This website was archived on 31 October 2020. For information on project participants and project outputs postdating that point in time, please refer to the usual bibliographic and internet search tools.

On 25 June 2020 at 3.00 pm, SoundMe team member Adam Mathias defended his PhD thesis in a viva examination that took place over video conference (due to COVID-19 restrictions). Congratulations!

Post-doctoral member of the Warsaw team Antonio Chemotti was selected as the next Andrew W Mellon Fellow at Villa I Tatti-The Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies in Florence. He will pursue his research project at I Tatti during the academic year 2020-21.

It is with great sadness that we announce the death of Utrecht team member, Dr Ulrike Hascher-Burger. Ulrike was a pioneering musicologist and a pivotal member of the Sound Memories project. She will be sorely missed.

In 2018-19, Prague PI Lenka Hlávková curated a series of ten short articles by members of the SoundMe team for the Czech music magazine Harmonie.

Leading member of AP La Morra, Corina Marti was interviewed by Harmonie during her recent sojourn in the Czech Republic in September 2019. Together with AP Schola Gregoriana Pragensis Corina Marti performed in a concert “Seven Days at Prague University” and recorded a CD entitled Septem Dies (forthcoming).

Karl Kügle recently gave an interview about the SoundMe project and its outcomes to Dutch journalist Rianne Lindhout on behalf of the Dutch Research Council (NWO).  Read the interview → here.

On 18 December 2019 at 10.30 am, SoundMe team member Manon Louviot defended her PhD thesis in the Senaatszaal of the Academiegebouw, Utrecht. Congratulations! The title of the dissertation is “Controlling Space, Disciplining Voice – The Congregation of Windesheim and Fifteenth-Century Monastic Reform in Northern Germany and the Low Countries”. Read more about it on…

A group of students from the Musicological Institute of Zurich University designed an exhibition on the soundscapes in late-medieval and early-modern Hanseatic cities, under the direction of Inga Mai Groote and with support from Christine Roth, whose SoundMe research constituted a basis for the concept of the exhibition.

Christine Roth defended her PhD thesis, entitled “Traditionsbindungen in der lutherischen Musikkultur des 16. und frühen 17. Jahrhunderts. Studien zu Repertoire und Kontexten” at the University of Zurich – congratulations!