New research project, new training year
The activities of the Swiss University Center for Music Physiology in the 2012/13 season included advanced training courses and full studies, research projects and individual assistance.
The Swiss University Center for Music Physiology is a cooperation and interest group of the music physiology and music medicine departments of the Swiss music universities.
On the Homepage The abstracts of the training events held can be found on the SHZM website. In the last school year, in addition to the local events in Basel and Zurich, the supra-regional event What musicians can learn from magicians. Performance techniques of magicians through the ages takes place.
Following the completion of the SNSF research project carried out in cooperation with the University of Lausanne Respiratory responses during music performance in anxious and non-anxious music students will start next season Prolonged performance-related psychophysiological activation in high- and low-anxious music students. This follow-up project is being funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation for three years and is again being carried out in cooperation between the University of Lausanne and the SHZM.
The project launched five years ago to build up the physical condition of music students at Swiss music academies is continuing.
Further training
The continuing education course in music physiology, which is supported by the SHZM and jointly organized by lecturers from several music universities, has accepted another intake of students. Information on the CAS, DAS and Master of Advanced Studies (MAS) certificate courses can be found on the homepage.
The majority of previous graduates of the continuing education program in music physiology at the DAS level and above have taught over 100 continuing education courses at music institutions throughout Switzerland. From the 2011/2012 fall semester, they will also be teaching the modular basic music physiology course as part of the bachelor's degree course at the Kalaidos University of Music in Aarau.
Manual laboratory
Through the SHZM, numerous students and lecturers from Swiss music academies were able to make contact with the Manual laboratory at the ZHdK, which was supplemented with new equipment last season. An individual hand profile that can be created there provides assistance in the prevention and resolution of job-specific complaints, in the development of an individual posture and instrumental technique, in the selection of ergonomic aids and in practicing technique, fingering and literature selection.
Contact: www.shzm.ch
