Research Catalogue

an international database for artistic research

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  5. Staff Publications 2024 This issue showcases the final outcomes of artistic research projects completed and peer-reviewed in 2024. Each project reflects the rigorous process of inquiry and creative exploration that defines our institution's commitment to advancing the field of artistic research. While some of our research is featured elsewhere in journals such as VIS or JAR, this collection highlights the significant contributions that remain within our own portal, underscoring the diversity and richness of the work conducted by our researchers.
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  4. Staff Publications 2023 This issue presents the finalized and peer-reviewed artistic research projects completed during 2023. These works exemplify our institution's dedication to pushing the boundaries of artistic inquiry and practice. Although certain projects may be published elsewhere in journals such as VIS or JAR, the research featured in this collection remains integral to our portal, highlighting the breadth and impact of our researchers' creative endeavors. Each project here stands as a testament to the successful and innovative research conducted within our community.
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  3. Staff Publications 2022 This issue showcases the final outcomes of artistic research projects completed and peer-reviewed in 2022.
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  2. Staff Publications 2021 This issue showcases the final outcomes of artistic research projects completed and peer-reviewed in 2021.
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  1. Staff Publications 2020 This issue showcases the final outcomes of artistic research projects completed and peer-reviewed in 2020.
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  0. Published Research by Advanced Postgraduate Diploma students Select final projects of our Advanced Postgraduate Diploma Students
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  0. Ongoing research by staff A look into ongoing projects

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  Composition of graphic and sonic works through the improvisers' co-creation (2021) author(s): Laura Toxvaerd published in: Rhythmic Music Conservatory, Copenhagen
  Taking my compositions as a point of departure, the project investigates the improvisers’ co-creation in the compositional process. The composer (in this case, me) explores how improvisers’ ideas can be integrated into the development of the compositions, and explores what impact the integration has on the works of art. In the project, graphic scores are being designed, through the means of which I am seeking to bring forth new aesthetic forms of expressions. Along the way in this project, I have created new compositions that came to be drawn out as scores, which were continually adapted and re-arranged on the basis of the improvising musicians’ concert performances of the existing compositions. The working method could be characterized as an iterative artistic developmental process, which shuttled back and forth between my own compositional work, together with the design and elaboration of the graphic scores, and videotaped rehearsals and performances of my compositions with the collaborating musicians.
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  Charon as Muse - The Ferrying of Voices in Evan Parker’s Solo Saxophone Music to the Double-Bass as Creative Authorship (2020) author(s): Tom Blancarte published in: Rhythmic Music Conservatory, Copenhagen
  The transmission and communication of musical concepts and the ways in which they influence or interact with creativity are central to the ontology of music, but this aspect is rarely tackled head-on by musicians themselves. In language, the typical realm of semiotics and semantics, translation theory serves as an interesting and rich field for investigations into the nature of meaning and communication of meanings. In my research, I propose that the application of various translation theories to the field of music opens up new ways of exploring the “meanings” of music, as well as new methodologies for creating musical novelties. To demonstrate this theory in practice, I have chosen to develop and apply translation theories to Evan Parker’s solo soprano saxophone music and translate this music to my own solo double-bass playing, creating new and original solo music on the double-bass.
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  Action vs. Reaction (2020) author(s): Jacob Anderskov published in: Rhythmic Music Conservatory, Copenhagen
  "Action versus Reaction - Artistic encounters with an aesthetic otherness", was a research project undertaken at the Rhythmic Music Conservatory in Copenhagen in 2015-2016. The primary artistic output of the project is the album ”Resonance”, released on Sundance Music in September 2016. My ensemble Resonance (previously known as ” Strings, Percussion & Piano”) consists of 3 string players as well as Peter Bruun on drums and myself on piano. The string players all have a background in European classical music and (composed) new music, whereas Peter and I originally came out of improvised music, jazz and its neighbouring regions. In this ensemble, we have been dealing with artistic encounters between our different aesthetics backgrounds for several years. I have realized that my primary curiosity orbits around the questions: 1) How can all members of a cross-genre ensemble stay true to their own musical intuition, developed through decades of full immersion? 2) How can these confident artists then transcend their notion of themselves and meet anew in an aesthetic field different from their respective origins? In 2018, Jacob Anderskov was nominated for the Nordic Council Music Price for the album Resonance.
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  Habitable Exomusics (2020) author(s): Jacob Anderskov published in: Rhythmic Music Conservatory, Copenhagen
  PROJECT DESCRIPTION: “The project examines post tonal material structuring principles in improvised music.
 It deals with (searches for) unexploited opportunities or new forms of expressions within improvised music through studies of possible ways to organize the musical material - and with relevant practical and creative ways to find room for them in improvised music.” Original RESEARCH QUESTION: Through my own artistic practice, I will examine -  To which extent it is possible for me to use definable post tonal structuring principles in my improvisations, and 
-  Which of these principles can best be used in my improvisational universe. 

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  Music for the inner ear (2020) author(s): Niels Lyhne Løkkegaard published in: Rhythmic Music Conservatory, Copenhagen
  Our fantasy has crumbled - yet we must go into utopia to articulate alternative realities that will allow us to escape the current systems we are living in and by. What can we do if we only dream pragmatic and rational dreams that speak into already existing paradigms and systems? When a catastrophic or sudden event occurs we often say that reality exceeds fantasy, this being the exception of the norm, but what if reality exceeding fantasy is in fact the norm - and not vice versa? - what if our fantasy has crumbled in such a degree that we only are capable of imagining realities and solutions which already fit into a dysfunctional system? Are we doomed? - or do we dare to go full on into utopia? In the artistic research project; Music for the inner Ear - Niels Lyhne Løkkegaard looks into the realms of imaginary sound and sonic potentiality unfolded within different artistic domains - raising the questions; Is it possible to create imaginary music only audible for the inner ear of the listener & when does something actually exist? In the project the notion of potentiality is a main driver both in activating the listener but also simply by addressing the potential of potentiality.
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  The Poetics Of A Multiphonic Landscape (2019) author(s): Torben Snekkestad connected to: Rhythmic Music Conservatory, Copenhagen published in: Research Catalogue
  The project is an artistic research project focusing on the saxophone􏰁s ability to produce multiphonics (multiple sounds on an instrument considered monophonic). It is a personal artistic exploration into the process of unfolding the poetics of these complex sonics and a reflection over the process, methods and the creation of an album trilogy, consisting of acoustic solo music recorded during the research period. The main question I have been asking myself during this project has been: What happens if the raw musical material, in the creation of a set of solo saxophone works, is based on the multiphonics only and what this material in itself suggest – possibly independent of any stylistic affiliation? 
My main objective was to examine why the saxophone’s multiphonics have such a captivating effect on me. How could I possibly explore their intrinsic qualities and unfold the poetic potential in them? By the same token, my ambition was to find a suitable artistic context for this enamored relationship that so heavily has stirred the waves of my imagination. In the reflection text on the project, I disclose how some unexpected paths during this pursuit revealed themselves. From sprouting interest toward underwater soundscapes, to the making of a hybrid instrument called reed-trumpet; and how my personal catalog of multiple sounds found its place, not in a public pdf-document or book release, but in a German wooden archive box. I relay in what way I began to take on the intrinsic qualities of the multiphonics and the reason why an oscillation between artistic intention and action is so pivotal for an improviser. To make sure that the project had this focus at all time I sat up a dogma that contains a list of eight fundamental criteria that manifest the intentions and structure as well as sharpen the working methods.
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