Song, Stage and Screen VIII:
‘What We Do When We Do What We Do: Process and Performance in Musical Theatre’
Central School of Speech and Drama
University of London
2-4 July 2013
Assi Karttunen DMus, Sibelius Academy, Finland
Experiences of coaching in the Rameau´s Les Indes Galantes -workshop
In my artistic research project I study rhetorical actio (voice, gesture, movement and mien) in the living body of the present-day performer. The project started in August 2011 as a collaboration of two musician-researchers; DMus Päivi Järviö, mezzo soprano and DMus Assi Karttunen, harpsichordist. The project includes concerts, workshops, rehearsals, video recordings, experiments and demonstrations as well as articles describing the working processes. Thus the approach could be called embodied study of historical performing practices.
The study of movement related to music is one of the key areas of modern music research. Music perceived as sound and movement brings forth the musician ́s bodily way of reading the score. In my paper I am focusing on verbalizing my experiences of coaching in the Rameau´s Les Indes Galantes -workshop at the Sibelius Academy the 10th to 14th December 2012 as a part of our research project. Which rhetorical tools seemed to help the singer and the basso continuo player in their tasks? What kind of rehearsals and learning strategies were the most useful in this process? How the conceiving of the actio embedded in the composed libretto helped the singer and the basso continuo player to embody the music in a more communicating way? As one of the project´s results I will discuss the historically informed musician´s relationship to the music performed and thus join the ongoing discussions on the embodiment of so called early music.
Keywords: HIP, gesture, rhetoric, embodiment.
Research, articles
Presented a paper in Song, Stage and Screen VIII London 2013
All Essays
- Assi Karttunen: Humanismin perintö ranskalaisessa kantaatissa vuosina 1700-1730
- Can one wade twice into the same Seine? A peer-reviewed research publication 2015
- A peer-reviewed research Article in Trio 2016 The music-related gestures of la danse grotesque in Rameau’s Les Sauvages
- A peer-reviewed research article Rhetorical Obscurité – musician’s historically informed working process
- Article in British Harpsichord Society's Publication 2015
- Auli Särkiö's article 2015 in Rondo Music Magazine
- Elysion Fields-working group 2006–2016
- Arts without Borders-conference 2016 Music Centre, abstract
- Presented a recital lecture at the DiP conference in Dublin 2016
- Presented a poster at The Performing Knowledge Conference, Cambridge
- Gave a lecture concert at From Known to Unknown festival, Gent
- A workshop at the Performance Philosophy Conference, Surrey 2013
- A lecture concert in Nagoya, Aitchi University 2015
- Gave a paper and a demo at CARPA conference 2011, HKI
- Presented a paper 16th Nordic Musicological Congress Stockholm, Sweden
- Presented a paper in LONDON SONGART FESTIVAL 2012
- Presented a paper in Song, Stage and Screen VIII London 2013
- Presented a paper and an experimental demo at AWB conference 2016
- A peer-reviewed research article The rhetorical moaning in Trio research publication 2013
- Post Doc research project 2010–2011 The Painting on a Skin
- Post Doc research Project Voice, gesture, mien, and movement – the rhetorical actio in a performer´s body (DMus Järviö and DMus Karttunen)
- Peer-reviewed research article on Couperin's Les Pavots in Musiikki 2016/4
- Peer-reviewed article in RUUKKU 2018 The Aural Garden of sounding materials 2018
- Bach ja liha, Bachin Goldberg-variaatiot Suomen musiikintutkimuksen symposiumissa 2019
- Lecture and concert in Cremona 2018 18th Biennial International Conference on Baroque Music
- New research article, 'Music as Gestural Language: Music and Speech in the French Enlightenment', published 2023