Discover new artistic research: Four RMC projects on Research Catalogue
Instrument design and programming, music production, co-creation, community singing, improvisation and softening of Western instrument discourses:
Rhythmic Music Conservatory (RMC) contributes with new knowledge in a range of fields with the publication of four new artistic research expositions on Research Catalogue - the largest international digital platform for artistic research.
The projects have been carried out by RMC staff in collaboration with various partners in Denmark and abroad. Three of the four projects have been supported by funds from the Danish Ministry of Culture's pool for Artistic Development Activities (KUV).
Read more about the projects here and explore the digital expositions at Research Catalogue.
Echoes from the torn down fourth wall
By Pianist, Composer and Professor, Jacob Anderskov
The project attempts to build bridges between art music and the community, here represented by the traditional Danish songbook of singalongs, folksongs and hymns called 'Højskolesangbogen' and the communal singing culture associated with it.
In a concert format created for the project, within the context of an abstract approach to an intense concert music making, several passages with community singing occur where the audience sings along in songs they know. The research process has investigated among other things how to create the musical environment that might bridge the different positions, how the idea of the listener/spectator can be negotiated within different art domains, and how from a genre perspective the project can be narrated as a meeting between confirming and destabilising forces.
The project have been supported by funds from the Danish Ministry of Culture's pool for Artistic Development Activities (KUV). Visit the research exposition:
The music producer as an artistic co-creator
By Music Producer and Associate Professor, Morten Büchert
What types of artistic co-ownership does the music producer assume when the sound studio's artistic co-creation processes unfold, and what artistic consequences can this have for the final works?
Driven by these research questions, the project aims to explore how types of music producer's artistic co-ownership are negotiated and expressed in musical co-creation processes. Büchert’s interest revolves around how the negotiations of co-ownership take place in collective processes with a focus on the music producer's different roles and tasks, as well as the underlying arguments and desires/perceptions of those involved that seem to be in play.
At the same time, it tries to uncover what competences the different types of artistic co-ownership require of the music producer.
The project have been supported by funds from the Danish Ministry of Culture's pool for Artistic Development Activities (KUV). Visit the research exposition:
Multiplayer - Softenings and Inquiries into Matters of Toxoplasmatic Ectoplasm
By Composer and Associate Professor, Niels Lyhne Løkkegaard
The project investigates and approaches Western instruments as critical and dangerous places to be approached with great caution.
The instrument, in this view, is not only an interface between mechanical impact and the production of sound and between fantasies and physical reality, but also a contaminated site to be treated as such. An infected place saturated with parasitic discourses ready to jump into you, encapsulate you and make you a sedimented part of the instrument.
The project have been supported by funds from the Danish Ministry of Culture's pool for Artistic Development Activities (KUV). Visit the research exposition:
The Everchanging Instrument
By Composer and Associate Professor, Anders P. Jensen
The project explores the artistic potential of unpredictability, specifically within the context of electronic music.
By referring to an original instrument design—including programming a number of randomized systems—a series of compositions for keyboard instruments were developed. The central theme is the relationship between dialogue and loss of control during the creative process. This exposition disseminates intermediate documentations, as well as technological and procedural reflections, and links to a newly released music album of works from the project.
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