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From Singer to Reflective Practitioner: Performing and Composing in a Multimedia Environment (last edited: 2016)

Aleksandra Popovska
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This exegesis comes as result of performing, composing and researching in a multimedia environment over the past few years. I started working on my projects with the following question in my mind: how can I improve my own practice? Asking this led to identification of the problems related to making a live media performance, as well as prompting discussions about the types of knowledge necessary for producing a work of art that includes more than one medium. Rather than attempting to draw definitive conclusions regarding topics as broad as live media performance, I summarize and reflect upon the creation process as I experienced it, elucidating my personal contemplations regarding my experience and practice in multimedia environment. I will present three projects: ’Bukefalus’, ’Tribute to Morty’, and ’Every. When’, all designed as electroacoustic pieces with video displays. I shall take a closer look at how the pieces were developed, discuss their cross-disciplinary character, and good and bad practices involved in them. Finally, I shall focus my attention on how things go in practice when one is composing and designing an interactive piece using improvisation and different media. In all three projects I have been involved in different roles, as a performer, composer or designer, and in all of them collaboration played important role. I made particular choices, sometimes blending my roles and the roles of the participants. I hope that my experience as a musician, having passed through both classical and technology-based educational systems and participating in them in different roles – as performer, concept designer, composer, producer and teacher – will be useful for all creative people coming from the conservatory and wanting towork in the field of multimedia performance. With this exegesis I would also like to make my own contribution to reflective practice and living theory (Whitehead, 1998), by exploring improvisation and experimenting in my projects. I will write about how it has enhanced my own identity as performer, composer and designer, and why and how I have been committed to sharing its transformational potential with people I collaborate with. Its claim to originality is that it arrives at a living concept of knowledge transformation through multidimensional reflection; as a singer who is a composer, as a composer who is a researcher, as a student who has been a teacher, as an artist who has lived in an imaginative world creating her works, and as a researcher dealing with institutional policy and educational change. “I am my own informant into different perspectives, and will try through these personae to have a dialogue between several positions and arrive at a concept that is tested and lived from several perspectives.” (Spiro, 2008, p. 29)
typeresearch exposition
keywordssinger, voice and live electronics, voice, multimedia, morton feldman, three voices, improvisation, composer as performer, reflective practice
date17/06/2010
last modified17/06/2016
statusin progress
share statuspublic
affiliationDutch Association of Vocal pedagogues
licenseAll rights reserved
urlhttps://www.researchcatalogue.net/view/282607/282608
external linkhttp://eprints.port.ac.uk/1684/1/Thesis.pdf


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