A scribbled melody and a series of relational vocal meditations

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Lambert, M. (ca. 1660-1680) Leçons de Ténèbres,Belgrano, In: Belgrano E.(2018)

"And rather than offering a straight narrative, a linear unfolding of a particular storyline, it it experiments with montage and fragmentary writing, diffractively reading insights through one another, allowing the reader to explore various cristalline structures that solidify, if only mometarily in the breaking of continuity."


                                               Barad, K. (2017)

“my task is not to ‘give voice to the patients’, instead, I try to create favourable conditions with my voice and presence to invite the participants to an entirely new dialogue. The role of the researcher is not a distant observer, but experiential in proximity.”

 

                                               Fast, H. (2016)

 

 

"How are we supposed to  discipline our senses to ensure that our 'sensory surpluses' move in compassionate, sympathetic alignment with the environmental, social, and political crises of our time? How do we 'cultivate and mobalize our energies'? is there any role here for religion?"

 

                                               LaMothe, K. L. (2016)

References of relevance:


Barad, K. (2017)'What flashes up: Theological-Political-Scientific Fragments.' In: Keller, C. (ed.) (2017) Entangled Worlds. Religion, Science, and New Materialism. Fordham University Press.Pp. 21-88


Clifton-Smith, G. (2016) Performing Pastoral Care: Music as a Framework for Exploring Pastoral Care, Jessica Kingsley Publishers.

 

Connolly, W. E. (2010) 'Materialities of Experience.' In: Coole, D. & Frost, S (eds) (2010) New Materialisms. Ontology, Agency and Politics, Duke Univ. Press, pp. 178-200.


Fast, H. (2016) Blog: http://www.koneensaatio.fi/en/blogi/singing-touches-shared-sensibility/ (2017-08-07).


Hansson, M. J. (2010)'Andlighet i vetenskapens tidsålder'. In: Silferberg, G. (ed)(2010) "Visst längtar jag fortfarande efter något...": om etik och andlighet i vård, psykoterapi och musik. Stockholm, Ersta sköndal Högskola, pp 129-153.

 

Keller, C. (ed.) (2017) Entangled Worlds. Religion, Science, and New Materialism. Fordham University Press.


Lambert, M. (ca. 1660-1680) Leçons de Ténèbres, Leçons de Ténèbres, Bibl. Nat. Paris. In: Belgrano, E. (2018) Ornamenting Vocality. Intra-active methodology for Vocal Meaning-Making. Ruukku Studies in Artistic Research, 9 (2018) https://doi.org/10.22501/ruu.370801 [accessed 07/01/2019], www.ruukku-journal.fi

 

LaMothe, Kimerer L. (2016) 'Becoming a Bodily Self: An Ecokinetic Approach to the Study of Religion'. In: Rieger, J. & Waggoner, E. (eds) (2016) Religious Experience and New Materialism. Movement Matters. Radical Theologies Series, Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 25-54.

 

Rieger, J. & Waggoner, E. (ed) (2016) Religious Experience and New Materialism. Movement Matters. Radical Theologies Series, Palgrave Macmillan.

Voic/music/perform/ing: an intra-active spiritual matter?

(an open exposition in progress)

Abstract

The role of a singer/musician/performer calls for an ability to capture the attention of an audience. In the 17thcentury the general concern would have been for the performer to develop musical and performative means in order to touch both hearts and souls of the listeners. In a blog from 2016, Finnish voice-artist Heidi Fast writes about a specific case study in a hospital environment (as part of her doctoral research) where she examines and explores the possibilities of non-verbal vocality to attune embodied relationality: “my task is not to ‘give voice to the patients’, instead, I try to create favourable conditions with my voice and presence to invite the participants to an entirely new dialogue. The role of the researcher is not a distant observer, but experiential in proximity.”  The relationality enacted by performer/s, researcher/s, listener/s, participants in a musical event/encounter allows for overlappings of shared elevated (or even spiritual) experiences inspiring to new ways of thinking. Such existential experiences can be challenging to describe or to discursively articulate at a later stage. At the same time these ‘spiritual’ experiences provide a provocative point of departure for artistic research. The aim of this presentation is to open up for an intra-active discussion on relationality, with reference to voicing musicking/performing and the spiritual/existential experience; artistic research and religious studies/radical theology/new materialist/non-dualistic/holistic theories; artistic research in music and its potential contribution to existential meaning-making applicable for ex in pastoral care.

 

The music performed in this performance-paper refers to the city of Paris in the 17thcentury, to the fallen city of Jerusalem as described in the biblical Lamentations, and to Gothenburg and an early 20thcentury water cistern. Experiencing walls and scores constructed in the past sheds new light on future structures and potential relations.

Jerusalem Convertere ad Deum Tuum, (Michel Lambert) St. Anne's Church, Via Dolorosa, Jerusalem, August 2014

Première Léçon du Venredi St. (Michel Lambert) Kulturtemplet, Gothenburg, Sweden, Dec. 2018

This exposition has been presented as a conference paper at the annual conference of the National Network for Artistic Research in Music (Nationellt nätverk för konstnärlig forskning i musik / NFKM) 23-24 Aug 2017, Royal College of Music, Stockholm, Sweden.


It has also been accepted for presentation at the 2019 IFTR (International Federation for Theatre Research) World Congress in Shanghai 8-12 July 2019, within the  PERFORMANCE, RELIGION and SPIRITUALITY working group