Project cooperationUpdated on 5 May 2026
Musical Heritage and Linguistic Diversity in Europe
Senior Researcher at Estonian Literary Museum
Tartu, Estonia
About
My research focuses on the relationship between music, language, and cultural memory, with particular attention to minority and endangered languages embedded in traditional song practices.
My contributions to the project
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Ethnomusicology and intangible cultural heritage expertise
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Analysis of traditional songs as repositories of linguistic and cultural structures
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Study of oral transmission and its transformation under socio-political conditions
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AI-based and computational analysis of music corpora
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Data visualisation and mapping of cultural and musical practices
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Case-study expertise in Ukrainian and Baltic musical traditions (including war-affected heritage)
What I am looking for
I am seeking partners with expertise in:
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Traditional music and oral transmission
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Digital humanities and cultural data analysis
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Linguistics and multilingualism
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Artificial intelligence and machine learning
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Digital archives, cultural heritage databases, and research data infrastructures
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Intangible cultural heritage
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GLAM sector (archives, museums, libraries)
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Community-based organisations working with minority and endangered cultural heritage
Stage
- Completing the consortia
Call
- Destination: Innovative Research on European Cultural Heritage and Cultural and Creative Industries
Type
- Partners for an existing consortium
- A consortium to join as partner
Similar opportunities
Project cooperation
- Completing the consortia
- A consortium to join as partner
- Partners for an existing consortium
- Destination: Innovative Research on European Cultural Heritage and Cultural and Creative Industries
Inna Lisniak
Senior Researcher at Estonian Literary Museum
Tartu, Estonia
Project cooperation
Safeguarding Living Traditions through Participation and Digital Innovation
- A consortium to join as partner
- Design - setting the project scope
- Ideation - identifying the project idea
- Destination: Innovative Research on European Cultural Heritage and Cultural and Creative Industries
Susan Motherway
Lecturer in Music at Munster Technological University
Tralee, Ireland
Project cooperation
Immersive capture of Language and Cultural Practices in Context
- Completing the consortia
- A consortium to join as partner
- Design - setting the project scope
- Partners for an existing consortium
- Ideation - identifying the project idea
- Destination: Innovative Research on European Cultural Heritage and Cultural and Creative Industries
Matthew McGinity
Professor, Director of IXLAB at IXLAB - Dresden University of Technology
Dresden, Germany