Priests in the Middle Ages used #tropes to comment or introduce gregorian chants. A #JMU study showed that there spread was restricted because of the political borders created by the Treaty of Verdun 843 AD. 📸 Ivan Savini / Adobe Stock
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I am writing to announce a 5-year Research Fellowship in Music Science at the MARCS Institute, Australia.
You will design and lead research projects that use mathematical and computational approaches to investigate music and its cognition.
Further details: jobs.smartrecruiters.com/WesternSydne...
How have politics shaped music making in the past? Using generative network models, Tim's work shows that there is a close link between political boundaries in central Europe towards the end of the first millennium and the repertoire of chants. #musicscience
transactions.ismir.net/articles/10....
🔖*1st Call for Abstracts:* The Int Conf of Computational & Cognitive Musicology will take place from 21-23 September in Würzburg, Germany.
Please share! #ICCCM26 #musicscience
Call: digital.musicology.org/icccm-2026/
In the meantime, the English job post has been published: www.phil.uni-wuerzburg.de/fileadmin/04...
One week left to apply! #job #academicjobs
Abstract: Under the banner of progress, products have been uncritically adopted or even imposed on users — in past centuries with tobacco and combustion engines, and in the 21st with social media. For these collective blunders, we now regret our involvement or apathy as scientists, and society struggles to put the genie back in the bottle. Currently, we are similarly entangled with artificial intelligence (AI) technology. For example, software updates are rolled out seamlessly and non-consensually, Microsoft Office is bundled with chatbots, and we, our students, and our employers have had no say, as it is not considered a valid position to reject AI technologies in our teaching and research. This is why in June 2025, we co-authored an Open Letter calling on our employers to reverse and rethink their stance on uncritically adopting AI technologies. In this position piece, we expound on why universities must take their role seriously toa) counter the technology industry’s marketing, hype, and harm; and to b) safeguard higher education, critical thinking, expertise, academic freedom, and scientific integrity. We include pointers to relevant work to further inform our colleagues.
Figure 1. A cartoon set theoretic view on various terms (see Table 1) used when discussing the superset AI (black outline, hatched background): LLMs are in orange; ANNs are in magenta; generative models are in blue; and finally, chatbots are in green. Where these intersect, the colours reflect that, e.g. generative adversarial network (GAN) and Boltzmann machine (BM) models are in the purple subset because they are both generative and ANNs. In the case of proprietary closed source models, e.g. OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Apple’s Siri, we cannot verify their implementation and so academics can only make educated guesses (cf. Dingemanse 2025). Undefined terms used above: BERT (Devlin et al. 2019); AlexNet (Krizhevsky et al. 2017); A.L.I.C.E. (Wallace 2009); ELIZA (Weizenbaum 1966); Jabberwacky (Twist 2003); linear discriminant analysis (LDA); quadratic discriminant analysis (QDA).
Table 1. Below some of the typical terminological disarray is untangled. Importantly, none of these terms are orthogonal nor do they exclusively pick out the types of products we may wish to critique or proscribe.
Protecting the Ecosystem of Human Knowledge: Five Principles
Finally! 🤩 Our position piece: Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia:
doi.org/10.5281/zeno...
We unpick the tech industry’s marketing, hype, & harm; and we argue for safeguarding higher education, critical
thinking, expertise, academic freedom, & scientific integrity.
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📯We're looking for a new colleague in #musicology in Würzburg (tenured full professorship, W3)! While the call is in German only, international candidates are highly encouraged to apply. Do not hesitate to reach out! 📆 **October 15, 2025**. See: www.phil.uni-wuerzburg.de/fileadmin/04...
