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Transient sound (2023) author(s): Alicia Lazaro Arteaga published in: Research Catalogue
Art, and music, have the capacity of placing us in front of the symbolic. They bring us closer to everything we cannot understand in a rational manner, allowing us to see ourselves from the inside. Going back to the notion of music as a transformative ritual, a role that has had along centuries in most societies. Music as a sacred space. This exposition explores the relationship between music and text. Placing the idea of narrative as part of the music, connecting storytelling with sound. By using folklore stories as a structural element in the composition process, I have attempted to grasp the emotional landscapes inside of the tales and translate them into music. This process has been crystallized into several pieces that show the path between the starting point, which was using a text to create music, and the broader conception of music as an experience that involves not only sound but images, space, and movement.open exposition comments (0) -
Creative Processes in Irish traditional music: a bodhrán-playing perspective
(2023)
author(s): Robert Brian Sheehan
published in: Research Catalogue
This is the web-based written component of an arts practice research project carried out from May to August of 2022 as part of the MA Irish Music Studies programme at the Irish World Academy of Music and Dance (IWAMD) at the University of Limerick. The project set out to explore the broad topic of creativity within Irish traditional music through the embodied means of my own bodhrán playing. In particular, I set out to see to what extent the creative process of switching between ways of gripping the bodhrán stick (“grip switching”) could be embodied effectively in my bodhrán playing. As well as this written component, which contains multimedia elements such as video and music notation, this project is also presented as a thirty minute performance of traditional Irish music where I accompany an accordion player to demonstrate and explain some of the findings of my research.open exposition comments (0)
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A List of Greek composers with works for the oboe or for the instruments of the oboe family (list - under update) (2023) author(s): Christos Tsogias-Razakov published in: Research Catalogue
During doctoral research at the University of Macedonia (Thessaloniki - Greece), in collaboration with the Ionian University (Corfu - Greece), the Ph.D. thesis under the title "Works for Oboe by Greek Composers: Public Performance and Recording, Cataloguing, Indexing" have been included in the catalogue of works of the oboe family of instruments (during the third academic year - January 2023) four hundred and thirty-one works (431) in total. In the following list (under progress) are published, for the first time, the names of the Greek composers in alphabetical order who composed musical works for the oboe family of instruments.open exposition comments (0) -
The Ephemeral City: Songs for the Ghost Quarters (2023) author(s): Katt Hernandez published in: Research Catalogue
This is the Final Repository of Music and Sound works and Online Exposition for my PhD project in Music. Abstract The towers of the Stockholm skyline twine with radio transmissions, flying out over the city, drifting down through the streets and sinking into the underground telephone system below. Stockholm has buildings that have been there for centuries, but is also full of modern and contemporary architectures, all jostling for their place in parallel collective memory. In taking the city up as a subject, this artistic PhD project in music expands allegories to these architectural instruments into the world of the mechanical and the electrical. By taking up and transforming the materials of the cityscape, this project spins ephemeral cities more subtle than the colossal forces transforming the cityscape. The aim is to empower urban dwellers with another kind of ownership of their city, immune to the vast economic forces tearing through the fabric of Stockholm life by virtue of the ghostly, transitory and mercurial. The materials in the project are drawn around themes of urban memory and transformation, psychogeography and the ghosts of the imagined city. There are three questions the artistic works of this project reflect on and