The Department of Music is engaged with both conventional areas of academic research and scholarship, as well as artistic research. We want to highlight the rich breadth of work in these latter practices, since it is not always easy to explain or show. The research-concert format provides us with a forum to reveal some of these practices, and in a presentation format that musicians are familiar with. We are also interested in giving the audience a glimpse into how our staff work when they are not on stage by offering a live equivalent to "behind the scenes" documentaries within the world of film. 

We can talk about rehearsal techniques and show how we employ them, and we can see various connections when the music is performed, but central to the tacit knowledge we explore in artistic research is the acknowledgement that the music needs to be experienced physically. This observation relates to a process that is not always possible to capture through language. Through our research concerts, we aim to show the diversity of artistic research our department is involved in, and we aim to explain and demonstrate these processes as transparently as possible.  

Some of our staff will emphasize the music itself more than lecturing and multimedia presentations, while others will offer more traditional academic lecture-presentations. Both directions are accepted and welcome, and both approaches are necessary to show the breadth of our activities. We also want to show the interdisciplinary collaborations of our work. As such, several of these research concerts have included NTNU colleagues from other fields who have helped to illuminate areas of our research, thereby helping audiences and performers to gain an even clearer understanding of what we do.