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Craftmanship (2025)

Kjell Tore Innervik

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This project identifies a shortcoming in the range and coherence of the language that musicians use, in particular the Norwegian instrumental traditional music (folk music), when they aim to communicate the craft elements of their practice. The Craftmanship project identifies craft as deep knowledge that is a result of skills based activities that again result in tacit knowledge. This knowledge has traditionally been communicated between practitioners or from master to apprentice through a series of subtle cues, ideas or metaphors, which resist language – it is learned through experience and a form attunement between the participants. The project therefore, proposes to develop a vocabulary, based on and drawn from a practitioner’s perspective, through the “languaging” of keywords, and a critique of scores in order to revitalise the transmission of this knowledge for a new generation of musicians. Furthermore, it proposes that when attunement happens, it facilitates profound moments in performances, where the musician and audience reach a tacit recognition. The project proposes that these moments, colloquially described as ‘Magic Moments’ are the aim of most musicians in performance situations. These moments are often dependent on social situations. The project aims to construct a framework for further investigation of the contexts within which these moments manifest themselves.
typeresearch exposition
keywordsslåttetromme, percussion, drum beatings, slått, craft, håndverk, seremoni, ritual, hardanger fiddle, traditional music, Indre Sogn (Norway), re-creation, revival of tradition
date04/04/2025
published03/04/2025
last modified03/04/2025
statuspublished
share statuspublic
affiliationNorwegian Academy of Music
copyrightKjell Tore Innervik
licenseAll rights reserved
urlhttps://www.researchcatalogue.net/view/1059980/1059981
doihttps://doi.org/10.22501/nmh-ar.1059980
published inNorwegian Academy of Music
portal issue10. Publications 2025


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