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Mats Küssner

@matskussner.bsky.social
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Professor of Applied Musicology at the Gustav Mahler Private University for Music in Klagenfurt (Austria)

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Mats Küssner @matskussner.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
New paper out! 🎧🥽 In Orpheus reimagined, we explored how VR changes the live classical concert experience — with strong potential for immersive, multisensory engagement and high audience interest in attending VR concerts again. Open Access: link.springer.com/article/10.1... #VR #MusicPsychology
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Orpheus reimagined: an exploratory study on the impact of augmented reality on experiencing classical music in a live concert - Virtual Reality
This exploratory study investigates how virtual reality (VR) reshapes the experience of live classical music concerts. In a within-subject field experiment embedded in a concert series (Orpheus reimag...
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Mats Küssner @matskussner.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
🎵 How does music shape thought? Join us for a public talk by Elizabeth Margulis (Princeton): Musical imaginings and intersubjectivity in spontaneous thought 🗓 May 22, 6PM 📍 HU Berlin, Am Kupfergraben 5, R. 501 Hosted by @humboldtuni.bsky.social 🔗 Info: www.international.hu-berlin.de/en/veranstal...
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Lecture: How music shapes thought – imagination and intersubjectivity International
Why do people spend so much time listening to music – and where do their thoughts wander while doing so? In her lecture, music psychologist Elizabeth Margulis from Princeton University explores the in...
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David Sears @davidsears.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
#MusicPerception just released its April issue (42/4)! @ausmuspsysoc.bsky.social @musicperception.bsky.social @escom.bsky.social #musicscience online.ucpress.edu/mp/issue/42/4
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Volume 42 Issue 4 | Music Perception | University of California Press
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Mats Küssner @matskussner.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
🎉 New paper out! Our study explores how older adults use music to cope with loneliness, highlighting how music can act as a social surrogate by evoking emotional support and social connection. 🔎 Read the full paper here: doi.org/10.1177/1029... #MusicPsychology #SocialSurrogacy #Loneliness
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Music as social surrogate? A qualitative analysis of older adults’ choices of music to alleviate loneliness - Ceren Ayyildiz, Olivia Geibel, Steffen A. Herff, Sarah Hashim, Tuomas Eerola, Mats B. Küss...
People are living longer than ever. Loneliness is prevalent across various age groups, posing a serious threat to both wellbeing and health. The social surrogac...
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Mats Küssner @matskussner.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
🎶 New paper alert! Our study shows that listeners tend to match dissonant harmonies (from Bach chorales to pélog scales) with rougher textures. 🔎 Read it for free for the next 30 days: tinyurl.com/ysmcea5z Feat. our custom-built Sandpaper Box at @humboldtuni.bsky.social — check out the pics! 😎
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Mats Küssner @matskussner.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
Thrilled to launch "Sounds of Water", a 2-year research project with Elizabeth Margulis (Princeton), exploring how water-related music sparks imagination. 🌊🎶 A key part is a citizen science game at Humboldt-Labor's "Water" exhibition in Oct 2025. www.international.hu-berlin.de/en/news/soun...
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"Sounds of Water": New research project with Princeton International
Supported by the Princeton-Humboldt Strategic Partnership Initiative, researchers from both universities are launching the project "Sounds of Water". It explores how music evokes thoughts and which ro...
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Mats Küssner @matskussner.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
✨ Neu erschienen: „Interdisziplinarität in der Disziplin. Musikwissenschaft als akademisches Fach“ 🎶📖 Der Sammelband basiert auf einer Ringvorlesung an der @udkberlin.bsky.social Mit Sebastian Klotz durfte ich das Kapitel „Hören und Erkennen“ beisteuern. 📚 Jetzt lesen: 👉 doi.org/10.25366/202...
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Mats Küssner @matskussner.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
🚀 New Publication! 🚀 Excited to share that my chapter with @hprior.bsky.social is out in Musik und Klimawandel (ed. Sara Beimdieke & Julian Caskel, transcript Verlag)! We explore how musicology can foster ecological awareness and engagement. 🌍🎶 📖 www.transcript-verlag.de/978-3-8376-7...
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Musik und Klimawandel
Klima, Krise und Musik – warum eine wissenschaftliche Auseinandersetzung dringend geboten ist.
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Mats Küssner @matskussner.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
🎶 Early harmonies, enduring echoes: How do early life experiences and personality traits shape Music Performance Anxiety (MPA)? Our mini-review explores the roots of MPA and ways to support musicians' resilience and well-being. Read more: www.frontiersin.org/journals/psy... #PerformanceScience
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Frontiers | Early harmonies, enduring echoes—how early life experiences and personality traits shape music performance anxiety
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Mats Küssner @matskussner.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
🎶 Jetzt die letzten kostenlosen Tickets für unser Konzert-Experiment „Orpheus reimagined“ am 18./19. Jan. 2025 in Berlin-Karlshorst buchen! Taucht mit VR-Brille in Glucks „Orpheus und Eurydike“ ein. 👉 pretix.eu/smbl/orpheus... Gefördert durch @berlinualliance.bsky.social @humboldtuni.bsky.social
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Mats Küssner @matskussner.bsky.social · 03/01/2025
🎶✨ Frohes Neues Jahr! 🎉 Vorerst letzte Chance für eine Teilnahme an unserem Konzert-Experiment „Orpheus reimagined“: Am 18./19. Jan. 2025 in Berlin-Karlshorst! Taucht mit VR-Brille in Glucks „Orpheus und Eurydike“ ein. Kostenlos, Plätze begrenzt! 👉 pretix.eu/smbl/orpheus...
