Models of Musician Mobility and Migrating Musical Patterns

Duration: 04/2020–04/2021

Drawing on a sample of composers from the period 1600–2000 from the Digital and Cognitive Musicology Laboratory (DCML) corpus initiative, the project aims to develop formal metamodels of the multifaceted phenomenon of human mobility and the mobility of ideas such as musical patterns. Unlike previous approaches, we seek to model mobility in ways that reflect its geopolitical complexity, take uncertainty and conflicting interpretations into account, and are computationally realizable using Semantic Web technologies. The insights will be transferable to other historical and contemporary phenomena that involve similar factors.

People

• Co-PIs: Michael Piotrowski (UNIL), Markus Neuwirth (EPFL, now Anton Bruckner Private University Linz)
• Johannes Hentschel (EPFL; researcher)
• Mateusz Fafinski (UNIL; postdoc)
• Selim El Madani (UNIL; researcher)

Output

• Michael Piotrowski and Markus Neuwirth (2020). “Prospects for computational hermeneutics”. In: Atti del IX Convegno Annuale AIUCD. La svolta inevitabile: sfide e prospettive per l’informatica umanistica (Milan, Jan. 15–17, 2020). Ed. by Cristina Marras, Marco Passarotti, Greta Franzini, and Eleonora Litta. Associazione per l’Informatica Umanistica e la Cultura Digitale (AIUCD), pp. 204–209. DOI: 10.6092/UNIBO/AMSACTA/6316