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
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116 pages (PDF), Zurich University of the Arts, 2017
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)
Wirklich? | Lucie Bader Egloff, Anton Rey, Stefan Schöbi (Hg.) [E-Book PDF]
Strategien der Authentizität im aktuellen Dokumentarfilm
Ausgehend von zwei aktuellen Dokumentarfilmen, «Der Kick» (Andres Veiel) und «Zur falschen Zeit am falschen Ort» (Tamara Milosevic), die sich mit unterschiedlichen Verfahren demselben Mordfall widmen, rückt subTexte 02 die Frage des Wahrheitsgehaltes von nicht-fiktionalen Bildern in den Mittelpunkt. Können wir den technisch aufbereiteten Bilderwelten noch trauen? – In Gesprächen und Essays erörtern Filmschaffende, Theoretikerinnen und Theoretiker die gedanklichen und gestalterischen Prozesse, die zur individuellen Darstellung der vorgefundenen Wirklichkeit führen. Mit Beiträgen von Christoph Egger, Lucie Bader Egloff, Marille Hahne, Christian Iseli, Franz Reichle, Jan Sebening und Daniel D. Sponsel.
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67 Seiten (PDF), Institute for the Performing Arts and Film ZHdK, 2009
ISBN 978-3-906437-29-3
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Mit Reflexionen und Ansätzen zur begrifflichen Auslegung von künstlerischer Forschung, Fallbeispielen zur Umsetzung einer praxisorientierten Forschung sowie einem Gespräch an der Schnittstelle von Forschungs- und Filmförderung, richtet subTexte 04 den Fokus auf Forschung und Film. Film wird dabei nicht nur als autorschaftliches Medium der Forschung begriffen, sondern ist selber ein Medium der Forschung.
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84 Seiten, DVD, Institute for the Performing Arts and Film ZHdK, 2010
ISBN 978-3-89581-383-2
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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.
