Exposition

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

Thomas Aurlund Lossius
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About this exposition

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 .
typeresearch exposition
keywordsPerforming Composer, Composing-performer, performer as composer, Performer-Composer, composer-performer, composer as performer, improvisation and real-time composition, jazz, double bass, improvisational scores
date09/05/2023
published08/05/2023
last modified08/05/2023
statuspublished
share statusprivate
affiliationUniversity of Bergen
copyrightThomas Aurlund Lossius
licenseCC BY
languageEnglish
urlhttps://www.researchcatalogue.net/view/1849330/1849331
doihttps://doi.org/10.22501/rc.1849330
published inResearch Catalogue


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1871140 Metarmofose kvartett - Score and parts Thomas Aurlund Lossius All rights reserved
1871142 Untitled 3 - Full Score Thomas Aurlund Lossius All rights reserved
1871144 Unknowing - score and all parts Thomas Aurlund Lossius All rights reserved
1871153 A Sunny Day in Bergen Town - Full Score Thomas Aurlund Lossius All rights reserved
1871155 Demring fikset Thomas Aurlund Lossius All rights reserved
1871158 Ring & Reply - Full Score copy Thomas Aurlund Lossius All rights reserved
1871160 Voyage - Full Score Thomas Aurlund Lossius All rights reserved
1871164 Kontrakanara project Thomas Aurlund Lossius All rights reserved
1871166 Kontrakanara Thomas Aurlund Lossius All rights reserved
1871176 Coltrane Lives - Full Score Thomas Aurlund Lossius All rights reserved
1871180 Trad - Full Score Thomas Aurlund Lossius All rights reserved
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