WORLDWIDE MUSIC CONFERENCE 2021
Scientific World Explores Music
April 22–23, 2021
Online
About the Conference
WWMC 2021 united specialists from 12 scientific disciplines and 30 countries for two days of keynote presentations, paper sessions, roundtable discussions, and special performances — held entirely online.
Roundtable discussions were held with the San Francisco Conservatory of Music and MusicCare. Conference proceedings were published in two peer-reviewed volumes by Springer.
Partners & Collaborators
European Music Analysis Conference
Topics
12 scientific fields explored across two days of keynote lectures and presentations.
Evolution of Speech, Music & Language
What is Musical Pitch and How It's Structured
The Immersive Music Experience: Past, Present, and Future
Elephants: Giant "Voice Artists"
Wheels within Wheels: Musical Hierarchy Reconsidered
How Music Education Evolves with Current Technology
Rameau and the Sciences: Impact of the Lumières on Harmony Theory
Music Composition with Neurotechnology: from Creativity to Healthcare
Brain Correlates of Music-Evoked Emotions
Music Education: Informing Audience Engagement
Music — Number — Word: History and Theory of Connections
The Coming of Age of Zoomusicology
Speakers
Special guests and keynote speakers.
João Carlos Martins
Pianist and Conductor
One of the greatest Bach interpreters of the 20th century
Ubiratan Bizarro Costa
Industrial Designer
Inventor of Bionic Gloves
Tomos Roberts (Tomfoolery)
Writer, filmmaker
Author of "The Great Realisation"
W. Tecumseh Fitch
Evolutionary biologist
University of Vienna
Roman Ruditsa
Composer, music theorist
St. Petersburg Union of Composers
Agnieszka Roginska
President, Audio Engineering Society
New York University
Angela Stoeger
Bioacoustician
University of Vienna
Dmitri Tymoczko
Music theorist, composer
Princeton University
Lucas Wong
Concert pianist, developer
FAZIOLI Artist
Ildar Khannanov
Music theorist
Peabody Institute, Johns Hopkins
Eduardo R. Miranda
Composer, researcher
University of Plymouth
Stefan Koelsch
Music psychologist
University of Bergen
Julie Ballantyne
Music education researcher
University of Queensland
Konstantin Zenkin
Musicologist, pianist
Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory
Dario Martinelli
Musicologist, semiotician
Kaunas University of Technology
Mario Baroni
Musicologist
Founder, GATM — University of Bologna
Daniil Shutko
Music theorist
St. Petersburg Rimsky-Korsakov Conservatory
Scientific Committee
"Music is one of the most mysterious objects of cognition. The closer we get to understanding this object, the more obvious it becomes that the way forward can only be made by the joint efforts of many sciences."— Roman Ruditsa, Scientific Chair
Dr. Mario Baroni
Founder, GATM — Bologna, Italy
Dr. Dario Martinelli
Kaunas University of Technology — Lithuania
Dr. Lucas Wong
Pianist and researcher — Canada
Dr. Adam Stanović
University of Sheffield — UK
Dr. Isabel Pires
Universidade NOVA de Lisboa — Portugal
Dr. Ildar Khannanov
Peabody Institute, Johns Hopkins — USA
Dr. Ricardo Gómez Aíza
National Autonomous University of México
Dr. Angela Stoeger
University of Vienna — Austria
Dr. Emmanouil St. Giannopoulos
Aristotle University of Thessaloniki — Greece
Dr. Carlos de Lemos Almada
Federal University of Rio de Janeiro — Brazil
Dr. Wilfried Gruhn
University of Music Freiburg — Germany
Dr. Frank Hentschel
University of Cologne — Germany
Dr. Lutz Jäncke
University of Zurich — Switzerland
Dr. Daniil Shutko
St. Petersburg Rimsky-Korsakov Conservatory — Russia
Dr. Vincent Meelberg
Leiden University — Netherlands
Dr. Alessandro Giovanni Bertinetto
University of Turin — Italy
Dr. Konstantin Zenkin
Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory — Russia
Dr. Linda O'Keeffe
University of Edinburgh — UK
Dr. Suneera Kasliwal Vyas
Delhi University — India
Dr. Yiannis Christidis
Cyprus University of Technology — Cyprus
Dr. Carla Badani Schoneweg
Universidad de Chile — Chile
Dr. Timothy Teo
Murdoch University — Australia
Dr. Antti Kuusinen
Aalto University — Finland
Dr. Chen Jer-Ming
Singapore University of Technology and Design
Dr. Dinko Fabris
University of Basilicata, Past President IMS — Italy
Dr. David Moffat
University of Plymouth — UK
Dr. Luca Turchet
University of Trento — Italy
Dr. Antonio Camurri
University of Genoa — Italy
Programme
All times in Central European Time (CET)
Tatiana & Victor Kartashov — Saratov Sobinov State Conservatory
Liudmila Kazantseva & Polina Volkova
Tatyana Vladyshavskaya — Lomonosov Moscow State University
Fusun Koksal Incirlioglu — Yasar University
Konstantinos Paraskevoudis & Theodoros Giannakopoulos — NCSR Demokritos
Marina Dolgushina — Vologda State University
Elena Kuprina — Volga Orthodox Institute
Andrei Bogatyrev, Elena Milyugina & Dmitry Komarov — MPSU & TSU
Alla Toropova & Irina Simakova — Moscow Pedagogical State University
Carlos de Lemos Almada — Federal University of Rio de Janeiro
Proceedings
Following WWMC 2021, the conference proceedings were published in two peer-reviewed volumes by Springer — one of the world's largest scientific publishers.
Scientific World Explores Music — Two Volumes
The volumes bring together contributions from researchers across neuroscience, acoustics, ethnomusicology, music therapy, mathematics, and beyond — a permanent scholarly record of the first interdisciplinary music conference of its kind.
Accessible to researchers, academic institutions, and libraries worldwide.
Conference Poster
Watch the Presentations
Keynote lectures and panel discussions from WWMC 2021 are available in the Video Archive.
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