address. The first is about the ability of city-dwellers to regain or create some sense of place, history or belonging through the power of their imaginations. The second reflects on the possibility for imagined alternatives to re-empower a sense of place for the people who encounter them. The third seeks out the points where stories, memories, or alternative futures are collective, at what point are they wholly individual, and how the interplay between them plays out in listening. There is an improvisatory practice in how we relate to urban environments: an ever-transforming inter-play between the animate and inanimate. Each individual draws phantoms of memory and imagination onto the cityscape, and this yields subtle ways people can be empowered in their surroundings. The artistic works of this project are made to illuminate those subtleties, centering around a group of compositions, improvisations, artistic collaborations and sound installations in music and sound, utilizing modular synthesizers, field recordings, pipe organs, multi-channel settings; PureData and SuperCollider programs, string ensembles with hurdy-gurdy and nyckelharpa or violin, and sound installations. This choice of instruments is as an allegory to the architecture of Stockholm. The final result is a collection of music and sound works, made to illuminate the imagined city. Taken as a whole, the works of the project create an imaginary city–The Ephemeral City–in order to argue that this evocation of ephemeral space is a way to empower urban dwellers through force of imagination, immune to the vast forces tearing through the fabric of Stockholm life by virtue of the ghostly, transitory and mercurial, as compelling to the inner eye as brick and mortar to the outer life. Populärvetenskaplig sammanfattning Kyrkspirorna och tornen på Stockholms horisont blandar sig med radiosändningar som flyger ut över staden bredvid privatiserade våglängder, driver ner genom atmosfären och sjunker ner i det övergivna underjordiska telefonsystemet. Stockholm har byggnader som funnits där i århundraden, men är också full av den mest moderna och samtida arkitektur. Allt konkurrerar om sin plats i det kollektiva minnet. Det här konstnärliga doktorandprojektet i musik tar upp och omvandlar stadsbildens grundmaterial, skapar bilder av staden, mer subtila än de starka krafter som är i rörelse; där staden förändras så snabbt och på ett sätt som ofta skapar maktlöshet. Syftet är att stärka de boende i staden med en annan slags äganderätt till sin stad. Materialet i projektet är tagna från urbana minnen och omvandlingar, psykogeografi och andarna i den efemära staden. Syftet är att möjliggöra en upplevelse av tillhörighet och hemmahörande som sträcker sig bortom kommersiella krafter och istället framhåller det flyktiga, subtila och imaginära. Projektet tar sig an tre frågeställningar: Hur kan musik och ljudkonst möjliggöra ett återtagande av tillhörighet och platskänsla genom kraften i individens fantasi? Hur kan alternativa inre bilder av staden förstärka en upplevelse av tillhörighet och platskänsla? När blir berättelser, minnen och alternativa framtidsvisioner kollektiva, när kan de delas med andra och när är de helt individuella? Det finns ett improvisatoriskt samspel mellan det levande och det materiella i staden vilket möjliggör subtila sätt för de boende att återfå inflytande över sin omgivning. De konstnärliga verken i det här projektet är gjorda för att belysa dessa subtiliteter, centrerade runt ett antal kompositioner, improvisationer, konstnärliga samarbeten och ljudinstallationer. Med användande av modulära synthesisers, fältinspelningar, piporgel, multikanaluppsättningar; PureData- och SuperColliderprogram, stråkensembler med vevlira, nyckelharpa eller violin och ljudinstallationer. Valet av instrument och material är en efemär metafor för Stockholms arkitektur. Slutresultatet är en samling musik och ljudverk, gjorda för att belysa den imaginära staden. Tagna som en helhet, skapar verken i projektet en imaginär stad - Den Efemära Staden - För att kunna argumentera att detta frammanande av ett efemärt rum är ett sätt att stärka de boende genom fantasins makt, immuna mot de starka krafter som förändrar livet i Stockholm, med hjälp av det drömlika, omformande och flyktiga. Lika övertygande för det inre ögat som tegelsten och murbruk är i den yttre världen.open exposition comments (0) -
