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Akademie der Staatlichen Museen zu Berlin - Winter Course 2010

susanna — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 16:55:59 +0000

Course 52/WS 09-10

During the winter and summer terms, the Academy of the National Museums in Berlin offers courses on the European and extra-European history of art and culture. The Department of Ethnomusicology, Media Technology and Berlin Phonogramm-Archiv of the Ethnological Museum in Dahlem, Berlin, presents in a serial of 5 courses "Music as a social and cultural phenomenon". Within this programme, the MIMO project will be presented to the audience.

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Event Date:

Thu, 2010-02-25 10:30 - Thu, 2010-03-25 10:30

Venue:

Ethnologisches Museum Dahlem, Berlin

Main entrance on Lansstraße

14195 Berlin

Guided Tour in Berlin

susanna — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 16:31:12 +0000

Guided Tour through the exhibition and storerooms of the department "Musikethnologie, Medien-Technik und Berliner Phonogramm-Archiv": Greek IT-students from ILE-Berlin (Instiute for Lifelong Learning) are introduced to the MIMO project.

About ILE

Event Date:

Tue, 2010-02-02 14:00 - 16:00

Venue:

Ethnological Museum Berlin

Dept. Musikethnologie, Medien-Technik und Berliner Phonogramm-Archiv

Lansstraße 8
14195 Berlin

German TV report about MIMO

susanna — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 16:41:15 +0000

A TV report about MIMO focusing on the Musical Instrument Museum at Grassi Museum in Leipzig and Germanisches Museum Nuremberg will be broadcastet via MDR on Wednesday 3.

MIMO at Germanisches Nationalmuseum Nuremberg, Germany

susanna — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 16:42:28 +0000

“Musica Antiqua”

Since 1956, the Germanisches Nationalmuseum offers the concert series “Musica Antiqua”, together with the Bavarian radio. In altogether five concerts a year, national and international guest musicians demonstrate historically informed performance practice

Event Date:

Wed, 2009-09-30 20:00 - Wed, 2010-05-26 20:00

Venue:

Germanisches Nationalmuseum

Aufseßsaal

Kartäusergasse 1
90402 Nürnberg

MIMO in the press

susanna — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 16:46:28 +0000

MIMO is presented in the January web-edition of one of Germany's biggest weeklys DIE ZEIT. Read the whole article here.

MIMO Word cloud

Maurice — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 13:15:30 +0000

Norman Rodger, MIMO's project manager from the University of Edinburgh, created the summary of MIMO using the WEB 2.0 service wordle.net. My favorite is this one:

Other versions include

Stradivarius Research at the Cité de la Musique Makes it Into the Headlines

Maurice — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 17:15:01 +0000

Research on violins by Antonio Stradivarius, the legendary Italian instrument-maker, undertaken in cooperation with MIMO member Cité de la Musique in Paris produces new insights in the composition of varnish and makes it in headlines.

Today, 4 December 2009 the New York Times reports on research carried out in cooperation with Cité de la Musique and German which was recently published in the Journal for Applied Chemistry.

MIMO on the radio

Maurice — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 20:56:13 +0000

WDR building in Cologne: Raimond Spekking/WikipediaToday, Frank P. Bär from the Germanisches National Museum (GNM) in Nuremberg, Germany was interviewed by WDR, Germany's biggest public broadcaster about MIMO and other things. In MIMO Frank coordinates the digitisation efforts.

The interview will be broadcasted on 23 December, 2009 in the show "TonArt". As of now, the exact time is not yet known. Afterwards, the show will be available online: http://www.wdr3.de/tonart/details/artikel/wdr-3-tonart-78d99d9dca.html

Newsletter No.1

susanna — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 12:46:53 +0000

The MIMO Newsletter has been published. Please download the newsletter in the Results Menu or directly subscribe (right side), the MIMO team will send the newsletter regularly.

Final Report WP1 (M24)

susanna — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 18:29:44 +0000

Organisational ID:

D1.7

Result Date:

Fri, 2011-09-30

Status:

not yet begun

Final report of work package 1 (WP1), including the final digitisation reports of Ethnological Museum Berlin (Germany), Music Instruments Museum Brussels and Royal Museum for Central Africa Tervuren (both Belgium).