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'''[mailto:michaelf@ualberta.ca Dr. Michael Frishkopf]<br>Professor and Associate Chair, Graduate Studies, [http://www.music.ualberta.ca Department of Music]'''<br>'''Director''', [http://cce.ualberta.ca Canadian Centre for Ethnomusicology (CCE)] (cce.ualberta.ca)
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'''[mailto:michaelf@ualberta.ca Dr. Michael Frishkopf]<br>Professor and Director of Graduate Studies, [http://www.music.ualberta.ca Department of Music]'''<br>'''Director''', [http://cce.ualberta.ca Canadian Centre for Ethnomusicology (CCE)] (cce.ualberta.ca)
<br>'''Adjunct Professor''', [https://www.ualberta.ca/interdisciplinary-studies/religious-studies Religious Studies]
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<br> '''Adjunct Professor''', Department of Performing Arts, Faculty of Communication and Media Studies, University for Development Studies, Ghana
<br>'''Adjunct Professor''', Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry
 
<br> [http://uofa.ualberta.ca/integrative-health-institute/scholars '''Lead''', International Traditional Medicine, Integrative Health Network]
 
<br> '''Adjunct Professor''', Faculty of Communication and Cultural Studies, University for Development Studies, Ghana
 
 
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<br>'''Mail''':  Michael Frishkopf, Department of Music, Faculty of Arts, University of Alberta, 3-10 Fine Arts Building, Edmonton, AB  CANADA T6G 2C9<br>
 
<br>'''Mail''':  Michael Frishkopf, Department of Music, Faculty of Arts, University of Alberta, 3-10 Fine Arts Building, Edmonton, AB  CANADA T6G 2C9<br>
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= Introduction =
 
= Introduction =
'''Michael Frishkopf''', Professor of Music, Director of the Canadian Centre for Ethnomusicology, Adjunct Professor of Religious Studies, and Adjunct Professor of Medicine and Dentistry at the University of Alberta (Canada), as well as Adjunct Professor at the University for Development Studies (Ghana), is an ethnomusicologist, performer, and composer. A graduate of Yale College (BS Mathematics, 1984), Tufts University (MA Ethnomusicology, 1989), and the University of California, Los Angeles (Ph.D. Music, 1999), Dr. Frishkopf’s ethnomusicological research interests include music of the Arab world; Sufi music; sound in Islamic ritual performance; music and religion; comparative music theory; the sociology of musical taste; social network analysis; (virtual [world) music]; digital music repositories; machine learning for sound recognition, music information retrieval, and soundscape therapies; music in West Africa; participatory action research; psychoacoustics and music cognition; music and global health; indigenous medicine and music as medicine for integrative health; and [http://m4ghd.org music for global human development and social change].
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'''Michael Frishkopf''', Professor of Music, and Director of the Canadian Centre for Ethnomusicology, as well as Adjunct Professor at the University for Development Studies (Ghana), is an ethnomusicologist, performer, and composer. A graduate of Yale College (BS Mathematics, 1984), Tufts University (MA Ethnomusicology, 1989), and the University of California, Los Angeles (Ph.D. Music, 1999), Dr. Frishkopf’s ethnomusicological research interests include music of the Arab world; Sufi music; sound in Islamic ritual performance; music and religion; comparative music theory; the sociology of musical taste; social network analysis; (virtual [world) music]; digital music repositories; machine learning for sound recognition, music information retrieval, and soundscape therapies; music in West Africa; participatory action research; psychoacoustics and music cognition; music and global health; indigenous medicine and music as medicine for integrative health; and [http://m4ghd.org music for global human development and social change].
  
 
His research and teaching combine a number of different fields, including ethnomusicology,  anthropology, Middle East studies, religious/Islamic studies, psychoacoustics, computer science, media studies, literary studies, music theory. He is a lifetime member of the Society for Ethnomusicology, the International Council for Traditional Music, the Canadian Society for Traditional Music, and the Middle East Studies Association of North America. He is also a member of the International Association for Music & Medicine.
 
His research and teaching combine a number of different fields, including ethnomusicology,  anthropology, Middle East studies, religious/Islamic studies, psychoacoustics, computer science, media studies, literary studies, music theory. He is a lifetime member of the Society for Ethnomusicology, the International Council for Traditional Music, the Canadian Society for Traditional Music, and the Middle East Studies Association of North America. He is also a member of the International Association for Music & Medicine.
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''Some current projects include:''  
 
''Some current projects include:''  
 
* [[Autonomous Adaptive Soundscape project]]: an intelligent bioalgorithmic system generating personalized therapeutic soundscapes especially for critically ill patients in the ICU, using machine learning and biosignals
 
* [[Autonomous Adaptive Soundscape project]]: an intelligent bioalgorithmic system generating personalized therapeutic soundscapes especially for critically ill patients in the ICU, using machine learning and biosignals
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* [[Mindful Social Listening project]]:  an intelligent bioalgorithmic system generating collective therapeutic soundscapes using machine learning and biosignals, supporting student mental health and wellbeing
 
* [http://bit.ly/cce-dlsr Deep Learning for Sound Recognition][http://www.ru.ac.za/ilam/latestnews/deeplearningforsoundrecognition.html]
 
* [http://bit.ly/cce-dlsr Deep Learning for Sound Recognition][http://www.ru.ac.za/ilam/latestnews/deeplearningforsoundrecognition.html]
 
* Digital repositories and metadata for ethnomusicology
 
* Digital repositories and metadata for ethnomusicology
 
* Sounds of Islam and Sufi ritual
 
* Sounds of Islam and Sufi ritual
* [https://utpress.utexas.edu/books/frishkopf-spinetti-music-sound-and-architecture-in-islam Music, Sound, and Architecture in Islam]
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* [https://utpress.utexas.edu/9781477312469/music-sound-and-architecture-in-islam/ Music, Sound, and Architecture in Islam]
 
* Music media and the music industry in the Arab world  
 
* Music media and the music industry in the Arab world  
 
* [Virtual (world] music) - world music and ethnomusicology in cyberworlds  
 
* [Virtual (world] music) - world music and ethnomusicology in cyberworlds  
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* [https://www.med.ualberta.ca/departments/family-medicine/research/areas-of-research/centre-for-health-and-culture Centre for Health and Culture], member of the board  
 
* [https://www.med.ualberta.ca/departments/family-medicine/research/areas-of-research/centre-for-health-and-culture Centre for Health and Culture], member of the board  
 
* [http://meis.ualberta.ca/ Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies Research Group] affiliate
 
* [http://meis.ualberta.ca/ Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies Research Group] affiliate
* [https://sites.google.com/ualberta.ca/stories-of-change/home Stories of Change][https://drive.google.com/drive/u/1/folders/0AC1-kDDB6F8yUk9PVA]
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* [https://sites.google.com/ualberta.ca/storiesofchange Stories of Change][https://drive.google.com/drive/u/1/folders/0AC1-kDDB6F8yUk9PVA][https://vimeo.com/397213852 Stories of Change launch]
 
