The Performer-Composer: A Practice in Interrelation

Thomas Aurlund Lossius

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The Performer-Composer: A Practice in Interrelation (2023)

Thomas Aurlund Lossius

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A simultaneous role of performer and composer is crucial in a vast number of artistic praxises. In this artistic research project, I explore creative possibilities the performing composer role offers. I also discuss how my performing composer praxis has inspired my interpretation of compositions by others. The project is situated in my own artistic praxis and has an auto-hermeneutical approach. My primary method has been to compose music for myself and to perform it. This has led me to create compositions which are more improvisational, orally conveyed and open to diverse interpretations. I have also performed with a more co-creative, personally engaged and holistically oriented mindset. I have further experimented in performing compositions by others while imagining myself to be the composer. This has offered an alternative interpretative approach that resound deeply with me on an aesthetic level. Finally, I have reflected on how a performing composer discourse can unsettle the hierarchical language of composition and interpretation. The project builds on a broader movement in artistic research and musicology, problematising the apparent dichotomy between composers and performers [Leech-Wilkinson, 2016; Cornish, 2015; Cook, 2013], and investigating the role of the performing composer or composing performer [Spears, 2022; Beaugeais, 2020; Groth, 2017]. The project constitutes my master thesis in performing music at the University of Bergen with specialisation in jazz .

type	research exposition
keywords	Performing Composer, Composing-performer, performer as composer, Performer-Composer, composer-performer, composer as performer, improvisation and real-time composition, jazz, double bass, improvisational scores
date	09/05/2023
published	08/05/2023
last modified	08/05/2023
status	published
affiliation	University of Bergen
copyright	Thomas Aurlund Lossius
license	CC BY
language	English
url	https://www.researchcatalogue.net/view/1849330/1849331
doi	https://doi.org/10.22501/rc.1849330
published in	Research Catalogue

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name	The Performer-Composer A Practice in Interrelation
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name	Composing Interpretation, Improvising Interpretation
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name	On Evocation of Interpretation in Jazz Compositions
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name	Example 1 - Snowfall in Piemont
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name	Example 2 - Alice-MP3
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name	Example 3 - Demring early interpretation
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name	Example 4 - Demring later interpretation
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name	Example 5 - A Sunny Day in Bergen Town
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name	Pendulum Phases - Full Score
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