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Cynthia M. Grund

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Cynthia M. Grund

Cynthia M. Grund (born 19 January 1956, New Haven, Connecticut)[1] is an American philosopher and educator who, as of August 2016, is an Associate Professor of Philosophy at the ⠀⠀University of Southern Denmark, where she is also Research Director for The Aesthetics of Music and Sound project.[2][3]

Biography

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Grund received her B.A. at Bryn Mawr College in Pennsylvania before continuing her studies at Uppsala University, Sweden, and at the University of Tampere, Finland, where she earned a Ph.D. in 1997 with her thesis Constitutive Counterfactuality: The Logic of Interpretation in Metaphor and Music.[3] She joined the teaching staff of the University of Southern Denmark in Odense in 1997, where she now holds the post of Associate Professor of Philosophy.[4]

In 2008, she launched an educational web-based project on Second Life aimed at reconstructing the house and surroundings on Rhode Island where the American philosopher George Berkeley lived in the 1730s.[5]

Grund, who has a background in music, is the founder and editor of the Journal of Music and Meaning.[6] She has appeared in Denmark as a piano accompanist.[7] Grund chairs Netværk for Tværvidenskabelige Studier af Musik og Betydning and has served as secretary of the Dansk Filosofisk Selsk ab where she is a member of the editorial board.[4]

