It’s starting to look a lot like work party (Julebord) season, and we are excited to brag about ours shamelessly, but also ask: what makes a good celebration between colleagues?

In the last show of the 2024 season, Julie, Kristina, Aleksander and Ieva sit down to chat about how musicologists celebrate Christmas. By sharing the perspectives of our party committee and our in-house band, we reflect on the importance of collective music-making, listen to some tunes, and have some laughs.

References:

Wham! - Last Christmas

Vazelina Bilopphøggers - Hem'att tel jul

Oslo fagottkor - Running To The Sea

Carola and Viktor Norén - Stjärnorna lyser för oss

As we are closing up on Halloween, Kristina Klugnes and Eirik Jacobsen take us though some historical moments of horror film music! What is the sound of horror music and how has it developed from the 1930s until today?

In this episode, we take a stroll with IMV postdoctoral fellow Sadie Menicanin through Oslo’s Botaniske hage. As we walk along gravel paths and under shady boughs, we discuss Sadie’s recent and current research related to music and gardens. The conversation touches on garden scenes in French grand opera, Vienna’s municipal planning of green space in the later 19th century, erotically charged greenhouses, imperial botanical gardens, outdoor concerts, songs for hiking, class-coded noise complaints in public green spaces, and more.

Together with her colleague Cana McGhee, Sadie is hosting a symposium on 28-29 October at IMV called “grounded,” which will delve into themes of soil, waste, and decomposition, and will explore music’s many connections to such material and political environmental matters.