Softening the piano, spatial songs and the fallen 4th wall: Three new Artistic Research Projects at RMC

Rhythmic Music Conservatory (RMC) has been granted 1,1 million DKK by the Danish Ministry of Culture's Comittee for Artistic Research.

Artistic Research is a form of artistic investigation and reflection, in which teachers work to explore new areas and ways of working through artistic experiments and methods for the benefit of their own practice, the art form and the knowledge base of the educational institutions.

By the Danish Ministry of Culture's definition, Artistic Research is an integrated part of an artistic process ammounting to an outcome available to the public, and accompanied by a reflection upon the process itself as well as the presentation of the result.

The grants has been awarded to the following three projects:

Professor Jacob Anderskov: Genklangen fra den væltede fjerde væg (The echo from the fallen 4th wall)

During the pandemic many people found comfort in communities built around participating in music. As a musician I missed for the music to respond to this need in an artistic way. This project will, through an artistic reworking of terms like "new music" and "participatory/inclusive", attempt to break down the barriers between stage and audience, amateur and professional, exclusivity and participation.

Assistant Professor Sharin Foo and Teaching Associate Professor Louise Foo: Voicing Spatial Songs

The project investigates artistic potentialities with spatial audio technologies in a creation and performance aspect, coming from a pop/rock songwriting tradition. We are seeking to gain artistic, technological and methodic experience and advancements that can facilitate broader access and more inclusion into such technologies as spatial audio is emerging into mainstream.

Associate Professor Niels Lyhne Løkkegaard: Multiplayer - Softening the piano, softening the sedimented

This project investigates the grand piano as a social site in an attempt to soften the instrument through performative group actions, and to develop new performance practices and new works for a single piano and an ensemble of pianists who are playing the piano at the same time. Starting from Niels Lyhne Løkkegaards artistic practice, the piano and other instruments are explored as social spaces in an effort to renegotiate the instruments as both sources of sound and cultural markers. See also the pre-study 'Toast' at YouTube.

Find more research and development activities in the RMC research database