Brita Lemmens

Netherlands (residence) °1988
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Brita Lemmens, born in the Netherlands 1988, has a half Portuguese and half Dutch background. She studied Arts and Culture at Maastricht University in the Netherlands and is currently studying Music at Universidad de las Americas in Ecuador. Throughout her youth and adolecence she has taken singing clases from different singers and played in a variety of bands, duo's and ensambles. 

During her BA in Maastricht she combined the field of Ethnomusicology and Artistic Research in order to research singing techniques. For nine months she conducted an ethnographic research into fado music in Lisbon with a special focus on the learning process of fado singers. The fieldwork in Lisbon was the basis for the JAR exposition 'O fado não se aprende', which she presented as her BA thesis at Maastricht University.

research

research expositions

  • The learning process in fado through artistic research (2012) author(s): Brita Lemmens published in: Journal for Artistic Research
    This project focuses on the learning process in the oral tradition of fado. A common Portuguese saying 'O fado não se aprende' (one cannot learn to sing fado) forms the departure point of this artistic investigation. As a singer I dived into the practices of the oral transmission in Lisbon in order to discover if I could in fact learn the skills of singing fado. The project discusses several methods one can use as a singer in order to enrich one’s artistic practice with new genres that are not taught in music academies. It is concerned with the question of what knowledge can be produced through artistic research. What can we learn from an artistic researcher that we cannot learn from an ethnomusicologist? What is the extra dimension of artistic research?
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