Expansion of technical infrastructure @IWK
25.02.2026
Our Department of Music Acoustics – Wiener Klangstil is delighted to announce a significant expansion of its technical infrastructure: we now have access to Polytec's VibroScan QTec laser Doppler vibrometer. This high-precision measurement technology allows vibrations to be measured without contact and with maximum accuracy. The new system opens up expanded possibilities for us in experimental research and will play an important role, particularly in demanding measurement tasks and future research projects. Our employees have also received comprehensive training from LB-acoustics in order to be able to make optimal use of the new system's full potential.
Guest visitor @IWK
24.02.2026
We are very pleased to welcome the visiting researcher Aimar Yeregui Bacaicoa from the Universidad Pública de Navarra (UPNA), Department of Statistics, Computer Science and Mathematics, to our institute. As part of his research stay, he delivered a presentation entitled "Engineering Human Performance: From Clinical Rehabilitation to Instrumental Motion Analysis". The talk was given within the framework of his PhD studies and provided exciting insights into his current research work. The presentation was conducted in a hybrid format, allowing participants to attend both in person and online.
Distinguished lecture series: Music and Digital Humanities
16.02.2026
The Distinguished Lecture Series 'Music and Digital Humanities' at mdw invites leading international experts in diverse aspects of DH to share their perspectives with our students, faculty, and community. The series is aimed at a broad, non-technical audience. It provides a varied overview of the history and current state of DH as it applies to music, its philosophical underpinnings and societal implications, and is expected to yield insights into relevant methodologies, technologies, infrastructures, and applications working with humanities datasets. Topics include data management and computational analysis for digital musicology, digital editions, DH and artificial intelligence, machine learning and music information retrieval, as well as pedagogy, science communication, and citizen science. The series is convened by Chanda VanderHart, PhD and David M. Weigl, PhD, digital musicology researchers at the mdw's department for Music Acoustics — Wiener Klangstil, and organized in collaboration with the mdw's department of Musicology and Performance Studies. Visit the lecture series starting 02.03.2026.
E-LAUTE Workshop
30.01.2026
We would like to Annonce the workshop MUSIC – TEXT – ENCODING – RESEARCH: New Strategies for the Digital Representation of Music and Text before 1600, taking place on 26 February 2026, 9:30 am–5:00 pm, in the Grand Hall (Festsaal) of the mdw, Seilerstätte 26, 1010 Vienna. Organised by the E-LAUTE project in collaboration with the Ludwig Senfl New Edition of the Collected Works (New Senfl Edition), the workshop presents the results of the first project phase of E-LAUTE and explores innovative approaches to the digital representation, encoding and scholarly editing of music and text before 1600.
The full workshop programme will be available here from 5 February. Participation is free, and all interested colleagues are warmly invited to attend and join the discussion.
We are hiring a new Praedoc!
29.01.2026
The Department of Music Acoustics – Wiener Klangstil is looking for a competent Praedoc to join our team and work on the FWF financed project "Let's Encode! Crowd-Encoding and Validation of Music Scores".
You can find more information at https://www.mdw.ac.at/bewerbungs
portal/mittelbau/344.
Application deadline: Monday, 16 February 2026
Best Student Paper Awards for our PhD Students
08.01.2025
We are happy to share the success of our two PhD students and former project members, Titas Lasickas and Alessio Lampis, at the POMA Student Paper Competition! Titas Lasickas received the Best Student Paper Award for his POMA paper, titled "The influence of side hole undercutting on vorticity", which he presented at the ISMRA 2025 conference. He was also awarded for the best student presentation at the Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America. PhD student Alessio Lampis received the Best Student Paper Award for his contribution to the ISMRA 2025 conference, titled „Experimental analysis of cello string types: influence on playability and tonal characteristics using Schelleng diagrams". Congratulations!
CLARIAH-AT Roadshow beim DH Fest an der CEU
05.12.2025
On the Digital Humanities Fest at the Central European University (CEU) on December 4, the head of the Department of Music Acoustics – Wiener Klagstil, Mr. Werner Goebl, presented mei-friend. As part of the CLARIAH-AT Roadshow, he gave a presentation entitled "mei-friend: Broadening Access to Music Encoding for Digital Musicology". The editor is available from https://mei-friend.mdw.ac.at, with comprehensive documentation at https://mei-friend.github.io.
New FWF Science Communication Research Project
24.11.2025
We are very happy to announce that the new science communication project The Vienna New Year's Concerts: "Same procedure as every year?" has been accepted by the FWF and will be implemented at the IWK starting in December 2025. Led by David Weigl, the project will demonstrate how the mixture of tradition and change in the Vienna Philharmonic's New Year's Concerts offers a unique data set for analyzing musical developments. Specially developed open-source tools will be used for this purpose, which synchronize concert recordings and enable comparative listening and navigation in digital scores. The tools and the recording collection will be presented at the House of Strauss and further developed for intuitive use with the help of user studies.
Student research visit
12.11.2025
We would like to welcome a doctoral student researcher Mr. Champ Darabundit from McGill University! Mr. Darabundit will be staying at the IWK for a few weeks. During his visit, he will work on the physical modeling of woodwind instruments to study various aspects of their playability. In particular, the study will examine how structural modifications in the geometry of the mouthpiece may influence the instrument’s playability.