* [https://sites.google.com/ualberta.ca/ai4s2 AI for Sound Societies Collaboratory], under the aegis of the [http://ai4society.ca AI for Society signature area]
 
* [https://sites.google.com/ualberta.ca/ai4s2 AI for Sound Societies Collaboratory], under the aegis of the [http://ai4society.ca AI for Society signature area]
  
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''See also [https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Michael_Frishkopf/ ResearchGate.net]'' and ''[https://ualberta.academia.edu/MichaelFrishkopf Academia.edu]''
 
''See also [https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Michael_Frishkopf/ ResearchGate.net]'' and ''[https://ualberta.academia.edu/MichaelFrishkopf Academia.edu]''
 
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* [https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/3/article/916558 Localized Timbres and Tonalities of Qur'ānic Recitation: From Africa to Indonesia]. ''Journal of Islamic and Muslim Studies'', Volume 8, Number 1, May 2023,
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* [https://pubs.aip.org/aip/acp/article-abstract/2909/1/110001/2924871/Autonomously-adaptive-soundscapes-for-stress?redirectedFrom=fulltext Autonomously adaptive soundscapes for stress reduction in the intensive care unit and beyond]. AIP Conf. Proc. 2909, 110001 (2023) https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0182120
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* [https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/distributed/R/bo215805064.html Resisting the Dehumanization of Refugees.] Edited by Yasmeen Abu-Laban, Michael Frishkopf, Reza Hasmath, and Anna Kirova.  Athabasca University Press, 2024.
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* ''al-Sufiyya wa al-Tuqus wa al-Hadatha fi Misr'' [Sufism, Ritual, and Modernity in Egypt].  (translated by Sayed Gad). Two volumes, published by the National Center for Translation, Cairo. 2022.
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* [https://drive.google.com/file/d/1V6k_h07pQISqi9l2oKmzMUtbvsZzCNhd/view?usp=share_link Music for Global Human Development: Participatory Action Research for Health and Wellbeing].  2022. MUSICultures 49:71-109. [https://journals.lib.unb.ca/index.php/MC/article/view/33220][https://www.proquest.com/docview/2779158175/7B6E4E28F0274BC8PQ/1?accountid=14474]
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* Liao J, Papathanassoglou E, Zhang X, Li Qn, Gupta A, Lu F, Wu Y , Frishkopf M. [https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36424267/ A cross-cultural randomized pilot trial of western-based and five elements music therapy for psychological well-being.] Explore (NY). 2022 Nov 9:S1550-8307(22)00205-1. doi: 10.1016/j.explore.2022.11.001. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 36424267.
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* Textual Dimensions of the Public Ḥaḍra in Egyptian Sufism. ''Musicological Annual'' (2022) 58 (1): 61–99. https://doi.org/10.4312/mz.58.1.61-99.
 
* [https://www.mdpi.com/1660-4601/19/5/3113 A Neurobiological Framework for the Therapeutic Potential of Music and Sound Interventions for Post-Traumatic Stress Symptoms in Critical Illness Survivors] by Usha Pant, Michael Frishkopf, Tanya Park, Colleen M. Norris, and Elizabeth Papathanassoglou. ''Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health'' 2022, 19(5), 3113; https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph19053113
 
* [https://www.mdpi.com/1660-4601/19/5/3113 A Neurobiological Framework for the Therapeutic Potential of Music and Sound Interventions for Post-Traumatic Stress Symptoms in Critical Illness Survivors] by Usha Pant, Michael Frishkopf, Tanya Park, Colleen M. Norris, and Elizabeth Papathanassoglou. ''Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health'' 2022, 19(5), 3113; https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph19053113
 
* [https://doi-org.login.ezproxy.library.ualberta.ca/10.1386/pi_00012_1 The sonic performance of Islamic congregational prayer: Ṣalāh in mainstream Egyptian practice]. ''Performing Islam'', Volume 9, Numbers 1-2, December 2021, pp. 5-114 (110 pages)
 
* [https://doi-org.login.ezproxy.library.ualberta.ca/10.1386/pi_00012_1 The sonic performance of Islamic congregational prayer: Ṣalāh in mainstream Egyptian practice]. ''Performing Islam'', Volume 9, Numbers 1-2, December 2021, pp. 5-114 (110 pages)
* [https://storage.googleapis.com/wzukusers/user-20563976/documents/77a4b2121da64ff19049c28f9bb6990e/Frishkopf%20et.al%20October2021.pdf TranceCultural Music:  Forging social resonance through asynchronous virtual musical interaction during pandemic]. Collectively prepared by members of the TransCultural Orchestra: Allison Sokil, Ari Mastoras, Arsh Khaira, Behrang Nikaeen, Donna Dawson, Jane Zaïane, Jillian Fulton-Melanson, Matt Love, Mehdi Rezania, Michael Frishkopf, More J, Morteza Abedinifard, Nasim Ahmadian, Olga Zaitseva-Herz, Shruti Nair, Tuğrul Özer, and Vahid Macvandi. Published a special issue of the ''Journal of Music, Health, and Wellbeing'' (2021)
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* [https://storage.googleapis.com/wzukusers/user-20563976/documents/77a4b2121da64ff19049c28f9bb6990e/Frishkopf%20et.al%20October2021.pdf TranceCultural Music:  Forging social resonance through asynchronous virtual musical interaction during pandemic]. Collectively prepared by members of the TransCultural Orchestra: Allison Sokil, Ari Mastoras, Arsh Khaira, Behrang Nikaeen, Donna Dawson, Jane Zaïane, Jillian Fulton-Melanson, Matt Love, Mehdi Rezania, Michael Frishkopf, More J, Morteza Abedinifard, Nasim Ahmadian, Olga Zaitseva-Herz, Shruti Nair, Tuğrul Özer, and Vahid Macvandi. Published in a special issue of the ''Journal of Music, Health, and Wellbeing'' (2021)
* Michael Frishkopf, Guilnard Moufarrej, George Mürer, Carolyn Ramzy, Jonathan Shannon, Nermeen Youssef, and Iman Mersal. (in press) "What Happened to “Songs of the New Arab Revolutions”?" in ''The Myth of Middle East Exceptionalism: The Unfinished Project of MENA Social Movements''. Syracuse: Syracuse University Press.
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* Michael Frishkopf, Guilnard Moufarrej, George Mürer, Carolyn Ramzy, Jonathan Shannon, Nermeen Youssef, and Iman Mersal."What Happened to “Songs of the New Arab Revolutions”?" 2023. In ''The Myth of Middle East Exceptionalism: The Unfinished Project of MENA Social Movements''. Syracuse: Syracuse University Press.
* Frishkopf, Michael.  “Music for Global Human Development.” 2021. In ''[https://global.oup.com/academic/product/transforming-ethnomusicology-volume-ii-9780197517550?cc=ca&lang=en& Transforming Ethnomusicology, vol. II]'', edited by Beverly Diamond and Salwa El-Shawan Castelo-Branco. Oxford: Oxford University Press. (27 pages)
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* Frishkopf, Michael.  “Music for Global Human Development.” 2021. In ''[https://global.oup.com/academic/product/transforming-ethnomusicology-volume-ii-9780197517550?cc=ca&lang=en& Transforming Ethnomusicology, vol. II]'', edited by Beverly Diamond and Salwa El-Shawan Castelo-Branco. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 47-66.
 
