Danish-Norwegian music collaboration named Event of the Year by Danmarks Radio’s P2 • ballade.no
– I am proud to be able to share the news that MusicLab Copenhagen will receive the P2 award on Friday !, wrote Solveig Sørbø to the Ballade editorial staff this week.
Sørbø is a composer, producer and podcast host, and was himself involved in creating and developing the concept MusicLab in 2017, together with researcher and musician Alexander Jensenius. MusicLab is a concept and innovation project where the study objects are concerts arranged in public arenas, and belong to the University of Oslo’s research center RITMO Center for Interdisciplinary Studies in Rhythm, Time and Motion and the University Library.
– The event that receives this great award is a Danish-Norwegian collaboration between the Danish String Quartet, researcher Simon Høffding at the University of Southern Denmark and RITMO (UiO), says Sørbø.
“It’s playing and listening to increase our quality of life. In order to be able to analyze why this is the case, it is an advantage to understand how the body and its react and collaborate when professional musicians play, »writes the Danish String Quartet in their own reviews of the project (the journalist’s translation).
– During MusicLab with the Danish String Quartet, we collected physiological data from 160 spectators while the quartet – also equipped with sensors that measured their physiological and biomechanical data – played music by, among others, Beethoven and Schnittke, explains Solveig Sørbø.
Over a dozen Norwegian music researchers were involved via RITMO, says Sørbø.
– The focus of experiments was to seek the audience and music experiences of being moved and musically absorbed, and the psychology and physiology that are at stake when we are «together in music». The approach was interdisciplinary and took advantage of different methods and technologies, explains their. The results are part of a research project which includes psychology, philosophy and several other disciplines, and all data will be made available continuously so that anyone can do research.
Friday 4. February, the project and event MusicLab Copenhagen will receive the P2 award for Danmarks Radio. And it is an event Solveig Sørbø is overwhelmingly proud of, she says, in addition to being a great recognition of a distinctive concept:
– It is quite special that an event that is like a lot of research like a classical concert gets such a high-handed award!
Here you can also see recordings of the “science concert” Danish String Quartet did on October 26 last year. The concert was part of DSQ Festival, and took place in the Music House in Copenhagen. Musikhuset is a new concert arena that itself receives an award from Danmarks Radio P2 Friday night, in class This year’s initiative: