2004
a portrait of the French singer Anne Chabanceau de La Barre (1628-1688)
Elisabeth Belgrano voice
Lucas Harris theorbo, lute
Carlene Stober viola da gamba
Jennifer Ellis voice
Recorded August 2003
Church of the redeemer, Boston
Recording Producer: Drew Minter
Recording Engineer: Frank Cunningham
Editing and mixing: Elisabeth Belgrano, Lucas Harris & Scott Cadenasso
Mastering John Scherf
Cover Photo: © Ferdinando Villa
Liner Photos: © Esha Chiocchio (inspired by Charles Le Brund's Expressions of the Passions, 1668)
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℗©2004 Elisabeth Belgrano
EB2004
“LASCIATEMI MORIRE” o farò “La FINTA PAZZA”.
Doctoral Dissertation Project 2006-2011,
Performance Papers
2007
Belgrano, E. (2007)
In Search for the True Voice of Passion: Investigating the essence of passion through ornaments and declamation in performance of French 17th century vocal music. MIDAS WORKSHOP, Music Institutions with Doctoral Arts Studies, Royale College of Music, London
Performance Papers
2009
Belgrano, E. (2009)
“Lasciatemi morire” & “Rochers vous etes sourds”: Interpreting Arianna’s tears, sighs and pain, by investigating Italian and French ornaments through vocal practice based research. Knowledge, Assertion, Experiment, Proceeding of the National Early Music Association International Conference, in association with University of York Music Dept., ed. John Potter and Jonathan Wainwright, 2009, Proceeding.
Belgrano, E. (2009) Understanding the Singing Self in Performance of Laments and Mad Scenes in Italian and French 17th Century Opera, Glasgow School of Arts, UK, European Forum for Research Degrees in Art and Design (EUFRAD), 4-6 September
Performance Papers
2010
Belgrano, E. (2010)
Belgrano, E. (2010)
A lost queen, a desperate woman, a mad female singer: researching the voice of Monteverdi’s Ottavia through vocal sounds, sighs and observations on Nothingness. Department of Doctoral Studies in Musical Performance and Research, Sibelius Academy, Helsinki, Finland; The Embodiment of Authority: Perspectives on Performances, 10–12 September
International Conference
(organiser)
A research day:
Creative Research in Time of Globalisation
An event initiated by the Doctoral Students Committee at University of Gothenburg (GUDK) in collaboration the Science Festival Gothenburg, 14 April 2011
“LASCIATEMI MORIRE”
o farò
“La FINTA PAZZA”
Embodying vocal NOTHINGNESS on stage in Italian and French 17th century operatic LAMENTS and MAD SCENES
BY
Elisabeth Belgrano
A Music Research Drama Thesis
In a Prologue and 3 Acts
ArtMonitor, doctoral diss. Gothenburg, 2011,
Doctoral thesis as exposition in Research Catalogue
An intimate salon with two voice and a harpsichord
presented by Elisabeth Laasonen Belgrano, Anna Nyhlin & Peter Lönnerberg
Performance Papers 2012
Belgrano, E. (2012)
Madness dressed in paradoxes: experimenting inside a costume of a 17th century prima donna. Fondazione Giorgio Cini, Venice (Italy), International conference: Fashioning Opera and Musical Theatre: Stage Costumes in Europe from the Late Renaissance to 1900, 29 March- 1 April
Belgrano, E. (2012)
An Exhibition of Madness in a Cabinet of Wonders: Results from an Experimental Process Into the Performative Space of a 17th Century Operatic Mad Scene. The 15th Biennial International Conference on Baroque Music, hosted by the Music Department of the University of Southampton, Wednesday 11-15 July
Madness and Bastard in Motion: Learning through Performance Studies
Artistic research/ Higher education pedagogy project 2013-2015
In collaboration with Fredric Gunve, Lecturer, Academy of Design and Craft, Univ. of Gothenburg
Performance Papers
2013
Belgrano, E.(2013)
An Exhibition of Madness in a Cabinet of Wonders: Results from an Artistic Research Process Into the Performative Space of a 17th Century Operatic Mad Scene. Colloquium on Artistic Research in Performing Arts, The Impact of Performance as Research, hosted by the Theatre Academy Helsinki, 28 February -2 March
Belgrano, E. (2013)
Sourcing Madness in a 17th Century Operatic Mad Scene: A Performing Method Exhibiting a Cabinet of Vocal Wonders, EPARM III (European Platform Artistic Research in Music), Lyon, 18-20 April
Première Leçon du Mercredi St
Jerusalm convertere ad Dominum Deum Tuum
