Exposition

From dialectal archives to music material (last edited: 2023)

A M Elkjär, Åsa Unander-Scharin
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About this exposition

Ann Elkjär, Musikhögskolan Ingesund PhD student LTU Thinking about dialects, my experience is always a feeling of loss: As a child I spoke in Fryksdalsmål, a dialect from the region of Värmland. The dialect is renowned for its singing, musical qualities, which is sometimes stated as one of the reasons for the very strong oral storytelling tradition within Värmland. Today, as a professional flautist living in Gothenburg, some of my dialectal speech disappeared over the years. However, I do believe that my playing and musicianship is influenced by the dialect and story-telling from Värmland in several ways. With this exposition-draft, I would like to address the question on how dialectal speech can create new musical material. This exposition-draft presents a collaboration between me and composer Ida Lundén. In a series of workshops starting in August 2022, we set out to explore how historical analogue voice recordings of Swedish story-tellers and their dialect, in so many ways marked by time and the archival touch, have the capacity to bring forth new musical material, and thus, create new micro-stories. Furthermore, the overarching aim with this exposition is to discuss how performer-composer collaboration through artistic research may provide novel perspectives on the use of archival audio recordings, and by that bringing them to life. The collaboration is an ongoing project, where the new work by Ida Lundén will be premiered at Atalante, Göteborg, the 24th of February 2024. After the premier concert, a possible exposition for VIS will be completed with video documentation from the concert as well as the full analysis and results of the project.
typeresearch exposition
date20/11/2023
last modified26/11/2023
statusin progress
share statuspublic
affiliationKarlstad University, LTU
copyrightAnn Elkjär
licenseCC BY-NC-ND
languageEnglish
urlhttps://www.researchcatalogue.net/view/2388651/2388652


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2388858 Nagra Tape Recorder Ann Elkjär All rights reserved
2389048 Workshop at KMH, Stockholm, Oct 2022 Ann Elkjär All rights reserved
2393107 Recording in the 50's ISOF All rights reserved
2393359 Karin Turesson_221014 Ann Elkjär All rights reserved
2403271 KARIN TURESSON 221014 Ann Elkjär All rights reserved
2403605 Ann Elkjär - CV English Ann Elkjär All rights reserved
2405075 Wilhelm Larssons Musikaliska retorik Musikhögskolan Ingesund All rights reserved
2405180 Karin Turesson_hand written Ann Elkjär All rights reserved
2405200 karin turesson_modus Ann Elkjär All rights reserved
2405273 Experimenting on Karin Turesson's modus Ann Elkjär All rights reserved
2405366 Leif om Selma Lagerlöf Ann Elkjär All rights reserved
2405913 vocal flute experiment Ann Elkjär All rights reserved
2406148 från isof Isof, Uppsala All rights reserved

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