Vocal practices for achieving embodied coordination
On November 24th, 2023, Agnes Löfgren defended her PhD dissertation successfully, entitled "Bodies to suit the music: Depictions in opera rehearsals". Her opponent was Beatrice Szczepek Reed, with committee Spencer Hazel, Oliver Ehmer, and Stefan Norrthon. Abstract: This thesis investigates how participants in 20 hours of video-recorded scenic opera rehearsals make use of depictions (Clark, …
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Löfgren presented at NORDISCO23 in Tampere, "Are you serious? Depictions at opera rehearsals" Abstract: During scenic opera rehearsals, the participants work together to create portrayals of characters to music. They use depictions--momentary scenes staged for the other participants--to propose and negotiate character behaviors that suit the developing aesthetics of the performance. This paper focuses on …
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Löfgren presenterade sin avhandling på OFTI konferensen, Sept. 21-22 2023, Uppsala. ”En situation, en kropp, som passar med musiken”: Gestaltningar under operarepetitioner I detta föredrag kommer jag att presentera resultat från min avhandling som ska publiceras i november i år. I avhandlingen studerar jag, med hjälp av multimodal interaktionsanalys (Broth & Keevallik, 2020), hur en …
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Löfgren, A., Hofstetter, E. & Keevallik, L. (2023). Are you serious? Depictions at opera rehearsals. Nordisco 2023, Tampere, Finland. During scenic opera rehearsals, the participants work together to create portrayals of characters to music. They use depictions--momentary scenes staged for the other participants--to propose and negotiate character behaviors that suit the developing aesthetics of the …
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As part of the Interactional Histories panel at ICCA2023, Löfgren is presenting on the development of depictions in opera rehearsals. Abstract: This paper targets opera performer proposals of dramatic actions - actions to be carried out on stage to music in the service of portraying the characters. The performers both describe and depict (Clark, 2016) …
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Agnes Löfgren, one of our excellent PhD students in the non-lexical vocalizations team studying opera rehearsals and the development of proposals and art in interaction, recently had their penultimate thesis seminar, a practice defense, examined by Melisa Stevanovic, Oliver Ehmer, and Stefan Norrthon. We were delighted to also host several talks and data sessions with …
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At the online Digital Meeting for Conversation Analysis, Oct. 31st-Nov. 4th 2022, Löfgren presented on "Depictions as interactionally achieved local performances at opera rehearsals". Abstract: During opera rehearsals, participants often position their bodies in different ways to visually demonstrate what they could do on stage to portray their characters. Similarly, they use their voices to …
With the non-lexicals and multisensoriality panel, Löfgren presented "Non-lexical vocalizations as local words during instructive sequences in opera rehearsals" Abstract: This paper explores sequences where non-lexical vocalizations are recycled in instructive tellings during scenic opera rehearsals that target the combination of music and dramatic action. During the rehearsals depictive (Clark, 2016) non-lexical vocalizations are frequently …
Löfgren & Hofstetter are publishing a paper on how opera rehearsal participants use depictions to convey proposals, and how introversive semiosis may be an analogic connection between semiotic and interactional studies. Abstract: This paper focuses on how opera rehearsal participants use depictions (Clark 2016) to accomplish proposals; they use a locally created scene, comprised of …
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Löfgren presented at the European Conference on Conversation Analysis, June 30, 2020: Song versus talk during depictions in proposal sequences at opera rehearsals - Intersubjectivity and vocal modality. Abstract The aim of the present paper is to explore singing as a resource in singer proposals duringscenic opera rehearsals. It will be shown how singing within …
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