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Caroline Owen @carocaronet.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
Familles with children aged 5-11 please take part in our @york.ac.uk online music listening experiment… What does music make you feel or imagine? #musicscience #musiceducation Info and access: york.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...
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Mats Küssner @matskussner.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
And it's a wrap! We’re delighted to announce the publication of our editorial "Music and Mental Imagery" in Music & Science. Big thanks to my wonderful co-editors, Liila Taruffi and @solangeglasser.bsky.social! journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... #musicscience #mentalimagery
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Mats Küssner @matskussner.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
🎶 Wir starten in die nächste Runde! Erlebe *Orpheus reimagined* am 14.12. in #Berlin! Glucks Meisterwerk in VR – völlig neu interpretiert! Anmeldung: pretix.eu/smbl/orpheus... Gefördert durch @berlinualliance.bsky.social im #OpenHumboldt Freiräume-Programm der @humboldtuni.bsky.social #musicscience
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Mats Küssner @matskussner.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
🎉 Happy to share that Antonio Montañés Jiménez (Oxford) & I received seed funding from @britishacademy.bsky.social & @humboldt-foundation.de for our project 'Exploring the entanglement of Christian flamenco music and religious experiences' #musicscience www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/news/the-bri...
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The British Academy announces seed funding in partnership with the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation to explore creative interventions for social and environmental crises
The British Academy has announced seed funding for six SHAPE research projects in partnership with the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation as part of the Knowledge Frontiers Symposium.
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Kelly Jakubowski @kellyjakubowski.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
Dear musician friends, My PhD student, Aliya, is doing a survey asking musicians to describe how they use imagining music in their heads in their work. It will likely take you less than 20 minutes, and you can win an Amazon voucher. Thanks in advance! durhamuniversity.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...
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Mats Küssner @matskussner.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
✨ Stimmungsvoller Auftakt unserer VR-Konzertreihe „Orpheus reimagined“! 🎶 Danke an alle Besucher*innen & das Junge Kammerensemble der Schostakowitsch-Musikschule. Weiter geht’s im Dez. – kostenlose Tickets folgen! 🎟️ Gefördert durch #OpenHumboldt Freiräume der Berlin University Alliance @HumboldtUni
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Mats Küssner @matskussner.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
Einen kleinen Vorgeschmack auf die Orpheus reimagined Konzerte gibt es im folgenden YouTube-Video (1:00-1:35), in dem Till Schwabenbauer, der musikalische Leiter der Konzertreihe, unser #OpenHumboldt Freiräume Projekt vorstellt. www.youtube.com/watch?v=rD5N...
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Mats Küssner @matskussner.bsky.social · 11/11/2024
🎶 Erlebe *Orpheus reimagined* am 16./17. Nov. in Berlin! Glucks Meisterwerk in VR – völlig neu interpretiert! 🎭✨ Eintritt frei! ➡️ Anmeldung: pretix.eu/smbl/orpheusvr/ Gefördert durch die Berlin University Alliance im #OpenHumboldt Freiräume Programm der @humboldtuni.bsky.social
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Mats Küssner @matskussner.bsky.social · 01/11/2024
Am 16./17. Nov startet unsere Konzertreihe "Orpheus reimagined" - ein Virtual-Reality-Erlebnis, gefördert durch die BUA als Open Humboldt Freiräume-Projekt der @humboldtuni.bsky.social Freikarten gibt es hier: pretix.eu/smbl/orpheus...
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Mats Küssner @matskussner.bsky.social · 16/10/2024
How do you best warm up at/with your instrument? Ronja Messerschmidt and I show that free improvisation is (at least) as effective as playing scales. All findings and implications for music pedagogy / #musicscience discussed here: uebenundmusizieren.de/artikel/rese...
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Warm werden – Ankommen – Wohlfühlen – Studien zum Einfluss von Tonleitern und Improvisation auf das Wohlbefinden am Instrument - Üben und Musizieren
URN: urn:nbn:de:101:1-2410161234086.485905500605 Artikel veröffentlicht am: 16.10.2024 Abstract: Positive effects of improvisation on musicians have been demonstrated many times in theoretical literat...
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Mats Küssner @matskussner.bsky.social · 19/09/2024
Earworm to go #Berlin #mentalimagery
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Mats Küssner @matskussner.bsky.social · 24/05/2024
Delighted to see the final paper of our Special Collection on Music and Mental Imagery published in Music & Science. All 11 articles can be found here: journals.sagepub.com/topic/collec... #musicscience #mentalimagery
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Mats Küssner @matskussner.bsky.social · 05/05/2024
Job alert: Permanent Lecturer position (65%) in Systematic Musicology. #musicscience Apply by 17 May 2024 to join us in the Department of Musicology and Media Studies @humboldtuni.bsky.social haushalt-und-personal.hu-berlin.de/de/personal/...
