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Fabian C. Moss

@fabianmoss.bsky.social

Assistant Professor for Digital Music Philology and Music Theory at Würzburg University, Germany www.fabian-moss.de

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Fabian C. Moss @fabianmoss.bsky.social · 3mo ago

🗓️ Good morning! 2 days left to submit an abstract to this year's International Conference on Computational and Cognitive Musicology at Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg, Germany from September 21-23! We're looking forward to your submissions! Infos here: digital.musicology.org/icccm-2026/

Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg @uni-wuerzburg.de · 6mo ago

Priests in the Middle Ages used #tropes to comment or introduce gregorian chants. A #JMU study showed that there spread was restricted because of the political borders created by the Treaty of Verdun 843 AD. 📸 Ivan Savini / Adobe Stock ➡️ www.uni-wuerzburg.de/en/news-and-...

Andy Milne @andytonality.bsky.social · 6mo ago

I am writing to announce a 5-year Research Fellowship in Music Science at the MARCS Institute, Australia. You will design and lead research projects that use mathematical and computational approaches to investigate music and its cognition. Further details: jobs.smartrecruiters.com/WesternSydne...

Research Fellow in Music Science

Job Description: * 5-year Fixed-Term Contract, Full-time position at Academic Level B. * Based at the MARCS Institute with flexible working arrangements. * Salary: $120,908 – $142,769 per annum, plus ...

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Fabian C. Moss @fabianmoss.bsky.social · 6mo ago

How have politics shaped music making in the past? Using generative network models, Tim's work shows that there is a close link between political boundaries in central Europe towards the end of the first millennium and the repertoire of chants. #musicscience transactions.ismir.net/articles/10....

Fabian C. Moss @fabianmoss.bsky.social · 7mo ago

I've always said this 😉 www.economist.com/culture/2026...

The world is suffering from a shortage of tenors

Want to join a choir? Can you sing tenor? Answer the second question first

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Fabian C. Moss @fabianmoss.bsky.social · 7mo ago

🔖*1st Call for Abstracts:* The Int Conf of Computational & Cognitive Musicology will take place from 21-23 September in Würzburg, Germany. Please share! #ICCCM26 #musicscience Call: digital.musicology.org/icccm-2026/

Fabian C. Moss @fabianmoss.bsky.social · 11mo ago

One week left to apply! #job #academicjobs

Fabian C. Moss @fabianmoss.bsky.social · 12mo ago

📯We're looking for a new colleague in #musicology in Würzburg (tenured full professorship, W3)! While the call is in German only, international candidates are highly encouraged to apply. Do not hesitate to reach out! 📆 **October 15, 2025**. See: www.phil.uni-wuerzburg.de/fileadmin/04...

Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 12mo ago

Finally! 🤩 Our position piece: Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia: doi.org/10.5281/zeno... We unpick the tech industry’s marketing, hype, & harm; and we argue for safeguarding higher education, critical thinking, expertise, academic freedom, & scientific integrity. 1/n

Abstract: Under the banner of progress, products have been uncritically adopted or
even imposed on users — in past centuries with tobacco and combustion engines, and in
the 21st with social media. For these collective blunders, we now regret our involvement or
apathy as scientists, and society struggles to put the genie back in the bottle. Currently, we
are similarly entangled with artificial intelligence (AI) technology. For example, software updates are rolled out seamlessly and non-consensually, Microsoft Office is bundled with chatbots, and we, our students, and our employers have had no say, as it is not
considered a valid position to reject AI technologies in our teaching and research. This
is why in June 2025, we co-authored an Open Letter calling on our employers to reverse
and rethink their stance on uncritically adopting AI technologies. In this position piece,
we expound on why universities must take their role seriously toa) counter the technology
industry’s marketing, hype, and harm; and to b) safeguard higher education, critical
thinking, expertise, academic freedom, and scientific integrity. We include pointers to
relevant work to further inform our colleagues.

Figure 1. A cartoon set theoretic view on various terms (see Table 1) used when discussing the superset AI
(black outline, hatched background): LLMs are in orange; ANNs are in magenta; generative models are
in blue; and finally, chatbots are in green. Where these intersect, the colours reflect that, e.g. generative adversarial network (GAN) and Boltzmann machine (BM) models are in the purple subset because they are
both generative and ANNs. In the case of proprietary closed source models, e.g. OpenAI’s ChatGPT and
Apple’s Siri, we cannot verify their implementation and so academics can only make educated guesses (cf.
Dingemanse 2025). Undefined terms used above: BERT (Devlin et al. 2019); AlexNet (Krizhevsky et al.
2017); A.L.I.C.E. (Wallace 2009); ELIZA (Weizenbaum 1966); Jabberwacky (Twist 2003); linear discriminant analysis (LDA); quadratic discriminant analysis (QDA).

