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This is a exposition-version of a Keynote speech, held at SIMM-posium, Copenhagen, November 2024 Drawing on findings and experience from the Artistic Research project "Echoes from the torn down fourth wall", this keynote will explore key perspectives on building bridges between “art music” (whatever that means) and community singing. The research project began with an inquiry into audience participation within improvised concerts and has reinterpreted familiar Danish song material in an art music setting where the audience sings along in songs they know. Topics will include proposals for understanding the social dynamics of participation and listening through the framework of 4e cognition; in this case, thinking of listening as embodied, embedded, enacted, and extended. The role of the spectator across different performance art domains will be examined, focusing on how the project has challenged notions and ideals of the spectator’s separation (or lack thereof) from the musical event. Additionally, genre theory will be employed to rethink the distinctions and overlaps between “cultural” and “art” perspectives in the interpretation of inherited musical traditions. Approaches to possible renegotiations of musical traditions – whether through confirmation or destabilization – will also be discussed, partly in the Danish context of the project, but also extended more generally beyond this specific starting point.
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The keynote is a condensed and rewritten version of the dissemination in the Echoes from the torn down fourth wall Artistic Research exposition – published at Research Catalogue. The original exposition is bilingual, in English & Danish.
Direct links:
- to KEYNOTE
- to Full exposition from the Echoes from the torn down fourth wall research project
