Stefan Östersjö
Biographic Data
| ID | 1379015 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Stefan Östersjö |
| GIVEN NAMES | Stefan |
| FAMILY NAME | Östersjö |
| SIGNATURE | ÖSTERSJÖ S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Luleå University of Technology |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4704-5420 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Teaching Music Performance in Higher Education: Exploring the Potential of Artistic Research
"Higher Music Performance Education, as taught and learned in universities and conservatoires in Europe, is undergoing transformation. Since the nineteenth century, the master-apprentice pedagogical model has dominated, creating a learning environment that emphasises the development of technical skills rather than critical and creative faculties. This book contributes to the renewal of this field by being the first to address the potential of art…
Conclusion: Probing, Positioning, (Re)Acting
ISBN for host publication: 978-1-80511-273-0, 978-1-80511-272-3, 978-1-80511-275-4, 978-1-80511-274-7; Full text license: CC BY-NC
Isolation Journal: Remote Interactions in the Time of the Covid-19 Pandemic
This paper discusses the development of artistic collaboration during the global lockdown, related to the COVID-19 pandemic. The art work under study involves the author’s practices of ecological sound art and intercultural collaboration in collaboration with Canadian composer and improviser John Oliver. A primary outcome of this work was the album Isolation Journal, released in 2020, in the midst of the pandemic. One feature of Isolation Journal…
Listening and Mediation: Of Agency and Performantive Responsivity in Ecological Sound Art Practices
This article approaches listening practices and the role of technological mediation within ecological sound art, building on findings through the artistic research practices of the two authors. Through documentation of the authors’ ecological sound art practices of aeolian guitar performance, curation, composition, performance on found objects and field recording, we argue that phenomenological variation is inherent to the use of technology acros…
Claiming Space: Structural aspects of heterophony in the Vietnamese tradition of Vọng Cổ Performance
This paper seeks to better understand the role of heterophony in a form of traditional Vietnamese music often referred to as Đờn Ca Tài Tử , as well as how such performance practices are grounded in interactions between performers. The performance of this genre is analyzed as ornamental heterophony and attention is given to the role of idiomatic patterns as well as small-scale ornamentation. Building on stimulated recall interviews with three mas…
Performative Ethnographies of Migration and Intercultural Collaboration in Arrival Cities: Hanoi
This video article explores the embodied experience of migration by revisiting the process of making Arrival Cities: Hanoi. This piece of experimental music theatre sought a new format for politically informed theatre that would be responsive to the challenges of a globalized society. It is built on ethnographic fieldwork carried out by the Vietnamese/Swedish group The Six Tones, in collaboration with director Jörgen Dahlqvist and the composer Ke…
Go to Hell: Some Reflections on the Role of Intuition and Analysis in Artistic Research
Voices, Bodies, Practices
Identity and subjectivity in musical performancesWho is the “I” that performs? The arts of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries have pushed us relentlessly to reconsider our notions of the self, expression, and communication: to ask ourselves, again and again, who we think we are and how we can speak meaningfully to one another. Although in [...]
Voices, Bodies, Practices: Performing Musical Subjectivities
Voices, Bodies, Practices: Performing Musical Subjectivities
Musical and Musicianly Listening in Intercultural Practice
This paper discusses the function of listening in intercultural musical collaboration, with reference to a number of examples taken from the author’s practice, within the Vietnamese/Swedish group The Six Tones. Through the lens of Pierre Schaeffer’s concepts of musical and musicianly listening, the paper suggests that intercultural exchange takes place in a liminal field between traditions. This demands a particular openness which can be develope…
Choose Your Own Adventure Music: On the Emergence of Voice in Musical Collaboration
The practices of collaborating composers and performers have been receiving increasing attention within academic discourse. Such collaborations are often presented from two complementary perspectives: pre-compositional joint invention and post-compositional negotiations in the realisation of a score and its notation. This article attempts to bridge the gap between the two perspectives through a discussion on the emergence of ‘voice’ that pervades…
Go To Hell: Towards a Gesture-Based Compositional Practice
This paper discusses musical gesture from an understanding of musical perception as embodied and enactive, also drawing specifically on Denis Smalley’s [(2007). Space-form and the acousmatic image. Organised Sound, 12(1), 35–58] analysis of performed space. I will provide examples of how choreographies (performed by musicians, with and without their instruments), new music (for Vietnamese and Western instruments), installations, and video art hav…
Patterns of Ecological and Aesthetic Co-evolution’: Tree-guitars, River-violins and the Ecology of Listening
The move ‘outside’ of the concert hall has repercussions for listening and creative practice beyond simply resituating ‘music’. The building of an environmentally specific instrumentarium draws on in situ exploration and cultivation of affordances, but also on the embodied pre-existent knowledge of the artists concerned. A sense of space/place and strategies of listening work together both to situate emergent creative practices within a landscape…
The Resistance of the Turkish Makam and the Habitus of a Performer. Reflections on a Collaborative CD-Project with Erdem Helvacioǧlu
I will take a recent CD-project as point of departure, a collaboration with the Turkish composer and electronic musician Erdem Helvacioǧlu. We did a series of recording sessions in Istanbul in December 2009 for which we agreed to use the Turkish ‘makam’ as common point of departure in all the pieces. In this paper I will discuss the resistance of this material and specifically the relation between the resistance and the ‘habitus’ of a performer. …
