(Un-) settling Sites and Styles

Einar Røttingen

(Un-)settling sites and styles: In search of new expressive means. Eight performers (voice, piano, violin, cello), one musicologist and one composer aspired to unsettle their habitual ways of working with musical interpretation of 20th century and contemporary Norwegian composers. By collaborating to develop new perspectives and methods, they investigated questions of style and how different sites influenced their rehearsals and performances. How do performers find new expressive means? How can intersubjective exchange within a research group contribute to articulating tacit knowledge? How can mutual unsettling approaches influence conventional or subjective attitudes of fidelity to a score or a performance tradition? How can novel sounds, musical material and musical meaning emerge beyond prejudiced conceptions or through improvisation? The three-year project was facilitated by the Norwegian Artistic Research Programme and the Faculty of Fine Art, Music and Design (Grieg Academy), University of Bergen, and resulted in texts, sound recordings, videos, and new commented score editions.

(Un-)settling sites and styles

- in Search of New Expressive Means

Introduction

Acknowledgements

Expressive means

Unsettling and unlearning

Unsettling sites and styles

Methological approaches

The individual projects

Results and documentation

References

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BIOGRAPHICAL NOTES ABOUT ARNULF CHRISTIAN MATTES

Arnulf Christian Mattes is associated professor and leader of the Grieg Research Centre at the University of Bergen. He studied cello at the Staatliche Musikhochschule Trossingen (Trossingen University of Music).

Mattes received his PhD at the University of Oslo with a dissertation on Schoenberg's chamber music from his years in USA. Since then, he has received research grants from the Norwegian Research Council (NFR) for projects on the Schoenberg school’s performance practice and on the Norwegian modernist, Fartein Valen. Mattes has published in journals such as Twentieth-Century Music, Archiv für Musikwissenschaft, Journal of the Arnold Schoenberg Centre, and History of Humanities. He has also contributed with chapters to anthologies published by Cambridge University Press, Boydell, and Routledge. During the period 2013–2018, Mattes served as editor of Studia Musicologica Norvegica (Norwegian Journal of Musicology).