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31	Meisner across paradigms : the phenomenal dynamic of Sanford Meisner's technique of acting and its resonances with postmodern performance McLaughlin, James Anthony January 2012 (has links) The Meisner Technique emerged as a part of the realist, modern theatre of the early-Twentieth Century and extended its influence through the rest of that century, including the 1960s and 1970s when there was an explosion of various forms of postmodern performance. This work will demonstrate that while Meisner’s Technique is a part of the paradigm of modern, realist theatre, it simultaneously challenges this ideology with disruptive processes of the sort that postmodern performance instigates. It is the thesis of this work that the Meisner Technique operates according to a set of phenomenologically-aligned imperatives that create strong resonances with certain forms of postmodern performance. This establishes the dynamic wherein the Meisner Technique is able to enter into discourse with instances of the postmodern paradigm of performance. In the first three chapters I will conduct in-depth analyses of Meisner actors’ relationships with their environment, their fellow performers, and their actions from a range of phenomenological perspectives. In the fourth chapter I will apply the conclusions of these analyses to the operation of the Meisner Technique within the paradigm of modern, realist theatre. In the fifth chapter I will set a backdrop to the postmodern field and suggest the issues from this tradition with which the Meisner Technique might resonate. Chapters Six, Seven, and Eight each take one example of an artist from the postmodern field, Richard Foreman, Michael Kirby, and Robert Wilson respectively, establishes their own particular context, and suggests those processes relating to acting/performing technique that might provoke the most productive exchanges. This juxtaposition suggests the places between the practices where discourse might take root and suggests the beginnings of such dialogues. 792.02
32	Exploring Spaces of Not Knowing : an Artist View / Exploring Spaces of Not Knowing : an Artist View Edelholm, Nike January 2018 (has links) The understanding, I draw from this inquiry has come through a muddy, and complex entangledprocess. I have been re-turning like a "Baradian" earthworm, to experiences of being, in spacesof not-knowing. Digesting the mud, moving it, once more, like worms do, through the body.By doing an agential cut, into two spaces, eventually three strong agents unfold: Risk,Vulnerability, and Trust. Out of this result, an ethical and pedagogical question arise: How totake account of Vulnerability and Trust when encouraging our students to Risk?Entering a space of not knowing is at the foundation of my art practice. When as an arteducator,I went to China to inquire into the educational strategies of Chinese Classical Painting,I found myself thrown into a multitude of spaces of not knowing. This thesis, is an inquiry intohow being in such spaces, perform knowledge. To explore this, I return to the field-notes andvisual material including a report in the form of a visual essay of the study from 2011. I re-turnto this material with new tools and concepts inspired by Karen Barads metaphors of diffractionand earth-worms approach, as well as my artists tools: brush, water colours, ink, and paper;inrtoducing painting as a tool for analysis.As a theoretical approach, I entangle the flat ontology of Deleuze and Guattari, and theonto-epistem-ology of Barad, with the philosophical traditions in China of Buddhism and Dao.From an onto-epistem-ological perspective, I ask the question: "If we know about the worldbecause we are of the world," what knowledge then appear, when we experience our being in theworld as a space of not knowing. In this study, I have found that a space of not knowing performlearning through experiences of Vulnerability, Risk and Trust.The art part of this thesis is connected to Risk as well as to Vulnerability and Trust. Itfeatures a rope hanging from the ceiling to the floor. It is a rope that has been used during severalyears by a Circus artist during performances; hanging high up in the ceiling — demanding focusand presence from him. The installation at Konstfack spring-show 2018 featured the Circus artistrope together with a painting made in the context of Buddhist Vipassana meditation, entanglingmy tactile approach in art, with the text of this thesis. Art-education Art Buddhism Calligraphy Chinese Classical Painting Creativity Dao Diffraction Entanglement Experience Here&Now John Cage Not-Knowing Performing Present-Moment Onto-Epistem-Ology Risk Trust Vulnerability Painting Post-Humanism Rune Hagberg Shi Tao. Pedagogy Pedagogik
