Artistic Research in Music

Deniz Peters

Artistic Research, Relational Improvisation,
Musical Aesthetics, Interdisciplinary Musicology

In the aesthetic lab.
(c) Elina Akselrud ’22

Artistic Research asks questions through art. Combining musical experimentation with analysis and conceptual reflection, I shed new light on long standing questions, such as on (musical) empathy, expression, and dialogue.

    RECENT MUSICAL DIALOGUE AND EMPATHY RESEARCH


    Across times – 2024
    With Solmund Nystabakk (lute)
    and Katharina Hauke (cameras)




    Focus, Out of Focus, Vulnerability – 2024
    With Horacio Curti (shakuhachi)
    and Katharina Hauke (cameras)




    The Trio and the Grain – 2023
    With Sophia Borges (percussion) and Simon Rose (baritone sax)
    Jana Tost (cameras) and Luka Barajevic (audio)




    Across Light and Piano – 2023
    With Victoria Coeln (visual art)
    and Katharina Hauke (cameras)




    Beginnings, Endings, Silences – 2023
    With Emma Lloyd (violin)
    and Katharina Hauke (cameras)



    Hindrances – 2018
    with Simon Rose (sax)
    and Katharina Hauke (camera)



    Across the Divide
    With Thuy Thanh Nguyen (Dan Tranh)
    and Stefan Östersjö (guitars)
    CD material



    Edith’s Problem – 2017
    With Simon Rose (sax)
    CD material



    FURTHER HIGHLIGHTS

    with Andrew Wass (dance) & Simon Rose (sax)
    with Paul Stapleton (Bonsai Sound Sculpture BoSS)
    with Jonathan Impett (trumpet)
    with Stevie Wishart (hurdy gurdy and violin)

    RELATED CHAPTERS AND ARTICLES

    ‘Empathy in Improvisation’, in Alessandro Bertinetto and Marcello Ruta (ed.), The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy and Improvisation in the Arts (Routledge, 2021), pp. 421­–430
    ‘Between I and You in Music: Shared Emotions, Relational Improvisation, and Artistic Research’, in Catherine Laws (ed.), Performance, Subjectivity, and Experimentation, Orpheus Institute Series (Leuven: Leuven University Press, 2020a), pp. 17–32
    ‘Rhythm, Preceding Its Abstraction’, in Peter Cheyne, Andy Hamilton and Max Paddison (eds.), The Philosophy of Rhythm: Aesthetics, Music, Poetics (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019b), pp. 110­–124. ISBN 9780199347896
    ‘Six Propositions on Artistic Research’, in: Robert Burke and Andrys Onsman (eds.), Perspectives of Artistic Research in Music (Lexington, 2017a), pp. 19-26. ISBN 9781498544825
    ‘Musical Empathy, Emotional Co-Constitution, and the “Musical Other”’, Empirical Musicology Review 10:1 (2015), pp. 2-15.
    ‘Musical Empathy, Emotional Co-Constitution, and the “Musical Other”’, Empirical Musicology Review 10:1 (2015), pp. 2-15. Open Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.18061/emr.v10i1-2.4611

    DUOS & TRIOS IN THE EMOTIONAL IMPROVISATION PROJECT AND BEYOND
    with

    Bennett Hogg (electronics/violin/composition, Newcastle University)
    Sabine Vogel (flutes, Berlin)
    Gerriet K. Sharma (electronics/composition, Graz)
    Magdalena Chowaniec (dance/choreography, Vienna)
    Emma Lloyd (violin/composition, Edinburgh/Paris)
    Ellen Waterman (flute/voice, Carleton University)
    Simon Rose (saxophones, Berlin)
    Paul Stapleton (BoSS, Queen’s University/SARC Belfast)
    Stevie Wishart (hurdy gurdy/violin/composition, Brussels)
    Stefan Östersjö (guitars, Piteå School of Music)
    Thuy Thanh Nguyen (Dan Tranh, Piteå)
    Alexander Deutinger (dance/choreography, Graz)
    Reinhard Gagel (piano/accordion, Berlin)
    Rachel Austin (voice/performance, Brooklyn)
    Bertl Mütter (horn/trombone, Vienna)
    Katharina Hauke (mikrokontrolleur/voice/camera, Berlin)
    Jonathan Impett (trumpet, Orpheus Institute Ghent)
    Chris Williams (double bass, Graz)
    Jadi Carboni (dance/choreography, Graz)
    Almut Kühne (voice, Berlin)
    Joshua Hyde (saxophones, Geneva University of Music)
    Andrew Wass (dance/choreography, Berlin)
    Lea Oroz (dance/choreography, Ljubljana)
    Victoria Coeln (artist/light, Vienna)
    Sophia Borges (percussion/composition, Berlin)
    Corinna Eikmeier (cello, Lübeck)
    Horacio Curti (shakuhachi, Barcelona)
    Solmund Nystabakk (lute, Tromso)

    I conduct and teach artistic research at the University of Music and Performing Arts Graz (KUG), where I am Professor of Artistic Research in Music and Head of the Doctoral School for Artistic Research

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