‘Lebenslieder’ : for chamber orchestra and electronics
- Submitting institution
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Bangor University / Prifysgol Bangor
- Unit of assessment
- 26 - Modern Languages and Linguistics
- Output identifier
- UoA26_36
- Type
- J - Composition
- Month
- -
- Year
- 2018
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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- Request cross-referral to
- 33 - Music, Drama, Dance, Performing Arts, Film and Screen Studies
- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
- No
- Criminology
- No
- Interdisciplinary
- Yes
- Number of additional authors
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0
- Research group(s)
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- Proposed double-weighted
- No
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- No
- Additional information
- ‘Lebenslieder’ builds on and expands the speech-to-music techniques developed for ‘Fern Hill’. In this case, the musical material was derived directly from interviews with people with dementia and their carers (often their partners), which were specially recorded as part of the development phase of the work.
The artistic objective of the research was to develop new computer-aided compositional techniques capable of achieving a rigorous and innovative musical discourse on the one hand, and a socially relevant and emotionally uplifting musical experience on the other. The social and cultural objective was to use contemporary classical music as a medium for developing ideas and provoking debate about living with dementia – something of which so many have personal experience, but too few feel able openly to discuss.
The primary innovation of the work lies in its subject matter explored through the use of recorded interviews, as well as its integration of cutting-edge technologies with an expressive musical language capable of responding to the emotional range of the interviews and the human experiences they articulate.
- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
- No
- English abstract
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