Symposion Musikpsychologie in Österreich 2006
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Am 7. Juli 2006 trafen sich MusikpsychologInnen (Lehrende, Forschende, fortgeschrittene Studierende) aus ganz Österreich an der Universität Graz (HS 06.03) um die Referate und Poster, die sie an der ICMPC in Bologna (22.-26. August 2006) präsentieren werden, zu proben. Kooperationspartner waren die Österreichische Gesellschaft für Musikwissenschaft (ÖGMw) und die Österreichische Gesellschaft für Psychologie (ÖGP).

Alle Referate (jeweils 20 Minuten plus Diskussion) und alle Poster wurden auf Englisch präsentiert. Alle TeilnehmerInnen erhielten von anderen TeilnehmerInnen konstruktive Vorschläge zum Inhalt, zur Präsentation und zur Sprache. Die Veranstaltung diente zugleich dazu, die im Bereich der Musikpsychologie in Österreich tätigen ForscherInnen miteinander bekannt zu machen.

Das Symposium war für alle offen und kostenlos, auch für "passive TeilnehmerInnen", die kein Referat hielten. Das Symposium wurde organisiert von:

Richard Parncutt, Institut für Musikwissenschaft, Universität Graz
Tel. 0316 380-2409, Email ((my last name))@uni-graz.at

Oliver Vitouch, Institut für Psychologie, Universität Klagenfurt

Music Psychology in Austria 2006

Time and place: The symposium took place on Friday 7 July 2006 in HS 06.03, Vorklinik der Uni Graz, Universitätsplatz 3.

Content: All papers were rehearsals of talks to be presented at the ICMPC in Bologna (the corresponding abstracts had been reviewed and accepted). As at Bologna, all papers were presented in English and limited to 20 minutes (followed by 7 minutes of discussion). To help presenters prepare for Bologna, all were given the opportunity to receive anonymous feedback about content, presentation and language (feedback forms were distributed and explained).

Program

Getting started

9:30
Refreshments and posters

10:15
Introduction (aims and content of the symposium; distribution/explanation of feedback forms)
Richard Parncutt, Oliver Vitouch ppt

Music cognition

10:30
Memory representations of musical tempo: Stable or adaptive?
Sabine Strauß, Oliver Vitouch, Olivia Ladinig, Dorothee Augustin, Claus-Christian Carbon, Helmut Leder (Klagenfurt / Amsterdam / Vienna)
From symposium "Tempo & Memory" (Vitouch & Honing)

11:00
Audio-vision: Visual input drives perceived music tempo
Oliver Vitouch, Sandra Sovdat, Norman Höller (Klagenfurt)
From symposium "Tempo & Memory" (Vitouch & Honing)

11:30
Early acquisition of musical aural skills
Richard Parncutt, Gary McPherson, Margit Painsi, Fränk Zimmer (Graz)


Break

12:00 Lunch (Mensa)
13:00 Posters

Music teaching and learning

13:30
Gender effects in young musicians’ mastery-oriented achievement behavior and their interaction with teachers
Margit Painsi, Richard Parncutt (Graz)

14:00
Structuring the argument of a theoretical paper: A guideline and its reception by advanced undergraduate musicologists
Richard Parncutt, Margit Painsi
From symposium “Music psychology pedagogy” (Parncutt)

Break

14:30 Refreshments and posters

Wrapping up

15:00
Perception, effect and the power of words. An overview on song-induced healing processes in eastern Amazonia
Bernd Brabec de Mori (Vienna)

15:50
Plenary discussion on Austrian music psychology
• Austrian music education has a new society (Verein): Musikpädagogische Forschung in Österreich. Austrian music psychology is growing (consider the new "systematic" professorships in Klagenfurt and Vienna). Is there a need to more clearly define Austrian music psychology? Or should we instead strengthen our relationship to the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Musikpsychologie, ESCOM, the ICMPC, or the IAEA (empirical aesthetics)?
• Is there a need to strengthen our position within Austrian psychology (ÖGP) and/or musicology (ÖGMw)?

Summary of plenary discussion

Discussion points included:

• the relationship of Austrian music psychologists to societies such as ESCOM, DGM, ÖGMw, ÖGP, IAEA, IAA, AGMÖ, AAA; and
• the role of music psychology in the training of Austrian musicologists, psychologists, sociologists, music educators, performing musicians, theorists/analysts/composers), music therapists etc.

Parncutt agreed to:

• create and maintain a webpage (in English, for international transparency) with links to Austrian teaching resources in music psychology (lecture notes, books, journals, equipment, software, specific computing expertise);
• collect information on music-psychological courses in Austria, make this information available in the internet and keep it up to date (perhaps with student assistance); and
• set up an email list so that Austrian music psychologists can easily contact each other or send emails to the whole list.

It might be easiest to do this on a platform such as Moodle. It was agreed that "music psychology" should be understood in the broadest possible sense (e.g. not only scientific or empirical research, not only western music).

Posters

Anyone could present a poster on a topic related to music psychology. Acceptance of an abstract by the ICMPC was not a precondition. The following posters were displayed and discussed:

Time series analysis as a method to characterize musical structures
Kai Bachmann

Latent absolute pitch: An ordinary ability?
Manuela B. Gußmack, Oliver Vitouch, Bartosz Gula (Klagenfurt)

Reactions of mushroom mycelium of psilocybe cubensis under the influence of acoustic and electromagnetic waves
Ivan Lucic, Gerhard Soja, Herbert Klima, Karl W. Kratky (Wien)

Absent friends

The following abstracts were accepted in Bologna, but their authors were unfortunately unable to attend the symposium in Graz. In alphabetical order of first author:

Clinical evaluation of the treatment of high blood pressure with receptive music therapy
Vera Brandes

Computer analysis of performance timing
Simon Dixon

An intercultural study on tempo perception in Japanese court music gagaku
Rinko Fujita

How do musicians deal with their medical problems?
Elena-Romana Gasenzer, Richard Parncutt

Psychophysiological investigation of emotional states evoked by music
Nastja Gloeckner
Forschungsnetz Mensch und Musik, Universität Mozarteum Salzburg

Unobtrusive practise tools for pianists
Werner Goebl, Gerhard Widmer
Austrian Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence (OFAI),
Vienna

Music complexity measures predicting the listening experience
Søren Tjagvad Madsen, Gerhard Widmer 

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Richard Parncutt, Centre for Systematic Musicology, Faculty of Humanities, University of Graz