Questions like these will be raised and discussed during this presentation and panel discussion. Our visiting guest from Germany, Prof. Dr. Julian Caskel, has written extensively on topics within music theory and analysis, most specifically with a focus on theories of rhythm. He has also been one of the editors of the new anthology “Softwaregestützte Interpretationsforschung” (Software-assisted Research on Musical Interpretation) that will be released in the Spring of 2023. Julian Caskel will give a short presentation in this research forum, followed by a panel discussion with Rainer Polak (Researcher at RITMO), Olivier Lartillot (Researcher at RITMO),(Anne Danielsen (Professor at IMV and Deputy Director at RITMO), and Emil Bernhardt (Postdoc. at RITMO), led by Peter Edwards (Associate Professor at IMV).
Julian Caskel, b. 1978, studied musicology, philosophy, and political sciences at the universities of Heidelberg and Köln. He finished his Ph.D. in 2008 on scherzo movements in the 19th century, and his habilitation in 2017. Substitute professor at the Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, the HFMT Köln, and currently at the Folkwang Universität der Künste Essen. Publications on empirical performance research (e.g., Handbuch Dirigenten, with Hartmut Hein), music theory, and intermedial music aesthetics (e.g., Die Theorie des Rhythmus) as well as on music history from Haydn to the present. His latest research project covers the topic of music and climate change, and his latest publication as editor is “Softwaregestützte Interpretationsforschung” (with Frithjof Vollmer and Thomas Wozonig).