1. Melanie Malzahn, University of Vienna, Department of Linguistics, former Dean of Faculty for Philological and Cultural Studies: The Tradition of Cultural Studies at the University of Vienna
The University of Vienna is one of the oldest universities in Europe. It was founded in 1365 and is still located around the former medieval part of the city of Vienna. Today, it is the largest academic institution in Central Europe, offering the full range of academic subjects (except clinical medicine). In 2022, 84,600 students were enrolled, a third of them from countries other than Austria, and more than 500 chair professors were employed. While the old academic traditions are still cherished and are part of the official university life, the main strategic objective lies in the combination of cutting-edge research and comprehensive education. The university is also the largest training institution for Austrian primary and secondary school teachers. The University's success in research is reflected in its high level of third-party funding and in its ranking positions. In the latest Academic Ranking of World Universities by the Shanghai Ranking Consultancy, the University is ranked among the 101-150 best institutions, while several subjects are even ranked in the 1-30 range, including some of the fields of philological and cultural studies. Our international networks and inter-institutional agreements are an important part of this success story. This paper gives an overview of the academic framework of Austrian universities and presents research, teaching and international networking of the Department of Philological and Cultural Studies with a focus on Musicology and Performing Arts.
1. 梅兰妮·马尔扎（Melanie Malzahn），维也纳大学语言学系，语言与文化研究学院原院长：维也纳大学的文化研究传统
维也纳大学是欧洲最古老的大学之一。它始建于 1365 年，现仍坐落在维也纳市的中世纪旧址周围。如今，它是中欧最大的学术机构，提供全方位的学术科目（临床医学除外，原医学院已独立为维也纳医科大学）。2022年，共有84,600名学生入学，其中三分之一来自奥地利以外的国家，并聘用了500多名讲座教授。虽然古老的学术传统仍被珍视，并作为正式大学生活的一部分，但学校的主要战略目标是前沿研究和综合教育的结合。维也纳大学也是奥地利最大的中小学教师培训机构。学校研究方面的成功可体现在高水平的第三方资助和排名位置。在上海软科教育信息咨询有限公司最新发布的世界大学学术排名中，维也纳大学位列全球第101／150名，多个学科排名在第1／30名，其中包括一些语言学和文化研究领域。我们的国际网络和机构间协议对此功不可没。本讲座将概述奥地利大学的学术框架，并重点围绕音乐学和表演艺术介绍语言与文化研究学院的研究、教学和国际网络。
2. Christoph Reuter, University of Vienna, Department of Musicology: Happy life comes with P5 - Vienna Signal Analysis Tools for audio-synced motion, expression and emotion acquisition
Since the 2010s, audio signal analysis libraries have offered new and extensive possibilities for automatic audio analysis. Using the JavaScript libraries P5 and ML5, novel online applications have been developed at our department since 2019, providing researchers and students with a fast and practical way to collect data from audio and video files. These applications offer different possibilities of audio signal analysis with focus on pitch, timbre, onset detection, formant detection, spectral features etc. as well as automatic audio-synced motion analysis (pose tracking, hand tracking), expression/emotion analysis (face tracking) or the detection of valence and arousal while listening to music. The integration of external devices is also possible with the new JavaScript libraries, such as the connection with a Muse S EEG headband including blue tooth control and data processing/visualization. During the talk, a number of hands-on examples of the freely available online applications will be presented.
