(Inter)Mediation. Music – Mediation – Context

This focus area is dedicated to the interdisciplinary research and development of music mediation processes and activities.

The underlying definition of “mediation” is based on the broader English meaning as a (transformation) process in which music can also take on diverse forms through the addition of various analog and technical media: As a performance of sounding music, a movement, an acoustic event, a sound recording, a performance, a memory, an experience or much more. Music mediation is therefore understood not only as an institutionalized music-pedagogical endeavor in concert halls, but as an everyday process that takes place whenever people come into contact with music and actively or receptively interact with it. Thus, it can not only be described as a music-pedagogical practice with corresponding methods, media, goals and contents, but it also represents an interdisciplinary or transdisciplinary field of research that is open to different approaches and goals.

Within the scope of the focus area, a broad-based team drawing on sociology, mathematics/data science, psychology, medicine, geoinformatics, music education, composition, (systematic) musicology and music practice works to approach the field of music mediation empirically, hermeneutically and artistically.

The following scientific and artistic topics and research foci are in the foreground:

• Statistical and geoinformatic collection and processing of data on the spatiotemporal distribution of music or musical practices in the city and province of Salzburg;
• Music education in pedagogical institutions;
• Mediation of contemporary music;
• Music production, music reception, mediation in the cultural sector;
• Musical socialization;
• Music effects research: music – health – wellbeing, perception, understanding and experience of music in different, especially medical and pedagogical contexts.

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Current note:
From October 1, 2024, our program area is now called: InterMediation. Music – Effect – Analysis. With new colleagues in the team, the content topics of our program area are also expanding.