On ORCiM The mission of the Orpheus Research Centre in Music [ORCiM] is to produce and promote the highest quality research into music, into the processes of music making, and into our understanding of these. By bringing together an international team, ORCiM creates a strong and supportive research environment dedicated to the generation of new knowledge by artist-researchers. ORCiM invigorates their practice, deepens understanding and promotes new ways of expressing to the wider world the richness and profundity of knowledge that is embedded in music. ORCiM is the first centre of its kind to focus its research questions through the perspectives of the artist-researcher. International in its scope, it aims to serve as a magnet not only for Flemish researchers and music conservatoires and universities, but also for all individuals and institutions in Europe and overseas looking for guidance and collaboration in the new discipline of research in-andthrough musical practice. ORCiM comprises a group of approximately fifteen musician-scholars (Research Fellows), who focus upon furthering the knowledge and understanding that is generated through (live) musical performance and creation. The international ORCiM research team also includes doctoral students (ORCiM Doctoral Researchers) and selected international visiting musicians and scholars (ORCiM Visiting Researchers). www.orcim.be
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