FRAGMENTE2

Kerstin Frödin

The exposition provides an insight into the collaborative process of creating and performing Fragmente2 (2021) a choreomusical work by musician Kerstin Frödin and choreographer-dancer Åsa Unander-Scharin based on the Japanese avant-garde composer Makoto Shinohara’s solo piece for tenor recorder, Fragmente (1968). The exposition is an attempt to describe the methodology and creative process in this project, wherein music and dance intertwine in a non-hierarchical manner. The exposition follows the structure of the performance, which consists of a series of fragments, each of them analysed and descibed in terms of choreomusical interaction. We used Don Ihde’s experimental phenomenology and perspective variation (1986) as an artistic method to analyse and explore different aspects of our choreomusical materials and interaction concepts. To address and elaborate the choreomusical elements, we used Maurice Merleau-Ponty’s distinction between abstract and concrete movements (1945/2012), Pierre Schaeffer’s musical objects (1966/2017), and our own concept of choreographic objects. Furthermore, to jointly analyse and evaluate different interaction concepts we used video recordings, annotated scores, choreography scripts, movement instructions, personal reflections, and metaphorical descriptions of the 17 fragments. The process resulted in a contrapuntal choreomusical work where music and dance act as equal parts.

FRAGMENTE²

CHOREOMUSICAL PROCESS

Introduction

Experimental phenomenology and perspective variation as research method

Choreomusical objects

Metaphors

Shinohara, Fragmente, Fragmente²

Layers of choreomusical interaction

Creating and performing a contrapuntal choreomusical work

PERSPECTIVE VARIATION

BIBLIOGRAPHY

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All still images from Fragmente²is taken from the filmed performance recorded by Patrik Eriksson and Vanja Sandell Billström, at Färgfabriken, Stockholm 22–23 February, 2021.

This exposition addresses Fragmente²(2021), a contrapuntal choreomusical work created and performed by musician Kerstin Frödin and choreographer-dancer Åsa Unander-Scharin. The aim of the project is to compose, stage and perform a work where music and dance act on equal terms. The work is based on Fragmente (1968), a solo for tenor recorder by Japanese composer Makoto Shinohara (b. 1931), and is structured in a series of 17 fragments (starting with FX at the top of the circle of photos above).

To watch the video of the full performance (total duration 8:52), click on the image in centre of the circle. Clicking on a blue highlighted fragment code (FX, F1, F5, F8 etc.), will take you directly to a description and analysis of the artistic material and the choreomusical interaction in that particular fragment. The headings at the top left take you to the different thematic sections of the exposition.

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