This qualitative study examined how adolescent participants who self-harm narrate motivations for and experiences of self-harm and what a narrative group music therapy process could afford them. Seven participants from a high school in South Africa who engage in self-harm attended narrative group music therapy sessions for six weeks. Multiple interventions were used to create opportunities for self-expression within sessions. Narratives that emerged during this therapeutic process were analysed. Five main narratives were identified: “who I am, becoming and strive to be,” “relationships,” “worldview,” “self-harm,” “music therapy.” / Mini Dissertation (MMus)--University of Pretoria, 2018. / Music / MMus / Unrestricted

Detta är ett projekt som gick ut på att skapa ett konceptuellt musikalbum om olyckan på kärnkraftverket Tjernobyl 1986. Jag visar genom min konstnärliga process hur jag valt att förhålla mig musikaliskt till utvalda nyckelscener relaterade till olyckan. Resultatet redovisas både i form av ett musikalbum samt en skriftlig genomgång av den konstnärliga processens viktigaste delar och dramaturgiska balansgång. I projektet föreslås strategin att arbeta efter inre bilder, inre narrativ och inre film när musik ska produceras baserad på en historisk händelse. Jag för en diskussion kring berättandets vågspel i slutet av texten där begreppen pekoral och poetisk betraktelse diskuteras. Projektet presenterar även etisk problematisering kring att skapa musik baserad på händelser som påverkat och påverkar människor i det verkliga livet i en högaktuell del av världen år 2023. Detta arbete har varit helt introspektivt till sin natur och därför föreslås att det i framtida studier riktas fokus på mottagare och hur de tolkar och upplever musik skapad på liknande sätt som i detta projekt. / The aim of this project was to create a conceptual music album based on the disaster at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in 1986. I demonstrate through my artistic process how I chose to musically relate to the selected key scenes. The results of this project are disclosed both in the form of a music album and in a more detailed written presentation of the key components throughout the artistic process and dramaturgical balancing. The findings suggest a strategy that involves working with inner images, inner narratives and inner film when producing music based on a historical event. I discuss the narrative balancing act where the pecoral meets the poetic observation. The project also presents ethical problematization regarding music created based on historical events that has an effect even to this day in a highly focused part of the world in the year of 2023. The nature of this project has been completely introspective. I therefore suggest future studies that focus on the recipient and how they interpret, and experience music created similarly to this project. / <p>Till uppsatsen hör musikinspelningar i mp3-format som jag själv producerat från början till slut.</p>

This paper outlines the artistic research process I followed as I made a short fiction film. It defines the stages that I’ve undertaken as I tried to learn more about filmmaking during my master’s studies in Film and Media at Stockholm University of the Arts. How to write a screenplay? How to dramatize a personal experience? What making a movie entails? How to write a moving story and the impact of storytelling on human beings. Here I share my learning about – and I try to investigate the interplay between – craftmanship, art, theory, conception, industry, and the neuroscience of storytelling. / Filmmaking