Meditations on Listening, a creative exploration of the conductor's role and a development towards a post-conducting practice
(2025)
author(s): Halldis Ronning
published in: University of Stavanger
Halldis Rønning's artistic research contributes to the field of conducting, transdisciplinarity and listening practices. She seeks to open the traditional conductor's role towards co-creative practices and find new artistic expressions of conducting. Can conducting be conceptual art? Can it be performance or dance? How can it relate to visual art?
Her motivation to open up the role is rooted in a wish to deepen her listening practice as a conductor. This deepening includes creative, spatial, embodied, visual, imaginary and relational listening. Listening as artistic quality and as artistic process.
The work starts in the experimental art field and ends up in the Concert Hall with Stavanger Symphony Orchestra. There is a feministic context to the research and she touches upon topics such as mutual exchange, space to create, agency and control.
But also the conducting body as an expression in itself, in relation to nature or an orchestra.
ARKADIA
(2025)
author(s): Anne Skaansar
published in: Faculty of Fine Art, Music and Design, University of Bergen
Med utgangspunkt i kunstneriske framstillinger av Arkadiamotivet, og med pastoralen som optikk, vil dette prosjektet utforske «utopiske» forestillinger om fortiden, gjennom arbeid i ulike kunstneriske uttrykksformer, i tekstil, skulptur og tekst.
Interviews with Collaborators of Jóhann Jóhannsson
(2025)
author(s): Francesca Guccione
published in: Research Catalogue
This research project gathers a series of interviews with some of the closest collaborators of Icelandic composer Jóhann Jóhannsson (1969–2018). Conducted between 2022 and 2025, the conversations preserve first-hand testimonies of his creative process, collaborative methods, and unique sonic universe.
Through the voices of Echo Collective (Neil Leiter & Margaret Hermant), Francesco Donadello, Viktor Orri Árnason, and Yair Elazar Glotman, the project explores themes such as orchestration, sound experimentation, electroacoustic practices, and the integration of music with film. The interviews have been edited and adapted from their original form in order to ensure clarity and contextual coherence, while remaining faithful to the collaborators’ perspectives.
Taken together, these accounts shed light on Jóhannsson’s aesthetics and working philosophy, offering a multifaceted portrait of a composer whose legacy continues to influence contemporary music.
Trumbemusikken kann reisast att
(2025)
author(s): Åsmund Soldal
published in: NMH Student Portal
Dette masterprosjektet handler om norsk trommeslåttradisjon, nærmere bestemt Sundvortradisjonen. Dette er en tradisjon som befinner seg i et skjæringspunkt mellom norsk folkemusikk og Rudimental Drumming.
Kroppsliga iakttagelser
(2025)
author(s): Aleksandra Czarnecki Plaude
published in: Stockholm University of the Arts (SKH)
After a long-term effort with “the body as an instrument” with the spotlight and focus on acting I was interested in exploring how my experience and practical knowledge of the actors physical skills could be “borrowed” and “translated” in encounters with several artistic disciplines both within and outside the stage area. The body is present in all artistic activity that in some way relates to the story of man. But the thought of the body isn't necessarily the same as a bodily and embodied thought. This nuanced and problematized approach has resulted in the research project Bodily Observations - on the lookout for new physical skills that I conducted in 2013-2015.
Unmaking Abstractions
(2025)
author(s): Magnhild Nordahl Øen
published in: Faculty of Fine Art, Music and Design, University of Bergen
This exposition contains documentation of the artistic result of Magnhild Øen Nordahls artistic research PhD project Unmaking Abstractions. The exposition also contains the artistic reflection for the same project. On the exposition's landing page the reader can access its different components by clicking different sides of the unfolded cube. The rotating cube in the upper right corner will bring the reader back to the landing page.
