Belgrano, E. (2004) Eclatante Amarante:
Si l'amour vous soumet a ses loix, inhumaines,
choisessez en aimant un objet plein d'appas:
portez au moins de belles chaines
et puis qu'il faut mourir, mourez d'un beau trepas.
Si l'objet de vos feux ne merite vos peines
sous l'empire d'amour ne vous engages pas:
portez au moins de belles chaines
et puis qu'il faut mourir, mourez d'un beau trepas.
If love subdues you to his laws, inhuman, choose to love some object full of charm: make the chains you wear beautiful ones and since you must die, die a beautiful death.
If the object of your fire doesn't deserve your pains, under Love's empire do not engage yourself: make the chains you wear beautiful ones and since you must die, die a beautiful death.
ORNAMENT/ING/ATION-as-a-METHOD/OLOGY:
exploring a poetic/al/(-)onto-ethico-epistemology
Abstract
The aim of this presentation is to perform an insight into the process of developing a research method, based on a practice-led/diffractive/artistic research methodology. The result includes a true story about a woman’s vocal awakening through the concept of NOTHINGNESS; about seventeenth century voices and musical manuscripts; about voicing experiences in Venice, Kyoto, & Jerusalem; about a collection of poems dedicated to one of the first opera singers – Anna Renz romana - who became NOTHINGNESS on stage; touching on Italian Nothingness and French Je-ne-sais-qua. What will become - as for the end of this story – is an attempt to articulate a process of ornamenting-as-a-method allowing for the emergence of a poetic-onto-ethico-epistemology.
BIO
Elisabeth L. Belgrano allows her performance research to diffract through contemporary vocal studies & 17th century vocal music. She is a recipient of the Noah Greenberg Award from the American Musicological Society (2005); was awarded a PhD in Performance in Theatre and Music Drama for Performing Nothingness through Operatic Mad Scenes and Lamentations, Univ. of Gothenburg (2011); supervisor and examiner through ‘performative methodologies’; investigating the Art of (Vocal) Ornamentation as an intra-active research tool for measuring Nothingness and the Unknown.