* Frishkopf, Michael. ''[https://doi.org/10.1051/shsconf/202110205001 West African Polyrhythm: culture, theory, and representation]'''. In SHS Web of Conferences, Volume 102, 2021, The 3rd ETLTC International Conference on Information and Communications Technology (ETLTC2021)
 
* Frishkopf, Michael. ''[https://doi.org/10.1051/shsconf/202110205001 West African Polyrhythm: culture, theory, and representation]'''. In SHS Web of Conferences, Volume 102, 2021, The 3rd ETLTC International Conference on Information and Communications Technology (ETLTC2021)
* Frishkopf, Michael. My Musical Journey. 2021. In ''[https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520295353/global-middle-east Global Middle East: Into the 21st Century]'', edited by Asef Bayat and Linda Herrera.  ([https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4oNN-5tsjHc View Webinar by contributing authors])
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* Frishkopf, Michael. Musical Journeys. 2021. Chapter 11, in ''[https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520295353/global-middle-east Global Middle East: Into the 21st Century]'', edited by Asef Bayat and Linda Herrera.  University of California Press, pp. 145-161. ([https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4oNN-5tsjHc View Webinar by contributing authors])
 
* Philomina Okeke-Ihejirika, Gillian Creese, Michael Frishkopf, and Njoki Wane. 2020. “[https://muse-jhu-edu.login.ezproxy.library.ualberta.ca/article/781096 Re-envisioning Resilience from African Immigrants’ Perspectives].” ''Canadian Ethnic Studies'', 52:3, pp. 129-149
 
* Philomina Okeke-Ihejirika, Gillian Creese, Michael Frishkopf, and Njoki Wane. 2020. “[https://muse-jhu-edu.login.ezproxy.library.ualberta.ca/article/781096 Re-envisioning Resilience from African Immigrants’ Perspectives].” ''Canadian Ethnic Studies'', 52:3, pp. 129-149
 
* Frishkopf, Michael. [https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/zygo.12557?af=R "Aesthetics, Creativity, and Mysticism: An Investigation of Three Modes of Consciousness"], ''Zygon: Journal of Religion and Science.'' 54(4), December 2019.
 
* Frishkopf, Michael. [https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/zygo.12557?af=R "Aesthetics, Creativity, and Mysticism: An Investigation of Three Modes of Consciousness"], ''Zygon: Journal of Religion and Science.'' 54(4), December 2019.
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* M. Frishkopf, D.Zakus, S.Abu, H.Hamze, M.Alhassan, I.A.Zukpeni.  [https://www-sciencedirect-com.login.ezproxy.library.ualberta.ca/science/article/pii/S2214999617301443 "Traditional Music as a Sustainable Social Technology for Community Health Promotion in Africa: “Singing and Dancing for Health” in Rural Northern Ghana."] ''Annals of Global Health'', Volume 83, Issue 1, January–February 2017, Page 38.
 
* M. Frishkopf, D.Zakus, S.Abu, H.Hamze, M.Alhassan, I.A.Zukpeni.  [https://www-sciencedirect-com.login.ezproxy.library.ualberta.ca/science/article/pii/S2214999617301443 "Traditional Music as a Sustainable Social Technology for Community Health Promotion in Africa: “Singing and Dancing for Health” in Rural Northern Ghana."] ''Annals of Global Health'', Volume 83, Issue 1, January–February 2017, Page 38.
 
* Frishkopf, Michael. [http://login.ezproxy.library.ualberta.ca/login?url=https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=a9h&AN=122829454&site=ehost-live&scope=site Popular Music as Public Health Technology: Music for Global Human Development and “Giving Voice to Health” in Liberia.][https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Wr-x1ZGiiY-LXsSgxXo8WYtwiKIFvD7m/view?usp=sharing] ''Journal of Folklore Research'', Vol. 54, No. 1-2, Music and Global Health (January/August 2017), pp. 41-86.
 
* Frishkopf, Michael. [http://login.ezproxy.library.ualberta.ca/login?url=https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=a9h&AN=122829454&site=ehost-live&scope=site Popular Music as Public Health Technology: Music for Global Human Development and “Giving Voice to Health” in Liberia.][https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Wr-x1ZGiiY-LXsSgxXo8WYtwiKIFvD7m/view?usp=sharing] ''Journal of Folklore Research'', Vol. 54, No. 1-2, Music and Global Health (January/August 2017), pp. 41-86.
* Frishkopf, Michael, Michael Cohen, and Rasika Ranaweera. Curating Ethnomusicology in Cyberworlds for Ethnomusicological Research. "World Music in Wonderland".  [http://www.acef-fsac.ulaval.ca/en/node/879 ''Ethnologies'', special issue: Exhibiting Soundscapes], edited by Marcia Ostashewski and Michael Frishkopf.  37(1), 2017.
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* Frishkopf, Michael, Michael Cohen, and Rasika Ranaweera. Curating Ethnomusicology in Cyberworlds for Ethnomusicological Research. "World Music in Wonderland".  [https://www-erudit-org.login.ezproxy.library.ualberta.ca/fr/revues/ethno/2015-v37-n1-ethno03047/1039658ar.pdf ''Ethnologies'', special issue: Exhibiting Soundscapes], edited by Marcia Ostashewski and Michael Frishkopf.  37(1), 2017.
*  Frishkopf, Michael, David Zakus, Hasan Hamze, Mubarak Alhassan, Ibrahim Abukari Zukpeni, Sulemana Abu.  2016 [http://coh.ug.edu.gh/sites/coh.ug.edu.gh/files/files/LJH%20vol%2027%282%29.pdf Traditional Music as a Sustainable Social Technology for Community Health Promotion in Africa: “Singing and Dancing for Health” in Rural Northern Ghana]. ''Legon Journal of the Humanities'',  special issue:  Music, Health and Wellbeing: African Perspectives, edited by Florian Carl and Eric Debrah Otchere, 27(2):59-90, 2016.
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*  Frishkopf, Michael, David Zakus, Hasan Hamze, Mubarak Alhassan, Ibrahim Abukari Zukpeni, Sulemana Abu.  2016 [https://www.ajol.info/index.php/ljh/issue/view/15949 Traditional Music as a Sustainable Social Technology for Community Health Promotion in Africa: “Singing and Dancing for Health” in Rural Northern Ghana]. ''Legon Journal of the Humanities'',  special issue:  Music, Health and Wellbeing: African Perspectives, edited by Florian Carl and Eric Debrah Otchere, 27(2):59-90, 2016.
 