This semester, students in my course on Digital Representations of Music and Notation Software had the opportunity to visit our university's Retro Computing Lab, led by Torsten Roeder. It was great fun trying to notate some music on still working C64s. 🎹🤖 #musicscience
The project consolidates and extends the collaboration between Julius Maximilians University of Würzburg and the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis and will vastly increase the accessibility to and understanding of the theoretical treatises of an important figure in late-Renaissance music theory 🎼
📣 I'm excited to announce that Johannes Menke's and my project "Musico Pratico - Pietro Pontio's Dialogues in Translation, Digital Evaluation and Critical Reception" will be funded for 3 years by SNSF and DFG within the Weave program. www.uni-wuerzburg.de/aktuelles/ei...
Team in Würzburg
This week, I was so happy about our first in-person team meeting at @uni-wuerzburg.de's Zentrum für Philologie und Digitalität that I grew a shadow antenna out of my head! Always looking out for new connections apparently ;-)
Proud to share the latest work from our group! We liberate musicological data from their printed form and provide a novel machine-readable resource for computational analysis! #digitalhumanities #musicscience
www.linkedin.com/posts/timeip...
Today I had the great pleasure to welcome our new postdoc Mauro Orsini Windholz to our team at @uni-wuerzburg.de ! We will continue working on the computational analysis of Brazilian choro. 🇧🇷🎼
Are you interested in cultural transmission, medieval manuscripts or digital humanities, and want to pursue a PhD in a city bustling with intellectual and cultural life ? Come work with us !
GfM Relaunch: Die Gesellschaft für Musikforschung hat einen neuen Auftritt.
www.musikforschung.de
Great thinkpiece by @gewang.bsky.social on #GenAI and #creativity (especially #music): hai.stanford.edu/news/ge-wang...
Looking to teach with Humanities Data in R?The second edition of our book is now out! Updates include tidyverse, new data sets, latest code techniques, and more!
Available through many libraries. We also have a digital teaching component. DM or email for access! #digitalhumanities #datascience
⏰ New year, new publication! Come and watch Anja Volk's talk on "Musical Pattern Discovery" from the CODAMUS series
youtu.be/XTa6aCZfpyE and read the transcript here: codamus.pubpub.org/pub/2023-volk #musicscience #digitalhumanities #music
⏰ Check out Elsa De Luca's talk in the #CODAMUS series "Encoding Early Music: The Challenges and Beauty of Neumatic Music Scripts" #digitalhumanities #musicscience codamus.pubpub.org/pub/2023-de-... youtu.be/baz6-sZragQ
Strong presence of Uni Würzburg DH/CH at #CHR2024 earlier this month! www.uni-wuerzburg.de/zpd/news/sin...
⏰ Check out the newest CODAMUS publication by Martha E. Thomae: " #MIR for Early #Music Documents: Technologies behind the Semi-Automatic #Encoding of Mensural Sources into Symbolic Scores" #digitalhumanities #musicscience codamus.pubpub.org/pub/2023-eli... www.youtube.com/watch?v=LfvQ...
⏰ Latest update: Elena Minetti's talk "From analogue to digital in correspondences research: tracing the potential of encoding letters within the Henze-digital project" is now online. Check it out here: codamus.pubpub.org/pub/2023-min... or on YouTube youtu.be/NuBir4fTkh8! #music #digitalhumanities
And now the big announcement... #CHR2025 will be in Luxembourg! 🇱🇺
That's all for now, signing out from #CHR2024 🫡
Reminder that we have two open calls for special issues, as well as a general call, deadline Jan 1.
Missing Data in the Humanities: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
LLMs in Humanities Research: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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⏰ Next up: @miriamakkermann.bsky.social's talk "From computer-aided to automatic compositions? A closer look at generative music systems" is now public! Check out the video youtu.be/bmi1gV45vEo or view the publication here: codamus.pubpub.org/pub/2023-akk... #music #musicscience #digitalhumanities
"Der Spiegel" cover.
Excerpt from tabularised data.
Ok, we just tabularised the @spiegel.de literary canon 1924–2024 & enriched it with #Wikidata, #Goodreads, GND IDs for authors and works. Feel free to toy around with it. More to follow soonish…
GitHub repo:
github.com/temporal-com...
@freieuniversitaet.bsky.social #EXC2020 "Temporal Communities"