Table 1. Below some of the typical terminological disarray is untangled. Importantly, none of these terms
are orthogonal nor do they exclusively pick out the types of products we may wish to critique or proscribe.

Protecting the Ecosystem of Human Knowledge: Five Principles

Fabian C. Moss @fabianmoss.bsky.social · 12mo ago

Fabian C. Moss @fabianmoss.bsky.social · last yr.

This semester, students in my course on Digital Representations of Music and Notation Software had the opportunity to visit our university's Retro Computing Lab, led by Torsten Roeder. It was great fun trying to notate some music on still working C64s. 🎹🤖 #musicscience

Fabian C. Moss @fabianmoss.bsky.social · last yr.

📣 I'm excited to announce that Johannes Menke's and my project "Musico Pratico - Pietro Pontio's Dialogues in Translation, Digital Evaluation and Critical Reception" will be funded for 3 years by SNSF and DFG within the Weave program. www.uni-wuerzburg.de/aktuelles/ei...

Einen Renaissance-Musiker digital wiederbeleben

Der Komponist und Musiktheoretiker Pietro Pontio steht im Mittelpunkt eines neuen Forschungsprojekt. Teams aus Würzburg und Basel arbeiten an einer digitalen Edition seiner theoretischen und didaktischen Werke.

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The Guardian @theguardian.com · last yr.

Chimps’ rhythmic drumming could shed light on music’s evolutionary roots

Research found chimpanzees drum with non-random rhythms that suggest building blocks of music may predate humans by millions of years They might not produce Gershwin hits, but chimpanzees have got rhythm, researchers have found in a study they say sheds light on the evolutionary origins of music. Scientists have previously found chimpanzees drum on the buttress roots of trees to send information to each other, with each individual having their own signature style. Continue reading...

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Fabian C. Moss @fabianmoss.bsky.social · last yr.

This week, I was so happy about our first in-person team meeting at @uni-wuerzburg.de's Zentrum für Philologie und Digitalität that I grew a shadow antenna out of my head! Always looking out for new connections apparently ;-)

Fabian C. Moss @fabianmoss.bsky.social · last yr.

Proud to share the latest work from our group! We liberate musicological data from their printed form and provide a novel machine-readable resource for computational analysis! #digitalhumanities #musicscience www.linkedin.com/posts/timeip...

Corpus Troporum Dataset: A Digital Catalog of Trope Elements in Medieval… | Tim Eipert

Excited to share that my paper on a Dataset I created with Corinna Bongartz and Fabian C. Moss has just been published! It could be interesting to everyone who works with medieval chant, tropes, and m...

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Fabian C. Moss @fabianmoss.bsky.social · last yr.

Today I had the great pleasure to welcome our new postdoc Mauro Orsini Windholz to our team at @uni-wuerzburg.de ! We will continue working on the computational analysis of Brazilian choro. 🇧🇷🎼

Jean-Baptiste Camps @jbcamps.bsky.social · 2y ago

Are you interested in cultural transmission, medieval manuscripts or digital humanities, and want to pursue a PhD in a city bustling with intellectual and cultural life ? Come work with us !

LostMa ERC@lostma.bsky.social · 2y ago

📣 Job offers We are recruiting two PhD students in computational philology, to work on textual transmission with a methodology blending cultural evolution models, philology and data analysis 🧪 Deadline: 31 March 2025

Arnold Jacobshagen @jacobshagen.bsky.social · 2y ago

GfM Relaunch: Die Gesellschaft für Musikforschung hat einen neuen Auftritt. www.musikforschung.de

Fabian C. Moss @fabianmoss.bsky.social · 2y ago

Great thinkpiece by @gewang.bsky.social on #GenAI and #creativity (especially #music): hai.stanford.edu/news/ge-wang...

Ge Wang: GenAI Art Is the Least Imaginative Use of AI Imaginable

The prevailing public mindset that AI is only a labor-saving tool betrays a lack of understanding of why people create and a lack of imagination of this technology's potential.

