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RMA Music & Philosophy Study Group @rma-mpsg.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

The formal part of MPSG 2026 now comes to a close. Many thanks to everyone who presented, performed, chaired, organised, and took part in the conversations over these two days. It has been a thoughtful, generous, and wide-ranging gathering, and we are very grateful to all who helped make it so ☺️

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RMA Music & Philosophy Study Group @rma-mpsg.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

In her performance lecture Voegelin asks building on Hannah #Arendt “Do we have to play bad music together to practice an anti-fascist aesthetics and politics?”

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RMA Music & Philosophy Study Group @rma-mpsg.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Our third keynote at MPSG 2026: Salomé Voegelin on "Can We Play Anti-Fascist Music. Together. Or Are Authoritarians Better Musicians?" #MPSG26 #PhilosophyOfMusic #MusicPhilosophy #Anti-Fascism

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RMA Music & Philosophy Study Group @rma-mpsg.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Taking Eric Dolphy’s remark that “music is in the air, once you hear it, it’s gone” as a point of departure, the BSA Associates Session asks how music persists, returns, and is remembered across time. With Šarūnas Šavėla, Miglė and Andy Hamilton. With thanks to the British Society of Aesthetics!

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RMA Music & Philosophy Study Group @rma-mpsg.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Vasco Andre Dias from @universityofleeds.bsky.social brings Jankelevitch in conversation with the philosophy of Madhyamaka Buddhism to argue that language ought to be skilfully deployed (‘skilful means’ = upāya) so as to unsettle the metaphysics that remains implicit in language. #mpsg24

Chair: Victor Arul. Speaker: Vasco Andre Dias

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RMA Music & Philosophy Study Group @rma-mpsg.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

@maconholt.bsky.social takes up the psychoanalytic/dynamic figuration of depression as a symptom of an underlying problem in the agential expression of desire (Freud 1914; Lacan 1990; Kline 1975; Town 2022 and @robinjames.bsky.social) to show both how recession pop aestheticises impasse. #mpsg26

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RMA Music & Philosophy Study Group @rma-mpsg.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Music & Philosophy go #Gaga in Emil Egembauer’s talk.

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RMA Music & Philosophy Study Group @rma-mpsg.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

@jakedownsmusic.bsky.social opens the panel on recession pop with the question: What happens to commercial music when economies collapse?

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RMA Music & Philosophy Study Group @rma-mpsg.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Now at MPSG 2026: Simone Mahrenholz on From Physics to Metaphysics: Musical “Profundity”, Acoustics, and a New Perspective on the Mind-Body Problem. A keynote drawing sound, materiality, and consciousness into a strikingly rich philosophical conversation. #MPSG26 #PhilosophyOfMusic #MusicPhilosophy

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RMA Music & Philosophy Study Group @rma-mpsg.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

A moment from MPSG 2026: Ignacio Garay’s lecture-recital, where performance and philosophical reflection met in especially vivid form. #MPSG26 #MusicPhilosophy #LectureRecital

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RMA Music & Philosophy Study Group @rma-mpsg.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Daniel Regnier argues in his talk on Al-Fārābī’s Philosophy of Music “that organology plays a crucial role in Al-Fārābī’s subtle account of music as an embodied practice significant in ethical life.”

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RMA Music & Philosophy Study Group @rma-mpsg.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Keynote by Nicole Grimes @tcddublin.bsky.social Picking up on the notion of #futurity by philosopher of Mary #Wollstonecraft Grimes points out that “The field of music and philosophy continues to reproduce a history in which women’s work is structurally difficult to recognize as formative.”

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RMA Music & Philosophy Study Group @rma-mpsg.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

A few more impressions from MPSG 2026! We are very grateful to Dublin City University for such a warm welcome and for hosting this year’s conference in a setting that has already become part of the conversation. @dublincityuni.bsky.social #MPSG26 #PhilosophyOfMusic #MusicPhilosophy

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RMA Music & Philosophy Study Group @rma-mpsg.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Brilliant title by Victor Arul “To err is digital” What to make if audio glitches in video games? Is there a technological capacity for independent action?

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RMA Music & Philosophy Study Group @rma-mpsg.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Welcome to our conference! Check out our programme here docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

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MPSG26 Schedule overview.xlsx

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RMA Music & Philosophy Study Group @rma-mpsg.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Lisa Gombini giving an intriguing provocation arguing that the question if AI can be creative and authentic is the wrong to ask. We need new philosophical categories to think about AI generated music, especially when it comes to the notion of cultural authenticity #MPSG26

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RMA Music & Philosophy Study Group @rma-mpsg.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

🔔 A little more time to join us: registration for MPSG 2026 has been extended until 25 June! We look forward to welcoming delegates to Dublin City University on 9–10 July for keynote talks, themed and free sessions, and lecture-recitals. Register here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/10th-confe...

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RMA Music & Philosophy Study Group @rma-mpsg.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

Why attend MPSG 2026? Not for a single answer to what music and philosophy are, but for a programme that keeps the question open from many sides: history and futurity, sound and consciousness, virtuosity and materiality, and politics and performance. Links for abstracts and registration below.