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The Resistance of the Turkish Makam and the Habitus of a Performer. Reflections on a Collaborative CD-Project with Erdem Helvacioǧlu
I will take a recent CD-project as point of departure, a collaboration with the Turkish composer and electronic musician Erdem Helvacioǧlu. We did a series of recording sessions in Istanbul in December 2009 for which we agreed to use the Turkish ‘makam’ as common point of departure in all the pieces. In this paper I will discuss the resistance of this material and specifically the relation between the resistance and the ‘habitus’ of a performer. …
Patterns of Ecological and Aesthetic Co-evolution’: Tree-guitars, River-violins and the Ecology of Listening
The move ‘outside’ of the concert hall has repercussions for listening and creative practice beyond simply resituating ‘music’. The building of an environmentally specific instrumentarium draws on in situ exploration and cultivation of affordances, but also on the embodied pre-existent knowledge of the artists concerned. A sense of space/place and strategies of listening work together both to situate emergent creative practices within a landscape…
Choose Your Own Adventure Music: On the Emergence of Voice in Musical Collaboration
The practices of collaborating composers and performers have been receiving increasing attention within academic discourse. Such collaborations are often presented from two complementary perspectives: pre-compositional joint invention and post-compositional negotiations in the realisation of a score and its notation. This article attempts to bridge the gap between the two perspectives through a discussion on the emergence of ‘voice’ that pervades…
Go To Hell: Towards a Gesture-Based Compositional Practice
This paper discusses musical gesture from an understanding of musical perception as embodied and enactive, also drawing specifically on Denis Smalley’s [(2007). Space-form and the acousmatic image. Organised Sound, 12(1), 35–58] analysis of performed space. I will provide examples of how choreographies (performed by musicians, with and without their instruments), new music (for Vietnamese and Western instruments), installations, and video art hav…
Musical and Musicianly Listening in Intercultural Practice
This paper discusses the function of listening in intercultural musical collaboration, with reference to a number of examples taken from the author’s practice, within the Vietnamese/Swedish group The Six Tones. Through the lens of Pierre Schaeffer’s concepts of musical and musicianly listening, the paper suggests that intercultural exchange takes place in a liminal field between traditions. This demands a particular openness which can be develope…
Voices, Bodies, Practices
Identity and subjectivity in musical performancesWho is the “I” that performs? The arts of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries have pushed us relentlessly to reconsider our notions of the self, expression, and communication: to ask ourselves, again and again, who we think we are and how we can speak meaningfully to one another. Although in [...]
Voices, Bodies, Practices: Performing Musical Subjectivities
Voices, Bodies, Practices: Performing Musical Subjectivities
Performative Ethnographies of Migration and Intercultural Collaboration in Arrival Cities: Hanoi
This video article explores the embodied experience of migration by revisiting the process of making Arrival Cities: Hanoi. This piece of experimental music theatre sought a new format for politically informed theatre that would be responsive to the challenges of a globalized society. It is built on ethnographic fieldwork carried out by the Vietnamese/Swedish group The Six Tones, in collaboration with director Jörgen Dahlqvist and the composer Ke…
Go to Hell: Some Reflections on the Role of Intuition and Analysis in Artistic Research
Claiming Space: Structural aspects of heterophony in the Vietnamese tradition of Vọng Cổ Performance
This paper seeks to better understand the role of heterophony in a form of traditional Vietnamese music often referred to as Đờn Ca Tài Tử , as well as how such performance practices are grounded in interactions between performers. The performance of this genre is analyzed as ornamental heterophony and attention is given to the role of idiomatic patterns as well as small-scale ornamentation. Building on stimulated recall interviews with three mas…
Listening and Mediation: Of Agency and Performantive Responsivity in Ecological Sound Art Practices
This article approaches listening practices and the role of technological mediation within ecological sound art, building on findings through the artistic research practices of the two authors. Through documentation of the authors’ ecological sound art practices of aeolian guitar performance, curation, composition, performance on found objects and field recording, we argue that phenomenological variation is inherent to the use of technology acros…
Teaching Music Performance in Higher Education: Exploring the Potential of Artistic Research
"Higher Music Performance Education, as taught and learned in universities and conservatoires in Europe, is undergoing transformation. Since the nineteenth century, the master-apprentice pedagogical model has dominated, creating a learning environment that emphasises the development of technical skills rather than critical and creative faculties. This book contributes to the renewal of this field by being the first to address the potential of art…
Conclusion: Probing, Positioning, (Re)Acting
ISBN for host publication: 978-1-80511-273-0, 978-1-80511-272-3, 978-1-80511-275-4, 978-1-80511-274-7; Full text license: CC BY-NC
Isolation Journal: Remote Interactions in the Time of the Covid-19 Pandemic
This paper discusses the development of artistic collaboration during the global lockdown, related to the COVID-19 pandemic. The art work under study involves the author’s practices of ecological sound art and intercultural collaboration in collaboration with Canadian composer and improviser John Oliver. A primary outcome of this work was the album Isolation Journal, released in 2020, in the midst of the pandemic. One feature of Isolation Journal…
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