* Frishkopf, Michael, Hasan Hamze, Mubarak Alhassan, Ibrahim Abukari Zukpeni, Sulemana Abu, and David Zakus. 2016. “[http://dx.doi.org/10.15212/FMCH.2016.0105 Performing Arts as a Social Technology for Community Health Promotion in Northern Ghana.]” ''Family Medicine and Community Health'' 4 (1): 22–36, 2016.
 
* Frishkopf, Michael, Hasan Hamze, Mubarak Alhassan, Ibrahim Abukari Zukpeni, Sulemana Abu, and David Zakus. 2016. “[http://dx.doi.org/10.15212/FMCH.2016.0105 Performing Arts as a Social Technology for Community Health Promotion in Northern Ghana.]” ''Family Medicine and Community Health'' 4 (1): 22–36, 2016.
 
* Ranaweera, Rasika, Michael Cohen, and Michael Frishkopf. 2015. “[http://www.mitpressjournals.org/doi/abs/10.1162/PRES_a_00232?journalCode=pres#.V0uieZMrJE4 Narrowcasting and Multipresence for Music Auditioning and Conferencing in Social Cyberworlds].” ''Presence: Teleoperators and Virtual Environments'' 24 (3): 220–42, 2015.
 
* Ranaweera, Rasika, Michael Cohen, and Michael Frishkopf. 2015. “[http://www.mitpressjournals.org/doi/abs/10.1162/PRES_a_00232?journalCode=pres#.V0uieZMrJE4 Narrowcasting and Multipresence for Music Auditioning and Conferencing in Social Cyberworlds].” ''Presence: Teleoperators and Virtual Environments'' 24 (3): 220–42, 2015.
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* [http://www.edminterfaithcentre.ca/img_2910/ 2020 Edmonton Interfaith Advocate award]
 
* [http://www.edminterfaithcentre.ca/img_2910/ 2020 Edmonton Interfaith Advocate award]
* [https://www.folio.ca/ethnomusicologist-promotes-music-and-healing-around-the-world/ 2018 Community Connection award: Community Scholar][https://edmontonjournal.com/news/local-news/university-of-alberta-honours-community-achievements]
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* [https://www.folio.ca/ethnomusicologist-promotes-music-and-healing-around-the-world/ 2018 Community Connection award: Community Scholar][https://edmontonjournal.com/news/local-news/university-of-alberta-honours-community-achievements] (University of Alberta)
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20190105011609/https://www.ualberta.ca/faculty-and-staff/equity-diversity-inclusion/edi-week/edi-week-2018 2018 Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion Award]
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* [https://web.archive.org/web/20190105011609/https://www.ualberta.ca/faculty-and-staff/equity-diversity-inclusion/edi-week/edi-week-2018 2018 Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion Award] (University of Alberta)
 
* [https://www.ualberta.ca/news-and-events/newsarticles/2014/march/call-him-the-maligu-naa 2014 Appointed Chief of Goodwill, "Maligu Naa", in Tolon district, Northern Region, Ghana]
 
* [https://www.ualberta.ca/news-and-events/newsarticles/2014/march/call-him-the-maligu-naa 2014 Appointed Chief of Goodwill, "Maligu Naa", in Tolon district, Northern Region, Ghana]
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* 1984 Summa Cum Laude with Distinction in Mathematics, Yale University. 
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* 1984 DeForrest Prize for Proficiency in Pure and Applied Mathematics, Yale University
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* 1983 Stanley Prize for Excellence in Pure and Applied Mathematics, Yale University.
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* 1983 Phi Beta Kappa, 1983.
  
 
= Some recent talks and lectures =
 
= Some recent talks and lectures =
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* [https://iasa.aviaryplatform.com/r/bv79s1mx47 Collaborating on Audiovisual Music Heritage Preservation at the University of Alberta.] IASA 2023: 54th IASA Conference & 4th ICTMD Forum
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* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v3Jzqpax4Bc JUNOs Talk for the Alberta Machine Intelligence Institute: Autonomously Adaptive Soundscapes for Reducing Stress in Critically-Ill Patients]. (6 March 2023)
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* [https://www.wesleyan.edu/cfa/events/2023/02-2023/02152023-michael-frishkopf.html Music for Global Human Development Promoting Health and Wellbeing in Liberia, Ghana, and Ethiopia: Theory, Method, and Impact]. Wesleyan Universit Music Department Colloquium Series. (15 February 2023)
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* [https://www.etltc-acmchap-japanconf.org/archive-2023 Autonomously Adaptive Soundscapes for Stress Reduction in the Intensive Care Unit - and Beyond]. 2023 5th International Conference on Information & Communications Technology in Science and Engineering Education (ETLTC2023), University of Aizu in Aizu-Wakamatsu, Japan, January 24-27, 2023.  Hosted and partially funded by THE UNIVERSITY OF AIZU, and sponsored by the ETLTC and the ACM Chapter on E-learning and Technical Communication.
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* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xBBcRTdpZvk Sounding the Garden in VR:  AI-generated soundscapes for creativity, mental health and wellbeing] for 3rd Artificial Intelligence for Information Accessibility Conference (AI4IA), in commemoration of the International Day for Universal Access to Information (IDUAI) [https://app.gather.town/app/0itOb847lCdfZY81/AI4IA2022 on gathertown platform] (28 September 2022)
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* [https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1cui_v6V-OyEf1-3lX1CXm6K6VN_Q5mjl8SgwLF_I9VQ/edit?usp=sharing Performing Qasidat al-Burda: How music moved Islam throughout the Indian Ocean], for [http://borderlessflows.arts.ualberta.ca borderless flows], September 2022.
 
* [https://youtu.be/O0Br0XLW_vs Social Network Analysis (SNA) for Music Studies] (presented at annual meetings of SEM and AMS in 2021).  
 
* [https://youtu.be/O0Br0XLW_vs Social Network Analysis (SNA) for Music Studies] (presented at annual meetings of SEM and AMS in 2021).  
with Martha Steenstrup and Elisavet Papathanassoglou, [https://drive.google.com/file/d/1kaxiFqhBt3LXvOTjoNSTQ5Dh-7BElBwn/view?usp=sharing Autonomous Adaptive Soundscapes for Reducing Stress in Critically-Ill Patients], a poster presentation for the inaugural Canadian Stress Research Summit, May 6-8, 2021, Toronto.
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* with Martha Steenstrup and Elisavet Papathanassoglou, [https://drive.google.com/file/d/1kaxiFqhBt3LXvOTjoNSTQ5Dh-7BElBwn/view?usp=sharing Autonomous Adaptive Soundscapes for Reducing Stress in Critically-Ill Patients], a poster presentation for the inaugural Canadian Stress Research Summit, May 6-8, 2021, Toronto.
 