ΟΝΟΜΑΤΕΠΩΝΥΜΑ ΕΛΛΗΝΩΝ ΣΥΝΘΕΤΩΝ ΜΕ ΈΡΓΑ ΓΙΑ ΌΜΠΟΕ Ή ΤΗΣ ΟΙΚΟΓΕΝΕΙΑΣ ΟΡΓΑΝΩΝ (ΑΡΧΙΚΗ ΛΙΣΤΑ ΥΠΌ ΑΝΑΝΕΩΣΗ) (2023) author(s): Christos Tsogias-Razakov - Χρήστος Τσόγιας-Ραζάκοβ published in: Research Catalogue
Κατά την διάρκεια της εκπόνησης της διδακτορικής διατριβής στο Πανεπιστήμιο Μακεδονίας (Θεσσαλονίκη), σε συνεργασία με το Ιόνιο Πανεπιστήμιο (Κέρκυρα), με τίτλο “Έργα Ελλήνων συνθετών για όμποε: δημόσια εκτέλεση και ηχογράφηση, καταγραφή, ευρετηρίαση”. Έχουν συμπεριληφθεί στον κατάλογο έργων της οικογένειας οργάνων του όμποε (κατά την διάρκεια του τρίτου ακαδημαϊκού έτους - Ιανουάριος 2023), συνολικά τετρακόσια είκοσι-οκτώ έργα (428). Στην ακόλουθη αρχική λίστα, σημειώνονται τα ονοματεπώνυμα των Ελλήνων συνθετών σε αλφαβητική σειρά, που συνέθεσαν μουσικά έργα για την οικογένεια οργάνων του όμποε.open exposition comments (0)
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Love of God - Group Exhibition: A Retrospective Virtual Gallery (2022) author(s): Jeffrey Cobbold published in: Research Catalogue
Love of God - Group Exhibition Curated by Jeffrey Cobbold September 14 - October 19, 2019 Artworks Trenton, Trenton, New Jersey (U.S.A) 2019 Curatorial Statement: “…I will find you. I will always find you……A loving heart is the truest wisdom……To believe and be satisfied with just the way things are……No one has ever seen God……Jesus……Love is a circle……And what comes around goes around…” The words above come from Love of God (L.O.G) Audio Quotation Database, a DIY online database and digital humanities project I started in 2015 when I was working as an intern within the Love of God Retreat Program in Lawrenceville, NJ. In order to create the database I asked the program’s high school student participants to find quotes about love and God that would help them reflect on the meaning of these words within their retreat program. These quotes are now the heart and inspiration for Love of God – Group Exhibition, which presents works from a selection of artists exploring issues of love and God revealed through artistic practice. The artists featured in this volume are: Jessica Browne-White (sculpture) Jeffrey Cobbold (sound, video, text) Devonte Roach (film) Marina de Bernado Sanchis (drawing) Together they create multiple entry points for one to consider the character of love, God and the intersections of both in our ever changing world. Love of God – Group Exhibition takes on the spirit of the Love of God Retreat Program in Lawrenceville, NJ with its necessity for inclusive understandings about love and God. While Jesus was a central topic of discussion within the retreat program, there was no mandated opinion one was expected to have about him. Rather, the unifying aspect of this program was an affinity for music and the arts within the expression of community. Their community was intersectional, dealing with the differences of varied socio-economic statuses, sexual identities and divergent relationships with the organized Christian church amongst so many other forms of diversity. The retreat program no longer exists as it did in 2015 due the disbursement of its high school participants and changes in adult leadership. The online database is now a relic of the digital humanities project that occurred at that time. Yet, this exhibition is an initial step toward sharing a glimpse of the spirit of this retreat program with others. I sincerely hope that the spirit of this exhibition will connect with you as you search for love and God in your personal life and within the communities you serve everyday. Love of God Community Conversation (Luke 1:5-45) October 12, 2019 Artworks Trenton, Trenton, New Jersey (U.S.A) Featured presentation: "Love, God, and Community" by Simone Oliver 2019 Community Conversation Statement: This community conversation seeks to provide a space for theological and artistic reflection within the Love of God – Group Exhibition. A team of presenters will offer their individual reflections on love, God and community through engagement with Luke 1:5-45. Presenters will also consider the works of contemporary art and case study materials within the Love of God – Group Exhibition to aide their presentations. A time for discussion will be had between presenters and the audience for better articulation and understanding of divergent pathways toward love, God and community that can be useful for work in Christian ministry and contemporary art & culture.open exposition comments (0)