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Arts, Humanities, and Interdisciplinary Methodologies Workgroup

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Summary

The goal of this group is to expand project stakeholdership and to promote interdisciplinary collaboration, resulting in a wider scope for the burgeoning discipline of Orchestration Studies. Three broad activities are undertaken: (1) research into the various methodologies and epistemologies of the arts, humanities, and human sciences, (2) the development and promotion of novel frameworks and theories for the interdisciplinary study of orchestration, and (3) activities that facilitate interdisciplinary collaboration.

Workgroup Leaders

Moe Touizrar, Jason Noble, and Rebecca Moranis

Contact: mohamed.touizrar [at] helsinki.fi

Overview

  • Identify the broad mosaic of humanistic, human-science, and arts disciplines and sub-disciplines whose working methods and theoretical traditions may be germane to the study of orchestration

  • Articulate novel methodological approaches, demonstrating how they might come to bear on the study of orchestration

  • Compare and contrast epistemological commitments across academic fields to better understand the purview of different domains of inquiry and their particular potential and vantage points vis à vis orchestration and the orchestral experience

  •  Facilitate interdisciplinary collaboration via outreach, especially to those domains, disciplines, and sub-disciplines underrepresented in, or not yet actively engaged with Orchestration Studies

  • Develop and promote novel theoretical frameworks and methodologies for the artistic, humanistic, or interdisciplinary study of orchestration

  • Develop projects and resources, publish papers, and deliver conference presentations that address the many methodological, epistemological, ontological, cultural, sociological, and practical issues and problems that come to bear on the disciplinary or interdisciplinary study of orchestration. Emphasis is placed on outreach to adjacent arts and humanities fields

  • Act as a central hub for those researchers interested in collaborating with other disciplines, and/or contributing work to the above-mentioned goals