* [https://etltc-acmchap-japanconf.org/video-archive "Polyrhythm: Theory, experience, representation, and context"]. Invited keynote for ETLTC2021, Japan (delivered remotely).
 
* [https://etltc-acmchap-japanconf.org/video-archive "Polyrhythm: Theory, experience, representation, and context"]. Invited keynote for ETLTC2021, Japan (delivered remotely).
 
* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z2_lqAjLNkE&t=303s "Music for Global Human Development: Health and Wellbeing"]. Invited talk for Society for Ethnomusicology Preconference Symposium: Musical Activism and Agency: Contestations and Confluences. (delivered remotely)
 
* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z2_lqAjLNkE&t=303s "Music for Global Human Development: Health and Wellbeing"]. Invited talk for Society for Ethnomusicology Preconference Symposium: Musical Activism and Agency: Contestations and Confluences. (delivered remotely)
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* [http://kellogg.nd.edu/events/calendar/spring2015/frishkopf.shtml Music for Global Human Development], at Notre Dame's Kellogg Institute for International Studies, April 21, 2015
 
* [http://kellogg.nd.edu/events/calendar/spring2015/frishkopf.shtml Music for Global Human Development], at Notre Dame's Kellogg Institute for International Studies, April 21, 2015
 
* [http://www.med.ualberta.ca/news/2014/april/richman-poorman Keynote address at the Rich Man Poor Man Dinner], April 5, 2014
 
* [http://www.med.ualberta.ca/news/2014/april/richman-poorman Keynote address at the Rich Man Poor Man Dinner], April 5, 2014
* [http://www.islamicstudies.harvard.edu/event/religious-diversity-tolerance-and-conflict-muslims-and-musical-ritual-in-egypt-and-ghana-3/ Religious Diversity, Tolerance, and Conflict: Muslims and Musical Ritual in Egypt and Ghana], for the Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Islamic Studies Program at Harvard University], March 12, 2014
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* [http://www.islamicstudies.harvard.edu/event/religious-diversity-tolerance-and-conflict-muslims-and-musical-ritual-in-egypt-and-ghana-3/ Religious Diversity, Tolerance, and Conflict: Muslims and Musical Ritual in Egypt and Ghana], for the Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Islamic Studies Program at Harvard University, March 12, 2014
 
* [https://www.facebook.com/events/592269460848302/?ref=22 Music and Global Human Development], a colloquium for Tufts University's Granoff Music Center, March 10, 2014
 
* [https://www.facebook.com/events/592269460848302/?ref=22 Music and Global Human Development], a colloquium for Tufts University's Granoff Music Center, March 10, 2014
 
* [http://news.ualberta.ca/multimedia/in-photos-global-citizens-of-ualberta University of Alberta International Week, 2014]
 
* [http://news.ualberta.ca/multimedia/in-photos-global-citizens-of-ualberta University of Alberta International Week, 2014]
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== Evidence-based research in Music and Sound Therapies ==
 
== Evidence-based research in Music and Sound Therapies ==
 
* [[Autonomous Adaptive Soundscape project]]
 
* [[Autonomous Adaptive Soundscape project]]
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* [http://bit.ly/MSL-UA Mindful social listening project]
 
* [[Five Element Chinese Music Therapy project]]
 
* [[Five Element Chinese Music Therapy project]]
  
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== Multimedia projects ==  
 
== Multimedia projects ==  
 
===Documentary video===  
 
===Documentary video===  
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* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-jDvR6o27UY Excerpt from a Tijaniyya Mawlidi], Tamale, Northern Ghana (2014)
 
* Giving Voice to Health: Sanitation and Safe Water - Music for Social Justice in Liberia:  [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AmCk4WHPfSU&feature=youtu.be (music video)], and [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5eDal4NaYbw&feature=youtu.be (documentary)].  Collaborations with Liberian artists.  
 
* Giving Voice to Health: Sanitation and Safe Water - Music for Social Justice in Liberia:  [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AmCk4WHPfSU&feature=youtu.be (music video)], and [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5eDal4NaYbw&feature=youtu.be (documentary)].  Collaborations with Liberian artists.  
 
* [https://vimeo.com/20009721 Shadow and Music in Buduburam]([https://vimeo.com/19579830 longer version]). Collaborative documentary video on and with Liberian refugee music producer. Produced with support from the President’s Fund for the Performing and Creative Arts, in collaboration with musicians of the Buduburam refugee camp.   
 
* [https://vimeo.com/20009721 Shadow and Music in Buduburam]([https://vimeo.com/19579830 longer version]). Collaborative documentary video on and with Liberian refugee music producer. Produced with support from the President’s Fund for the Performing and Creative Arts, in collaboration with musicians of the Buduburam refugee camp.   
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* Sounding the Garden:  http://bit.ly/soundingthegarden
 
* Sounding the Garden:  http://bit.ly/soundingthegarden
 
* [https://www.artsrn.ualberta.ca/ccewiki/index.php?title=Virtual_Sonic_Architecture Virtual Sonic Architecture: The Ottoman mosque of Hadım İbrahim Paşa Virtual Sonic Architecture]:  http://bit.ly/vsahipm
 
* [https://www.artsrn.ualberta.ca/ccewiki/index.php?title=Virtual_Sonic_Architecture Virtual Sonic Architecture: The Ottoman mosque of Hadım İbrahim Paşa Virtual Sonic Architecture]:  http://bit.ly/vsahipm
* TranceCultural Music Exhibition:  http://trancetrans
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* TranceCultural Music Exhibition:  http://bit.ly/trancetrans
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* Folkways in Wonderland
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* World Music in Wonderland
  
 
== Digital repositories ==  
 
== Digital repositories ==  
 
* Sounding Islam (in progress)
 
* Sounding Islam (in progress)
* Wahba-Alexandru Egyptian folklore project (in progress)
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* [https://cce.artsrn.ualberta.ca/ Wahba-Alexandru Egyptian folklore project] (in progress)
 
* Principal Investigator and project director, VMCTM:  Virtual Museum of Canadian Traditional Music. Sponsored by Virtual Museum Canada and the Canadian Heritage Information Network. (funded by Canadian Heritage Information Network).  Managed complex three year development, including over a dozen participants, a partnership with Smithsonian Folkways, and a $175,000 budget.  In French and English.  
 