Michel Lambert (1610-1696)
St Anne Church, Old CIty, Jerusalem, July 2014
Performance Papers
2014
Belgrano, E. (2014)
Mourning Through the Voice of Ottavia: Performing Aesthetic Experiences of a Ritual. Interdisciplinary Conference: Venice and Ritual, Princeton University, 11-12 January
Belgrano, E. (2014)
Learning and Teaching Through Madness: Using the Metaphor of a 17th Century Operatic Mad Scene for Supervision in Higher Performing Arts Education Based on Artistic Research, 1st International Conference: Performative Teaching, Learning and Research, University College Cork, 29 May-1 June
Belgrano, E. (2014)
Lessons in the shadow of je-ne-sais-quoi: A study of vocal ornamentation and human disaster. (The first festival conference of music performance and artistic research), Doctors in Performance, University of the Arts Helsinki–Sibelius Academy, Helsinki Music Centre, 4-5 September
Belgrano, E. (2014)
Mattering through Vocal Lamentation = Building and Articulating through Sensuous Knowledge. Vetenskapsrådets årliga symposium om konstnärlig forskning 2014, Högskolan i Borås, 27-28 November
Belgrano, E. (2014)
Learning and Teaching Through Operatic Madness, ORCiM Seminar ‘From Output to Impact’, Orpheus Instituut / Advanced Studies & Research in Music Korte Meer 12 9000 Gent Belgium, 19-20 November, Proceeding.
Artistic Research Project 2014-
Musical point of departure: Leçons de Ténèbres, Michel Lambert, 1610-1696)
International Conference
(organiser)
ORNAMENTING (FORM) AN ECOLOGY OF TRUST (FORCE): Exploring Force and Form through Performance /Performativity, Faculty of Fine, Applied and Performing Arts, University of Gothenburg, 23 April
Performance Papers
2015
Belgrano, E. (2015)
MADNESS as METHOD: An intra-active encounter between 17th century operatic madness, artistic research and posthuman theories, 4th International PG Conference, Creativity: Method or Madness? College of Arts and Humanities, The University of Glasgow, 26-27 May
Belgrano, E. (2015)
Ornamentation based upon More-Than-Human-References: Moving Towards on Ecology of Trust, CARPA4, Colloquium on Artistic Research in Performing Arts, The Impact of Performance as Research, hosted by the Theatre Academy Helsinki, 11-13 June
Proceeding / Exposition in Research Catalogue.
Belgrano, E. (2015)
Konsten att möta. Från intuition till examen i konst/vetenskap/lig högre utbildning, Conference on Higher Education, University of Gothenburg, HKG, 22 October https://www.researchcatalogue.net/view/220274/220275
Belgrano, E. & Gunve, F. (2015)
Madness and the Bastard in Motion: Learning/Teaching through Performance Studies, 7th Teacher’s Academy (ELIA), ENACT: learning in/through the Arts, Tilburg, The Netherlands, 10-12 May
GLORIES to NOTHINGNESS / Le Glorie del Niente / LOVTAL till INTET
Artistic Research Project 2015-
In collaboration with visual artist Björn Ross
Performance Papers
2016
Belgrano, E. (2016) ‘Vocalizing Nothingness: (Re) configuring vocality inside the spacetime of Ottavia’, Journal of Interdisciplinary Voice Studies,Vol. 1 Number 2, pp. 183-195,
Panel discussion
Karen Barad, honorary doctor 2016, on how matter comes to matter within and through the arts, Faculty of Fine, Applied and Performig Arts, University of Gothenburg, Sweden, 22 October. Lecture by Karen Barad and Panel discussion,
Belgrano, E. (2016)
Ornamenting Words -Vocalising Meaning - Writing through Singing, International Conference on Artistic Research, Conference theme: WRITING, University of the Arts The Hague & Leiden University/Society for Artistic Research, The Hague 28-29 April
Belgrano, E. (2016)
GLORIES TO NOTHINGNESS: An intra-active encounter between 17th century operatic madness, artistic research and new materialism, Moving Performances (A day symposium exploring the politics and spaces of voice and unruly emotions), Faculty of Music, St Aldates, University of Oxford, 23 June
Belgrano, E. (2016)
Re-Turning DIS/TRUST in the Making of a VOICE, Society for European Philosophy/Forum for European Philosophy Annual Conference, Regent’s University London, 25-27 August
Moving through the Garden of Senses
Musical performance project on 17th century French airs serieux, 2016-
In collaboration with Sven Åberg, theorbo,
International Conference
(organiser)
