTH. Currently, four teachers from Jazz, Folk Music, Composition and Music and Media departments are enrolled at KTH as part of their employment at KMH. This interdisciplinary collaboration aims at enhancing the research environment at KMH and also contribute towards establishing the third-cycle level at KMH, which is currently not available. Another goal is to promote collaborations between students of the two schools, on, for example, master's thesis, course projects, etc.The nature of the collaboration between music teachers and researchers within technology and design carries unique possibilities for developing interdisciplinary research that influences teaching practice and the academic environment of the two institutions.We present two ongoing doctoral projects within the field of jazz and folk music, their methodologies, and the preliminary outcomes. These projects approach artistic practice with experimental methods and performance analysis using methods from Motion Capture, computational sound analysis, and Music Information Retrieval. The Folk Music project focuses on the interaction between players and dancers aiming towards developing oral music theory. The Jazz project concerns method development for identifying jazz improvisation strategies.

Subject headings

HUMANIORA  -- Konst -- Musik (hsv//swe)

HUMANITIES  -- Arts -- Music (hsv//eng)

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