* Principal Investigator and project director, VMCTM:  Virtual Museum of Canadian Traditional Music. Sponsored by Virtual Museum Canada and the Canadian Heritage Information Network. (funded by Canadian Heritage Information Network).  Managed complex three year development, including over a dozen participants, a partnership with Smithsonian Folkways, and a $175,000 budget.  In French and English.  
 
* [https://www.artsrn.ualberta.ca/fwa_mediawiki/index.php/Stories_of_Musical_Change_in_Dagbamete,_Ghana Musical change in a West African Village]. Ongoing (2007-2010) collaborative research project carried out together with students participating in the [http://bit.ly/ghanamusic UofA Ghana summer program], led by Michael Frishkopf.  
 
* [https://www.artsrn.ualberta.ca/fwa_mediawiki/index.php/Stories_of_Musical_Change_in_Dagbamete,_Ghana Musical change in a West African Village]. Ongoing (2007-2010) collaborative research project carried out together with students participating in the [http://bit.ly/ghanamusic UofA Ghana summer program], led by Michael Frishkopf.  
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= Collaborative projects =  
 
= Collaborative projects =  
  
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* [http://bit.ly/trancetrans Trans/TranceCultural Orchestra]
 
* [https://www.ethnomusicology.org/page/Conf_SEMO SEM Orchestra], founded in 2011 to support the SEM Stevenson Prize (here is the [[The 2020 SEM Orchestra concert in VR | Virtual Reality version of the 2020 concert]])
 
* [https://www.ethnomusicology.org/page/Conf_SEMO SEM Orchestra], founded in 2011 to support the SEM Stevenson Prize (here is the [[The 2020 SEM Orchestra concert in VR | Virtual Reality version of the 2020 concert]])
 
* [http://www.capebretonpost.com/Living/2016-05-08/article-4522331/Project-examines-how-music-influences-change/1?utm_content=33820847&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter Global Musics - Local Connections]
 
* [http://www.capebretonpost.com/Living/2016-05-08/article-4522331/Project-examines-how-music-influences-change/1?utm_content=33820847&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter Global Musics - Local Connections]
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** [http://bit.ly/mename Middle Eastern and North African Music Ensemble] (founder, 2004; director 2004-2012)  
 
** [http://bit.ly/mename Middle Eastern and North African Music Ensemble] (founder, 2004; director 2004-2012)  
 
** West African Music Ensemble (founder, 1999; director 1999-2003)  
 
** West African Music Ensemble (founder, 1999; director 1999-2003)  
** Music and Religion  
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** Music and Religion (Music 466/566)
** Music and Islam
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** Music and Islam (Music 469/569)
** Music of the Arab World
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** Area Studies in Ethnomusicology: The Arab World (Music 468/568)
 
** [http://bit.ly/mcsn Music Culture as a Social Network]
 
** [http://bit.ly/mcsn Music Culture as a Social Network]
 
** [http://course.m4ghd.org Music for Global Human Development]
 
** [http://course.m4ghd.org Music for Global Human Development]
** Music and Religion in Africa (665)  
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** Music and Religion in Africa (565)
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** Area Studies in Ethnomusicology: Africa  (Music 472/582) (Music 472-572) with a[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b9y7IYSJ5fE Community Service Learning]
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** Issues in Ethnomusicology (665)
 
** Arab and African Music (365)  
 
** Arab and African Music (365)  
 
**  [http://bit.ly/arabmusic14 Ethnomusicology of the Arab World], with [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b9y7IYSJ5fE Community Service Learning] component - at a distance.
 
**  [http://bit.ly/arabmusic14 Ethnomusicology of the Arab World], with [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b9y7IYSJ5fE Community Service Learning] component - at a distance.
**  Field methods in ethnomusicology(666)
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**  Field methods in ethnomusicology (666)
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** Music, Sound and Wellbeing (566)
 
* World music programs developed for Edmonton public schools (K-12)
 
* World music programs developed for Edmonton public schools (K-12)
 
* [[List of students supervised]]
 
* [[List of students supervised]]
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= Concerts, workshops, and conferences =  
 
= Concerts, workshops, and conferences =  
 
(a sample)  
 
(a sample)  
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* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rQlZ-Ka6QzE MENAME 2023 final concert: Dreaming of Light]
 
* [https://youtu.be/DdQG4ITC5Kw MENAME 2022 final concert: From  Tehran to Crete]
 
* [https://youtu.be/DdQG4ITC5Kw MENAME 2022 final concert: From  Tehran to Crete]
 
* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w8QP45UFlWA Transpositions: Music for Resilient Sustainable Communities]. A concert for International Week 2020, featuring Roy Abdalnour (violin) and Ahmed al-Auqaily (percussion), accompanied by Michael Frishkopf on keyboard and nay, with a special guest appearance by Guillaume Tardif (violin).
 
* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w8QP45UFlWA Transpositions: Music for Resilient Sustainable Communities]. A concert for International Week 2020, featuring Roy Abdalnour (violin) and Ahmed al-Auqaily (percussion), accompanied by Michael Frishkopf on keyboard and nay, with a special guest appearance by Guillaume Tardif (violin).
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= Media =  
 
= Media =  
 
''For broken links try https://web.archive.org/ - unfortunately most organizations (even universities!) don't consider their publications worthy of long-term preservation, and allow links to expire with every website reorganization. Luckly, the founders of http://archive.org believe otherwise!''
 
''For broken links try https://web.archive.org/ - unfortunately most organizations (even universities!) don't consider their publications worthy of long-term preservation, and allow links to expire with every website reorganization. Luckly, the founders of http://archive.org believe otherwise!''
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* [https://ici.radio-canada.ca/nouvelle/1960583/intelligence-artificielle-musicotherapie-michael-frishkopf-musique-juno-edmonton?depuisRecherche=true Radio Canada]
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* [https://www.independentarabia.com/node/441771/%D8%AB%D9%82%D8%A7%D9%81%D8%A9/%D9%81%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%B4%D9%83%D9%88%D9%81-%D9%8A%D9%83%D8%AA%D8%A8-%D8%B9%D9%86-%D8%AF%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%88%D9%8A%D8%B4-%D9%85%D8%B5%D8%B1-%D8%A8%D8%B9%D8%AF-10-%D8%B3%D9%86%D9%88%D8%A7%D8%AA-%D9%85%D9%86-%D9%85%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%81%D9%82%D8%AA%D9%87%D9%85 Review of Sufism, Ritual, and Modernity in Egypt: Language Performance as an Adaptive Strategy (Arabic)]
 
* [https://www.arabnews.com/node/1976111/saudi-arabia Saudi Arabia’s Ithra Islamic Art Conference examines history of mosques]
 
* [https://www.arabnews.com/node/1976111/saudi-arabia Saudi Arabia’s Ithra Islamic Art Conference examines history of mosques]
 
