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recent activities
SOUNDING OUT the SOUND of OUD
(2024)
DMA
Documentation of preliminary steps and collection of musical material and related reflections during the first Term of the Master's Program in Improvisation and World Music.
December 2022
Dorsal Practices
(2024)
Emma Cocker, Katrina Brown
Dorsal Practices is a collaboration between choreographer Katrina Brown and writer-artist Emma Cocker, for exploring the notion of dorsality in relation to how we as moving bodies orient to self, others, world. How does the cultivation of a back-oriented awareness and attitude shape and inform our experience of being-in-the-world? A dorsal orientation foregrounds an active letting go, releasing, even de-privileging, of predominant social habits of uprightness and frontality — the head-oriented, sight-oriented, forward-facing, future-leaning tendencies of a culture intent on grasping a sense of the world through naming and control. Rather than a mode of withdrawal, of turning one’s back, how might a back-leaning orientation support a more open and receptive ethics of relation? How are experiences of listening, voicing, thinking, shaped differently through this tilt of awareness and attention towards the back?
Picturing Silence
(2024)
Guy Livingston
This dissertation considers performed silences in composed music and suggests that musicians often use markers to communicate the dimensions of silence. These markers may shape, summon, or impose silence. Markers are signals or cues that may be visible, audible, or multimodal. This research consists of an archive of examples from the author's pianistic practice, as well as three case studies drawn from works of Beethoven, Cage, and Antheil.
Full title: "Picturing Silence: Markers in Musical Performance as a Means of Understanding Silences"
recent publications
The Auditory Weave of Saturday Art School in Three Movements
(2024)
Ilayda Altuntas Nott
This article delves into the immersive auditory landscape of Saturday Art School at a North Eastern University in the United States, exploring the profound role of sound in shaping creative environments. The paper employs three distinct movements (noise, clapping, and silence) as a trilogy of unraveling the intricate interplay between sound, text, and artistic expression. The visually performative writing reveals the transformative power of sound in the art classroom, highlighting the potential of embodied sound knowledge to shape our daily experiences and foster meaningful connections of noise, clapping, and silence. In this exploration, the boundaries between art and sound dissolve, inviting readers to engage in a multisensory journey where the interplay of sound and visuals fosters a new perspective on artistic expression and the relationship between individuals and their environment.
Ensemble & Ensemble of Me – What I Think About When I Think About Improvisation
(2024)
Ivar Grydeland
This exposition is a copy of Ivar Grydeland's artistic research fellowship project (2011-2015) at The Norwegian Academy of Music, financed by The Norwegian Artistic Research Fellowship Programme. The exposition was redesigned within The Research Catalogue in 2024. The content is identical to the original documentation.
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Ensemble & Ensemble of Me is an artistic research fellowship project carried out at the Norwegian Academy of Music, as part of The Norwegian Artistic Research Fellowship Programme between 2011 and 2015. In this project I produced solo improvisations deriving from the music of two improvising ensembles to which I belong: Dans les arbres and Huntsville, and I produced collective improvisations with the ensembles.
The project’s key questions:
- What are my concepts when improvising with the ensembles and when improvising alone?
- How do the ensemble improvisations inform my solo improvisations?
- What do I think about when I think about our and my own improvisations?
The Haruki Murakami-paraphrase in the sub-heading indicates a process of on-going reflection upon what I regard as key aspects when I improvise. More specifically, what I regard as key aspects in the music of Dans les arbres and Huntsville, as well as for my own solo improvisations. These reflections reveal key aspects and main challenges that emerged during my attempts to create solo works informed by the ensembles. The reflections are chiefly documented in the form of a personal encyclopaedia. The encyclopaedia includes audio and visual examples, both from the final artistic results and from artistic activity during the project.
Interdisciplinary Exploration of AI within a University setting
(2024)
Helen Scarlett O'Neill
Case study - AI Week at Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen.
Staff share their experience of running RGU’s first AI week, which was held in October 2024 at Gray’s School of Art in collaboration with School of Computing. This online case study provides insights from workshops and discussions covering Gen AI, its ethics, its implications as/within art, and its role within learning/production processes.