Browsing Doctoral Theses / Doktorsavhandlingar Högskolan för scen och musik by Subject "artistic research"

A Field of Possibilities: Designing and Playing Digital Musical Instruments

Nilsson, Per Anders (2011-11-04)

This thesis focuses on a set of digital musical instruments I have designed and developed with ensemble improvisation in mind. The intention is not to create a universal improvisational instrument, but rather to create a ...

An Inexplicable Hunger – flutist)body(flute (dis)encounters

Cyrino, Marina Pereira (2019-03-18)

This doctoral research is structured by singular encounters, that happened between 2014 and 2018. Together with a series of collaborators, I have developed a critical and poetic methodology through what I call “mixture”, ...

An Operatic Game Changer: The Opera Maker as Game Designer and the Potentials of Ludo-Immersive Opera

Jalhed, Hedvig (2022-01-28)

How can live-performed chamber operas be conceptualized as immersive games with interactive features? This artistic study has resulted in a system model through which degrees of immersion may be generated and analyzed from ...

Before Sound: Transversal Processes in Site-Specific Sonic Practice

Stjerna, Åsa (2018-10-24)

This doctoral research explores the capacity of site-specific practices of sound installation to bring about transformation. It claims that in order to understand this capacity, we need to address the complexity of the ...

Free Ensemble Improvisation

Stenström, Harald (2009-05-14)

The aim of this doctoral project has been to study so-called non-idiomatic improvisation in ensembles consisting of two or three musicians who play together without any restrictions regarding style or genre and without ...

Imagination, Form, Movement and Sound: Studies in Musical Improvisation

Tandberg, Svein Erik (2008)

How does one improvise? How can one learn the art of improvisation? By considering these two questions this thesis aspires to make a contribution towards a greater understanding of what the production of improvised music ...

Jag går från läsning till gestaltning - beskrivningar ur en monologpraktik

Dahlén, Lena (2012-01-04)

I go from reading to performing. Descriptions from a monologue practice is a dissertation based on an actor’s work with monologues. The path of work is traced and described from a practitioner’s perspective. Concrete ...

Den kapitalistiska skådespelaren – aktör eller leverantör?

Friberg, Ulf (2014-03-03)

The dissertation revolves around an actor’s craft as a changing craft. Theatre workers - like many other professions in Sweden – have experienced major changes in the labour market during a relatively short period of time. ...

“Lasciatemi morire” o farò “La Finta Pazza”: Embodying Vocal Nothingness on Stage in Italian and French 17th Century Operatic Laments and Mad Scenes

Belgrano, Elisabeth (2011-05-16)

This music research drama thesis explores and presents a singer’s artistic research process from the first meeting with a musical score until the first steps of the performance on stage. The aim has been to define and ...

Musik som handling. Verkanalys, interpretation och musikalisk gestaltning. Med ett studium av Anders Eliassons Quartetto d'Archi

Tykesson, Anders (2009-05-25)

The aim of the dissertation is to illustrate the potential musical analysis has in the development of artistic questions with regard to the interpretation and performance of western art music. The analyses of the ...