Dr. Nico Schüler recently published a book chapter on “Orientation Processes and Perspectivism in the Spatiality of Music-Theoretical Research: Reflections on the Plurality of Modern Methods and Methodology of Music Analysis” in the book Music and Spatiality (ed. by Miloš Zatkalik, et al., Belgrade, 2021). He also published a research article on “Otto Laske and the Visualization of Electro‐Acoustic Music: Laske’s Visual Music Animations” in the journal Emille, the Journal of the Korean Electro-Acoustic Music Society.
Dr. Schüler was invited to teach an international workshop on Computational Analysis of Recorded Music in Europe. In addition to an invited guest lecture for the international DHLunch@GS [Digital Humanities Lecture Series] on “Analyzing Expressiveness in Music Performances of Bach and Blues”, he also presented papers at six international conferences: a paper on “Networks of Black Artists in Minstrel and Jubilee Ensembles in the US in the Late 19th Century” at the International Virtual Conference Transatlantic Perspectives on Hidden Late 19th Century Music Cultures, a paper on “Improving the Accuracy of Note Onset Detection” at the International (Virtual) Conference on Zeitgestaltung, a paper on “Rubato as Normativity: A Case Study on Performances of a Bach Invention” at the International Conference by the German Society for Music Research, a paper on “Rubato Performed and Perceived: An Analytical Case Study” at the European Music Analysis Conference in Moscow / Russia, a paper on “Microtonality in Central and Eastern Europe” at the International Music Conference in Banja Luka / Serbia, and a paper on “The Degree of Rubato in Performances of Bach’s Invention No. 9” at the international conference on Aspects of Software-Supported Performance Research in Europe.
Last but not least, Dr. Schüler presented five papers at conferences in the United States: on “Repertoire, Touring Schedules, Geography, and Forgotten Musicians: Black Minstrel & Jubilee Music in the Early 1880s” at the College Music Society Northwest Chapter Conference, on “Using Sonic Visualiser and VAMP Plugins for Ethnomusicological Research: An Introduction” at the Society for Ethnomusicology Southern Planes Chapter Conference, on “How ‘Blue’ Are Blue Notes? A Methodological Case Study” at the College Music Society South Central Chapter Conference, on “Beyond Desmond Dekker and Bob Marley: Rastafarianism in Contemporary Reggae and Reggaetón” at the College Music Society South Central Chapter Conference, and on “Analyzing Rubato: A Computer-Assisted and Perception-Based Study” at the American Musicological Society Southern Chapter Conference. Dr. Schüler continues to be the editor of the international research book series Methodology of Music Research and a review board member of several international journals and grant agencies.