https://lethe.nu Lethe Thu, 15 Dec 2022 09:39:48 +0000 https://lethe.nu en https://lethe.nu/Menu-Mobile Thu, 15 Dec 2022 09:39:48 +0000 Lethe https://lethe.nu/Menu-Mobile Project Overview International Symposium on Forgetfulness, Stockholm University of the Arts, March 2-4, 2023 The Piece: Played and Replayed Process Calendar Biographies https://lethe.nu/Lethe Tue, 29 Nov 2022 09:16:15 +0000 Lethe https://lethe.nu/Lethe Our three overarching research questions are: • In what way does forgetfulness affect the artistic practice of a musician, and the interplay within a musical ensemble, when it is used as a guiding method and principle? • Will forgetfulness and the river Lethe enable us to become artistically reborn by way of aiding us to forget our musical habits and traditional reasonings? • What will we be willing to forget?The aim of the project is to investigate how forgetfulness affects: (1) our skills, habits, and the possibility for us to become artistically reborn as individual musicians; (2) our musical communication, experience of agency, and our collective memory as a musical ensemble; (3) how we contextualise, theorise, and reflect on the music that we create with forgetfulness as our artistic method and guiding principle. There is a substantial amount of research done on the relationship between memory and music, but the possibility of approaching music by way of forgetfulness has not been researched prior to this project. Memory is an essential tool for all musicians, and it is particularly true for musicians who perform music that has no score, e.g., improvised music. With Lethe we want to investigate what artistic possibilities will become accessible to us if we use forgetfulness, the antithesis of memory, as our method for creating new music and to question our musical habits. In addition to the practice-based artistic research that our project encompasses, we intend to – by way of embedding ourselves in a discursive process – build knowledge based on theoretical inquiries and our own essay writing, as well as to present arguments and reasonings to help us and others to navigate the various streams of Lethe. We will weave together practice and reflection by way of continually recreating one and the same piece of improvised music from memory. Given that we consistently play the same piece of music over and over again over the course of three years, we can investigate forgetfulness as one of the main phenomena that changes the music as well as develops it. Once we have finished a performance of our continually recreated piece of music and it has been recorded, we, as the research team, will not have access to the documentation of it. In this way, our memory, or lack thereof, will become implicit to the object of our research. The continually recreated piece of music will function as a journal for our research, our laboratory, and the documentation of our process. We will, in conclusion of the project, present an example of what forgetfulness as an artistic method and guiding principle can result in artistically and musically. During the third year of the project, we will arrange and curate a symposium on the theme of forgetfulness at Stockholm University of the Arts, to which we will invite international artists and researchers. As our point of departure, we believe that forgetfulness is an important part of the artistic practice of a musician, and that memory, in certain cases, can obscure an artistic development. The Roman poet Virgil wrote in his epic poem Aeneid that it is only after we have had our memory erased by Lethe that we can become reborn. What will we be willing to forget when we meet at the riverbanks of Lethe and gaze at the waters that can wash away our previous musical lives? https://lethe.nu/International-Symposium-on-Forgetfulness Mon, 16 May 2022 07:23:02 +0000 Lethe https://lethe.nu/International-Symposium-on-Forgetfulness The research team is planning an international symposium on forgetfulness on March 2-4, 2023, at Stockholm University of the Arts, Department of Opera. Invited speakers are among others, Freya Bailes (Associate Professor in Music Psychology at University of Leeds), Christian Wolff (Composer), Marcia Cavalcante Schuback (Professor in Philosophy at Södertörn University), Rögnvaldur Ingthorsson (Associate Professor in Philosophy at Helsinki University), Katt Hernandez (PhD-candidate, Lund University), and Toby Kassell (Choreographer and Dancer). The research team will