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MOOC 'Artistic Research in Music - an Introduction'

News April 1, 2020

Free online course available on edX until 14 June 2020

Learn about the topics, issues, and approaches of artistic research in music – research in and through musical practice - vital to today’s musicians and music culture.

Very good introduction and explanation about Artistic Research, from different points of view and musical areas.
MOOC learner

Artistic Research in Music – an Introduction is a free online course from the Orpheus Institute which ran for the first time from 28 January until 5 May 2019. The second updated run launched on 16 September 2019 and is available until 14 June 2020.

Learn about the topics, issues, and approaches of artistic research in music – research in and through musical practice - vital to today’s musicians and music culture. 

More info

Enroll here: www.edx.org/course/artistic-research-in-music-an-introduction

Facts & figures

  • 21 speakers (Orpheus researchers and guests)
  • 60 videos (knowledge clips, interviews and more)
  • 400+ minutes of video
  • 6 assessments and 6 practical assignments
  • 3000+ people have already enrolled worldwide

Instructors

Course Staff Orpheus Institute:

Jonathan Impett, Paulo de Assis, Tom Beghin, Catherine Laws and Luk Vaes.

Guests:

Heloisa Amaral, Marcel Cobussen, Nicolas Collins, Darla Crispin, Lucia D'Errico, Daniela Fantechi, George E. Lewis, Vincent Meelberg, Sally Jane Norman, Stefan Östersjö, Ian Pace, Juan Parra Cancino, Deniz Peters, Gertrud Sandqvist, Ellen Ugelvik, Cathy Van Eck and Matthew Wright.

Structure

  1. Introduction to Artistic Research in Music
  2. Finding focus: articulating questions, topics and objectives
  3. Scoping and locating the project
  4. Methodology
  5. Negotiating with theory, creating a discourse
  6. Documentation, dissemination and returning research to practice

By the end of this course, through completing the assignments of this course you will effectively have produced a complete research proposal.

The course made me learn a lot of new concepts that I will have to further study, and left me with a lot of curiosity to research more of the topics it addressed.
MOOC learner