The third ear borrows the format from the ongoing Interference series, and is therefore both a festival and symposium. It is concerned with encounters between art and science where dialogues of the unfinished work, the art in the making, is central. The third ear takes shape as a laboratory for research in music, centered around ongoing projects in artistic research in music and in music education at the Malmö Academy of Music. The event is part of the 350 year celebration of Lund University.