自 2010 年代以来，音频信号分析库为自动音频分析提供了全新广泛的可能性。从2019 年起，本系使用P5和ML5两个JavaScript库开发了新型在线应用程序，为研究人员和学生提供了一种从音视频文件中快速有效收集数据的方法。这些应用程序提供了对不同音频信号分析的可能，比如音高、音色、起始检测、共振峰检测、频谱特征等；自动音频同步运动分析（姿势跟踪、手部跟踪）；表达/情绪分析（面部跟踪）；以及检测聆听音乐时的效价和觉醒。新的JavaScript库还可以集成外部设备，例如与Muse SE EEG头带连接，包括蓝牙控制和数据处理/可视化。讲座期间，将展示许多免费在线应用程序的实操案例。
3. Anja-Xiaoxing Cui, University of Vienna, Department of Musicology / Department of Theatre, Film and Media Studies: The musical brain
Experience changes our brains, both in a functional and a structural manner. The goal of this lecture is to provide attendees with an overview about what we know about how music training – the experience of learning to execute precise motoric commands to produce structured sound which in the best case moves us and others – changes brain activity and brain structure. Researchers in this field are facing difficulties and questions, both in terms of how brain activity and brain structure are assessed and how music training is operationalized. This talk will highlight these challenges and also underscore the importance of interdisciplinary research for moving forward research on the way music and neuroplasticity interact. Lastly, this talk will discuss the promises of doing this research: We may discover through this research how the brain operates on a general level – by processing bottom-up and top-down information – and how music may be harnessed for neurorehabilitation.
经验会改变我们的大脑，无论是从功能上还是结构上。本讲座的目的是向与会者概述我们对音乐训练（学习执行精确的运动命令以产生结构化声音的经验）是如何改变大脑活动和大脑结构的了解。该领域的研究人员在如何评估大脑活动和大脑结构以及如何实施音乐训练上面临着困难和问题。本讲座将针对这些挑战，强调跨学科对于推进音乐和神经可塑性相互作用方式研究方面的重要性。最后，将讨论这项研究的前景：通过研究，我们可能会发现大脑在一般水平上如何运作——通过处理自下而上和自上而下的信息——以及如何利用音乐进行神经康复。
4. Melanie Malzahn, University of Vienna, Department of Linguistics, former Dean of Faculty for Philological and Cultural Studies: Music and performative arts on the Silk Road
Under the topos “Silk Road(s)”, coined by the German explorer Ferdinand von Richthofen in the 19th century, modern scholarship and public opinion in East and West usually summarize a historical Eurasian trans-regional network of relations that is closely linked above all to economic activities. In this trans-Eurasian network, not only people and goods moved from East to West and from West to East, but also technologies, languages, religions, and ideas. Along the trade routes, different cultures met and influenced each other, changing and evolving. Music and the performing arts were an important part of this cultural package. Despite its importance, musicological research in Silk Road Studies is far less developed than the study of economics, religion, or literature and the like, due to the scattered nature of the evidence for music and the performing arts. The study of music-related sources requires close interdisciplinary collaboration. This paper will discuss the role of some of the most important crossroads on the Eastern Silk Road, namely the Turfan Oasis and the Kingdom of Kucha, in the transfer of musical styles and performances from India to China in the first millennium CE, and will present the diversity of original textual sources, historical records, archaeological finds, and visual art. It will argue that the transmission was far more complex than has previously been suggested in the secondary literature, and will demonstrate the role that music and the performing arts played in the broader cultural interrelationships between ancient India, the Xinjiang region, and the Chinese Six Dynasties, Sui, and Tang empires.
