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AI and Future Creativity
Think about a world in which intelligent agents provide services and goods via completely seamless computing systems. No keyboards, just speaking, listening, gestures or brain interfaces. Screens pop up where they are needed, either as real projections on tables, walls or as part of an augmented reality application that is directly created on your retina....Read More
Three Strategies to Increase Digital Competency in Teams
By Matthias and Seda Röder Many small and medium enterprises today have to go through a digital transformation in order to remain competitive or to redefine their business models. However we keep hearing that those transformation projects fail due to poor management. Because in most cases managers forget to create a playful environment and excitement...Read More
Artifical Intelligence and the Music of Herbert von Karajan (Keynote at Deutsche Telekom)
In September, during IFA Berlin (“Europe’s Biggest Tech Show”), I was invited to speak about Artificial Intelligence and music at a top executive event of Deutsche Telekom. This is a slightly edited version of my speech and I hope that some of you might find some inspiration in these thoughts. Big Data, Data Science, and...Read More
Developing the Future Media Market as an IMZ Ambassador
I feel very honered that the board of the International Music + Media Centre (IMZ) has asked me to join their newly established Ambassador programme. The IMZ is the world's biggested market place for music film productions.
“We can use much more of our creative potential with the help of machines!”
A podcast on the Sonophilia Network for Creative Leadership by detektor.fm that was done with Seda and I during the Frankfurt Bookfair in 2017. Click here for the original posting.
Discussing Open Innovation with Young Entrepreneurs
Proud to be part of #OpenInnovation discussion at Annual Conference of Young Entrepreneurs in #Austria with Elisabeth Mayerhofer, Markus Gull, Andreas Spechtler, Gerhard Blechinger and Thomas Bodmer. #Salzburg #Karajan #KarajanMusicTech #Mozarteum #Festspiele
“Great Art is Never Finished”
Is genius something you are born with? As this wonderful film shows, the greatest artists always set themselves goals that they cannot reach. Through this continuous struggle they grow and become true masters. Just like Herbert von Karajan who once famously said: “He who has reached all goals has probably set them too low.” Thank...Read More
Trailblazing into the Digital Age: How the Karajan Institute Revolutionizes the Music Industry
I am very happy about this article on my work for the Karajan Music Tech Conference. I founded the conference so that we can have a platform for discussing the future for our tech-driven music world.
Carrying the Legacy of Herbert von Karajan into the Future
We have just published the new Karajan iPad-App, which gives you a comprehensive overview of Karajan’s life and works. Explore in-depth information on concerts, recordings and musicians that Karajan collaborated with. All information is organized on a map and interactive timeline. This app showcases the tremendous capabilities of our consolidated database and newly forged API....Read More
Understanding How Humans Make Music (Through Data)
This is an awesome day! We just got the news of a major grant from the prestigious #AustrianScienceFund (FWF) to bring forward artificial intelligence and music research using interpretations by Herbert von Karajan. Looking forward to opening the door to a most intricate world and getting one step closer to understanding music w/ Peter Revers, Klaus Aringer,...Read More
Classical Music, VR Technology and a Subterranean Club in Leipzig
Last summer I had a surprise visitor in the Karajan Institute in Salzburg. A young musician from the Gewandhaus Orchester Leipzig stood at the door and wanted to speak with me. Her name was Tahlia Petrosian and as it turned out, she organizes one of the most exciting concert series in Leipzig: Klassik Underground. Tahlia Petrosian...Read More
Why Classical Music Needs Hackathons
The Eliette and Herbert von Karajan Institute and the MIT Music Department are hosting a Classical Music Hackathon in Boston, October 21–23. http://www.classicalmusichackday.org It is widely known that Herbert von Karajan was involved in various music technology innovations, most notably in the development of the Compact Disc (CD). But few people know that he also had...Read More
Listening Faster: How Digital Humanities is Transforming Music Scholarship
MIT Tech TV Computers have altered so many aspects of musician's lives, from digital performance, to electronic composition, to how we acquire and share new music, but only recently have they had the potential to transform how we study and analyze music. Michael Scott Cuthbert (MIT) and Matthias Röder (Harvard) introduce the new world of Digital Musicology by showing the techniques and tools that
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Hör’ ich das Liedchen klingen (Robert Schumann) Click here to hear the music that goes with the image