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Lauren Tilton @nolauren.bsky.social · 2y ago

Looking to teach with Humanities Data in R?The second edition of our book is now out! Updates include tidyverse, new data sets, latest code techniques, and more! Available through many libraries. We also have a digital teaching component. DM or email for access! #digitalhumanities #datascience

Fabian C. Moss @fabianmoss.bsky.social · 2y ago

⏰ New year, new publication! Come and watch Anja Volk's talk on "Musical Pattern Discovery" from the CODAMUS series youtu.be/XTa6aCZfpyE and read the transcript here: codamus.pubpub.org/pub/2023-volk #musicscience #digitalhumanities #music

Musical pattern discovery: a dialogue between MIR, Musicology & Music Therapy

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Fabian C. Moss @fabianmoss.bsky.social · 2y ago

⏰ Check out Elsa De Luca's talk in the #CODAMUS series "Encoding Early Music: The Challenges and Beauty of Neumatic Music Scripts" #digitalhumanities #musicscience codamus.pubpub.org/pub/2023-de-... youtu.be/baz6-sZragQ

Encoding Early Music: The Challenges and Beauty of Neumatic Music Scripts

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Fabian C. Moss @fabianmoss.bsky.social · 2y ago

Strong presence of Uni Würzburg DH/CH at #CHR2024 earlier this month! www.uni-wuerzburg.de/zpd/news/sin...

Starke Präsenz des ZPD auf der CHR 24

Vom 03.-06. Dezember fand die fünfte Computational Humanities Conference in Aarhus (Dänemark) erneut mit starker Beteiligung aus Würzburg statt.

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Fabian C. Moss @fabianmoss.bsky.social · 2y ago

⏰ Check out the newest CODAMUS publication by Martha E. Thomae: " #MIR for Early #Music Documents: Technologies behind the Semi-Automatic #Encoding of Mensural Sources into Symbolic Scores" #digitalhumanities #musicscience codamus.pubpub.org/pub/2023-eli... www.youtube.com/watch?v=LfvQ...

MIR for Early Music Documents: Technologies behind the Semi-Automatic Encoding of Mensural Sources

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Fabian C. Moss @fabianmoss.bsky.social · 2y ago

⏰ Latest update: Elena Minetti's talk "From analogue to digital in correspondences research: tracing the potential of encoding letters within the Henze-digital project" is now online. Check it out here: codamus.pubpub.org/pub/2023-min... or on YouTube youtu.be/NuBir4fTkh8! #music #digitalhumanities

From analogue to digital in correspondences research: tracing the potential of encoding letters

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Maria Antoniak @mariaa.bsky.social · 2y ago

And now the big announcement... #CHR2025 will be in Luxembourg! 🇱🇺 That's all for now, signing out from #CHR2024 🫡

Maria Antoniak @mariaa.bsky.social · 2y ago

Reminder that we have two open calls for special issues, as well as a general call, deadline Jan 1. Missing Data in the Humanities: www.cambridge.org/core/journal... LLMs in Humanities Research: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Missing Data in the Humanities

Call for Papers: Missing Data in the Humanities

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Fabian C. Moss @fabianmoss.bsky.social · 2y ago

OMG

David R. Quiroga-Martinez 🧠👂🎵🎸🇨🇴🕺@dquiroga.bsky.social · 2y ago

Game

Fabian C. Moss @fabianmoss.bsky.social · 2y ago

⏰ Next up: @miriamakkermann.bsky.social's talk "From computer-aided to automatic compositions? A closer look at generative music systems" is now public! Check out the video youtu.be/bmi1gV45vEo or view the publication here: codamus.pubpub.org/pub/2023-akk... #music #musicscience #digitalhumanities

From computer-aided to automatic compositions? A closer look at generative music systems

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Frank Fischer @umblaetterer.bsky.social · 2y ago

Ok, we just tabularised the @spiegel.de literary canon 1924–2024 & enriched it with #Wikidata, #Goodreads, GND IDs for authors and works. Feel free to toy around with it. More to follow soonish… GitHub repo: github.com/temporal-com... @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social #EXC2020 "Temporal Communities"

Fabian C. Moss @fabianmoss.bsky.social · 2y ago

So I'm finishing up my poster for #CHR2024 next week and want to replace the bird (never used the X) with the butterfly in #LaTeX #beamer using the fontawesome5 package or similar. Any suggestions?