在19世纪德国探险家费迪南德·冯·里希特霍芬提出的“丝绸之路”这一主题下，东西方的现代学术和公众舆论通常概括出一张历史上欧亚大陆跨区域关系的网络，这种关系网络首先与经济活动紧密相连。在这个跨欧亚网络中，不仅有人员和货物从东方流向西方、从西方流向东方，而且还有技术、语言、宗教和思想。沿着贸易路线，不同的文化彼此相遇、互相影响、变化和发展。音乐和表演艺术是文化方面的重要组成。尽管丝绸之路研究中的音乐学研究很重要，但由于音乐和表演艺术证据的分散性，其发展程度远不及经济、宗教或文学等研究。音乐相关资源的研究需要密切的跨学科合作。本讲座将讨论东方丝绸之路上一些重要节点，即在公元第一个千年，吐鲁番绿洲和龟兹王国对音乐风格和表演从印度到中国迁移中的作用，并将展示原始文本来源、历史记录、考古发现和视觉艺术的多样性。主讲人认为这种传播比从前在二手文献中所体现的要更为复杂，并将展现音乐和表演艺术在古印度、中国新疆地区和南北朝、隋朝和唐帝国之间更广泛的文化相互关系中所发挥的重要作用。
5. Anja-Xiaoxing Cui, University of
Vienna, Department of Musicology / Department of Theatre, Film and Media
Studies: The art of music performance and
the art of measuring it
Ecologically valid research is necessary for a genuine answer to a research question. Yet how can we control for the myriad of variables that could influence an ecologically valid music performance? This lecture aims to provide attendees with an understanding of which independent variables, which confounds, and which outcomes are of interest to researchers of music performance. It will detail the problems researchers face when trying to conduct ecologically valid research on music performance and why researchers may be keen to conduct this research despite these problems beyond understanding music performance itself: As a model for human collaboration, research on collaborative music performance may help us understand how humans relate to and cooperate with each other. Lastly, this talk will also present on the solutions that researchers have come up with to solve problems with conducting this research so that we may discover a genuine answer to how music performance works.
要真正回答一个研究问题，必须进行生态学上有效的研究。然而，我们如何控制可能影响生态有效音乐表演的无数变量？本讲座旨在让与会者了解哪些自变量、哪些混杂因素以及哪些结果是音乐表演研究人员感兴趣的。讲座将详细介绍研究人员在尝试对音乐表演进行生态学有效研究时所面临的问题，以及为什么研究人员在理解音乐表演本身之外，仍热衷于开展此项研究： 作为人类合作的典范，对合作音乐表演的研究可能有助于我们了解人类如何相互联系与合作。最后，本讲座还将介绍研究人员为解决开展这项研究时遇到的问题而提出的解决方案，以便我们能够找到音乐表演如何运作的真正答案。
6. Anja-Xiaoxing Cui, University of Vienna, Department of Musicology / Department of Theatre, Film and Media Studies: Research Talk: Singing in the Brain
This research talk will provide a more in-depth look at research on the musical brain and music performance conducted by Anja-Xiaoxing Cui. Specifically, results from first analyses of a larger-scale study on the different effects of language learning, instrumental music training, and opera training on brain function and brain structure will be presented, as well as results from analyses of data from a series of studies on opera performance which were collected in an ecologically valid manner. This talk will also discuss how these two seemingly different research strands relate to each other; namely, by exploring the intersections of music and language. Insights into different other ongoing research projects will be given which also study how music and language relate and interact with each other to provide an overview of the research being conducted at the Department of Musicology at the University of Vienna.
6. 崔晓星（Anja-Xiaoxing Cui），维也纳大学音乐学系/戏剧、电影与媒体研究系：研究报告：大脑中的歌唱
本研究报告将更深入地探讨崔晓星对音乐大脑和音乐表演的研究。具体来说，将公开关于语言学习、器乐训练和歌剧训练对大脑功能和大脑结构不同影响的首次大规模研究分析结果，以及对一系列采用生态有效方式收集的歌剧表演数据的研究分析结论。本讲座还将讨论这两个看似不同的研究领域如何互联，即探索音乐和语言的交叉点。通过对其他正在研究音乐和语言如何相互关联和相互作用的各种观点的呈现，将概述维也纳大学音乐学系目前的研究内容。
7. Christoph Reuter, University of Vienna, Department of Musicology: A Timbre Space Odyssey - How to measure timbre similarity?