Publications

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  • "Video Suite – in Three Movements: Jensenius-Westney-Grund on Motion-capture, Music and Meaning" Multimodal webpage presentation of original motion-capture video with accompanying audio as well as original documentary- and interview-video and audio of the motion-capture labwork, www.nnimipa.org/JWG.html,Nordic Network for the Integration of Music Informatics, Performance and Aesthetics, a network funded under The Nordic Council of Ministers' NordPlus Program, 2010.
  • "Filosofiske og æstetiske overvejelser over digitalisering af musik og lyd." Multimedia presedtation and paper presented at the 2010 Annual Meeting of the Danish Musicological Society/Dansk Selskab for Musikforskning Musik, lyd og digitalisering, www.musikforskning.dk/downloads/2010_papers/program_abstract_2010.html, 2010.
  • "The Real, the Virtual. . . and the Practical." i Philipsen, H., Agerbæk, L., Kampmann Walter, B., & Strange, B., Designing New Media: Learning, Communication and Innovation Copenhagen: Academica. 87-110, 2010.
  • "An Examination of the Distinction between Popular and Art Music/En undersøgelse af skelnen mellem populær- og kunstmusik." Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Danish Philosophical Association/Dansk Filosofisk Selskabs Årsmøde 2010. Erfaring og opmærksomhed/Experience and Attention, Copenhagen, Danmark, m.nsuweb.net/dbadm/fpdf/abstracts.php, 9, 2010.
  • "Music and Meaning: Duets and Dialogues." TV broadcast (in English after a short voiceover in Danish). Aabenraa, ALT: Aabenraa Lokal TV, www.aabenraa-lokal-tv.dk/wp/2010/02/15/3285, 2010.
  • "Grund, C. M., & Christensen, I. F. Interview med avatar Gunhild Soderstrom", Podcast, www.forskningsnettet.dk/da/lom?q=da/lom_0309_6, Læring og medier, 2009.
  • "Grund, C. M. Rundvisning med avatar Gunhild Soderstrom, Podcast, www.forskningsnettet.dk/da/lom?q=da/lom_0309_6, Læring og medier, 2009.
  • "JMM: The Journal of Music and Meaning 7, Section 1, www.musicandmeaning.net,Odense: Section 1, 2009.
  • "Grund, C.M & Westney, W.: Playing the Ineffable: The Romance of Musical Pragmatism." Published abstract; Paper presented at Meaning in the Arts: An Interdiscliplinary Conversation, September 11–12, 2009, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas, USA.
  • Editor and Webmaster, Homepage for the Research Program The Aesthetics of Music and Sound: Cross-Disciplinary Interplay between the Humanities, Technology and Musical Practice, www.soundmusicresearch.org, 2009.
  • Webmaster & Editor-in-Chief. The Philosophy Meets Popular Culture Initiative: www.philpopculture.dk, 2009.
  • "Pedagogy and Philosophy Viewed from the Piano Bench", Cynthia M. Grund Interviews Incoming H.C. Andersen Guest Professor William Westney." GymPæd 2.0, (2), 9-10, www.sdu.dk/~/media/Files/Om_SDU/Institutter/Ifpr/gp2/GymPaed2.ashx, 2009.
  • "Subjektiv idealisme møder virtuel virkelighed: George Berkeley og Second Life", Conference: Normativitet – At komme til rette med det regelmæssige og det uregerlige/Normativity – Coming to Terms with the Regular and the Unruly.The Annual Meeting of the Danish Philosophical Association 2009/Dansk Filosofisk Selskabs Årsmøde 2009, Århus, Danmark, 27. februar 2009 – 28. februar 2009, www1.sdu.dk/dfs/aarsmoede2009/Program%20DFS%202009.pdf, s. 41-43, 2009.
  • "Percipitopia: An Educational and Research Tool Utilizing Digital Content Creation and Textual Reappropriation in Second Life", Digital Content Creation: Creativity, Competence, Digital Content Creation: Creativity, Competence, Critique: The second international DREAM conference, September 18–20, www.dreamconference.dk/nyheder/Grund%2C%20Cynthia%20M.%20et%20al..pdf, Odense: University of Southern Denmark, 2008
  • JMM: The Journal of Music and Meaning Vol. 6, www.musicandmeaning.net, Odense, 2008.
  • "Perception and Reality in – and out – of Second Life: Second Life as a Tool for Philosophical Reflection and Instruction at the University of Southern Denmark", VISION IT – Vision for IT in Higher Education, www.eunis.dk/papers/p10.pdf, 2008.
  • "Percipitopia", An experiment in museum teaching and research within the context of a rendering of Whitehall – Irish philosopher George Berkeley's American home 1729-1731 – and envirions on the virtual campus of SDU in Second Life, slurl.com/secondlife/Bifrost/89/128/33, 2008.
  • "Issues of Meaning and Interpretation Raised by Diagetic versus Non-diagetic Use of Music in Television and Film", Conference: Sense Perception, Epistemology and Aesthetics/Sansning, Erkendelsesteori og Æstetik. The Annual Meeting of the Danish Philosophical Association 2008/Dansk Filosofisk Selskabs Årsmøde 2008, www1.sdu.dk/dfs/aarsmoede2008/Program%20-%20DFS%202008.pdf, Odense, 2008.
  • JMM: The Journal of Music and Meaning Vol. 5, www.musicandmeaning.net, Odense, 2007.
