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DESIGNING WITH URBAN SOUND
(last edited: 2018)
author(s): Nina Hällgren
This exposition is in progress.
The Licentiate thesis
D E S I G N I N G W I T H U R B A N S O U N D -
Exploring methods for qualitative sound analysis of the built environment, examines the constitution and qualitative characteristics of urban sonic space from a design-oriented and practice-based perspective. The act of lifting forth and illuminating the interaction between architecture, the creation of sound and a sonic experience aims to examine and develop useful tools and methods for the representation, communication and analysis of the exterior sonic environment in complex architectural spaces. The objective is to generate theoretical and practical knowledge within the field of urban sound planning and design by showing examples of different and complementary ways of communicating and analyzing sound than those which are commonly recognized.
Sound in the city is an intricate phenomenon that affects us at several levels, both health-wise and socially. At the same time, sound has cultural and functional implications by mediating important information connected to identity, security and spatial orientation. Unfortunately, current quantitative methods are not sufficient for describing, analyzing and managing urban sounds in regard to this complexity. Complementary methods of representation and analysis need to be developed that will bring out important information - gathering it and making it visual - about the constitution, character and quality of urban sonic space that is possible to utilize alongside today’s calculation and measurement-based methods within such areas as architecture and urban planning practices.
The licentiate thesis has its foundation in the analogue and well-recognized tool-box of the architect, such as various forms of documentation and sketching techniques, mapping, inventory and site-analysis, etc., when exploring tools and strategies for the communication and analysis of the exterior urban sound environment along the long and busy street Hornsgatan in Stockholm.
In addition to exploring various methods for capturing and describing the qualitative constitution of the exterior sonic environment and some of the basic factors affecting it, this thesis sets forth a general model for qualitative sound analysis of a problematic, yet well-utilized, urban sonic space.
The licentiate thesis exists as both a print and a digital version that complement each other and thus should be read, listened to and scrutinized in parallel.
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Almat - Iteration JR
(last edited: 2018)
author(s): Hanns Holger Rutz, David Pirrò, Jonathan Reus, Daniele Pozzi
This exposition is in progress.
Discourse and materials pertaining to the experimental iteration with Jonathan Reus, during the Algorithms that Matter (Almat) artistic research project.
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Devotion and Cunningham
(last edited: 2018)
author(s): Benedict Olk
This exposition is in progress.
I assembled the notes from my notebook used during my Advanced Independent Study (AIS) in late 2017 and early 2018 as part of the New Performative Practices (NPP) MA programme at Stockholm's University of the Arts (Uniarts). The AIS was self-organized around my interest in Cunningham technique class. My research contained a physical practice stemming from a Cunningham class distributed via YouTube, as well as a theoretical approach based on reading. Chrysa Parkinson supervised and examined this course of study, and she encouraged me to think about this work as research, and I value dearly her insights and questions.
This page remains a work in progress while I continue to research, work, and practice from this foundation. I return from time to time to update my thoughts, fill in missing information, and remind myself what I had been working with before. Part of this process of research has been to learn what belongs and what doesn't belong anymore. I borrow Tere O'Connor's words as a reminder of my own contemporariness even while studying a historical figure:
"... I used to think of starting another movement of [Cunningham's] followers called the Hudson Movement. Its manifesto would be: Continue in any way you wish, stay awake and question your own and any other certitudes. You are contemporary because you are here and processing the world right now so don’t worry about that."
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Performing the 'Group of the Six'
(2018)
author(s): Federico Forla
published in: KC Research Portal
Name: Federico Forla
Main Subject: Oboe
Research supervisor: Wouter Verschuren
Title of Research:
Performing the 'Group of the Six'
Research Question:
Which are the common aesthetic aspects found in the Group of the Six? How can one exemplify it in the performance?
Summary of Results:
A new French style starts to develop at the beginning of twentieth-century. This style will flourish and develop trough all the century. We can find in the 'Group of the Six' a first controversial example of this new aesthetic. In my research I used historical sources, writings of the composers and writers of the time, together with detailed analysis of representative compositions. Merging all this information, I was able to create a clearer picture of the new French aesthetic of the 'Group of the Six'. Performance practice is a central aspect: specific examples of the aesthetic's reflection in the scores are intended as a suggestion for the execution. A case-study at the end of the research shows a practical example of how the collected information can be used and related within a specific piece.
Biography:
Since the beginning of my musical studies I got really interested in chamber music. It was for me the most direct, simple and democratic way to make music together. In the following years this interest persisted, giving me the urge to explore and experiment new repertoire. My initial period at the Royal Conservatoire was characterized by my first serious approach to French chamber music of twentieth-century. My research was inspired by the issues, doubts and reflections of that period.
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Ecorchées
(2018)
author(s): Lisa Salamandra
published in: Research Catalogue
A theoretical linking of my "Raw Women", female figures from the series "Raw Meat" which feature a skinned, cut-up, recomposed body, with the "living dead" figure portrayed in the anatomical charts of the Fifteenth and Sixteenth centuries. I examine how our two images seek the representation of "truths" concerning the human body and its functionning as well as a common truth about the fate of the human flesh, and that of our human condition.
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PERFORMED REALNESS: On Participatory Art and its Ethics
(2018)
author(s): Johanna Lecklin
published in: University of the Arts Helsinki
In my study, Performed Realness: On participatory Art and its Ethics, I address questions stemming from my artistic practice and concerning participatory art, the split between documentary and fiction, performed realness, the ethics of the abovementioned, and authorship. I discuss these topics in dialogue with other artists’ artworks and with theories. Nevertheless, my intent is not to execute a comprehensive study on works, that have the same traits as mine. Works with moving image, my own and other artists’, which leave me to wonder and perplex me were a starting point of my research. – Is this true? Are these people performing or are they just being themselves in front of the camera? Can one be in front of the camera without performing?
artists using the research catalogue
Joa HugFinland, Germany (residence)
Cynthia KrosSouth Africa (residence)
Karen SavageUnited Kingdom (residence)
Frans JacobiDenmark, Norway (residence), Denmark (citizenship)
Allison StringerNetherlands (residence), Canada (citizenship)
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