The artistic research project takes Lotte Ankers Anker's ongoing practice as composer and musician/improviser as its starting point, investigating how the development of new composed material could unfold through dialogues between the composer and the musicians in a larger ensemble.
The research aims at focusing on issues related to balancing the pre-determinated with the uncertain, undecided.
With Nikolaj Hess' artistic practice as a starting point, Hess aims at developing and describing an art-methodological approach to transformative reflections that appears to be artistically productive for creating new music with the improvisational and compositional contemporary popular music. Examples will be hoisted from reflecting modern paintings into jazz.
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“Hvad er status på den akademisk forskning i folkemusikkens historie i Danmark?” En undersøgelse af dette vil skabe et overblik over feltet, som både studerende og underviserer kan drage nytte af i fremtiden.
Folkemusikhistorie: Der er brug for en konkretisering og afgrænsning af a) hvad der er vigtigt at vide indenfor dansk folkemusiks historie og vægtningen mellem fokusset på enkelte musikere og større sociale strømninger, b) hvor højt forholdet mellem historisk (før 2000) og aktuel folkemusik (efter 2000) skal vægtes, også med hensyn til relaterede genrer som World Music og c) laves et reelt overblik over status på forskningen i Danmark anno 2020.
Folk music analysis: Her er der et behov for at afdække nødvendigheden og rollen analyse skal spille. Historisk har musikalsk analyse primært beskæftiget sig med at afdække strukturer i musikken, men ikke sammenholde denne med det omkringliggende samfund. Efter Theodor W. Adorno begyndte denne type analyser i 1930’erne, og Susan McClary
opdaterede analyserne i 90’erne, og disse er benyttet på klassisk og rytmisk musik, er det værd at afdække værdien af denne type analyse for folkemusikerer.
For mig at se er det en vigtig prioritering for SDMK at være med til at udvikle disse undervisningsområder da det viser en seriøsitet omkring uddannelsen og folkemusikken generelt, samtidig med at det styrker uddannelsens profil og elevernes udbytte af undervisningen. Den nye viden skal naturligvis være tilgængelig for andre undervisere og lægge grunden for videre udvikling.
Can I, by illuminating, documenting, studying, organizing and re-documenting my musical process, design a toolkit for improvising bassists with contemporary techniques?
Can I, in my musical process both act as the first person, i.e. the subjective musician and as the third person, i.e. the objective observer?
If so, can I, as the observer objectively observe and organize the ”discoveries” that I am doing in my daily work as first person.
Can I create this tool kit through the limitations that my instrument offers acoustically (the hand, the bow and the bass).
And can I through this immerse and widen my musical expressions? - A richer language - more elastic - with more colors.
The Sonic Complexion project has investigated from an artistic perspective the musical dimensions texture and ‘klang’ (harmony), with the aim of creating new music and new perspectives. The outcomes of the project are a number of new albums, methodologies and perspectives, coming from quite different starting point in terms of how to systematically-artistically investigate texture and harmony.
“Meridiana: Lines toward a non-local Alchemy” investigates the line as a sonic, textual and visual phenomenon.
Taking off from the four
literary voices: the Dutch philosopher Baruch de Spinoza (1632-1677), the French philosopher Gilles
Deleuze (1925-1995) and the Chinese Taoists Lü Yan (796 C.E.) and Sun Buer (1119–1182 C.E.),
a multitude of meanings are interwoven in a rich network of musical, textual and graphic lines.
The line as a basic concept is emphasized by the first word of the title, Meridiana (plural for meridian), which has terminological roots in both the East and the West. In Western terminology, it denotes one
geographical line connecting the North and South Pole.
In the East, originating from ancient China, meridians (经络) are energy pathways of the body (both human and non-human), which connect internal organs and a number of vital points in a neurological network.
The meeting between these two interpretations of a "meridian", between the geo-physical and sub-physical, between East and West, are the cornerstones of the project, which intention is to weave together the various
meanings and emphases of meridian, while at the same time unfolding an expanding an intersection of lines:
sonic lines, textual lines, graphic lines.