33	Beyond Ecophony Svensson, Kristofer January 2013 (has links) <p>Bilaga: 1 partitur</p> John Luther Adams ambient poetics buddhism John Cage disenchantment ecology Martin Heidegger Francisco Lopez modes of listening Timothy Morton oceanic place-ism Christopher Small silence site-specificity Lee Ufan zoka
34	The Snare Drum as a Solo Concert Instrument: An In-Depth Study of Works by Milton Babbitt, John Cage, Dan Senn, and Stuart Saunders Smith, Together with Three Recitals of Selected Works by Keiko Abe, Daniel Levitan, Askell Masson, Karlheinz Stockhausen, and Others Baker, Jason Colby 12 1900 (has links) This dissertation discusses the potential of the snare drum as a solo concert instrument. Four pieces from a collection entitled The Noble Snare are used for demonstration ("Homily" by Milton Babbitt, "Composed Improvisation for Snare Drum" by John Cage, "Peeping Tom" by Dan Senn, and "The Noble Snare" by Stuart Saunders Smith). In the absence of many traditional musical devices (i.e. melody and harmony), alternative means of expression are used by the composer. Each piece is discussed with regard to its distinctive compositional approach and inherent performance issues. Information is also given pertaining to the background of the Noble Snare series. This includes: the inspiration for the project, editorial issues, and its influence on snare drum performance. Much of this research was completed through interviews by with author with Sylvia Smith, publisher of The Noble Snare and owner of Smith Publications. Babbitt, Milton, 1916- Homily. Senn, Dan, 1951- Peeping Tom. Smith, Stuart, 1948- Noble snare. snare drum Milton Babbitt John Cage Dan Senn Stuart Saunders Smith
35	Musical Semantics within Modern Literature: A Study of Seven American Art Songs Set to the Texts of Gertrude Stein FORRESTER, ELIZABETH HARTLEIGH 24 September 2008 (has links) No description available. American Literature Fine Arts Music Gertrude Stein Virgil Thomson Ned Rorem Gunther Schuller David Diamond Richard Hundley John Cage Psychology and Art Song Music and Modern Literature Cubism American Art Song
36	Examining Sonic Relationships in a Visual Context Hartman, Nathaniel 18 July 2012 (has links) No description available. Artificial Intelligence Audiology Composition Experiments Fine Arts Information Systems Mass Media Performing Arts Robotics Robots Technology Phenomenology Sound Computer Intelligence Max/MSP Programming Abstraction Percussion Wikileaks Prepared Paino John Cage
37	Echtzeitmusik Blazanovic, Marta 03 June 2014 (has links) Die Echtzeitmusikszene ist eine zeitgenössische Musikszene, die Mitte der 1990er in Berlin entstanden ist. Seitdem entwickelte sie sich in eine umfangreiche, musikalisch vielfältige, lokale, aber auch extrem internationale Musiker-Community, mit dem Schwerpunkt auf improvisierter und experimenteller Musik. Der Begriff ‚Echtzeitmusik‘ markierte zunächst die Abgrenzung der jungen von der älteren Generation der Berliner Improvisatoren. Die jüngeren Musiker entwickelten bald eine besondere Klangästhetik sowie die Praxis des Improvisierens, was oft als ‚Berlin Reductionism‘ bezeichnet wird. Sich selbst identifizierten sie vor allem mit dem Begriff ‚Composer-Performer‘. Die musikalischen Entwicklungen in der Echtzeitmusik Szene lassen sich innerhalb der Traditionen der Freien Improvisation einerseits und der Cageschen Kompositionstheorie andererseits kontextualisieren. Ausserdem wurden die Entstehung der Szene, ihre Entwicklung und Existenz stark von den einzigartigen räumlichen, sozialen und ökonomischen Bedingungen in Berlin nach der Wende beeinflusst und bestimmt. Die Echtzeitmusik Szene ist ein Beispiel für ein hoch autonomes Feld der Kulturproduktion, in dem das sogenannte symbolische Kapital (Reputation) die wichtigste Kapitalart und ein Machtmittel darstellt. Die Verteilung des symbolischen Kapitals in der Szene manifestiert sich in einer auf den ersten Blick versteckten Hierarchie. Die Mitglieder der Szene teilen eine gemeinsame symbolische Ebene und nehmen an einem klar strukturierten und organisierten Szeneleben teil. Sowohl soziale als auch musikalische Handlungen der Szeneakteure zeigen gewisse