* [https://www.ualberta.ca/folio/2021/11/smart-sound-system-could-relieve-anxiety-for-icu-patients.html Smart sound system could relieve anxiety for ICU patients][https://medicalxpress.com/news/2021-11-smart-relieve-anxiety-icu-patients.html]
 
* [https://www.ualberta.ca/folio/2021/11/smart-sound-system-could-relieve-anxiety-for-icu-patients.html Smart sound system could relieve anxiety for ICU patients][https://medicalxpress.com/news/2021-11-smart-relieve-anxiety-icu-patients.html]
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* [https://www.thegatewayonline.ca/2018/07/profile-michael-frishkopf/ Gateway article]
 
* [https://www.thegatewayonline.ca/2018/07/profile-michael-frishkopf/ Gateway article]
 
* [https://www.folio.ca/ethnomusicologist-promotes-music-and-healing-around-the-world/ Ethnomusicologist promotes music and healing around the world]
 
* [https://www.folio.ca/ethnomusicologist-promotes-music-and-healing-around-the-world/ Ethnomusicologist promotes music and healing around the world]
* [https://uofa.ualberta.ca/news-and-events/newsarticles/2016/may/singing-and-dancing-for-health-puts-spotlight-on-preventing-malaria 'Singing and Dancing for Health' puts spotlight on preventing malaria]
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* [https://www.ualberta.ca/folio/2016/05/singing-and-dancing-for-health-puts-spotlight-on-preventing-malaria.html 'Singing and Dancing for Health' puts spotlight on preventing malaria]
 
* [http://www.delas.pt/estudantes-debatem-a-cancao-de-protesto-e-a-mudanca-social/ ICPsong], in Lisbon, Portugal
 
* [http://www.delas.pt/estudantes-debatem-a-cancao-de-protesto-e-a-mudanca-social/ ICPsong], in Lisbon, Portugal
 
* [https://soundmattersthesemblog.wordpress.com/2015/03/04/folkways-in-wonderland/ Folkways in Wonderland: Sound Matters] (SEM Blog)
 
* [https://soundmattersthesemblog.wordpress.com/2015/03/04/folkways-in-wonderland/ Folkways in Wonderland: Sound Matters] (SEM Blog)

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Dr. Michael Frishkopf
Professor and Director of Graduate Studies, Department of Music

Director, Canadian Centre for Ethnomusicology (CCE) (cce.ualberta.ca)
Adjunct Professor, Department of Performing Arts, Faculty of Communication and Media Studies, University for Development Studies, Ghana

Mail: Michael Frishkopf, Department of Music, Faculty of Arts, University of Alberta, 3-10 Fine Arts Building, Edmonton, AB CANADA T6G 2C9
Office: 334D Old Arts Building
Tel: Skype: (617) 275-2589; office: (780) 492-0225. Music Dept: (780) 492-3263
Fax: Music Dept: (780) 492-9246. CCE (780) 492-0242
Web: http://frishkopf.org
ORCID: http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8630-0623
Email is preferable for all initial communications.

Introduction

Michael Frishkopf, Professor of Music, and Director of the Canadian Centre for Ethnomusicology, as well as Adjunct Professor at the University for Development Studies (Ghana), is an ethnomusicologist, performer, and composer. A graduate of Yale College (BS Mathematics, 1984), Tufts University (MA Ethnomusicology, 1989), and the University of California, Los Angeles (Ph.D. Music, 1999), Dr. Frishkopf’s ethnomusicological research interests include music of the Arab world; Sufi music; sound in Islamic ritual performance; music and religion; comparative music theory; the sociology of musical taste; social network analysis; (virtual [world) music]; digital music repositories; machine learning for sound recognition, music information retrieval, and soundscape therapies; music in West Africa; participatory action research; psychoacoustics and music cognition; music and global health; indigenous medicine and music as medicine for integrative health; and music for global human development and social change.

His research and teaching combine a number of different fields, including ethnomusicology, anthropology, Middle East studies, religious/Islamic studies, psychoacoustics, computer science, media studies, literary studies, music theory. He is a lifetime member of the Society for Ethnomusicology, the International Council for Traditional Music, the Canadian Society for Traditional Music, and the Middle East Studies Association of North America. He is also a member of the International Association for Music & Medicine.

He has received numerous fellowships supporting his research, including grants from Fulbright, the American Research Center in Egypt, the Social Science Research Council, the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation, the Killam Foundation (Canada), the National Endowment for the Humanities, Canada Foundation for Innovation, New Frontiers in Research Fund, and the Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada.

In performance, Michael specializes in the nay (Middle Eastern reed flute), and also performs the song-drum-dance traditions of Ghana. He is the founder (in 2004) of the University of Alberta Middle Eastern and North African Music Ensemble, as well as the University of Alberta West African Music Ensemble (in 1999). Both ensembles perform frequently in public in the Edmonton area, especially to support progressive causes. He also performs “Third Stream” and world music inflected jazz on the piano, following studies with Ran Blake and others in the Third Stream program at the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston.

Some current projects include:

Affiliations

CV

Curriculum Vitae


Select Publications

See also ResearchGate.net and Academia.edu

pp. 36-57

Theses

Awards and Honors

Some recent talks and lectures

Music and Health

Evidence-based research in Music and Sound Therapies

Music and sound for wellness

Music and sound for mental health and wellness

HEAR Music Alberta

Giving Voice to Health: M4GHD ethnomusicology

Music, Sound, and AI

Applied Ethnomusicology

Music for Global Human Development

(http://m4ghd.org)

In recent years, I’ve moved sharply towards an engaged ethnomusicology, centered on what I call music and global human development, collaborating on production of “traditional” and “popular” musics (including media and music education) as tools for global development of communities marginalized and disempowered by colonialism and its aftermath, on either side of the North-South divide between “developed” and “developing” nations. Such work follows a participatory action research paradigm, ideally engaging local communities as equals, and subjecting all work to critical reflective scrutiny.

There are two main directions to this work:

For a recent writeup, see this story.

Songs for sustainable peace and development

A set of participatory action research projects centered on the use of popular music to disseminate development messages, especially for key development issues in public health, education, religious/ethnic tolerance, and peace. I have been working primarily in collaboration with Liberian refugee musicians in Ghana, and recent returnees to Liberia, helping them articulate and disseminate musical messages of peace and development, producing media with a triple purpose: catalyzing positive social change locally, raising awareness globally, and generating a revenue stream to support their musical communities.

Several songs and a music video have been completed or are in progress; see http://bit.ly/songsspd.

Also see:

Music for cultural continuity and civil society

Projects for cultural continuity, supporting Ewe music of Ghana, El Mastaba Centre for Egyptian Folk Music, the Egyptian Centre for Culture and Art, and AMAR (Foundation for Arab Music Archiving and Research), Beirut, including consulting as a member of the Board. Media products are designed to catalyze local social progress, raise global awareness, and generate a revenue stream for local musicians.

