We felt that research on improvisation in theater has to catch up and so we invited 10 advanced researchers of the field to present and discuss their topics. The result was an interesting mix of methods, approaches and academic conven tions. As expected the contributions were quite heterogeneous, since there is no such thing as a “theory of improvisational theater” or even a consensus of which discipline should investigate on it: Psychology? Theater studies? Linguistics? This book compiles most of the contributions of IMPRO TALKS and makes them accessible for an interested public and for further research.
Contributors: Edgar Landgraf, Gunter Lösel , Nicolas J. Zaunbrecher, Tony Frost and Ralph Yarrow, Duncan Marwick, Christian F. Freisleben-Teutscher
The symposium IMPRO TALKS was held in October 2016 at the Zurich University of the Arts and to our knowledge it was the first international academic gathering dedicated to improvisation in theater. We had realized that there is an imbalance in research on improvisation in different artistic fields: While there is quite an impressive corpus of research on improvisation in music, there is only very little academic literature on improvisation in theater, dance and writing. The most comprehensive collection on research in improvisation «The Improvisation Studies Reader (Caines and Heble 2015)» is a manifestation of this: While contributions on music reach a deep academic level, contributions on theater are more essayistic and practical. Research in music is highly differentiated, technologically up to date and well established; fascinating research has been conducted in search of neurological mechanisms that foster improvisation (Limb and Braun 2008) (Beaty 2015).
We felt that research on improvisation in theater has to catch up and so we invited 10 advanced researchers of the field to present and discuss their topics. The result was an interesting mix of methods, approaches and academic conven tions. As expected the contributions were quite heterogeneous, since there is no such thing as a “theory of improvisational theater” or even a consensus of which discipline should investigate on it: Psychology? Theater studies? Linguistics? This book compiles most of the contributions of IMPRO TALKS and makes them accessible for an interested public and for further research.
Editor: Gunter Lösel
Contributors: Edgar Landgraf, Gunter Lösel , Nicolas J. Zaunbrecher, Tony Frost and Ralph Yarrow, Duncan Marwick, Christian F. Freisleben-Teutscher
ZHdK: Institute for the Performing Arts and Film (IPF)
Künstlerische Forschung. Positionen und Perspektiven | Anton Rey, Stefan Schöbi (Hg.) [E-Book PDF]
Künstlerische Forschung ist derzeit der Ort ener heftigen Debatte: einerseits über die erkenntnistheoretischen Ziel, Verfahren und Instrumente dieser Forschung; zum anderen über die Autorität und Spezialisierung derjenigen, die zu diesem Bereich beitragen. SubTexte 03 dient als Orientierungshilfe für Forscher und Künstler und sammelt vier Positionen und Perspektiven der Forschung in, für und innerhalb der Kunst. Mit Beiträgen von Dirk Baecker, Henk Borgdorff, Sønke Gau, Alfred Nordmann, Katharina Schlieben.
IPF – Die erste Dekade | Anton Rey, Yvonne Schmidt (Hg.)
10 Years of Artistic Research in the Performing Arts and Film
Das Institute for the Performing Arts and Film der Zürcher Hochschule der Künste mit seinen Forschungsschwerpunkten „Performative Praxis“ und „Film“ nimmt im Kontext der Debatte um Forschung an den Kunsthochschulen eine Vorreiterrolle ein. Seit einem Jahrzehnt generiert, initiiert und betreut das IPF Forschungsprojekte, Veranstaltungs- und Publikationsformate, die einen Dialog zwischen wissenschaftlichen und künstlerischen Verfahren herstellen. Die Themenfelder gliedern sich in Forschung über Kunst, Forschung durch Kunst und Forschung mit Kunst. Dieses Buch bietet eine Bestandsaufnahme aller bisherigen Aktivitäten des Instituts. (dt./engl.)
Acoustics of the Vowel. Preliminaries | Dieter Maurer [E-Book PDF]
It seems as if the fundamentals of how we produce vowels and how they are acoustically represented have been clarified: we phonate and articulate. Using our vocal chords, we produce a vocal sound or noise which is then shaped into a specific vowel sound by the resonances of the pharyngeal, oral, and nasal cavities, that is, the vocal tract. Accordingly, the acoustic description of vowels relates to vowelspecific patterns of relative energy maxima in the sound spectra, known as patterns of formants. The intellectual and empirical reasoning presented in this treatise, however, gives rise to scepticism with respect to this understanding of the sound of the vowel. The reflections and materials presented provide reason to argue that, up to now, a comprehensible theory of the acoustics of the voice and of voiced speech sounds is lacking, and consequently, no satisfying understanding of vowels as an achievement and particular formal accomplishment of the voice exists. Thus, the question of the acoustics of the vowel – and with it the question of the acoustics of the voice itself – proves to be an unresolved fundamental problem.
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