The Music Talkshow

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...

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 green...

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 insigh...

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 soundsca...

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...

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 to...

In this episode, Ieva Gudaitytė talks to James Tomlinson about Christmas music in late medieval England. The conversation involves aspects of medieval book production and the transmission of polyphony within England and abroad. It introduces music written for the Christmas period and contexts in which these elusive musical survivors might have been performed. They chat about the ephemerality of me...

This episode of the Music Talkshow is on the complex theme of music-making in prisons. IMV researchers Áine Mangaoang and Lucy Cathcart Frödén share tracks written or recorded in prisons in Norway, Iceland and Ireland, and discuss connections between music-making, identity and mental health, and the role music and shared creative processes could play in alternatives to incarceration. Along the way...

In this episode of The Music Talkshow, our music researchers Veronika Muchitsch and Mirjana Plath are chatting about popular music cultures of the 20th and 21st centuries.  We’re discussing pride music, technology, and stylistic changes through time. On top of fascinating research, you can enjoy music from 1874 to 2023. Even football fans get their money's worth.

Fotocredit: Frode Larsen / Nasjonalmuseet / UiO UiO research center RITMO's postdoctoral fellow Dr. Remy Martin and doctoral fellow Martin Pleiß took this episode as an opportunity to stroll through one of Oslo’s most prominent places for experiencing art - the national museum of Norway. They do not simply look around, but pay attention to how we use sounds to make sense of what we experience. The...

Sosiale medier er over alt, også i musikklivet. I den neste episoden av The Music Talkshow prater doktorgradsstipendiat Eirik Jacobsen om sin forskning på sosiale mediers påvirkning på uavhengig musikkultur. Hør hans samtale med musikerne Dionisia Fjelldalen fra bandet MÍO og Janos Andersson fra bandet Janos. Social media is everywhere, also in musical life. Hear PhD candidate Eirik Jacobsen talk...

“The Music Talkshow” is a musicology dissemination show by our local University of Oslo early career music and sound researchers – PhD’s and postdocs. In this show, we hope to bridge the gap between those who wonder about music casually and those who do that professionally – from prospective students to lifelong music fans, fidelity nerds, and helpless cheesy romantics. In this first show Aleksand...