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The research explores 'ornamenting' as a transferable method in inter-disciplinary studies, inter-faith dialogues and artistic/therapeutic practices. Adapting techniques of Renaissance musicology, the processes we have developed de-create and re-create vital connections. It is a communica-tions strategy for times of crisis. Starting with simple sonic relations we extend the method far be-yond its traditional musical setting. The practice utilises 'Nothingness' as a component of creativity, providing a novel response to figurations of nothingness as mere negation. Preliminary results sug-gest its potential as a counter force to nihilism and social dislocation. The work divides into four areas. 1. Primary research on relationships between sound, meaning, and the sense(s) of self, exploring how sense is made of Otherness via processes akin to musical praxis: consonance, dissonance, 'pure voice' and ornamentation. 2. To apply this new perspective to a range of exile experiences – mourning, social disconnection, ex-communication and aggres-sive 'Othering'. 3. To investigate the cancelling of normal time-conditions in crisis situations such as trauma, dementia, and mystical experience, relating non-linear temporality to creative practice and healing. 4. To widely disseminate our results and methods as contributions to the methodology of artistic research via journal articles, live workshops and performances, and a book of original, praxical, testable, and teach-able interventions.

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  • contents
    • BEFORE the BEGINNING
    • PROLOGUE
    • TEARS OF
    • life is not what we think
    • Between-worlds
    • Remember me
    • Behind the wall of no-sound
    • UNKNOWN
    • Diffracting through AESTHETICS and...
    • COME AWAY
    • ORNAMENTATION AS METHODOLOGY
    • CONVERSING: A STORY
    • FOUR OBEJCTIVES
    • MADNESS
    • CONNECTING
    • The SHORE of HOPE
    • VIGIL: Borrowed Time
    • Hiraeth
    • ALONENESS
    • Line of Separation / Conjunction
    • LOSS or Arianna's red end
    • GIVING-IN
    • REVELATION
    • THINKING ABOUT NOTHING
    • Forms of EXILE
    • NOTHING
    • ARTICULATIONS
    • LOVE
    • Reading Radical Theology
    • JERUSALEM
    • Garden of Memories
    • Lab for no reason
    • A mon seul desir
    • Whispers from the Abyss
    • Voice: An imaginary figure of any thing
    • w/her/e
    • Someone touched me
    • Between Then and Now
    • Complete Project Description
    • References
    • Laasonen Belgrano, E. and Price, M.D.
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    The research explores 'ornamenting' as a transferable method in inter-disciplinary studies, inter-faith dialogues and artistic/therapeutic practices. Adapting techniques of Renaissance musicology, the processes we have developed de-create and re-create vital connections. It is a communica-tions strategy for times of crisis. Starting with simple sonic relations we extend the method far be-yond its traditional musical setting. The practice utilises 'Nothingness' as a component of creativity, providing a novel response to figurations of nothingness as mere negation. Preliminary results sug-gest its potential as a counter force to nihilism and social dislocation. The work divides into four areas. 1. Primary research on relationships between sound, meaning, and the sense(s) of self, exploring how sense is made of Otherness via processes akin to musical praxis: consonance, dissonance, 'pure voice' and ornamentation. 2. To apply this new perspective to a range of exile experiences – mourning, social disconnection, ex-communication and aggres-sive 'Othering'. 3. To investigate the cancelling of normal time-conditions in crisis situations such as trauma, dementia, and mystical experience, relating non-linear temporality to creative practice and healing. 4. To widely disseminate our results and methods as contributions to the methodology of artistic research via journal articles, live workshops and performances, and a book of original, praxical, testable, and teach-able interventions.
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No Self Can Tell: Voyages in Trans-personal Trauma

Before the beginning...

(Price 2020a)