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RMA Music & Philosophy Study Group @rma-mpsg.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

What futures, truths, and political possibilities can music disclose? MPSG 2026 keynote talks explore alternative histories, musical “profundity”, mind and body, and anti-fascist agency. Register here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/10th-confe... @royalmusical.bsky.social @britaesthetics.bsky.social

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RMA Music & Philosophy Study Group @rma-mpsg.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

🔔 Final registration for MPSG 2026 closes on 19 June! We look forward to welcoming delegates to Dublin City University on 9–10 July for two days of keynote talks, themed and free sessions, and lecture-recitals at the intersection of music and philosophy. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/10th-confe...

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RMA Music & Philosophy Study Group @rma-mpsg.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

Have you already sorted out accomodation for #MPSG26 ? Limited number if rooms on the All Hallows Campus are available! First come, first sleep. Find other recommended options on our website. dcu-rooms.host.netaffinity.io/ibe/DCUROOMS...

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RMA Music & Philosophy Study Group @rma-mpsg.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

We are excited to announce our 3 keynote speakers for #MPSG26 Prof Salomé Voegelin Professor of Sound @unioftheartslondon.bsky.social Dr Nicole Grimes @nicoleegrimes.bsky.social Ass Professor of Music @tcddublin.bsky.social Prof Simone Mahrenholz Professor of Philosophy @umanitoba.bsky.social

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RMA Music & Philosophy Study Group @rma-mpsg.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

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RMA Music & Philosophy Study Group @rma-mpsg.bsky.social · 28/09/2025

"What is ‘musical thought’? Can music be considered a form of thinking? How to think in, with or through music?" Send a paper proposal to @cdysers.bsky.social and Malte Koble to join the conversation on "Liminal Musicking"! musicandphilosophy.ac.uk/2025/09/25/c...

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CFP Themed Session 3 - Liminal Musicking - Music & Philosophy

The Royal Musical Association Music and Philosophy Study Group aims to provide a long-term forum for those with an interest in music and philosophy.

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RMA Music & Philosophy Study Group @rma-mpsg.bsky.social · 11/08/2025

Dear music and philosphy enthusiasts, friends and collegues, stay tuned, our call for papers coming soon!

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RMA Music & Philosophy Study Group @rma-mpsg.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

Join us online! "Reassessing Romantic Music Aesthetics" with Matthew Pritchard, Katherine Hambridge, Tomás McAuley Wednesday, 26 February 2025 – 16:30-18:00 (UK time) musicandphilosophy.ac.uk/2025/02/06/2...

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26.02. Reassessing Romantic Music Aesthetics - Music & Philosophy

The Royal Musical Association Music and Philosophy Study Group aims to provide a long-term forum for those with an interest in music and philosophy.

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RMA Music & Philosophy Study Group @rma-mpsg.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

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26.02. Reassessing Romantic Music Aesthetics - Music & Philosophy

The Royal Musical Association Music and Philosophy Study Group aims to provide a long-term forum for those with an interest in music and philosophy.

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RMA Music & Philosophy Study Group @rma-mpsg.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

CFP from the European Network for the Philosophy of Music AI in Music: Creation, Performance and Interpretation Strasbourg (France) September 25–27, 2025 Deadline 31. January musicandphilosophy.ac.uk/2025/01/14/c...

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RMA Music & Philosophy Study Group @rma-mpsg.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

CFP Symposium @oeaw.bsky.social Eduard Hanslick, 1825–2025: Background, Context, Legacy Vienna, ÖAW Campus September 18–19, 2025

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RMA Music & Philosophy Study Group @rma-mpsg.bsky.social · 07/11/2023

If you are at AMS this year don't miss the Music & Philosophy panel from the like-minded MPSG at AMS musicandphilosophy.tumblr.com/post/7332472...

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RMA Music & Philosophy Study Group @rma-mpsg.bsky.social · 07/11/2023

We have received a huge bulk of paper proposals for our upcoming conference #MPSG24 and are incredibely excited to read, discuss and select them blind! Good luck to all of you who have submitted something.

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RMA Music & Philosophy Study Group @rma-mpsg.bsky.social · 23/10/2023

Porpose a Paper by 31. October to join us in London 2024! The call for papers for the RMA Music and Philosophy Study Group conference 2024 is now live! Head to our website for further details: musicandphilosophy.ac.uk/events/mpsg24/

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RMA Music & Philosophy Study Group @rma-mpsg.bsky.social · 23/10/2023

CFP Themed Session ‘Being Contemporary’ In the aftermath of modernity, and the passing of the postmodern, how are we to know and show what it is to live in the conditions of contemporaneity? musicandphilosophy.ac.uk/2023/10/23/c...

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CFP Themed Session: ‘Being Contemporary’ - Music & Philosophy

The Royal Musical Association Music and Philosophy Study Group aims to provide a long-term forum for those with an interest in music and philosophy.

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