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Research project on Artist Pedagogy 'Groans and muffled tones – hybrid multidisciplinary realms of sounding bodies'

                       Research Project on Artist Pedagogy, Profi6
Groans and muffled tones – hybrid, multidisciplinary realms of sounding bodies
                               (January 2025 – December 2026)




The aim of the research project is to develop artist pedagogy and to subversively and horizontally alter the silo structures of the art university curricula.

According to contemporary gesture studies and the research of sound-producing movements, gestural is closely connected to the study on sounding bodies, vocal skills, and oral skills.

This is a realm of research which is a shared topic at the art academies in general. The concept of sounding bodies, embodiment, mutual dialogue, dialogic learning, interconnectedness, reflective practices, and collaboration are relevant for future artists and art pedagogues working at the future fields of art. The presented research idea focuses on developing communicative skills among interdisciplinary art projects of the future art professionals.

                     Assi ja Minori vuonna 2020 photo by Marika Orenius
 
                            Photo Marika Orenius

Project activity

  • The Ethics of Interdisciplinary Realms of Sounding bodies in Artist Pedagogy (Soivien kehojen taiteidenvälisyyden etiikasta Taiteilijapedagogiikassa), Research Days, March 24-25, 2025
  • Fluorescence – sounds of the deepsea – syvämeren ääniä, January, 2026, Musiikkitalo, Helsinki. The interdisciplinary project will gather together artists willing to experiment in the realm of sounding bodies, vocal skills, and oral skills together with pedagogue, dancer-choreographer Maarit Mammu Rankanen and musician-pedagogue Assi Karttunen.

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  1. New research article, 'Music as Gestural Language: Music and Speech in the French Enlightenment', published 2023
  2. Lecture and concert in Cremona 2018 18th Biennial International Conference on Baroque Music
  3. Bach ja liha, Bachin Goldberg-variaatiot Suomen musiikintutkimuksen symposiumissa 2019
  4. Peer-reviewed article in RUUKKU 2018 The Aural Garden of sounding materials 2018
  5. Peer-reviewed research article on Couperin's Les Pavots in Musiikki 2016/4
  6. Post Doc research Project Voice, gesture, mien, and movement – the rhetorical actio in a performer´s body (DMus Järviö and DMus Karttunen)
  7. Post Doc research project 2010–2011 The Painting on a Skin
  8. A peer-reviewed research article The rhetorical moaning in Trio research publication 2013
  9. Presented a paper and an experimental demo at AWB conference 2016
  10. Presented a paper in Song, Stage and Screen VIII London 2013
  11. Presented a paper in LONDON SONGART FESTIVAL 2012
  12. Presented a paper 16th Nordic Musicological Congress Stockholm, Sweden
  13. Gave a paper and a demo at CARPA conference 2011, HKI
  14. A lecture concert in Nagoya, Aitchi University 2015
  15. A workshop at the Performance Philosophy Conference, Surrey 2013
  16. Gave a lecture concert at From Known to Unknown festival, Gent
  17. Presented a poster at The Performing Knowledge Conference, Cambridge
  18. Presented a recital lecture at the DiP conference in Dublin 2016
  19. Arts without Borders-conference 2016 Music Centre, abstract
  20. Elysion Fields-working group 2006–2016
  21. Auli Särkiö's article 2015 in Rondo Music Magazine
  22. Article in British Harpsichord Society's Publication 2015
  23. A peer-reviewed research article Rhetorical Obscurité – musician’s historically informed working process
  24. A peer-reviewed research Article in Trio 2016 The music-related gestures of la danse grotesque in Rameau’s Les Sauvages
  25. Can one wade twice into the same Seine? A peer-reviewed research publication 2015
  26. Assi Karttunen: Humanismin perintö ranskalaisessa kantaatissa vuosina 1700-1730

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