It’s starting to look a lot like work party (Julebord) season, and we are excited to brag about ours shamelessly, but also ask: what makes a good celebration between colleagues?

In the last show of the 2024 season, Julie, Kristina, Aleksander and Ieva sit down to chat about how musicologists celebrate Christmas. By sharing the perspectives of our party committee and our in-house band, we reflect on the importance of collective music-making, listen to some tunes, and have some laughs.

References:

Wham! - Last Christmas

Vazelina Bilopphøggers - Hem'att tel jul

Oslo fagottkor - Running To The Sea

Carola and Viktor Norén - Stjärnorna lyser för oss

As we are closing up on Halloween, Kristina Klugnes and Eirik Jacobsen take us though some historical moments of horror film music! What is the sound of horror music and how has it developed from the 1930s until today?

In this episode, we take a stroll with IMV postdoctoral fellow Sadie Menicanin through Oslo’s Botaniske hage. As we walk along gravel paths and under shady boughs, we discuss Sadie’s recent and current research related to music and gardens. The conversation touches on garden scenes in French grand opera, Vienna’s municipal planning of green space in the later 19th century, erotically charged greenhouses, imperial botanical gardens, outdoor concerts, songs for hiking, class-coded noise complaints in public green spaces, and more.

Together with her colleague Cana McGhee, Sadie is hosting a symposium on 28-29 October at IMV called “grounded,” which will delve into themes of soil, waste, and decomposition, and will explore music’s many connections to such material and political environmental matters.

Join Daniel Fong (Doctoral Research Fellow, IMV) and Queer opera singer and activist, Angelle Khachik, as they ruminate on what Queer Opera might be today and discuss some famous and not-so-well-known Queer operas.

In this episode of The Music Talkshow, it's all about playing music with machines! How can we best interact and play music with machines? What does it mean for a machine to be a good bandmate?

This, and so much more, is the topic of PhD candidate Vincenzo Madaghiele's research project at the UiO. On today's show, Vinzenco shares details of his recent artistic projects, his PhD research and insights into complex music tech topics such as mapping, machine-learning, algorithmic instrument design, software and more.

In this Easter special, doctoral research fellow Kristina Sočanski Čelik shares her insights and reminiscences of Eastern Easter - and the religious musical traditions of the Orthodox Christian church. Based on her research on how contemporary composition relates sonic experiences to the spiritual, this show takes listeners across the Greek, Ukrainian, Serbian, and North Macedonian Easter soundscapes, while offering folkloric and sacral readings of the works of Ljubica Marić and Arvo Pärt.

Listening List:

1. The Sorrowful Mother - Vydubychi Church Chorus

2. Anastaseos Imera - Divna Ljubojevic & "The Melodists" Choir

3. Arvo Pärt – Cantus in Memoriam Benjamin Britten – Norwegian Chamber Orchestra – Terje Tønnesen, conductor

4. Arvo Pärt – Für Alina – Kristina Socanski, piano

5. Ljubica Marić – The Byzantine Concerto - Olga Jovanović, piano - Belgrade Philharmonic Orchestra - Oskar Danon, conductor

6. Serbian Octoechoe – Gospodi Vozzvah – Voice 1 – Marija Jovićević, Nikola Radunović, chanters

7. Stevan Mokranjac – Passion Week – Radio Television Belgrade Choir – Vladimir Kranjčević, conductor

8. Trad: Easter Ring Dance (Veligdensko oro) – Bajsa Arifovska

References:

"The Revised Julian Calendar". Time and Date. Retrieved 25 December 2017.

Ribic, Romana. (2014). “Audio Recordings of Hymns from the Octoechos as

Written Down by Stevan Stojanović Mokranjac”. New Sound 43, I/2014.

Cizmic, Maria and Helbig, Adriana. "10. The Piano and the Performing Body in the Music of Arvo Pärt: Phenomenological Perspectives". Arvo Pärt: Sounding the Sacred, edited by Peter C. Bouteneff, Jeffers Engelhardt and Robert Saler, New York, USA: Fordham University Press, 2020, pp. 177-194. https://doi.org/10.1515/9780823289783-010

In this episode of The Music Talkshow, produced by Tejaswinee Kelkar in collaboration with Oslo's Historical Museum, Tejaswinee speaks with Dr. Boro Baski about the musical heritage of the Santhal ethnic community; the instrument banam and the long process of creating, becoming, and in other ways inheriting musical heritage, such as singing folk songs, dancing practices and festivals, through the instrument; and how this inheritance is contextualised in a changing society and other kinds of musical learning.

This English language interview (with excerpts of Norwegian) follows a thematic exhibition at the museum and comes with a list of English language references, which, together with the full version, can be found here: https://www.historiskmuseum.no/utstillinger/arv/podkast/

The Music Talkshow is back after the winter break with the first episode of a podcast series “What is musical inheritance?”, produced by Tejaswinee Kelkar in collaboration with the Oslo's Historical Museum.

Here, Tejaswinee speaks about the music of the Viking ages with Einar Selvik, also known for his band Wardruna. They discuss musical - and other - visions of the Viking era, their recreation today, and a broader shift towards the interest in neofolk and pre-Christian traditions, especially in such genres as black metal.

This Norwegian language podcast comes together with a thematic exhibition at the museum and a list of English language references, which, together with the full version, can be found here: https://www.historiskmuseum.no/utstillinger/arv/podkast/