Mats Küssner
Music psychologist | Lecturer in Musicology at HU Berlin
- 🎵 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...
- Reposted by Mats Küssner#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
- 🎉 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
- 🎶 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! 😎
- 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...
- ✨ 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...
- 🚀 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...
- 🎶 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
- 🎶 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
- 🎶✨ 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...
- Ein gemeinsames Projekt der @humboldtuni.bsky.social und der Schostakowitsch-Musikschule Berlin-Lichtenberg, gefördert durch #OpenHumboldt Freiräume aus Mitteln der @berlinualliance.bsky.social im Rahmen der Exzellenzstrategie von Bund und Ländern.
- Reposted by Mats KüssnerFamilles 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_...
- 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
- 🎶 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
- 🎉 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...
- Reposted by Mats KüssnerDear 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_...
- ✨ 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
- 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...
- 🎶 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
- 🎶 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
- 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...
- 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...
- Earworm to go #Berlin #mentalimagery
- 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
- 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/...
- 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.
- 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
- '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
- 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/...
- 👇 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...
- 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
- 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
- Are You a Synaesthete? Participate in Our Online Study on Multimodal Mental Imagery in Music Listening! #musicscience #mentalimagery carolinecurwen.com/2023/09/21/a...
- 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...
- 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/...
- Reposted by Mats KüssnerFunded 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
- 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
