(un)Romantic / Improvising Interpretation
(2025)
author(s): Ingfrid Breie Nyhus, Live Maria Roggen
published in: Norwegian Academy of Music
The artistic research project "(un)Romantic / Improvising Interpretation" 2021-2024 was led by vocalist/composer Live Maria Roggen and pianist/composer Ingfrid Breie Nyhus at the Norwegian Academy of Music, funded by the Norwegian Artistic Research Programme.
The explorations have concerned creative interpretation and aesthetical language, through improvising together as a duo: What can an interpretation be or become? Where does a story live? What is Romantic and what is unRomantic? Where does the ‘new’ begin and where does the ‘old’ go?
Wave Creatures
(2025)
author(s): Niccolo Angioni
published in: KC Research Portal
This research explores the intersection of art and technology through the innovative use of the oscilloscope in musical composition and performance. Originally a tool for scientific and industrial applications, the oscilloscope’s ability to transform electrical signals into dynamic visual patterns offers a unique opportunity for audio-visual expression. This study is motivated by a fascination with the device’s aesthetic and philosophical potential, as well as its capacity to bridge sound and image, creating a multisensory artistic experience. The central research questions guiding this investigation are: How can the oscilloscope be incorporated into compositional practice? Can it function as both a compositional tool and a live performance instrument? Is integration with acoustic instruments feasible, and how does it operate within an ensemble context?
Through a combination of historical-theoretical research and practical experimentation, this study researches how the oscilloscope can indeed serve as a tool for composition, a performative instrument, and a collaborative element in mixed acoustic-electronic ensembles. The findings highlight the oscilloscope’s potential to redefine traditional musical practices, offering new dimensions of creativity and interaction, bringing unexplored possibilities along with strict limits and challenges. This research contributes to the growing field of multimedia art, providing insights for composers and performers interested in exploring the translation of sound to image, and technology.
▲The LGP Apartment as a Performative Box: Eroticism, Ritual, and Desire in Transit
(2025)
author(s): Lorena Croceri
published in: Research Catalogue
▲ The LGP Apartment as a Performative Box: Eroticism, Ritual, and Desire in Transit explores how a domestic space becomes a stage for embodied performance, blending elements of eroticism, ritualistic acts, and transient desires. This work investigates the intersections between personal and performative identities within the confines of an intimate environment, highlighting the transformative power of space in shaping human experience and creative expression. Oriented to the materialization of creative projects to make them productives.
This exposition constitutes the first delivery of a broader research-creation process around the LGP method. It proposes a performative, erotic and ritual-based perspective on space, body, and desire. This fixed publication is intended as an archival moment within an ongoing constellation of artistic and psychoanalytic inquiries. Further works will unfold as complementary explorations.
Published in parallel on Zenodo with DOI: [10.5281/zenodo.1562769]
▲ El departamento LGP como caja performativa: erotismo, ritual y deseo en tránsito explora cómo un espacio doméstico se convierte en un escenario para la performance corporal, integrando elementos de erotismo, actos rituales y deseos transitorios. Esta obra investiga las intersecciones entre identidades personales y performativas dentro de un ambiente íntimo, destacando el poder transformador del espacio en la conformación de la experiencia humana y la expresión creativa. Orientado a la materialización de proyectos creativos para hacerlos productivos.
Esta exposición constituye la primera entrega de un proceso más amplio de investigación-creación en torno al método LGP. Propone una perspectiva performativa, erótica y ritual sobre el espacio, el cuerpo y el deseo. Esta publicación fija funciona como un momento de archivo dentro de una constelación en expansión de indagaciones artísticas y psicoanalíticas. Los próximos trabajos desplegarán nuevas exploraciones complementarias.
Publicado en paralelo en Zenodo con DOI: [10.5281/zenodo.1562769]
The effect of Mental Practice and Body Awareness on the daily practice of music students
(2025)
author(s): Juan Rodes Pintor
published in: Research Catalogue
This research investigated the effect of mental practice tools and body awareness exercises, when correctly integrated in a practice routine. This type of practice is heavily used in sports but is yet to be completely discovered by musicians. This research proposed a one-month routine which implements tools like Imagery, Visualization, External focus, and Body awareness exercises amongst others, and investigated the effect it had on Imagery abilities, motor and cognitive learning, performance anxiety and enjoyment.
Eight conservatory students from different countries and instruments followed this routine for one month practicing unfamiliar pieces. The data was collected using a mixed methodology composed of personal questionnaires, logbooks and the Bett’s Questionnaire upon Mental Imagery, a tool that helped keep track of the mental abilities of the participants before, during and after the intervention. The use of different imagery and visualization exercises reflected a twofold improvement in scores according to the Bett’s QMI criteria in the vast majority of participants, even though none of the participants mentioned feeling improvements in their mental abilities in the post-intervention questionnaire. Logbooks showed fewer levels of mental and physical anxiety after performing body awareness exercises and the personal questionnaires reflected a slight improvement in practice and performance enjoyment and motivation thanks to the goal setting strategies of the routine.
The findings suggest that the use of mental practice and body awareness exercises should be used more in the musician’s daily life.
My present is more than I remember
(2025)
author(s): Clara Sharell
published in: Research Catalogue
"My present is more than I remember" explores the entanglements of word and image and their role in constructing memory and identity. Drawing on my four-year practice at the KABK, it analyses the methods I’ve developed and examines the interrelation between memory, photography, and writing. Delving into personal memories and intergenerational connections within my family, I seek to understand how inherited experiences and stories shape my personal and artistic identity, guided by the act of weaving as a concept and a material.
Furthermore, the paper examines the existential role of collective and familial memory in shaping Jewish and German-Jewish identity. Using a range of texts and styles, including sociological and art-historical theories, experimental diary entries, poems, and personal anecdotes, I explore the parallels between the construction of memory and the construction of photographs. Just as photography can never represent the essence of a person, memory will never be able to represent the full truth of the past.
Dull Catastrophes and Love Songs: a Tacit Artistic Research Project
(2025)
author(s): Andrea Agostini
published in: Research Catalogue
My song cycle Dull Catastrophes and Love Songs, composed and recorded between 2022 and 2024, has a somewhat unusual placement within the context of contemporary music. In its original conception, it was first and foremost meant to investigate and extend the relation with recording technology, questioning a broad set of assumptions about the role and scope of musical notation, as well as the very conception and nature of the produced work, that are deeply ingrained in the practice and environment of score-based contemporary music. This would be achieved through an attempt to incorporate some techniques and creative approaches borrowed from the practices of popular music.
In hindsight, I realise that it was not only the strong orientation towards recording that influenced the creative process and its eventual outcome. Rather, technology enabled novel artistic possibilities and brought the work to addressing topics such as the agencies of the performer and the composer and the very ontology of the musical artefact.
Through the lens of practice-based artistic research, I will generate insights on the conceptual background, genesis, outcome and implications of this work. I set out to do this by delineating the musical, technological and socio-economic context in which the work is situated; exposing how the conception of the work changed over time, reflecting my growing awareness of its context and premisses; and describing the production process in order to show the difficulties and opportunities I encountered, as well as the ways it aligned with and deviated from the initial project. The goal is to spark a reflection on how the transfer of tools and techniques between different musical practices and creative approaches — with a specific reference to recording technology and its affordances and implications — may be an enriching opportunity for musical creation; and, more generally, on how technical and technological choices, far from being neutral, impact on the very aesthetic and ontological qualities of the work of art.
