[MEI-L] Music and Digital Humanities: Monday 22. June, Panel on Digital Editions

[David Weigl]

Distinguished Lecture Series in Music and Digital Humanities

https://iwk.mdw.ac.at/music-dh

The next lecture in the Distinguished Lecture Series on Music and Digital Humanities at the mdw — University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna will take place on Monday 22 June 2026 and take the form of a panel session on Digital Editions. It will feature three presenters: Christoph Steindl (Austrian National Library), Kateryna Schöning (University of Vienna), and Iacopo Cividini (International Mozarteum Foundation).

The lecture will start at 17:00 (Vienna/CEST) and take place in the Bankettsaal, mdw Campus.  As always, the lecture will be streamed via Zoom, and both in-person and remote participation is free.

Zoom Link:
https://mdw-ac-at.zoom.us/j/67606221415?pwd=9VUR9zPcIe43mV2Gj5IIXyd3jgWZw1.1

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Christoph Steindl: Spotlight on Digital Editions at the Austrian National Library

Abstract: Digital scholarly editions make a significant contribution to the deeper exploration of the extensive collections of the Austrian National Library. For this reason, a core infrastructure for digital editions has been available to researchers since 2018, which is continuously further developed through the diversity of new projects. The technical implementation of these edition projects goes hand in hand with scholarly research questions. Therefore, editions at the Austrian National Library are conceived holistically and are not offered just as a service. The ability to provide an edition in a long-term and sustainable way requires intensive discussion already during project runtime; this includes, among other things, the digitization process of the edited material, consistent data modeling, as well as questions of use and interface design.

Biography: Christoph Steindl heads the Department Research and Data Services at the Austrian National Library. He is involved in the technical support and conceptual development in the field of digital humanities at the library, which includes, among other things, the sustainable infrastructure for digital editions and the ÖNB Labs. In addition, he is deeply engaged with topics such as data modeling and data provision, with a strong focus on GLAM institutions. Currently, the Austrian National Library is also participating in the development of the European Collaborative Cloud for Cultural Heritage (ECCCH). He studied media informatics at the University of Vienna and also worked there as a software developer and system administrator.

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Kateryna Schöning: An Offstage View of the E-LAUTE Project

Abstract: E-LAUTE (Electronic Linked Annotated Unified Tablature Edition) is an open-access, comprehensive, and interactive digital edition of the lute tablatures (special notation for lutes) of the German-speaking area between 1450 and 1550: www.e-laute.info<http://www.e-laute.info>. Comprising roughly 2,000 pages, this vast corpus had not been investigated as a whole before E-LAUTE and was previously barely accessible to scholars, professional musicians, and the wider public alike; it had not been deciphered and had therefore been evaluated only selectively. This presentation will briefly outline the history of the project, its core conception, its current status, key findings, and the remaining 'work in progress' of this major edition. The subsequent discussion will offer a look behind the scenes, exploring both the hurdles faced and the insights gained throughout the project's lifespan.

Biography: Kateryna Schöning, PD Dr, studied and completed her PhD in Kharkiv (Ukraine), worked 2008-2016 in Leipzig, Mannheim, and since 2016 in Vienna, where she carried out numerous research projects on music before and around 1600. She is currently a Senior Scientist at the Department of Musicology at the University of Vienna and head of the E-LAUTE project (http://www.e-laute.info). She mainly focuses on the interdisciplinary research on the music in the 16th century, i.a. the relationships between music and humanism, music and texts, as well as the topics of digital humanities and music editing. 2024 she finished her second book Loci Communes and Tablatures in the German Area in the 16th Century (Hollitzer, 2025) - https://www.jstor.org/content/oa_book_monograph/jj.34829427. More: https://www.katerynaschoening.at

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Iacopo Cividini: Beyond Open Access: The Digital Mozart Edition as an 'Open Edition'

Abstract: The Digital Mozart Edition (DME) aims to digitally edit the complete works of Wolfgang Amadé Mozart and provide them free of charge worldwide via the Internet for research, teaching, and performance. Beyond this purely technical open-access approach, the project defines itself as an "open edition" in the broadest sense: medially open through the integration of diverse source types such as libretti, letters, digital reproductions, and audio/video recordings; text-critically open through the choice between various historical versions and variants; methodologically open through the transparent presentation of editorial decisions; and performatively open through new, application-oriented tools designed for musical practice. Availability under a Creative Commons license ensures the sustainable and free reuse of all editorial data.

Biography: Iacopo Cividini, born in Bergamo in 1975, studied musicology at the Università degli Studi di Pavia and the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz. In 2005, he received his PhD from the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich with a dissertation on Dvořák's solo concertos. Since 2007, he has managed the online catalog and the online edition of the libretti for Mozart’s operas as part of the Digital Mozart Edition (DME) at the Salzburg Mozarteum Foundation. Since 2017, he has worked on the musical text edition of the DME, initially as a research associate, and since 2023 as its team leader. His research interests include 18th- and 19th-century music editing, musical analysis, Mozart's operas, libretti, and the philosophy of the Enlightenment.

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Please refer to https://iwk.mdw.ac.at/music-dh for further information.

The final lecture in our series will take place on 29. June 2026, 17:00 (Vienna/CEST).

Artemi-Maria Gioti (Mozarteum University Salzburg)

"Autoethnography of a Data-making Practice".

Abstract: In this talk, I will draw on autoethnographic notes from the compositional process, rehearsals, and performances of my work Bias II for piano and interactive music system to examine the critical insights that artistic research in composition can offer into machine learning and data practices. I will focus specifically on the critical perspectives that emerged through the creation of datasets, the training of machine learning models, and their deployment in live performance settings. Bringing an autoethnography of the data-making practices involved in the work into dialogue with theoretical frameworks from critical data studies, I will propose a deconstructive critique of data as material, processual, and relational, and foreground the aesthetic decisions embedded in them. Finally, a speculative error analysis of one of the machine learning models deployed in the piece will serve as a site of critical inquiry into the epistemological assumptions underlying machine learning systems.

Biography: Artemi-Maria Gioti is a composer and artistic researcher conducting critical research at the intersection of music and artificial intelligence (AI). She is Professor of Artistic Research in Music at Mozarteum University Salzburg. Her compositional work focuses on interactive works involving reciprocal, real-time interaction between human performers and computer music systems incorporating machine learning (ML). Through this practice, she explores how technology reconfigures musical practices and ontologies, such as authorship and the musical work. Her research brings autoethnographies of the compositional process into dialogue with theoretical frameworks from critical AI and critical data studies, to investigate questions of data materiality, data semiotics and ML epistemology. Gioti is a core team member of the ERC-funded project MusAI (Music and Artificial Intelligence: Building Critical Interdisciplinary Studies), led by Georgina Born. She previously served as the Principal Investigator of the FWF-funded research project Inter_agency. She holds a doctoral degree in Music Composition from the University of Music and Performing Arts Graz with previous studies in Composition, Electroacoustic Composition and Computer Music at the University of Macedonia (Thessaloniki, Greece), the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna and the University of Music and Performing Arts Graz (Austria). Her previous academic appointments include positions at the University of Music "Carl Maria von Weber" Dresden (Germany), UCL's Anthropology Department (UK) and the Institute of Electronic Music and Acoustics (IEM) of the University of Music and Performing Arts Graz (Austria).
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