Gemeinsamkeiten und Regularitäten, die mit Bourdieu’s Habitus-Begriff erklärt werden. Der Szenediskurs spielt eine wichtige Rolle in den Prozessen der Identifikation, Distinktion und Gemeinschaftsbildung, als auch in der Regulierung der Praxis in der Szene dadurch, dass es als ein Orientierungspunkt für die Insider, aber auch für die Aussenstehenden dient. / The Echtzeitmusik scene is a contemporary music scene that emerged in Berlin in the mid-1990s and evolved into an extensive and musically diverse local, yet extremely international community of musicians, who are involved in improvised and experimental music. The term ‘Echtzeitmusik’, literally meaning ‘real-time music’, marked the distinction between the younger and older generation of Berlin improvisers. The younger musicians had soon developed a specific sound aesthetic and approach to improvising, often labeled as ‘Berlin Reductionism’, and identified themselves as ‘composer-performers’. The musical developments in the Echtzeitmusik scene can be contextualized within the traditions of both Free Improvisation and John Cage’s compositional theory; on the other hand, the scene’s emergence, development and existence have been strongly influenced by the unique spatial, social and economic context of the post-wall Berlin from the early 1990s until today. The Echtzeitmusik scene is an example of a highly autonomous field of cultural production, in which the most important type of capital and means of “power” is the so-called symbolic capital (reputation), based on the musicians’ cultural capital (e.g. musical skill and individuality) and even more on their social capital (social relations). The distribution of symbolic capital within the scene is manifested in its, at first sight hidden, hierarchy. The members of the scene share a common symbolic level and take part in a clearly structured and organized scene-life. Both social and musical actions of the scene’s members show commonalities and regularities, which are explained by Bourdieu’s concept of habitus. The scene’s discourse plays an essential role in the processes of identification, distinction and community-making, as well as regulating the practice within the scene, by serving as a point of orientation on the inside and towards the outside. Berlin Diskurs Stille Autonomie Reduktionismus Foucault Reduktion zeitgenössische Musik Echtzeit Echtzeitmusik Szene Musikszene Improvisation experimentelle Musik Composer-Performer John Cage Geräusch Bourdieu Kapital symbolisches Kapital Habitus künstlerisches Feld Kulturproduktion Distinktion Abgrenzung Diskursfeld Interdiskursraum Berlin noise silence autonomy Reductionism discourse reduction contemporary music Echtzeit Echtzeitmusik real-time music scene improvisation experimental music composer-performer John Cage Bourdieu Foucault capital symbolic capital symbolic power habitus artistic field community of practice cultural production distinction difference discursive fields interdiscursive space 780 Musik 48 Musik CB 5100 ddc:780
38	Ambient musik : En undersökning om spatial musik som klingande arkitektur / Ambient Music : Investigating spatial music as sounding architecture Milveden, Jens January 2022 (has links) ”Ambient Music”, established and described by its ”creator” Brian Eno, has become a term with a wide range of uses - as generative music, in sound- and audiovisual art installation, a mediated ”sound” of a genre through albums and artists to plug in to during your daily walk - as well as any imaginable association with the term connected to public, spatial or virtual ambience. Through the liner notes of the genres original albums (Ambient 1: Music For Airports of 1978, and to some extent Discreet Music of 1975) it is clear though that the original idea is more related to listening to your own spatial awareness as a form of music rather than a following of certain sounds and conventions that the term has been associated with. At the time as a sonic alternative to conventional background music of public spaces. The author suggests that these ideas never would have surfaced if it wasn’t for the earlier ideas of Erik Satie and John Cage, whose sonic frameworks and instructions beyond the traditional music sheet were vital for Eno to create generative canvases of sounding art for the spaces. The paper then focuses on consolidating the term ”Ambient Music” with its frameworks in art and function by deconstructing it between spatial, architectonic usage