(Un-) settling Sites and Styles

Einar Røttingen

(Un-)settling sites and styles: In search of new expressive means. Eight performers (voice, piano, violin, cello), one musicologist and one composer aspired to unsettle their habitual ways of working with musical interpretation of 20th century and contemporary Norwegian composers. By collaborating to develop new perspectives and methods, they investigated questions of style and how different sites influenced their rehearsals and performances. How do performers find new expressive means? How can intersubjective exchange within a research group contribute to articulating tacit knowledge? How can mutual unsettling approaches influence conventional or subjective attitudes of fidelity to a score or a performance tradition? How can novel sounds, musical material and musical meaning emerge beyond prejudiced conceptions or through improvisation? The three-year project was facilitated by the Norwegian Artistic Research Programme and the Faculty of Fine Art, Music and Design (Grieg Academy), University of Bergen, and resulted in texts, sound recordings, videos, and new commented score editions.

(Un-)settling sites and styles

- in Search of New Expressive Means

Introduction

Acknowledgements

Expressive means

Unsettling and unlearning

Unsettling sites and styles

Methological approaches

The individual projects

Results and documentation

References

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BIOGRAPHICAL NOTES ABOUT RICARDO ODRIOZOLA

Ricardo Odriozola was born in Spain in 1965. After studies in Spain and the USA, Odriozola moved to Bergen in 1987. Since then, he has worked as violin and chamber music at the Grieg Academy (formerly Bergen Music Conservatory). Since 2007 he has held the title of associate professor. In addition to his pedagogical work, he also conducts the Grieg Academy sinfonietta, an ensemble for contemporary music.

Odriozola has concertised extensively throughout Europe and North America as soloist, chamber musician and conductor. He has made over 40 CDs. He was a member of the Hansa Quartet from 1989 to 2000, the BIT-20 ensemble from 1994 to 1999 and the Euterpe Ensemble from 1993 to 2003. He is currently a member of the quartet Bare Barokk and the contemporary music ensemble Ensemble Kammerklang. Since 2009 he has been a member of the Valen Trio, whose debut recording received highly acclaimed international reviews.

Odriozola has done extensive collaboration with Norwegian composers. This has resulted in multiple performances, including many world premieres. He is responsible for the premiere recordings of Harald Sæverud’s three string quartets and for CDs of previously unrecorded chamber works by Edvard Hagerup Bull, Kenneth Sivertsen and Bernt Kasberg Evensen.

In 2013 he embarked on a 9-CD project with the LAWO record company that would entail the entire chamber music production of the composer Ketil Hvoslef. In June 2016 he published the book “Opus Perseverat” (MPH, München), which documents his close musical association with Harald Sæverud, Edvard Hagerup Bull, Ketil Hvoslef, Magnar Åm and Kenneth Sivertsen. The book provides a wealth of information about the music of these composers. Ricardo Odriozola is also active as a composer.

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