Workshop: Why Labels and Large Venues Don’t Matter: Building a Successful Career as a Young Performer
This workshop addresses the fundamental challenges that every young performer faces at the beginning of their career. In this two-hour long seminar participants will learn how to build a successful career in the classical music industry using simple marketing tools and web technologies. The course focuses on management issues and marketing strategies that help independent musicians achieve their goals step by step. The workshop
Formalized Score Control in Abjad
I am pleased to invite you to the next talk in the Digital Musicology Study Group at Harvard. Please forward this announcement to anyone who might be interested. Thank you! Trevor Bača Wednesday, April 6, 5-7pm Davison Room Music Department Harvard University ABSTRACT: Abjad is open-source software designed to help composers build up complex pieces...Read More
From Representational Splendor to Cultural Edification: The Role of Music in Eighteenth-Century Prussian Politics
American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies. Vancouver, March 18, 2011
SASHA: Saxophone Audio Search and Heuristic Analysis (Eliot Gattegno and Josiah Wolf Oberholtzer)
Dear colleagues: I am pleased to invite you to the next talk in the Digital Musicology Study Group at Harvard. Please forward this announcement to anyone who might be interested. Thank you! SASHA: Saxophone Audio Search and Heuristic Analysis Wednesday, March 9, 5-7pm Davison Room, Music Department Harvard University open to everyone
Working with Incubus in Santiago de Chile
Back in October I helped out American rockband Incubus to put together a Youth Orchestra for a benefit concert in Santiago de Chile. Here is some video footage from the evening as well as an exclusive look behind the scences of that memorable event. The part about the fabulous Youth Orchestra starts at around 8:35...Read More
New Course at Harvard: Applying Practices and Perspectives of Contemporary Musicians to Songwriting and Composition
Mike Einziger from Incubus and I are going to teach a course on inspiration and creativity for amateur musicians at Harvard’s January Term (J-Term). We look at a lot of contemporary music and have students apply the inspiration that comes from studying those works to their songs and arrangements. Here is our course description: During...Read More
Inventoriana: Annotation and Sharing of Marked-Up Manuscripts and Digital Images (Drew Massey)
Dear colleagues, I am pleased to invite you to the third talk in the Digital Musicology Study Group at Harvard. Please feel free to send this invitation to our colleagues in the Boston area who might be interested. Thank you! Inventoriana: Annotation and Sharing of Marked-Up Manuscripts and Digital Images (Drew Massey) Wednesday, December 8,...Read More
Ambrosiana Article Download
“Milanese Chant in the Monastery? Notes on a Reunited Ambrosian Manuscript,” (Co-authored) in: Ambrosiana at Harvard. New Sources of Milanese Chant (=Houghton Library Studies, vol. 3), ed. by Thomas F. Kelly and Matthew Mugmon, Cambridge, 2010 Download PDF [4 MB]
2nd Talk of the Digital Musicology Study Group
Dear colleagues, I am delighted to announce the second talk of the Digital Musicology Study Group at Harvard University. I hope that many of you will be able to attend. Please forward this invitation widely. Studying Music Ficta & Early Renaissance Canons with the music21 Toolkit (Michael S. Cuthbert) November 22, 5pm, Davison Room in...Read More
Digital Musicology Study Group at Harvard University
Dear colleagues, I am delighted to announce the first talk of the Digital Musicology Study Group at Harvard University. I hope that many of you will be able to attend. Please forward this invitation widely. Shoehorns in Db: Problems of Database Modeling in Musical Source Studies (Mark Knoll) October 20, 5pm, Kresge Room (Room 114)...Read More
Belfast Conference Paper
“The Permutation Fugue and Johann Sebastian Bach’s Compositional Development” Paper held at the The 14th Biennial International Conference on Baroque Music Queens University Belfast, July 1, 2010 PowerPoint Presentation available here: Biennial Baroque Conference – Presentation Version 2
The Artist and the State: How Societies Cultivate or Obstruct Creativity
In February 2010 I had the great pleasure to introduce Kent Nagano and Jürgen Partenheimer to a large crowd at the German Conference at Harvard 2010. The two spoke about the relation of artist and state, a multi-faceted topic that proved to be a fitting closing for a conference on diverse matters such as renewable...Read More
The Scribe Database
In 2001, while I was an intern at the Bach-Archiv in Leipzig I developed a prototype of a Scribe Database which holds information about scribes and copyists of Bach manuscripts.
Between Representation, Entertainment, and Music Cultivation: Public Concerts in the Hotel Stadt Paris in Late Eighteenth-Century Berlin
In March 2010 I will participate in a panel at the annual meeting of the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (ASECS) on The “Wirtshaus”. Comparative perspectives on the hotel in the Eighteenth Century.