  • Traditional Ghanaian music culture
    • Collaboration with traditional Ghanaian musicians on Kinka: Traditional songs of Avenorpedo, to sustain and develop traditional music
    • Mobilizing scholarship for talented but underprivileged Ghanaian musicians, such as Kofi Avi, so they can complete a well-rounded education.
  • Traditional Egyptian music culture
    • Collaboration with El Mastaba Center for Egyptian Folk Music, Cairo, to preserve, archive, document and develop Egyptian music. We are developing an applied research project to support digitization and metadata tagging for El Mastaba's extensive collections, while simultaneously providing training in these procedures to enable sustainability, with in-kind support through secure offsite storage at the University of Alberta.
    • Collaboration with Egyptian Center for Culture and Art, Cairo: To encourage the diversity, specificity and vibrancy of Egypt's cultural scene. Have provided advisory support.
    • Collaboration with AMAR (Foundation for Arab Music Archiving and Research), Beirut: to preserve and disseminate archival recordings of traditional Arab music from the early 20th century. Member of the Board of Directors.
  • World music presentations to local Edmonton schools and daycares (ongoing series of presentations, at the University of Alberta, or onsite)
  • Local community outreach through performance U of A Senate to celebrate campus volunteers

Relevant publications on M4GHD

Multimedia projects

Documentary video

Documentary audio

Virtual and Augmented Reality

Digital repositories

  • Sounding Islam (in progress)
  • Wahba-Alexandru Egyptian folklore project (in progress)
  • Principal Investigator and project director, VMCTM: Virtual Museum of Canadian Traditional Music. Sponsored by Virtual Museum Canada and the Canadian Heritage Information Network. (funded by Canadian Heritage Information Network). Managed complex three year development, including over a dozen participants, a partnership with Smithsonian Folkways, and a $175,000 budget. In French and English.
  • Musical change in a West African Village. Ongoing (2007-2010) collaborative research project carried out together with students participating in the UofA Ghana summer program, led by Michael Frishkopf.
  • SonoCairo searchable web 2.0 catalog. Relational database containing metadata for several thousand cassette recordings produced by the Egyptian state recording company (SonoCairo) from 1962 to present, based on Egypt research 2003-04 (in development)

Technology

  • [virtual(worldmusic)
    • Folkways in Wonderland: An immersive collaborative virtual environment for browsing world music and doing ethnomusicology. Constructed in collaboration with colleagues in computer science at the University of Aizu, Japan, and in partnership with Smithsonian Folkways, with support from folkwaysAlive! and SSHRC (approx. $20,000 to date)
    • World Music in Wonderland (WMiW).
  • MuDoc (Music/Multimedia Documentation) peer-reviewed federated world music web digital repository. Designed digitial repository for music multimedia (text, score, audio, video), supported by funding from Sun Microsystems, Alberta Ministry of Innovation and Science, and the University of Alberta (over $300,000 total).
  • biofeedback microtonal ear training... (in progress)

Collaborative projects

Educational programs

Musical composition, improvisation, performance

Some recent work:

The Trancecultural Orchestra

work with Indian music virtuoso Deepak Paramashivan

Third Stream version of Blowin in the Wind, by Bob Dylan (1963) - featuring Jenny Boutros with traditional mawwal introduction (melody by Jenny Boutros). Performed March 14, 2017, Convocation Hall, University of Alberta. (Full event here.)


Compositions are here (ignore links below) (and notes) ...

  • Insonations at the shrine of Jamila Hanem in Cairo
  • Nyewe Blues (performed at the 2014 meeting of the Society for Ethnomusicology) Click here for scores and instructions
  • Helen's Necklace (several versions, and score), composed and performed for Carole Frechette's acclaimed play, and performed in 2005, at the Shadow Theatre
  • Spacings, for two pianos and two flutes, inspired by forms of traditional Zimbabwean mbira music (2007)
  • BaAka Soundings, a stochastic piece for variable-sized ensemble including mixed chorus, bell, and percussion sticks. Programmed in R, drawing on melodic cells and polyphonic style of the BaAka people, Central African Republic. Composed for a production of The Ik, by Colin Turnbull; directed by Heather Fitzsimmons, and performed at Edmonton’s Walterdale Playhouse, 2000.
  • e-Dhikr (finale), inspired by Sufi sounds of Cairo. Composed and performed (entirely) by M. Frishkopf, with nay, percussion, voice, and looper. (2008)
  • Kurd, neo-takht composition/improvisational frame, premiered at the Dignity of Difference conference, 2009.
  • For Marcel Khalife (rough sketch version). (2010)
  • 40,000[15], Third Stream composition/improvisation (performed at Amnesty International's Small Places concert, University of Alberta, October 2008, towards awareness of political prisoners of the Arab world,). Inspired by Ran Blake, 3rd Stream, Arabic maqam, the Muslim adhan (call to prayer), and Olivier Messiaen's birdsongs and modes of limited transposition. (Michael Frishkopf, piano)

Nay improvisations...

  • Nay 1 (Edmonton Sound Sessions) (2010)
  • Nay 2 (Edmonton Sound Sessions) (2010)

Nay for The Color of Your Voice

Concerts, workshops, and conferences

(a sample)

Media

For broken links try https://web.archive.org/ - unfortunately most organizations (even universities!) don't consider their publications worthy of long-term preservation, and allow links to expire with every website reorganization. Luckly, the founders of http://archive.org believe otherwise!

Quotations


"Listen to everything all the time and remind yourself when you are not listening." -- Pauline Oliveros

"After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music" -- Aldous Huxley

Ethnomusicology provides the broadest possible frame for studying music; as "the meaningful social-linguistic-sonic practice of studying music as a meaningful social-linguistic-sonic practice" ethnomusicology achieves recursive breadth: it becomes a legitimate object of its own study (Frishkopf 2016).

“My soul is a hidden orchestra; I know not what instruments, what fiddlestrings and harps, drums and tamboura I sound and clash inside myself. All I hear is the symphony.” -- Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet

"Music is living sound" -- Willard Rhodes

Music is more than sound, for silence is also music -- Michael Frishkopf

"I have nothing to say and I'm saying it" -- John Cage

"Music, in performance, is a type of sculpture. The air in the performance is sculpted into something.” -- Frank Zappa

"Music is among the most powerful of all social technologies" -- M. Frishkopf

"The craft of singing...is the first to disappear from a given civilization when it disintegrates and retrogresses." - Ibn Khaldun, 14th century

"The loudest noise in the world is silence." -- Thelonious Monk

Miscellaneous

My Egypt (a map)

Mohamed Fawzy Association

University of Ghana - Department of Music website (from circa 2010)