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  Action vs. Reaction (last edited: 2018) author(s): Jacob Anderskov connected to: Rhythmic Music Conservatory Copenhagen This exposition is in review.
  "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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• Multi-layeredness in Solo Performance (last edited: 2018) author(s): Søren Kjærgaard, Gianluca Elia connected to: Rhythmic Music Conservatory Copenhagen This exposition is in progress.
  Multi-layeredness in Solo Performance A B S T R A C T This project is a direct continuation of my previous artstic practice in the field between post jazz and contemporary music. differently from my previous artistc projects, I will focus on performance within the solo format – which especially within improvisational setting is characterized by the creative process of spontaneous music making is limited around one and the same person - the solo performer. I am interested in how I can open a field of possibilities in the relation between the solo performer as both an 'auteur' and a living media of his own expression. looking into how til narrative can transform from a monological perspective to a dialogical situation where the solo performer unfolds the play dialogically in a simultaneity of multiple processes. I find that there is an uncovered potential in inquiring and mapping, how a solo performer in a creative and performative practice, can work with an expressive multi-layeredness in the development of his material, entering into a more dynamic interaction with his material as a co-player, counterpart. Taking off from my own practice as a solo pianist, I will investigate through an instrument-topographical approach, the following questions: How can I work with multi-layeredness in the development of my sonic material and my musical ideas; and how can this be unfolded performatively in a field between the compositional and improvisational. In this research project "multi-layeredness” is approached as both a multiplicity of musical characteristics (sonically, dynamically, energetically) and as a differentiality of movements, gestures and speeds. These perspectives make ground for working simultaneously with varying degrees of horizontal and vertical orientations in the musical material, opening up a spatial and sculptural approach (planes, clouds, clusters) in contrast to a more linear polyphony. The research will take off in an instrument-topographical approach, where the multi-layered is articulated through a use of instrument preparations in a sound spectrum spanning from chromatic temperament to non-tempered noise. In this context preparations are understood as a sound manipulating instrument practice, where objects are placed on and inside the piano. However, I will focus on the mobility of the preparations, working toward a more hands-on preparation technique that looks into the interplay between the physical mobility of the preparations and the sonically transformative aspects. In this extended pianistic technique I am working with a sound field that spans from the cantabile to the percussive, and from single pitches to sound planes high density. I will also research on multi-layeredness in the relations between composition and improvisation, taking off in non-hierachical, relational form persepctives, that consist on varying degrees of planned material and spontaneous musicking. It is my aim that the open frames of these works, can be unfolded differently from performance to performance, without them loosing individual character. The relation between these simultaneous processes also make up a multi-layeredness that is being explored. The purpose is also to create results that will contribute to how solo artists across formats can express themselves more dynamically and with greater flexibility in the interaction between their various materials and artistic ideas. And to contribute with methodological approaches that illustrate how artists can work iteratively with reflective processes in a more verbalised form and finding ways of documenting and mediating these processes in more hybrid and non-textual forms of communication.
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• My first exposition (last edited: 2018) author(s): Casper Schipper This exposition is in review.
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