Trying to rank Bach’s great moments is like trying to rank miracles in order of impossibility. Yet I’ve caught myself feeling that a moment in the B Minor Mass may be the greatest of all. This short essay, adapted from a chapter in my forthcoming ebook Why Bach?: An Audio-Visual Appreciation, says why. If features highlighted scores that play as a…[Read more]

For archiving I made a couple of screenshots of this rare occasion. German director Alexander Kluge interviewing Natascha Drubek in June 2016. The whole film (45′) can be found when you follow the link below: “Von den Ikonen zum russischen Stummfilm”:
“Russisches Licht” hieß eine mondäne städtische Beleuchtungsart, zuerst in Paris erprobt, d…[Read more]

This paper examines Ari Folman’s Waltz With Bashir (2008) and Marjane Satrapi’s Persepolis (2007) to elucidate how artists, distributors, and audiences shape and define the porous boundaries of the documentary genre, and how such perceptions are shaped within a digital context. By analyzing how each film represents reality; that is, how doc…[Read more]

O estudo da paisagem sonora em contexto urbano a partir de uma perspectiva histórica oferece um entendimento da espacialidade urbana enquanto local onde, em diversos contextos e vários períodos, ocorreram eventos musicais significativos para esses mesmos espaços. Nestes estudos encontramos uma integração e diálogo entre o presente e o passad…[Read more]

The development of the Portuguese entertainment market and the rise of several types of musical theatre are inextricably bound to the complex symbolic and material process through which Portugal was established, presented, developed, and commodified as a modern nation-state between 1865 and 1908. During this period, several fundamental…[Read more]

O estudo da paisagem sonora em contexto urbano a partir de uma perspectiva histórica oferece um entendimento da espacialidade urbana enquanto local onde, em diversos contextos e vários períodos, ocorreram eventos musicais significativos para esses mesmos espaços. Nestes estudos encontramos uma integração e diálogo entre o presente e o passad…[Read more]

O estudo da paisagem sonora em contexto urbano a partir de uma perspectiva histórica oferece um entendimento da espacialidade urbana enquanto local onde, em diversos contextos e vários períodos, ocorreram eventos musicais significativos para esses mesmos espaços. Nestes estudos encontramos uma integração e diálogo entre o presente e o passad…[Read more]

The development of the Portuguese entertainment market and the rise of several types of musical theatre are inextricably bound to the complex symbolic and material process through which Portugal was established, presented, developed, and commodified as a modern nation-state between 1865 and 1908. During this period, several fundamental…[Read more]

Part One of this study seeks to define the nature of Spanish and Italian printed keyboard sources in the 16th and 17th centuries. In Chapter two, seven Spanish keyboard prints or theoretical works are examined, dating from 1546 to 1626. These works clearly state a conception of the ideals of keyboard playing; they also show the beginnings of a…[Read more]

This article seeks to prompt a re-evaluation of the fi lm archive’s role within the current digital humanities debate as a logical, yet underrated, partner. The article invokes Jeffrey Schnapp’s and Todd Presner’s plea from 2009 for digital humanities to create as its core aim a more democratic view of knowledge-producing institutions by i…[Read more]

On the potential of data visualization for Film studies and Film history.

On the versions of Dziga Vertovs film “Three Songs on Lenin”.

On the potential of data visualization for Film studies and Film history.

Article about Dziga Vertovs most famous film from 1929 with a focus on it’s surviving prints and structure. Investigation was carried out within the research project Digital Formalism (2007-2010) in Vienna.

Im digitalen Zeitalter verschwimmen die institutionellen Grenzen innerhalb der Kulturlandschaft. Umso gewinnbringender wäre es, innerhalb der Kultureinrichtungen gemeinsame Handlungsfelder zu definieren und von etablierten Prozessen und vorhandenen Infrastrukturen zu profitieren. Worin bestehen die zentralen Probleme der bisher erst zaghaften…[Read more]

In: Hajo Diekmanshenke, Stefan Neuhaus and Uta Schaffers (eds.): Das Komische in der Kultur. Dynamiken der Vermittlung: Koblenzer Studien zur Germanistik. Marburg: Tectum-Verlag 2015, 413-429.

In: Hajo Diekmanshenke, Stefan Neuhaus and Uta Schaffers (eds.): Das Komische in der Kultur. Dynamiken der Vermittlung: Koblenzer Studien zur Germanistik. Marburg: Tectum-Verlag 2015, 413-429.

In: Hajo Diekmanshenke, Stefan Neuhaus and Uta Schaffers (eds.): Das Komische in der Kultur. Dynamiken der Vermittlung: Koblenzer Studien zur Germanistik. Marburg: Tectum-Verlag 2015, 413-429.

Musico-analytical examination of Frank Ocean’s album Blonde and the lyrical references and musical allusions to a marijuana high.