A Music Research Seminar honouring Accademia degli Incogniti and Claudio Monteverdi, Palazzo Grimani, Venice, 15 June 2017
Première Leçon du Mercredi Saint
Michel Lambert (1610-1696)
St. Chiara, Porto Maurizio, Imperia, Italy
Aug 2017
Troisiéme Leçons du Jeudi St (Aleph)
Michel Lambert (1610-1696)
Hagakyrkan, Gothenburg, November 2017
Performance Papers
2017
Belgrano, E. (2017)
Vocally Ornamenting ↔ Per/Forming Content ↔ Practice-Led Vocal Philosophy, Beyond Application? Immanent Encounters between Philosophy & the Arts, Centre for Performance Philosophy, University of Surrey, 27 January
Belgrano, E ( 2017)
Ornamenting Words -Vocalising Meaning: Artistic vocal performance research as a field ‘in between’, The 20th Quinquennial Congress of the International Musicological Society, Tokyo University of the Arts, Tokyo, Japan, 19-23 March
Belgrano, E & Ross, B. (2017)
Glories to Nothingness, Encounters, Discussions, Experimentations: Art, Research and Artistic Research in Music, Research Pavillion of the university of the Arts Helsinki, Venice, 16-18 June
Belgrano, E. (2017)
Voicing/ musicking: an intra-active spiritual matter? National Network for Artistic Research in Music (Nationellt nätverk för konstnärlig forskning i musik / NKFM), Annual Meeting, 23-24 August
Belgrano, E (2017)
How are things done, produced and effected with performance? Theatre Academy, Uniarts Helsinki, Research Day 8 November https://howtodothingswithperformance.wordpress.com/2017/09/12/call-research-day-8-november-2017/
Belgrano, E. (2018)
Thinking by Singing/ Singing by Thinking, or The art of Performing Translation through Japanese philosopher Kitaro Nishida’s concept of Acting-Intuition. Interference #5 at Inter Arts Center, 16-18 January
Uehara, M., Belgrano, E., Elberfeld, R. & Skånberg Dahlstedt, A. (2018)
Nishida Kitarō’s philosophy of Acting-Intuition encountering Performance Philosophy and Artistic Research, (Themed session) 24th World Congress of Philosophy / The 3d Annual Meeting of International Association of Japanese Philosophy (WCP 2018) Beijing, 13 – 20 August 2018, Department of Philosophy, Beijing University
Belgrano, E. (2018)
A singing orna/mentor's performance or ir/rational practice, ART, MATERIALITY AND REPRESENTATIONCLORE CENTRE, BRITISH MUSEUM, 1-3 June 2018, (Submitted as a paper for Ruuku, in review)
Performance Papers
2018
Ornamenting Vocality An Intra-Active Methodology for Vocal Meaning-Making, Ruuku, No 9, AESTHETIC INTRA-ACTIONS. Practicing New Materialisms in the Arts, Katve-Kaisa Kontturi, Milla Tiainen, Tero Nauha & Marie-Luise Angerer (Edts)
Michel Lambert's Première Leçon du Mercredi Saint
Live recording, Lunch Concert, Gothenburg Cathedral, 16 February 2018
Michel Lambert's Troisième Leçon du Vendredi Saint
Live recording, Kulturtemplet, Gothenburg, 30 March 2018
'Somatically-informed Performance Research and Reflection Gathering', 23-26 August in the island of Corfu, Greece.
Belgrano's contribution:
Somatic Performance Philosophy and Vocal Soundscapes
Performing the Rythm of Free Life:
2018 -
Research Investigators: Dr. E. Laasonen Belgrano1 & Prof. M. Uehara2
1. Inter Arts Center, Malmö/Lund University, Sweden, 2. Dept. of Japanese Philosophy, Kyoto University, Japan
Performance Papers
2019
Belgrano, E. (2019)
A Singing Orna/Mentor's Performance or Ir/rational Practice, Ruuku Studies in Artistic Research, No 11
Belgrano, E. & Ross, B. (paper accepted for performance presentation)
VOICE: an Imaginary Ir/Rational Figure of Any Thing and No Thing. (A no paper presentation). Between Institution and Intoxication: How does Performance Philosophy Intervene?, Univ. of Amsterdam, Theatre Studies, 14-17 March
International Conferences
Voice and the Unknown, Inter Arts Center, Malmö, Lund University, 28-30 January (IAC & Nordic Network for Vocal Performance Research)
Performance Papers
2020
Belgrano, E. (2020)
Performing Nothingness: A Vocal Meditation,
(conf postponed unitl July 2021 due to Covid 19)
Improvisation in collaboration with
Kulturtemplet, Gothenburg/Jorge Alcaide
Jonas Nilsson, double base & Eli. Laasonen Belgrano, voice
filmed and recorded by Juan Carlos Poblete
5 april 2020
first of three events hosted by Kollegium. part of: "The Dream of anoner place - to reach upward" (Drömmen om en annan plats - att sträcka sig uppåt.)