and as a mediated genre of a ”sound”, via virtual generative music - and back again, via its original description of enhancing environments ”acoustic and atmospheric idiosyncracies”. With Eno’s original thesis in mind the paper continues to explore where ”Ambient Music” (through arguably its sub-genre, ”Spatial Music”) is today, as well as looking at the potential futures for the genres’ artistic functions as an established and accepted sonic element of physical architecture and public spaces. This exemplified by building a bridge between ”Ambient Music” and the modern ”non-ambient” sonic scenographer, ”Spatial Music”-artist Mareike Dobewall, for further discussions on sound art as sounding architecture - a potential future for the Ambient label. Sonic Spatial Ambient Architecture John Cage Brian Eno Dobewall Erik Satie Music Soundscape Generative Music For Airports Furniture Music Indeterminacy Ambience Space Acoustics Sound Installation Audiovisual Atmosphere Landscape Muzak Background Music Musica Mundana Voicelanding Phenomenology Spatial Ambient Arkitektur Musik John Cage Brian Eno Dobewall Erik Satie Musica Mundana Voicelanding Ljudlandskap Generativ Möblemangsmusik Indeterminism Ambiens Rumslighet Akustik Installation Ljudinstallation Audiovisuell Atmosfär Landskap Muzak Bakgrundsmusik Fenomenologi Musicology Musikvetenskap
39	Beyond the electronic connection : the technologically manufactured cyber-human and its physical human counterpart in performance : a theory related to convergence identities Sharir, Yacov January 2013 (has links) This thesis is an investigation of the complex processes and relationships between the physical human performer and the technologically manufactured cyber-human counterpart. I acted as both researcher and the physical human performer, deeply engaged in the moment-to-moment creation of events unfolding within a shared virtual reality environment. As the primary instigator and activator of the cyber-human partner, I maintained a balance between the live and technological performance elements, prioritizing the production of content and meaning. By way of using practice as research, this thesis argues that in considering interactions between cyber-human and human performers, it is crucial to move beyond discussions of technology when considering interactions between cyber-humans and human performers to an analysis of emotional content, the powers of poetic imagery, the trust that is developed through sensory perception and the evocation of complex relationships. A theoretical model is constructed to describe the relationship between a cyber-human and a human performer in the five works created specifically for this thesis, which is not substantially different from that between human performers. Technological exploration allows for the observation and analysis of various relationships, furthering an expanded understanding of ‘movement as content’ beyond the electronic connection. Each of the works created for this research used new and innovative technologies, including virtual reality, multiple interactive systems, six generations of wearable computers, motion capture technology, high-end digital lighting projectors, various projection screens, smart electronically charged fabrics, multiple sensory sensitive devices and intelligent sensory charged alternative performance spaces. They were most often collaboratively created in order to augment all aspects of the performance and create the sense of community found in digital live dance performances/events. These works are identified as one continuous line of energy and discovery, each representing a slight variation on the premise that a working, caring, visceral and poetic content occurs beyond the technological tools. Consequently, a shift in the physical human’s psyche overwhelms the act of performance. Scholarship and reflection on the works have been integral to my creative process throughout. The goals of this thesis, the works created and the resulting methodologies are to investigate performance to heighten the multiple ways we experience and interact with the world. This maximizes connection and results in a highly interactive, improvisational, dynamic, non-linear, immediate, accessible, agential, reciprocal, emotional, visceral and transformative experience without boundaries between the virtual and physical for physical humans, cyborgs and cyber-humans alike. 700

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