Love / Music: Problematics of a Relationship brings to fruition a multidisciplinary, international, collaborative project whose interrogations began with exploratory meetings in Thessaloniki in 2024 and Chicago in 2025 and launched formally in 2025-26. The project interrogates the highly neglected theoretical, epistemological, disciplinary, and ethnohistorical dimensions of the love / music nexus. The endless entanglements of love and music permeate time and place, shaping diverse genres, engaging different media, and articulating numerous domains of human life. Though their kinship is enduring and pervasive, it remains radically under-thought—so naturalized as to be refractory to sustained social and political analysis. Our project aims to give it a robust intellectual formation, bringing it out of the shadows and making it a prominent object of thought. We argue that love-and-music, an unruly and amorphous but distinct entity, cannot be pried apart from “love music,” much less love songs, love for music, or love induced by, lived in, or mediated by music. Working to avoid myopias and silos, we explore how each term infuses the other in ways that speak eloquently to them separately and to their relationship. Component parts of the project include four scholarly workshops, two of which are taking place in 2025-26 along with a public artistic/scholarly event. The final two are planned for the first year of the Neubauer Collegium phase (2026-27), along with a public artistic/scholarly event. The second year of the Neubauer Collegium phase (2027-28) will culminate in a capstone conference. Year Three (2028-29) will include an exhibition at the Neubauer Collegium, The Open Museum of Love and Music: A Portable Exhibition, modular and moveable, later to travel to London and Thessaloniki. In the month before opening, the three core collaborators will gather in Chicago for one month, with Stokes and Tragaki as Visiting Fellows, finalizing the shape of the exhibition while writing and editing intensively. Besides the exhibition, deliverables will include a co-edited volume called Love / Music: Essays on a Relationship and a multi-authored volume, provisionally called Love in the Time of Music: Theories and Terrains.