Kulturtemplet. Gothenburg.
26 Sept. 2020 15:00-17:00
VOICINGS for ISOLATED and SLEEPLESS
Som liljan på sin äng (Sv. ps. 798)
Jag är en bön (Sv. ps. 762)
åtta existentiella laboratorier genomförs mellan november 2020-juni2021 för att belysa ordet GESTALT-ande i relation till medmänsklighet och diakoni.
Ett samarbete med bl a anställda och ideella inom
Carl Johans pastorat, Göteborg, samt ett internationellt konstnärsnätverk inom ämnena musik, poesi, dans, röstkonst, matkonst, måleri, performance filosofi, teologi.
Performance Philosophy
Collaboration through poetry/music/voice/dialogue, spring 2020
'Remember' by Christina Rossetti (words) & Mark Price (music)
NOTES INEGALES, Lyrics M. Price, Images J. Ben Joseph, Voice E. Belgrano; Music: appropriation of Swedish Psalm 717
Performance Philosophy Group
admin: Dr. Elisabeth Belgrano & Dr. Claire Maria Chambers
Book chapters
Belgrano, E. (2020)
Mapping the Burden of Vocality: French 17th Century Vocal Lamentations, Japanese Meditation and Somatic Intra-Action. in: Somatic Voices in Performance Research, Kapadocha C. & Belgrano, E., (eds), Routledge Voice Studies: Research Monographs,
Belgrano, E. & Uehara, M. (2020)
'Performance in Japanese philosophy: Nishida & Acting-Intuition', in: The Routledge Companion to Performance Philosophy, Cull, L. & Lagaay, A. (eds), Routledge Press
Lectures
ORNAMENTING-as-a-METHOD: exploring a poetical onto-ethico-epistemology.
An event series on new materialisms, Wed. 19 Feb,
org. Localizing Feminist New Materialisms, University of Turku
Performance Papers
2021
Belgrano, E.L. & Price, M. D.(2021)
Performing Nothingness: A Vocal Meditation,
Belgrano, E. L. & Price M. D. (2021)
Ornamentation in the Shadows of Death - A Vigil , Borrowed Time: on death, dying & change. Dartington Hall, UK. October 31- November 2, 2021.
No Self Can Tell: Voyages in Trans-Personal Trauma
2020-
Researchers: Dr. E. Laasonen Belgrano & Dr. M. D. Price
Performance Papers
2022
Laasonen Belgrano, E. & Price, M. D.(2022), Letting Nothing DO Itself, University of Gothenburg, 25-26 April
Laasonen Belgrano, E. & Price, M. D.(2022)
Letting Nothing DO Itself, The 2022 IFTR Conference in Reykjavik, Iceland, The Performance, Religion, and Spirituality Working Group, 20-24 June 2022
Laasonen Belgrano, E & Price, M. D.(2022
Whispers From The Abyss, isrlc Conference 2022, Transmutations and Transgressions,, “Material Religion”. Convenor: Petra Carlsson, 15-18 September 2022, University of Chester
Laasonen Belgrano, E. (2022)
Någon rörde vid mig, Gudsbilder i förändring. Uppsala Universitet / Svenska kyrkan
Lectures / Panels
Reading Radical Theology (Performance Reading)
Invited performance reading and panel participation at Book release of Prof. Petra Carlsson Redell’s book “Avantgarde Art and Radical Material Theology” (Routledge) curated by Prof. Dan Siedell, Drew University, School of Theology.
VOICE: AN IMAGINARY IR/RATIONAL FIGURE OF ANY THING, 3 May, 2022
http://www.embodiedmonologues.com
Att vara förlorade tillsammans
A dialog about NOTHING with philosopher Jonna Bornemark in relation to the exposition of: Vägg (wall), a huge scale immersive installation, by artist Dorna Aslanzadeh, which ‘Kollegium’ will display at Museum of World Culture in collaboration with the International Science Festival in Gothenburg. 6 May 2022.
Ornamentation as methodology: creating new connections in performance research (2020- )
Dr. E. Laasonen Belgrano, Inter Arts Center, Malmö/Lund University
Lessons in the Shadows of Death
2023-
Laasonen Belgrano et al.