ABOUT ORPHEUS RESEARCH CENTRE IN MUSIC
In 2007 the Orpheus Institute launched the ‘Orpheus Research Centre in Music' [ORCiM], an important new player in the aristic-research community.
The Orpheus Research Centre in Music provides musician-researchers a unique artistic research environment. ORCiM put together an international team of excellent musician-researchers which forms the backbone of the research centre. The Centre addresses emerging issues that are of concern to all involved in the artistic and artistic-research community in both practical and developmental areas where artistic knowledge is critically needed by stakeholders.
On February 12, 2009 the Orpheus Research Centre in Music was officially opened by Flemish Minister of Economics, Enterprise, Science, Innovation and Foreign Trade Mrs. Patricia Ceysens. read more
Further, through active and close collaboration with other specialised research centres worldwide, the ORCiM operates across disciplines and national boundaries.
To present the research produced and promoted by the Orpheus Research Centre in Music [ORCiM] the new "Subseries of The Collected Writings of the Orpheus Institute" came in to being. read more
Research at the Orpheus Institute
| Orpheus Institute aims to provide musicians, investigating questions of artistic relevance, with an appropriate research environment and encourages and supports research and scholarship that is embedded in and incorporates musical practice and which is primarily guided by artistic objectives and aesthetic interests. |
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By opening up new areas of musical inquiry, by developing and implementing new tools for artistic research and by generating new research on specific topics relevant to musical practice, the Orpheus Institute produces advances in our knowledge and understanding of the art of music-making.
In this pioneering field of research in an through musical practice, the Orpheus Institute promotes and facilitates interaction and collaboration between artistic researchers across disciplines, institutions and national boundaries.
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Much of the research on music has traditionally been the preserve of academic disciplines surrounding the art form music (e.g. musicology, music philosophy, music pedagogy, music sociology, etc.). |
This has led to the development of theoretical and historical constructs which, while shedding light on many complex and important historical and theoretical issues, remain silent on significant aspects of musical and artistic reality and leave out issues particularly relevant to artists.
Artist-researchers have argued that knowledge generated mainly by these traditional academia represents a skewed perception of artistic reality. It could be seen as only partial knowledge and therefore not unambiguously applicable in artistic practice. The best way to rectify this situation is to take artists' daily experiences, their artistic understanding and their informal theorizing into account and, as a consequence, acknowledge the artist as artist-researcher to building theory, knowledge and artistic understanding as a means for artistic development.
The development of a new research discipline in the arts building on its own strengths and constantly dialoguing with the more established research disciplines serves as a general guideline throughout the activities at the Orpheus Institute.