Public Contributions

12/04/2024 Presentation at the International Conference on Improvisation in Music Therapy (ICIMT)

The picture shows a presentation on a screen, showing the first slide of the HIGH-M presentation. Bastian Vobig stands in front of the screen, facing the audience.
The HIGH-M presentation at CCCM2024

Last week we had the pleasure to present on HIGH-M under the title "From Assessment Profile to Process Assessment: Challenges in Automating Music Therapy Analysis" at the Second International Conference on Computational and Cognitive Musicology (CCCM2024) at Utrecht University.

 

It was an inspiring event with interesting talks on Early Music Computing, Computational Music Analysis, and Computational Ethnomusicology, alongside a great poster session (see program). I was honoured to be part of the Music Information Computing for Health and Wellbeing section and grateful for the opportunity to contribute to this interdisciplinary exchange.

 

Thanks to the organisers (especially Frans Wiering), presenters and participants for making it a special experience!

17/01/2024 HIGH-M visiting University of Jyväskylä, Finland

Prof Jaakko Erkkilä (left) giving a lecture on Integrative Improvisational Music Therapy, on the right Prof Esa Ala-Ruona, students of the music therapy specialisation module at THWS and Bastian Vobig
Prof. Dr Jaakko Erkkilä presents on "Integrative Improvisational Music Therapy" (Photo: Thomas Wosch, THWS)

Last January, it was possible to visit our cooperation partners at the Centre of Excellence in Music, Mind, Body and Brain (CoEMMBB) at the University of Jyväskylä together with students from the Würzburg-Schweinfurt University of Applied Sciences (music therapy specialisation) as part of the HIGH-M project.

 

In addition to the intensive exchange on the clinical relevance of the HIGH-M project, Prof. Jaakko Erkkilä provided lectures and workshops on Integrative Improvisational Music Therapy (IIMT). The HIGH-M project was also able to answer exciting questions from other researchers at the University of Jyväskylä in the CoEMMBB PhD colloquium.

 

As part of the cooperation between the THWS and the University of Jyväskylä, it was also possible to transfer the central data set of the HIGH-M project, which originated from studies on the effectiveness of Integrative Improvisational Music Therapy (NO PAIN NO GAIN). 

 

Thank you very much!

09/06/2023 HIGH-M at MIRAGE Symposium #2 in Oslo

Olivier Lartillot (left) and Bastian Vobig (right) standing in front of a projector screen, behind a lectern. Bastian Vobig speaks while Olivier Lartillot is listening closely with his hand at his chin. The projector screen behind them shows an excerpt of a zoom-call including leave button and camera footage of the conference room. By Interacting, you leave the HIGH-M website and will be forwarded to the website of the MIRAGE-Symposium #2.
Dr. Olivier Lartillot (left) and Bastian Vobig about new features of the Music Therapy Toolbox (MTTB) (Photo: Eirik Slinning Karlsen)

For the first time, HIGH-M was presented publicly on the 9th of June at the second MIRAGE Symposium "Music, emotions, analysis ... and computer" at RITMO Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies in Rhythm, Time and Motion of the University of Oslo. Live presented Olivier Lartillot, leader of the MIRAGE-Project, Anna-Maria Christodolou, PhD-Student at RITMO, Bastian Vobig, and Thomas Wosch, who attended online, basic principles and theoretical structures to HIGH-M and the cooperation between THWS and RITMO.

 

At the second MIRAGE Symposium, several interdisciplinary research projects and results in the disciplines of music psychology, music computing, and neuroscience were presented, including central keynotes of Patrick Justin (University Uppsala) and Didier Grandjean (University Geneva) on the topic of music and emotion.