Timbre can be described by using various methods. One popular method is the use of timbre spaces, which plot the spectral characteristics of a sound in a mostly three- or four-dimensional space. However, these spaces have limitations and cannot be easily compared or generalized. Another method, Mel Frequency Cepstral Coefficients (MFCCs), has proven to be effective but the MFCCs are not particularly intuitive. Formants as pitch-independent maxima in the spectrum of an instrument's timbre with a defining effect on its overall character are less universal than MFCCs and cannot be applied equally to all musical instruments. However, in the low/middle registers of most musical instruments they are easily recognizable and thus very intuitive, generalizable and easy to understand. In this talk, various types of timbre spaces and formant maps are presented, including interactive versions as well as a formant map that show timbre changes over the course of a musical piece.
7.克里斯托夫·罗伊特（Christoph Reuter），维也纳大学音乐学系：音色空间漫游——如何测量音色相似度？
音色可以用多种方法来描述。一种流行的方法是使用音色空间，它在主要是三维或四维的空间中绘制声音的频谱特征。然而，这些空间都有所局限，且不易进行比较与概括。另一种方法是采用被证明有效的梅尔频率倒谱系数 (MFCC)，但MFCC也并不是特别直观。共振峰作为乐器音色频谱中与音高最不相关的要素，对音色整体性具有决定性影响，虽然其普遍性不如MFCC，且不适用于所有乐器，但是在大多数乐器的低/中音区中，它们很容易被识别，因此非常直观、通用且易于理解。本讲座中将介绍各种类型、交互版本的音色空间和共振峰映射图，以及用共振峰映射图展示音乐作品中的音色变化。
8. Christoph Reuter, University of Vienna, Department of Musicology: Research Talk: Frontiers in Systematic Musicology
The department "Systematic Musicology" at the Musicological Department of the University of Vienna offers a wide range of possibilities for different research approaches in musical acoustics (instrument acoustics, room acoustics, psychoacoustics, sound synthesis, music informatics) and music psychology. In addition to presenting the infrastructure of the institute as well as the MediaLab of the Faculty, Christoph Reuter will present examples of individual research topics of the last years. Besides audio signal analysis on animal sounds, bells, electro vehicles, musical hardness these research foci include research on directional perception, on noise development on preterm infants in incubators, and on the music-induced chill effect. Other capabilities of the institute such as the creation of VR environments and online playable musical instruments will also be presented. The interactive examples presented in the talk invite the audience to try them out online.
8. 克里斯托夫·罗伊特（Christoph Reuter），维也纳大学音乐学系：研究报告：体系音乐学的前沿进展
维也纳大学音乐学系的“体系音乐学”研究所为音乐声学（乐器声学、室内声学、心理声学、声音合成、音乐信息学）和音乐心理学的不同研究方法提供了广泛的可能性。除了介绍该研究所的基础设施以及学院的媒体实验室外，克里斯托夫·罗伊特还将介绍过去几年的个人研究课题案例。除了对动物声音、铃声、电动汽车、音乐硬度的音频信号分析之外，其研究重点还包括：方向感知、早产儿在保温箱中的噪音发展以及音乐引起的寒战等。讲座中也将展示该所在创建 VR 环境和在线演奏乐器等方面的其他能力。讲座中介绍的互动示例将会邀请听众在线试用。
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Christoph Reuter received his doctorate in 1996 and habilitated at the University of Cologne in 2002. After holding fellowships (GrFG, DFG), assistant and lecturer positions (University of Cologne, University of Vienna, Hochschule für Musik Franz Liszt Weimar) and working for media and publishing companies (Schott Music International (Mainz), b.i.b. International College (Hannover), IAMP solutions (Cologne)), he became Professor of Systematic Musicology at the University of Vienna in 2008.
From 2012 to 2020, Reuter was head of the institute. Since 2022, he has been head of the study programmes in linguistics and musicology. Since 2021, he has been a member of the scientific advisory board of the State Institute for Music Research (SIM, Berlin) and head of the "Musical Acoustics" committee of the German Society for Acoustics (DEGA). Furthermore he is member of the German Society for Music Psychology (DGM, board member 2004-2017), the Austrian Society for Music and Medicine (ÖGfMM, head of the working group "Science and Research" since 2011), the European Society for the Cognitive Sciences of Music (ESCOM), the German (GfM) and the Austrian Society for Music Research (ÖGMW).