also perform their continually recreated piece of music and present their research thus far in the project. Moderator for the symposium is Annette Arlander. In addition to the lectures and workshops held by the invited speakers, the ensemble Songs from Haidari &nbsp;(Anna Lindal, Eva Lindal, Mats Persson, and Nils Claesson), and Reading Music, Sappho - fragment (Henrik Olsson, Johan Arrias, Lisa Ullén, and Magnus William-Olsson) will perform. Register for the conference here ︎︎︎ <img width="1580" height="314" width_o="1580" height_o="314" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/a6dd8b5eba9de174469df6ac3779fc5a611b0d0dcdeeb491125897685b8554ff/Screen-Shot-2022-12-09-at-11.43.02-AM.png" data-mid="161457953" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/a6dd8b5eba9de174469df6ac3779fc5a611b0d0dcdeeb491125897685b8554ff/Screen-Shot-2022-12-09-at-11.43.02-AM.png" /> https://lethe.nu/Calendar-1 Fri, 18 Nov 2022 14:30:54 +0000 Lethe https://lethe.nu/Calendar-1 Calendar:&nbsp; 2022 16 November, internal research seminar Stockholm University of the Arts, together with Emma Wolukau-Wanambwa. 2023 17-20 January, Research Week Stockholm University of the Arts, public presentation of the project, together with Karl Dunér. 2-4 March, International Research Symposium on Forgetfulness at Opera Stockholm University of the Arts. Separate program shortly. https://lethe.nu/bios-1 Thu, 14 Oct 2021 12:27:31 +0000 Lethe https://lethe.nu/bios-1 Andreas Hiroui Larsson is a Swedish artist, musician, researcher, and writer. Larsson conducts an interdisciplinary practice, within which he moves in-between the identities of the artist, the musician, and the writer. He is a member of several contemporary music ensembles, and he is the author of Essäer om europeisk estetiks epistemologiska relativisering (2018), Education (2020), Shadowboxing (2022), Souvenir (2023), and works on music and site, ontology, and philosophy of mind.&nbsp; Larsson is educated at Akademie der bildenden Künste Wien, Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse de Paris, the Royal College of Music in Stockholm, the Royal Institute of Art in Stockholm, and Uppsala University. Johan Jutterström 2006 - 2010 Bachelor in Music: the Royal College of Music in Stockholm. 2008 - 2009 Exchange studies at Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse de Paris 2011 - 2013 Master in Fine Arts, Music: the Academy of Music and Drama in Gothenburg. 2015 - 2018 Artistic research education: the Norwegian Artistic Research Programme, University of Stavanger. Anna Lindal, with a background as Concertmaster and Professor, is a freelancing violinist primarily active within experimental and contemporary chamber music and free improvisation but also in baroque and classical repertoire. She is part of a number of different permanent ensembles like Lipparella, Makadam, Skogen, Fire! Orchestra, Violin duo Bäver with Eva Lindal. She has collaborated with many composers and also runs several interdisciplinary collaborations with directors, choreographers, fine artists and authors. https://lethe.nu/1st-Performance Thu, 14 Oct 2021 12:35:38 +0000 Lethe https://lethe.nu/1st-Performance ︎︎︎Version 1︎︎︎ https://lethe.nu/2nd-Performance Thu, 14 Oct 2021 11:30:12 +0000 Lethe https://lethe.nu/2nd-Performance ︎︎︎Version 2︎︎︎ https://lethe.nu/3rd-Performance Thu, 28 Oct 2021 09:01:24 +0000 Lethe https://lethe.nu/3rd-Performance ︎︎︎Version 3︎︎︎ https://lethe.nu/4th-Performance Thu, 09 Dec 2021 19:18:46 +0000 Lethe https://lethe.nu/4th-Performance ︎︎︎Version 4︎︎︎ https://lethe.nu/Process-1 Tue, 29 Nov 2022 13:56:49 +0000 Lethe https://lethe.nu/Process-1 <img width="1685" height="397" width_o="1685" height_o="397" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/78d3959e80f8d691dbaa86c95948f043164f5485b863cd97542d12928b993bfb/Donna-lee.png" data-mid="160693520" border="0" data-no-zoom="true" data-draggable src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/78d3959e80f8d691dbaa86c95948f043164f5485b863cd97542d12928b993bfb/Donna-lee.png" /> <img width="827" height="614" width_o="827" height_o="614" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/270778491648cfd57d1b056f2e111710dff3fddda5336e6fea7ddb63d33342c5/Lethe-forgetfullness-thumb.png" data-mid="166328236" border="0" data-no-zoom="true" data-draggable src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/827/i/270778491648cfd57d1b056f2e111710dff3fddda5336e6fea7ddb63d33342c5/Lethe-forgetfullness-thumb.png" />