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• 9. Publications 2025 KMD Artistic Research
• 8. PHD 2024 phd fellows
• 7. PhD 2023 PhD 2023
• 6. PhD - KMD 2022 PhD - KMD 2022
• 5. PhD - KMD 2021 Thesis under evaluation
• 4. Articles Various articles published in the KMD portal.
• 3. Crisis Collective - contributions to a lost conference Crisis Collective - contributions to a lost conference
• 2. PhD - KMD 2019 Finished thesis. 2019
• 1. Past projects - 2018 and prior Projects KMD

• Playing the Electrophonic Saxophone (2021) author(s): Kjetil Traavik Møster published in: Faculty of Fine Art, Music and Design, University of Bergen
  'Playing the Electrophonic Saxophone' explores the expanded role of the instrument and relations made possible by such expansions. In and through artistic practice I research the many processes, tensions, and artistic possibilities that emerge through interplay. How can exploring possibilities and conditions for the acoustic saxophone in interplay with electric and electronic tools and sounds pave the way for new music, new insights, and expand the conception of what the instrument can be? How can playing with electrically and digitally manipulated sound facilitate the instrument’s ability to connect to musicians and artists from other fields of practice? The research’s main artistic outcome is the sum of a series of artistic projects presented in this exposition. The two texts Playing Air and Playing Parasitic constitute the ethical and methodological basis for the research and my practice and transfers to the projects’ two basic elements: roles and their relations. The band Møster! acts as the main project ensemble, and the PhD research is finalized with a public artistic presentation at the Nattjazz Festival, Røkeriet USF, Bergen on June 1st, 2021. 'Playing the Electrophonic Saxophone' utforsker instrumentets utvidete rolle, og relasjoner som en slik utvidelse åpner for. I og gjennom kunstnerisk praksis forsker jeg på de mange prosesser, spenninger, og kunstneriske potensial som vokser frem gjennom samspill. Hvordan kan utforskning av muligheter og premisser for akustisk saksofonspill i samspill med elektriske og elektroniske verktøy og lyder lede til ny musikk, ny innsikt, og utvide forståelsen av hva instrumentet kan være? Hvordan kan det å spille med elektrisk og digitalt manipulert lyd legge til rette for samhandling med musikere og artister fra andre kunstneriske felt, med ulike kunstneriske praksiser? Forskningens kunstneriske resultat er presentert som en samling prosjekter i denne eksposisjonen. De to tekstene 'Playing Air' og 'Playing Parasitic' utgjør det metodologiske og etiske grunnlaget for forskningen og min praksis, og kan leses inn i forskningens to hovedelementer: roller, og deres relasjoner. Bandet Møster! fungerer som hoved-ensemble, og PhD-prosjektet ble avsluttet med en offentlig konsertfremføring på Nattjazz, Røkeriet USF i Bergen, 1. juni 2021.
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  Open Form. An Expanded Performer´s Role. (2021) author(s): Else Olsen Storesund connected to: Norwegian Artistic Research Programme published in: Faculty of Fine Art, Music and Design, University of Bergen
  Open form is a designation on a type of composition that is in some degree open. It is also a term in relation to understanding a genre. This means that I do not include for example Bach´s Die Kunst der Fuge (circa 1740), but Stockhausen´s Aus den sieben Tagen (1968) could be included. This project, however, is centered around the composers from The New York Scool, and composers related to The New York School: Christian Wolff, Pauline Oliveros, John Cage, Earle Brown, Morton Feldman and Cornelius Cardew. An Open form composition is graphic, text- or number-based. It may also be a combination of these three notational techniques and/or in combination with conventional staff line-notation.
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  (Un-) settling Sites and Styles (2021) author(s): Einar Røttingen, Bente Elisabeth Finseraas published in: Faculty of Fine Art, Music and Design, University of Bergen
  (Un-)settling sites and styles: In search of new expressive means. Eight performers (voice, piano, violin, cello), one musicologist and one composer aspired to unsettle their habitual ways of working with musical interpretation of 20th century and contemporary Norwegian composers. By collaborating to develop new perspectives and methods, they investigated questions of style and how different sites influenced their rehearsals and performances. How do performers find new expressive means? How can intersubjective exchange within a research group contribute to articulating tacit knowledge? How can mutual unsettling approaches influence conventional or subjective attitudes of fidelity to a score or a performance tradition? How can novel sounds, musical material and musical meaning emerge beyond prejudiced conceptions or through improvisation? The three-year project was facilitated by the Norwegian Artistic Research Programme and the Faculty of Fine Art, Music and Design (Grieg Academy), University of Bergen, and resulted in texts, sound recordings, videos, and new commented score editions.
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• Design plass i "Design Thinking" (2020) author(s): Bente Irminger published in: Faculty of Fine Art, Music and Design, University of Bergen
  De siste årene har tilbudet av kurs i «Design Thinking» økt markant. Kursene kan ta form av et par timers seminar med overskriften «Lær Design Thinking». Slike kurs kan gi innsikt i Design Thinking-prosessen, men kan også medføre at Design Thinking fort blir oppfattet som et trendy buzzord. Design Thinking er nemlig ikke en kvikkfiks på ethvert problem. For å kunne gjennomføre en god Design Thinking-prosess trenger du mer enn et introduksjonskurs: Design Thinking er en prosess som krever kunnskap, øvelse, tid og hardt arbeid.
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• The Place of Design in "Design Thinking" (2020) author(s): Bente Irminger published in: Faculty of Fine Art, Music and Design, University of Bergen
  Design in the place of Design Thinking
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• A growing interest in creativity is opening up new roles for the designer- but also creating a need for clarification of these roles (2020) author(s): Bente Irminger published in: Faculty of Fine Art, Music and Design, University of Bergen
  In recent years, “Design Thinking” as an interdisciplinary innovation process has increasingly led trade and industry and the public sector to take an interest in the design profession. While this profession has traditionally been related to the design of products and shaping of surroundings, today design can also concern methods and processes, making the profession relevant for additional areas of society. In this article, we present some key characteristics of the design profession today, and also discuss which expectations and different designer roles newly qualified designers meet and may come to meet in the future.
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