In addition to externally funded projects (Austrian Science Fund (FWF), Austrian Research Promotion Agency (FFG), Oesterreichische Nationalbank (OeNB), German Research Foundation (DFG), Vienna Science and Technology Fund (WWTF), Swiss National Fund for the Promotion of Scientific Research (SNF)), Reuter was/is also involved in contract research projects (currently for Tesla Manufacturing Brandenburg SE, previously for the Vienna House of Music as well as for AKM AustroMechana).
His research interests include musical acoustics, room acoustics, psychoacoustics, music psychology, audio/signal analysis, timbre/noise perception, preterm/incubator acoustics as well as music-related internet and software projects.
克里斯托夫·罗伊特（Christoph Reuter）于1996年获得博士学位，并于2002年在科隆大学获得任教资格。在担任基金资助研究员（GrFG, DFG）、助教和讲师职位（科隆大学、维也纳大学、魏玛弗朗茨·李斯特音乐学院）以及在媒体和出版公司（肖特国际音乐出版社（美因茨）、b.i.b.国际学院（汉诺威）、IAMP解决方案（科隆））工作后，他于2008年成为维也纳大学体系音乐学教授。
从2012年到2020年，罗伊特担任维也纳大学音乐学系主任及研究所所长。自2022年起，他担任语言学与音乐学的研究项目主任。自2021年起，他成为德国国立音乐研究所（SIM，柏林）的科学咨询委员会成员，并担任德国声学协会（DEGA）“音乐声学”委员会主席。此外，他还是德国音乐心理学协会（DGM，董事会成员2004-2017）、奥地利音乐与医学协会（ÖGfMM，自2011年起担任“科学与研究”工作组主席）、欧洲认知音乐科学协会（ESCOM）、德国音乐学协会（GfM）以及奥地利音乐研究协会（ÖGMW）的成员。
除了外部资助项目（奥地利科学基金（FWF）、奥地利研究促进局（FFG）、奥地利国家银行（OeNB）、德国研究基金（DFG）、维也纳科学和技术基金（WWTF）、瑞士国家科学研究基金（SNF）），罗伊特还参与了大量横向研究项目（目前为特斯拉制造勃兰登堡公司，以前为维也纳音乐之家以及AKM奥地利收藏协会）。
他的研究兴趣包括音乐声学、空间声学、心理声学、音乐心理学、音频/信号分析、音色/噪声知觉、早产儿/孵化器声学以及与音乐相关的互联网和软件项目。
Melanie Malzahn studied Historical and General Linguistics and Ancient Oriental Studies at the universities of Hamburg and Vienna and received her doctorate in 2001 from the University of Vienna. After postdoc positions at the University of Vienna and the Austrian Academy of Sciences and research stays at the École pratique des hautes études Paris, Harvard University and UCLA she habilitated at Vienna University in 2009. In 2010 she received the highly prestigious START-grant by the Austrian Science Foundation FWF for establishing a digital edition project of the extinct Tocharian languages (“A comprehensive edition of Tocharian manuscripts--CEToM”). Since 2012 she holds the chair in Comparative Indo-European Linguistics at Vienna University.
She is member of several Academies and has been research director of the Turfan Research Unit of the Brandenburg Academy of Sciences from 2017-2022, and since this year is PI and a member of the board of directors of the Austrian Excellence Cluster “EurAsian Transformations”. Her academic services include dean of the Faculty of Philological and Cultural Studies from 2016-2022 and head of the counsel of the Austrian Academy of Sciences (since 2022).
Her main research focus is Indo-European linguistics (Phonology, Morphology, Semantics), comparative grammar and philology of Tocharian and Ancient Indo-Iranian languages.Several times she has been visiting lecturer at Beijing Minzu University of China and Beijing Language and Culture University.
