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  Wolfe & Libertad May 20 (last edited: 2019) author(s): Laisvie Andrea Ochoa Gaevska This exposition is in progress.
  Wolfe and Libertad is a practice-led research project that combines choreographic and cinematographic ways of working with the aim to locate sources of female strength. Therefore, one strand of the project seeks to develop an expressive device from the kinetic interplay between dance and video projection. The other, finds creative energy in the voice of young women instigating social change and in a wolves-inspired bodily state. One major inspiration is the tale La Loba -the wolf woman- presented by Clarissa Pinkola in the book Women Who Run With the Wolves (1992). The psychoanalytic concepts of Extimacy and Listening with the third ear are being re-purposed as creative methods that generate movement materials from the somatic experiences of the artist/researcher leading this project and the dancers she collaborates with. As part of this project, one video-dance and two dance works that involve real-time visual performance, were made. Besides that, a study about the cinematographic language that resulted in a vocabulary of interaction between live and mediated elements is presented in this Exposition. One key finding of the project is a potent state of presence that is nurtured with the use of spoken word and sign language to create a variety of tensions with the presence of the projection.
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  Eisenhower on Drums (last edited: 2019) author(s): Mathias Holm This exposition is in progress.
  Mathias Holm 'soloist' paper
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  Human Speed in Music (last edited: 2019) author(s): Ned McGowan This exposition is in progress.
  Despite the ubiquitous role of time in most everything we do there is still much to understand about its essence as a function of human perception. One way to learn about the cognisance of time is simply by listening to music. The rhythms, sounds, and silences of music are jacketed by the human condition. The expansive identity of time with its major implications in the realms of science, philosophy, and religion, tells little about our immediate experiences in music. The concept of speed, though, is full of enlightening character. In this essay, I explore the experience of speed in music with an artistic research methodology. Based on my artistic and pedagogic experience, the arguments consider areas of performance, composition, and perception, and references are made to neurobiological research. A multitude of perspectives are presented here, such as an explication of speed, a study on tempo 10 bpm, the relationship between emotions and our perception of the speed of time, plus many musical examples, including compositions, tests of duration and maximum speed perception and a full range of musical speed. The goal is to reveal properties about musical speed to provide a clearer concept for the reader to experience, interpret and conceptualize for herself.
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  Quest for a Breathing Performance (2019) author(s): Anu Vehviläinen published in: Ruukku Studies in Artistic Research
  In this exposition, I study the concept of ‘experimentation’ in artistic research. I describe how the interdisciplinary collaboration of the Silence Ensemble influenced a violin-piano recital through both conscious and unintentional experimentation. The focus of the experimentation is on the ‘now-moment’. A detailed explanation of the technical practicing process before the concert is also offered to introduce the experimental approach. To define my individual experimentation, I refer to experimentation studies in artistic research and especially to Bart Vanhecke’s concepts of experimentation ‘in’ and ‘through’ art.
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  Algorithmic Thinking and Musical Performance (2019) author(s): Mieko Kanno published in: Ruukku Studies in Artistic Research
  This presentation examines instances of elementary algorithmic thinking and musical examples that bear the same principles. A particular focus is given to the function of algorithmic thinking as a performative skill in action. The presentation takes as its background that the application of the procedural logic of algorithm has a long history in music, and that examples can be found in many types of music-making as activities. While much of this application is already discussed in the discipline of musical composition, I observe that the significant presence of algorithmic thinking in performance is still to be articulated. In the three sections titled ‘affordance’, ‘combinatoriality’, and ‘sequence’, I examine each concept in algorithmic operations, and how the same principle can be observed in musical practices. These three sections provide reflection on the nature of the processes involved in music-making. They also simultaneously argue that contemporary musicians possess the capacity to process necessary information and tasks algorithmically, consciously or not.
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  Practices of Performing at Senegalese Sabar Dance Events (2019) author(s): Elina Seye published in: Ruukku Studies in Artistic Research
  In my PhD thesis Performing a Tradition in Music and Dance (2014), I analyzed sabar dance events as ‘places’ for (re)constructing social relationships, identities, and tradition. In these celebrations, the participants in a sense perform themselves and their relationships to others present, embodying communal conceptions of their social roles and the related norms and values, but sometimes also challenging them. These performances of self can thus primarily be identified as cultural performatives, following Butler, but they still happen in the frame of the dance event, which allows also expressions deviating from the performatives of everyday situations. Here, I will consider how the modes of performance in sabar dance events can be characterized in addition to the obvious repetition and variation of traditional dance genres. Additionally, I will reflect on the value of practical involvement in performance as a methodological tool in ethnographic fieldwork.
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Elisabeth Belgrano
Sweden

Elina Lifländer
Finland (citizenship)

Mariella Greil-Moebius

Julius Elo
Finland (citizenship)

Budhaditya Chattopadhyay

Trifilo Gianluca
Switzerland (residence), Italy, Switzerland (citizenship)

Ana Souto Galvan
United Kingdom (residence), Spain (citizenship)

Bjarni Gunnarsson

Joanna Sperryn-Jones
United Kingdom