Winter 2025/26 Research Colloquium Series – Collaboration and Participation
JAM MUSIC LAB Private University - Center for Artistic Research presents:
Winter 2025/26 Research Colloquium Series – Collaboration and Participation
JAM MUSIC LAB students may attend Colloquia for .25 ECTS Workshop Credit.
Tuesday, September 23, 3:30-4:30pm, Spielraum and Livestream
Talking Jazz Live on Jazz Impressionism: The House of the Singing Winds Project
Guests: Peter Lehel, saxophone – HfM Karlsruhe, Peter Kienle, guitar – USA
Hosted by Monika Herzig on a new album featuring jazz interpretations of impressionistic paintings
Note: Attendance credit can only be provided in person for this event
Monday, October 6, 5 – 6:30pm, Online and Theorieraum 1
Oliver Nelson, Jr, Indiana University, Oral History Live and Collaborations of Oliver Nelson
Online via Zoom, registration through Jam Online
Monday, October 13, 4-6pm, Online
Methods of Oral History Research
John Edward Hasse, Curator Emeritus for American Music, Smithsonian Museums, Washington, DC
Online via Zoom, registration through Jam Online
November 17, 4-6pm, Online and Theorieraum 1
Magdalena Fuernkranz: Fraufeld und Queer Cheer
Online via Zoom, registration through Jam Online
November 18, 10:30-12:30am, Ensembleraum, in person only
Masterclass: Duo Collaboration: Voice and Bass, Agnes Lakatos and Tibor Csuhaj Barna
Liszt Academy of Music, Budapest
November 20, 4:30 - 7pm, Spielraum, in person only
Talking Jazz Live with Agnes Lakatos and Tibor Csuhaj Barna, Liszt Academy of Music, Budapest, followed by Voice and Bass concert featuring faculty and students from Jam Music Lab
Tuesday, 13.01.2026, 14:30 Uhr, online (https://us02web.zoom.us/my/michaelkahr), 0,25 ECTS, Anmeldung via JAMOnline:
Isabella Schwerer (MAM): Jazzkomposition im Dialog mit Künstlicher Intelligenz: ein Artistic-Research-Projekt
Dienstag, 20.01.2026, 14:30 Uhr, Spielraum (in Präsenz) und online (https://us02web.zoom.us/my/michaelkahr), 0,25 ECTS, Anmeldung via JAMOnline:
Prof. Dr. Marcel Cobussen (Leiden University): Improvisation and Its Role in Artistic Research
Abstract
This presentation will basically consist of two parts. In Part 1, Cobussen will elaborate on musical improvisation and why it can be regarded as a complex system, that is, as an interactive network of various human as well as non-human actants. Besides he will touch upon the question what other cultural fields and discourses can learn from improvisation in music? Part 2 will deal with the issue what improvisation can contribute to artistic research. How can artistic research benefit from improvisational strategies? How can artistic research be improvised, and what would that imply in terms of its methodology? Can improvisation, regarded as a process of continuous experimentation and exploration, become a method through which artistic research is executed? Improvising as a research method implies opening up a field of possibilities and trying to keep it open – by allowing risks, misunderstandings, and ambiguity – instead of aiming at a clearly demarcated and pre-established endpoint, solution or answer. And perhaps this is what artistic research should be all about …
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