Proposal for the Two Thousand + TWELVE Symposium
Belfast, 22-27th March 2012
The sound of my body
The field of
Performance gives close attention to aspects of performance that are usually
neglected by musicians. When we think about music as performance, new relations
between the body and music, body and mind, body and space, body and
technologies, the performer’s body and the audience’s body, are brought out to
light. Performance thus paves the way for exciting new insights about
music-thinking and music-making.
As a music practitioner with keen interest in the
Performance field, at the Two Thousand + TWELVE Symposium I will
present my work exploring the new relations that arise from thinking of music
and performance together. First I will contextualize the body, and the artist’s
body in particular, through a varied range of studies taken from philosophy to
musicology and performance, aiming to understand the paradigm shift that
happened around the position of the artist’s body inside the Western culture.
This will be followed by a video screening of my solo improvisation project,
done during my Masters in Contemporary Music at Brunel University (West
London/2008), which explores the connections between my body and the piano’s
body. Inspired in Pina Bausch’s aesthetical universe, I created a kind of
choreography of movements that generated sound on the piano – a sound that
became the music of my body.
TERESA VILA VERDE
Biography
Teresa
Vila Verde is a Portuguese music performer, researcher and teacher with keen
interest in the world of Performance. Her work explores the visual,
technological, corporeal and site-specific dimension of Music and has been
presented in a variety of academic and artistic contexts. For further
information see www.teresavilaverde.com
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