A leading European centre for artistic research in music and an influential driving force for new developments in artistic practice.
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Orpheus Sounds:
News December 10, 2025a new podcast exploring the making and understanding of music
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Sound Arguments 2026
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Call for proposals: ODC 2026
Call November 6, 2025Sonic Worldings: Crafting realities through artistic research
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An Immersive Journey Through Early Electronic Works of...
Event from December 8, 2025 until June 15, 2026Close listening (as close reading): A guided listening experience through milestones of electronic music.
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Inside the Hearing Machine
Beethoven on his Broadwood
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Beethoven and his Foreign Pianos
Declassifying the Classics - Project One
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Fragment: Accordances - Enactments
Writing is a great misery, but a book of this kind - never again in my entire life. I believe I had not 6 sensible thoughts during this whole time, merely critical splinters.
Research centre
The Orpheus Research Centre produces and promotes the highest quality of artistic research embedded in musical practice, conducted by artist researchers.
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Research and artistic realisations are presented in printed texts and digital media.
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Education
The Orpheus Institute provides advanced educational programmes for musicians, such as the international inter-university doctoral programme docARTES.
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