produce actions and narratives in music. This artistic format is a collaborative, imaginary and audiovisual playground, or performative space, for our improvisatory interaction. In ON, stimulated recall sessions and qualitative interviews were made with the improvisers, which led to a model for interplay analysis. This was used for investigating our communication through musical dynamics, actions and intentions as well as in narrative structures. In Facets, an autoethnographic approach is used with the aim of catching experiences from within the improvisational situations in writing. Together with video recorded performances and transcribed joint reflections, this demonstrates how we in the process of creating music and images together experience, communicate and negotiate inner pictures, actions, and emotions in imaginary situations along with technical work. The presentation will picture how these research projects have motivated new lines of artistic development in experimental, public performances of the two freelancing ensembles. Preliminary results from the doctoral project regarding (i) relations between research and artistic methods, (ii) described strategies and experiences of situated musical, imagery and narrative interactions, and, (iii) how creative processes can be communicated to a wider audience, will be discussed. Sara Wilén is a classically trained singer, improviser, PhD student and teacher at the Malmö Academy of Music/ Lund University (MAM). Since her master at the vocal programme in Performing Arts at MAM in 2003, she has performed roles in operas by for example Mozart, Verdi, Rossini and Janacek as well as in contemporary music, chamber music and oratorios. As improviser in Operaimprovisatörerna and Impromans, she regularly performs in productions, festivals and tours all over Sweden. Since many years, Sara is also engaged as guest teacher in opera improvisation, both nationally and abroad.
Jane Williams (sessions L1a & 2e) Guildhall School of Music & Drama jane.williams@gsmd.ac.uk
Please see Jonathan Vaughan for abstract (session L1a) Please see Dr Karen Wise for abstract (session 2e) © Sarah Hickson
Jane Williams is a British arts manager and consultant, and has held senior management positions with English National Opera, the London Sinfonietta and publisher Music Sales. She has significant experience in contemporary classical music and has worked closely with many of the leading composers of our day. She is currently working on projects with the Guildhall School (the Reflective Conservatoire Conference 2015) and the London Symphony Orchestra (Orchestral Artistry Masters programme).
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