"No Self Can Tell" by Laasonen Belgrano, E. and Price, M.D.

The research explores 'ornamenting' as a transferable method in inter-disciplinary studies, inter-faith dialogues and artistic/therapeutic practices. Adapting techniques of Renaissance musicology, the processes we have developed de-create and re-create vital connections. It is a communica-tions strategy for times of crisis. Starting with simple sonic relations we extend the method far be-yond its traditional musical setting. The practice utilises 'Nothingness' as a component of creativity, providing a novel response to figurations of nothingness as mere negation. Preliminary results sug-gest its potential as a counter force to nihilism and social dislocation. The work divides into four areas. 1. Primary research on relationships between sound, meaning, and the sense(s) of self, exploring how sense is made of Otherness via processes akin to musical praxis: consonance, dissonance, 'pure voice' and ornamentation. 2. To apply this new perspective to a range of exile experiences – mourning, social disconnection, ex-communication and aggres-sive 'Othering'. 3. To investigate the cancelling of normal time-conditions in crisis situations such as trauma, dementia, and mystical experience, relating non-linear temporality to creative practice and healing. 4. To widely disseminate our results and methods as contributions to the methodology of artistic research via journal articles, live workshops and performances, and a book of original, praxical, testable, and teach-able interventions.

Before the beginning...

ALEPH

RITUAL

Road of Passion

ALEF. Innan början.

ALEF. Innan allt börjar.

Var allt helt.

Stanna här. Tystnades lutning omvandlas.

Stanna, för att lyssna bortom alla ljud som får tystnaden att böja sig och fördjupas.

Hör! Hur ljudet faller. Hör! Hur mörkret faller,

bryts och sammanfogas. Tystnades ljus.

Tystnades mörker.

En kontemplation.

En hebreisk bokstav.

Innan allt börjar.

Aleph.

Innan allt börjar.

Innan

Allt.

Börja.

Innan.

Thursday mass, Easter week

St. Pauli Church, Malmö, Sweden

Musical contemplation

beginning with the undressing of the alter

for two voices (Felicia Konrad & Elisabeth Laasonen Belgrano)

and keyboards (Per Myrstener & Albin Jhoansson)

inspired by Michel Lambert's Troisième Leçon de Ténèbres du Jeudi Saint (c. 1662)

Recorded with an iPhone 11 microphone

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