梅兰妮·马尔扎（Melanie Malzahn）在汉堡大学和维也纳大学学习历史和普通语言学以及古代东方学，并于2001年获得维也纳大学的博士学位。在维也纳大学和奥地利科学院担任博士后职位并在巴黎高等研究实践学院（École pratique des hautes études Paris）、哈佛大学和加州大学洛杉矶分校进行研究之后，她于2009年在维也纳大学获得任教资格。2010年，她获得奥地利科学基金会FWF颁发的备受赞誉的START奖助金，用于建立一个已灭绝的突厥语（“Tocharian languages”）数字化版项目（“Tocharian手稿的综合版--CEToM”）。自2012年起，她担任维也纳大学比较印欧语言学讲席教授。
她是多个学术团体的成员，并于2017-2022年担任勃兰登堡科学院图尔凡研究小组的研究主任，自2023年起担任奥地利卓越集群“欧亚转型”（Austrian Excellence Cluster “EurAsian Transformations”）项目的首席研究员和董事会成员。她的学术领导工作还包括2016-2022年间担任维也纳大学语言与文化研究学院院长和奥地利科学院顾问委员会主任（自2022年起）。
她的主要研究方向包括印欧语言学（音韵学、形态学、语义学），多语种语法和托哈里语以及古代印欧伊朗语的比较语法和研究。她曾多次担任中国民族大学和北京语言大学的客座教授。
Anja-Xiaoxing Cui is an interdisciplinary researcher of the psychological aspects of music listening and music making. She received her doctorate in 2019 from Queen‘s University, Kingston, Canada in psychology after studies in psychology at Queen‘s University and Ruhr-University Bochum as well as piano performance at the Hochschule für Musik und Tanz Köln, one of the world‘s foremost performing arts schools. After a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada, and a visiting professorship at Osnabrück University, she is now Assistant Professor of Neuromediality at the University of Vienna.
Cui was a recipient of the prestigious Vanier scholarship administered by the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada as well as a postdoctoral fellowship by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. She is a member of the German Society for Music Psychology (DGM), the European Society for the Cognitive Sciences of Music (ESCOM), as well as the Society for Music Perception and Cognition (SMPC). At the latter, she has been a member of the mentorship committee since 2022.
Cui‘s research interest include the neuroscience of music perception and music making, with a particular focus on the interplay of music and language perception as well as the interplay of music making and language production. Her methods include behavioral and observational studies, the physiological measures such as heart-rate variability and EEG, and neuroimaging approaches such as resting-state fMRI and DTI.
崔晓星（Anja-Xiaoxing Cui）是一位跨学科的音乐聆听、表演与创作心理学研究者。她在加拿大金斯顿的女王大学获得了心理学博士学位（2019年），之前在女王大学和德国波鸿的鲁尔大学学习心理学，以及在科隆音乐与舞蹈学院（Hochschule für Musik und Tanz Köln）学习钢琴演奏。在加拿大不列颠哥伦比亚大学进行博士后研究以及在奥斯纳布吕克大学担任访问教授后，她现任维也纳大学的神经媒体学（Neuromedialität）助理教授。
她是加拿大自然科学和工程研究理事会颁发的享有声誉的Vanier奖学金的获得者，也是加拿大社会科学和人文研究理事会的博士后奖学金获得者。她是德国音乐心理学协会（DGM）、欧洲认知音乐科学协会（ESCOM）以及音乐知觉与认知学会（SMPC）的成员。在后者，她自2022年起出任导师委员会成员。
她的研究兴趣包括音乐知觉和音乐创作的神经科学，特别关注音乐和语言知觉之间的互动以及音乐创作和语言表达之间的互动。她的研究方法包括行为和观察研究，生理测量如心率变异性和脑电图（EEG），以及静息态功能磁共振成像（fMRI）和弥散张量成像（DTI）等神经影像学方法。
