Spatial songwriting and topography for improvisers: Two new Artistic Research Projects at RMC
Rhythmic Music Conservatory (RMC) has been granted 1,26 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 artists 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 two projects:
Assistant Professor Sharin Foo and Teaching Associate Professor Louise Foo: Voicing Spatial Songs
'Voicing Spatial Songs' explores the creative and performative potentials of situating songwriting within a spatial sound practice. The project aims to develop new methodological approaches that integrate compositional, technological and performative stages of songwriting in spatial sound formats, by exploring how this can contribute to new approaches in songwriting and perhaps even redefine our linear understanding of popular song forms and narratives. The Artistic Research is a further development of a previously granted project of the same title.
Associate Professor Kasper Tranberg: Toward a New Topography of Melodic Orientation in Contemporary Jazz Improvisation
This project investigates how improvising musicians can provide methods that develop and qualify individual and collective approaches to melodic orientation within contemporary jazz improvisation. Furthermore, the project aims to create a topographical catalogue of the conceptual and methodological framework as a resource for improvisers in both professional and music educational contexts.
Find more research and development activities in the RMC research database