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Wissenschaftliche*r Mitarbeiter*in (m/w/d) mit 65 v. H. d. regelm. Arbeitszeit - E 13 TV-L HU (Diese Stelle ist unbefristet.)
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Mats Küssner @matskussner.bsky.social · 25/04/2024
Tonight at 6pm in #Berlin: Join us for Professor Eric Clarke's guest lecture, entitled 'Entangled. Being-with-music', in the Department of Musicology and Media Studies @humboldtuni.bsky.social. All welcome.
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Mats Küssner @matskussner.bsky.social · 12/03/2024
Thrilled to share our latest #musicscience paper on the neuro-oscillatory profiles of static and dynamic music-induced visual imagery: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #mentalimagery
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The neuro-oscillatory profiles of static and dynamic music-induced visual imagery
Visual imagery, i.e., seeing in the absence of the corresponding retinal input, has been linked to visual and motor processing areas of the brain. Mus…
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Mats Küssner @matskussner.bsky.social · 31/01/2024
'A huge man is bursting out of a rock' - new #musicscience study led by M. Antović shows that listeners' associations and imagery with music is full of creative references to moving bodies which share underlying embodied, image-schematic structures. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... #mentalimagery
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Mats Küssner @matskussner.bsky.social · 22/01/2024
Our new #musicscience study, led by Sarah Hashim, shows that aphantasics experience music less emotionally and with fewer episodic memories compared to controls. Other aspects such as liking, musical reward and musical sophistication are unaffected. Full paper: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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Mats Küssner @matskussner.bsky.social · 21/12/2023
👇 This #musicscience talk by Daniela Sammler is on tonight! Join us live at HU Berlin or via Zoom. Abstract and link here: www.musikundmedien.hu-berlin.de/de/musikwiss...
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Gastvorlesungsreihe im Wintersemester 2023/24
Collegium Musicologicum, Am Kupfergraben 5, 10117 Berlin, Raum 501, Beginn der Vorträge: 18 Uhr s.t.
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Mats Küssner @matskussner.bsky.social · 18/12/2023
Join us this Thu (21 Dec) at 6pm (CET) for our last departmental guest lecture @ HU Berlin in 2023! We're very much looking forward to Daniela Sammler's #musicscience presentation on 'How the brain plays music: From musical ideas to joint performance'. Zoom: hu-berlin.zoom-x.de/j/61869369418
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Mats Küssner @matskussner.bsky.social · 24/11/2023
Are You a Synaesthete? Participate in Our Online Study on Multimodal Mental Imagery in Music Listening! #musicscience #mentalimagery carolinecurwen.com/2023/09/21/a...
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Are You a Synaesthete? Participate in Our Online Study on Multimodal Mental Imagery in Music Listeni...
Do you experience vivid mental imagery while listening to music? Whether it's seeing colours, feeling sensations, or even tasting flavours, we want to hear about your unique experiences. Conducted by ...
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Mats Küssner @matskussner.bsky.social · 03/11/2023
Interested in a #musicscience / #musicology internship in the Department of Musicology and Media Studies at HU Berlin? Apply for one of our projects before 10 Dec and join our team in the summer of 2024: hic.hu-berlin.de/en/internshi...
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Mats Küssner @matskussner.bsky.social · 03/11/2023
Highly important and relevant study by Borgohain et al. provides novel empirical, transcultural, and historical insights into visual mental imagery induced by Hindustani classical music. A must-read for anyone interested in #musicscience and #mentalimagery: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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Visual Mental Imagery Evoked in Indian Classical Music: A Listener-Oriented Study - Junmoni Borgohai...
Music and visual mental imagery (VMI) are closely associated. The visual depiction of musical instruments and musical settings is central to music iconography a...
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Alex Lamont @alexlamont.bsky.social · 28/10/2023
Funded PhD project on music, autobiographical and collective memories with me at Keele Uni, UK -psych grads only, sorry, but distance learners welcome. Closes 4 December. #musicscience
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Mats Küssner @matskussner.bsky.social · 27/10/2023
Fantastic to see this new paper out: Music listening evokes story-like visual imagery with both idiosyncratic and shared content. journals.plos.org/plosone/arti... #musicscience #mentalimagery
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Music listening evokes story-like visual imagery with both idiosyncratic and shared content
There is growing evidence that music can induce a wide range of visual imagery. To date, however, there have been few thorough investigations into the specific content of music-induced visual imagery,...
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Kelly Jakubowski @kellyjakubowski.bsky.social · 28/09/2023
I'm recruiting a funded PhD student for our new project on music and imagination from January. Looking for someone with good experimental design and quantitative statistical skills. Happy to receive informal enquiries/chat to potential applicant! www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DCW396/p...
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