Vivacious Voices in Action: Extra-normal vocalisation and projects for children and youth
- Submitting institution
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University of Winchester
- Unit of assessment
- 33 - Music, Drama, Dance, Performing Arts, Film and Screen Studies
- Output identifier
- 33YB1
- Type
- T - Other
- DOI
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- Location
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- Brief description of type
- Multi-component output
- Open access status
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- Month
- February
- Year
- 2014
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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- Request cross-referral to
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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- Research group(s)
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- Proposed double-weighted
- Yes
- Double-weighted statement
- This multi-component research output is an extended and complex project begun in 2012 with the first practical output produced in 2014. It comprises analysis of ideas and processes, incorporation of vocal techniques and digitally-inclusive technologies, in collaboration with scientists, performers, designers and technical experts (including web programme designers). The body of practical experiments/performances was interspersed with a series of peer reviewed publications, conferences papers, keynotes, and competitive or invited presentations that disseminated and problematised the outputs, leading to further iterations of research. It represents a complex and multi-layered process that addresses extra-normal vocalisation in different contexts and from different perspectives.
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- No
- Additional information
- This project sought to elucidate the challenges thrown up by the dynamics of making three key participatory, digitally-animated, inter-related performative artworks for children aged 6-11 and their adults. The works aimed to elicit extra-normal voicing from these audiences, and invite them to co-create sonic, inter-sensory celebrations of the creative potency of their own extra-normal vocal creativity; inspired, in part, by dialogue with scientists. Matthew Reason’s methods (2010) for exploring the experience of child audiences, involving the use of metaphorical materials to elicit conversations, as well as an adaptation of his Where in your Body (2016) method, were hybridized with other idiosyncratically linked, mixed performative strategies, functioning within Haseman’s (2010)description of the ‘rupture and recognition’ cycle of inherent in generatively-led practice-as-research. So, audience testing, aesthetic goals, and artistic instinct–all of which had distinctly vocalic characteristics-intertwined to generate both artworks and insights. These explored and embodied the following main themes:
The vocalic nature of the plethora of ‘data’ generated, and derived implications for PAR methodology
Problematization of the power relations enacted between the works and their participants
Articulation of a strategy for understanding the structure of participatory experience in these works as ‘vocal-somatic dramaturgies of encounter’
Analysis of collaborative process with scientists
Articulations of the tensions across ‘art for children’, ‘education’ and ‘performance’.
While the artworks, their documentation, and project reports transmit some of these insights, a series of peer reviewed publications, conferences papers, keynotes, and competitive or invited presentations, key selections from which appear in this portfolio, communicate them to both academic and professional audiences; supported by significant Wellcome Trust Large Arts & Follow On Awards (total 146818) and ACE (51958) funding. In addition, the digital interaction strategies, knowledge about audience behaviour, and aesthetic discoveries we developed opened up new ways of working for future projects.
- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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