The aim of my degree project has been to study the process of combining two artistic disciplines, music composition and textile art. My partner in this collaboration has been Finnish textile artist and clothing designer Riikka Peltola. In the text I set out to answer the following questions: What methods are there to work with music and textile art? How can textile/knitting patterns be translated into music? How to deal with the problem of the language barrier between a composer and a textile artist, and between music and textile art? In addition to a brief overview of relevant projects by other composers and artists, two related works which are part of my degree project are examined: an acoustic concert piece titled Five-Minute Forests and an installation piece Five-Minute Forests II consisting of electroacoustic music played back through headphones and a textile sculpture made by Peltola. Based on the review of the processes, there are two primary ways of working: One is establishing so called loose connections between music and the textile element – for example, agreeing on common themes and concepts but not having the musical and textile objects correlate in a constant way. The other is mapping the music to the textile element such as a textile pattern, for example, in a way in which the musical objects and textile objects do correlate in a constant way. Of the two works which are part of the degree projects, Five-Minute Forests is based on conceptual discussion between me and the textile artist. In the installation piece, I employ both a loose connections approach and a mapping-based approach. The language barrier proved to be challenging to break within the time allocated to the project.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:UPSALLA1/oai:DiVA.org:kmh-4930 |
| Date | January 2023 |
| Creators | Kaasinen, Pietari |
| Publisher | Kungl. Musikhögskolan, Institutionen för komposition, dirigering och musikteori |
| Source Sets | DiVA Archive at Upsalla University |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Student thesis, info:eu-repo/semantics/bachelorThesis, text |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess |
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