  • "How Computer Music Modeling and Retrieval Interface with Music-And-Meaning Studies: Overview of Panelists' Suggestions for Discussion Topics", Proceedings of the 2007 International Computer Music Conference, San Francisco and Copenhagen: The International Computer Music Association and Re: New-Digital Arts Forum, s. 133-136, 2007.
  • JMM: The Journal of Music and Meaning Vol. 4, www.musicandmeaning.net, Odense, 2007.
  • "Mad, betydning ... og så opstår musikken ud af lyd", Tankeføde – om mad, måltider og fødevarer i sammenhæng, Aarhus: Philosophia, s. 191-200, 2006.
  • "Interdisciplinarity and Computer Music Modeling and Information Retrieval: When Will the Humanities Get into the Act", Computer Music Modeling and Retrieval: Lecture Notes in Computer Science, nr. 3902, Berlin-Heidelberg-New York: Springer Verlag, s. 265-273, 2006.
  • "A Philosophical Wish List for Research in Music Information Retrieval", ISMIR 2006: Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Music Information Retrieval, Victoria: University of Victoria, s. 383-384, 2006.
  • "Music Information Retrieval, Memory and Culture", Some Philosophical Remarks, Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Music Information Retrieval, London: Queen Mary, University of London, s. 8-12, 2005.
  • "Double Jeopardy: The Interdisciplinary Study of Music and Meaning", Danish Yearbook of Musicology, Vol. 32, s. 9-14, 2004.
  • "Music, Logic and Intentionality", Proceedings of the Twelfth Meeting of the FWO Research Society on Foundations of Music Research: Music and Logic, Kapitel 2, University of Ghent, 2001.
  • "Værløse bymidte pakket ind i Lyrik og NTSMB: Netværk for Tværvidenskabelige studier af musik og betydning: To udgangspunkter for undersøgelsen af samspillet mellem verbal og ikkverbal betydning", Kodexbogen (bogkataloget for lyrikinstallationen) s. 15-19, 2004.
  • "Om kurset i opgaveskrivning", Sandhedens sider, Vol. IX, 1999.
  • "From Speech Act to Music Act: Some Thoughts on Intentionality and Music", Les Universaux en musique, Paris: Publications de la Sorbonne, s. 179-189, 1998.
  • "The Emergence of Music from Sound: The View from a Combined Quasi-Realist and Fictionalist Perspective", Acta Polytechnica Scandinavica No. 91: Emergence, Complexity. Hierarchy, Organization – Selected and edited papers from ECHO III, s. 305-314, 1998.
  • Constitutive Counterfactuality: The Logic of Interpretation in Metaphor and Music, Copenhagen: Askeladden, 1997.
  • "Intentionality, Food and Music: A Fictionalist Approach", Metaforer i kultur og samfund, Copenhagen: Københavns Universitet Amager, s. 61-98, 1997.
  • "De 12 spørgsmål: Nogle tanker om science fiction-film og filosofi", Inquirer, Nr. 59/60, 28-30, Amager: Institut for Film, TV og Kommunikation, Københavns Universitet, 1996.
  • "Kierkegaard and the Musical Erotic", Danish Yearbook of Philosophy, Vol. 31, 1996.
  • "Fictionalism: A Neglected Context for Studies in Musical Signification", Contemporary Music Review 1996, Vol 16, Part 7, s. 119-128, 1996.
  • "Jeremy Bentham's Theory of Fictions: Some Reflections on Its Implications for Musical Semiosis and Ontology", Musical Semiotics in Growth, Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, s. 55-71, 1996.
  • "How Philosophical Characterizations of a Musical Work Lose Sight of the Music and How It Might Be Put Back", Musical Signification: Essays in the Semiotic Theory and Analysis of Music, Berlin/New York: Mouton de Gruyter, s. 63-79, 1995.
  • "Some Remarks on Computer Art and Its Ontology", In So Many Words – Philosophical Essays Dedicated to Sven Danielsson on the Occasion of His Fiftieth Birthday, Uppsala: Philosophical Society and the Department of Philosophy, University of Uppsala, s. 17-28, 1989.
  • "Metaphors, Counterfactuals and Music", Essays on the Philosophy of Music, Acta Philosophica Fennica, Helsinki: The Philosophical Society of Finland, s. 28-53, 1988.
  • "Notation and Its Interpretation: Music Theoretical Concepts", The Semiotic Web 86: An International Yearbook, Berlin: 484, 1987.

References

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  1. ^ "Selective Curriculum Vitae for Lektor, fil.dr. Cynthia M. Grund" (PDF). www.cynthiamgrund.dk. Retrieved 17 August 2016.
  2. ^ Tarasti, Eero (1995). Musical Signification: Essays in the Semiotic Theory and Analysis of Music. Walter de Gruyter. pp. 586–. ISBN 978-3-11-014040-8.
  3. ^ a b "Cynthia M. Grund". Texas Tech University. Retrieved 17 August 2016.
  4. ^ a b "Rundt i morgen" (in Danish). Kristeligt Dagblad. 18 January 2006. Retrieved 19 August 2016.
  5. ^ "Filosofi rykker ind i Second Life" (in Danish). fyens.dk. 3 July 2008. Retrieved 19 August 2016.
  6. ^ "Editorial, JMM, The Journal of Music and Meaning, vol. 10" (PDF). musicandmeaning.net. 2011. Retrieved 17 August 2016.
  7. ^ "SDU-kolleger i koncert" (in Danish). Ugeavisen Odense. 21 December 2011. Archived from the original on 19 September 2016. Retrieved 19 August 2016.
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