The singing Performer: Who am I on stage when not singing?
(2022)
author(s): Julia Pallanch, Heloisa Amaral
published in: KC Research Portal
Approaching Kunstlieder with the background as a jazz interpreter, has challenged me to find, not only, my interpretation of the lieder/songs but to also find my interpretation of my role(s) as the singer on stage between classical music and jazz scenes. Through performing music, the chosen body of work, we are not only repeating and interpreting the music but repeating and interpreting ways of performing it. This research focuses on the role(s) of the singer on stage and the moments between the songs; the open space between one piece of music and another that offers the possibility to communicate and connect with the audience. What happens in these moments? What stories do we tell and how do we tell them? What do I communicate with, through, in - and outside of the lied, the song, the piece of music. What do I perform in the open space between between the songs - my self(s)?
Masterprosjekt - monodrama
(2019)
author(s): Ragnhild Thu Austnaberg
published in: NMH Student Portal
Dokumentasjon av mitt masterprosjekt i klassisk sang ved Norges Musikkhøgskole.
Pauline Viardot
(last edited: 2023)
author(s): Laetitia Sprij
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Pauline Viardot (1821 – 1910), was a famous French mezzosoprano, vocal teacher and composer. She is considered one of the most influential opera singers of the 19th century.
From Singer to Reflective Practitioner: Performing and Composing in a Multimedia Environment
(last edited: 2016)
author(s): Aleksandra Popovska
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This exegesis comes as result of performing, composing and researching in a multimedia environment over
the past few years. I started working on my projects with the following question in my mind: how can I
improve my own practice?
Asking this led to identification of the problems related to making a live media performance, as well as prompting discussions about the types of knowledge necessary for producing a work of art that includes more than one medium.
Rather than attempting to draw definitive conclusions regarding topics as broad as live media
performance, I summarize and reflect upon the creation process as I experienced it, elucidating my personal
contemplations regarding my experience and practice in multimedia environment.
I will present three projects: ’Bukefalus’, ’Tribute to Morty’, and ’Every. When’, all designed as electroacoustic pieces with video displays. I shall take a
closer look at how the pieces were developed, discuss their cross-disciplinary character, and good and
bad practices involved in them. Finally, I shall focus my attention on how things go in practice when
one is composing and designing an interactive piece using improvisation and different media. In all three
projects I have been involved in different roles, as a performer, composer or designer, and in all of them
collaboration played important role. I made particular choices, sometimes blending my roles and the roles
of the participants.
I hope that my experience as a musician, having passed through both classical and technology-based
educational systems and participating in them in different roles – as performer, concept designer, composer, producer and teacher – will be useful for all creative people coming from the conservatory and wanting towork in the field of multimedia performance.
With this exegesis I would also like to make my own contribution to reflective practice and living theory
(Whitehead, 1998), by exploring improvisation and experimenting in my projects. I will write about how
it has enhanced my own identity as performer, composer and designer, and why and how I have been
committed to sharing its transformational potential with people I collaborate with. Its claim to originality
is that it arrives at a living concept of knowledge transformation through multidimensional reflection; as
a singer who is a composer, as a composer who is a researcher, as a student who has been a teacher, as an
artist who has lived in an imaginative world creating her works, and as a researcher dealing with institutional
policy and educational change. “I am my own informant into different perspectives, and will try through
these personae to have a dialogue between several positions and arrive at a concept that is tested and lived
from several perspectives.” (Spiro, 2008, p. 29)
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