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Musicerandets djävulska paradox: Det abstrakta kroppsarbetet samt den delade sårbarheten
Södertörn University, School of Culture and Education.
2022 (Swedish)Independent thesis Advanced level (degree of Master (One Year)), 15 credits / 22,5 HE creditsStudent thesis
Abstract [sv]

I den här vetenskapliga essän, skriven i en form skapad på Centrum för praktisk kunskap vid Södertörns Högskola, undersöker jag min kroppsliga erfarenhet av att spela kontrabas i en orkester. Den egna erfarenhet som gestaltas är en berättelse om ett framförande av Mozarts trettiofemte symfoni inför en tom salong med livestreamande videokameror i pandemins början. Fokus ligger på hur mitt medvetande pendlar mellan olika grader av inlevelse i musiken och spiraler av självupptagenhet. I min undersökning fokuserar jag på musicerandets paradoxala karaktär. Uppsatsen är strukturerad i två delar som arbetar med varsin paradox: Kroppsarbetets paradoxala abstrakthet samt den delade sårbarheten på scenen. Jag vänder mig till Maurice Merleau-Ponty för att undersöka hur musicerandet försöker upplösa gränserna mellan min kropp, kontrabaskroppen, rummet och kollegorna. Med Jean-Luc Nancy reflekterar jag över vad det innebär att vara en individ i en gemenskap, hur det singulära och plurala samspelar i orkestern och hur sårbarheten för oss längre bort från varandra. Thomas Manns Doktor Faustus används som en analogi.

Abstract [en]

In this academic essay I examine my bodily experience of playing the double bass in an orchestra. It is written in a form developed at the Centre for Practical Knowledge at Södertörn University. I portray my personal experience from a performance of Mozart’s Symphony No. 35 in an empty concert hall in front of live-streaming video cameras at the beginning of the pandemic. The focus lies in how my consciousness fluctuates between varying levels of being ‘in’ the music and spirals of self-obsession. In my exploration, I focus on the paradoxical character of making music. The essay is structured in two parts which each work with a paradox: the paradoxical abstractness of the bodily work, and the shared vulnerability on the stage. I turn to Maurice Merleau-Ponty to investigate how making music tries to transcend the boundaries between my body, the body of my double bass, the room, and my colleagues. With Jean-Luc Nancy, I reflect on what it means to be an individual in a collective, how the singular and plural interact in the orchestra and how the vulnerability takes us further apart. Thomas Mann’s Doctor Faustus is used as an analogy. 

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
2022. , p. 46
Keywords [en]
Practical knowledge, music, orchestra, phenomenology, paradox, bodily work, vulnerability, Mozart, double bass.
Keywords [sv]
Praktisk kunskap, musik, orkester, fenomenologi, paradox, kroppsarbete, sårbarhet, Mozart, kontrabas
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Humanities and the Arts Humanities and the Arts
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URN: urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-50333OAI: oai:DiVA.org:sh-50333DiVA, id: diva2:1716160
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Studies in Practical Knowledge
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Available from: 2022-12-05 Created: 2022-12-05 Last updated: 2022-12-05Bibliographically approved

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