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Our objective is to explore musical, historical crafts in educational, societal, pedagogical and curatorial settings. We seek to reconfigure how historical music may be understood by and communicated to a present-day audience and improve, develop and discover new methodological approaches to how the music can be studied in a broad context as part of a European cultural heritage. Central to our work are interdisciplinary approaches to artistic practise, theory, history, social- and cultural interactions, education and pedagogy. We undertake to:   

 

  1. Explore the interaction between historical music (Early Music, Classical Music, Romantic music, etc.), performer and audience focusing on communication. We look particularly at the realisation and performance of historical music and its relation to historical evidence, but with a special interest in how various meanings, functions and interactions are perceived and communicated to present audiences with varying degrees of previous knowledge. We do so through the lenses of presentism in historicism, and historicism in presenting. 
  2. Improve, develop and discover new interdisciplinary methodological approaches to how we study classical music. By strengthening the interdisciplinary bonds between artistic research and -practise as well as more traditional academic research practices, we seek to generate methodologies governing the practising performer and the perceiving audience as well as the scholar. 
  3. Identify and present strategies and perspectives that can contribute to generating new audiences and performers nationally and internationally. By developing a better understanding of historical music and -crafts’ communication strategies, designs and social function, we argue that we can better customise performances which evoke interest according to the premises set by today’s music markets. This stretches beyond superficial concepts such as playing baroque music in a bar or having renaissance nightclub DJs, but rather focuses on establishing communication strategies, self-expressive acts and mediation opportunities in close relation to the music itself. We further believe that the knowledge we produce can have a positive effect on (formal and informal) music education in general by introducing perspectives currently under-represented in the related educational and pedagogical debate. 
  4. To better understand how early music as a cultural heritage and legacy is sustained and maintained in today’s society and in what way it may be part of our future. 

 

This group is part of the interdisciplinary research-platform Art in Context. The group members are engaged in academic research as well as in artistic research 

RHiMCE was prior to February 2022 named REMP: Reconfiguring Early Modern Performance. Following their first anthology, the members chose to both broaden and specify different aspects of its scope to better represent their current activities leading to a new, modified group name. 

Anno: 2018 

Anthologies

 

Education as Impulse to Social Inclusion (Volume also available in full in Polish "Edukacja jako impuls do społecznej inkluzji")

Eds. Murawska, E.; Rykowski, M.; Baum, E.; Schau, J.E. & Rolfhamre, R.

For Ignacy Jan Paderewski Academy of Music

Publication date: 2023.

 

Views on Early Music as Representation—Invitations, Congruity, Performance (Research anthology, download here)

Eds. Rolfhamre, R. & Angelo, E.

For Cappelen Damm Akademisk/NOASP

Publication date: 2022.

Abstract:

Early music performance in its broadest capacity presents a compelling case of being something present representing, presenting, enacting, re-enacting, living and re-living, concretising and fantasising a historical past. It is both what it is and something entirely other. Inspiring countless efforts to come to terms with its nature, one way of approaching the act of conveying or doing history is through pedagogy. Pedagogy, here, is multifaceted as it is placed and displaced in learning, acting, mediating, communicating, perceiving, conveying and persuading historically remote, cultural practices. As such, the anthology will include both explicitly pedagogical chapters and more implicit approaches situated within pedagogical settings. The driving force behind the project is: when maintaining and sustaining a certain European cultural heritage, how do we do so as artists an pedagogues and to what effect? To cast a fresh gaze on traditional Early music performance studies, the authors of this volume argue for the pedagogical potential of such a project. Not only as something functioning as an artefact used within an educational setting, but as something being primarily pedagogical also in its formation and re-formation. The way Early music is construed and portrayed just to fulfil the official boundary of its terminology, is also a pedagogical act performed in multiple ways. It is not a question of regarding Early music scholarship and artistry as binary presentism vs historicism, but rather as historicism in presentism and presentism in historicism. It is precisely what this volume is all about and to which it seeks to contribute. The anthology gathers a collection of chapters highlighting spectatorship, experience, theory, rhetoric, philosophy, representation, performance, performativity, literature, visual arts, pedagogy, education, pragmatism and also new-materialism. It treats music that is readily categorised as Early music, and music that is bordering to, or even becoming, something else entirely, but with evident roots in the Early music repertoire.

Chapters:

Chapter 1 "Introduction: Making History Through Music Performance and Education by Robin Rolfhamre and Elin Angelo | Chapter 2 "Performative Musicology and HIP as Rhetoric and Pedagogy for the Past in Present and Future" by Robin Rolfhamre | Chapter 3 "Contextual In-Depth Knowledge as a Liberating Force in Artistic and Pedagogical Communication of Early Modern Material" by Inga Marie Nesmann-Aas | Chapter 4 "Hearing Early Modern Music Through the Contemporary by Daniel Henry Øvrebø | Chapter 5 "Rolf Lislevand in Conversation with Randi Margrethe Eidsaa and Daniel Henry Øvrebø" by Daniel Henry Øvrebø, Randi Margrethe Eidsaa and Rolf Lislevand | Chapter 6 "Early Music in an Interdisciplinary Artistic Production: The Project Pluvinel’s Academy" by Randi Margrethe Eidsaa | Chapter 7 "Re-Enacting Beat Art: An Aesthetic and Pedagogical Approach to Re-Living History" by Frida Forsgren | Chapter 8 "Rhetorically Performative Early Music: YouTube Videos as Statements" by Robin Rolfhamre and Daniel H. Øvrebø | Chapter 9 "From Researcher/Performer to Artistic Researcher: Looking Back at the Past in Search of New Possibilities" by Jorge Salgado Correia | About the Authors

Papers, articles and artistic work in selection

Collaborations

Associated projects or collaborations with

  • REACT+ (EU-funded)
  • Edu-Action 2022–2023 (EU-funded)
  • UiA | ConserVRtory (Internal funding)

Associated Research Fellows

Doctoral Students 

  • Inga Marie Nesmann (MMus; MA), 2017–2020. Title: ”Reconfiguring Dido”. (PhD), Faculty of Fine Arts. Supervisor: Robin Rolfhamre, co-supervisor: Roy Eriksen.
  • Daniel Henry Øvrebø (MMus), 2017–2020. Title: ”Performative Arts-Based Audience Research: Investigating Audience Experiences with High Modernist Solo Works for Flute”.  (PhD), Faculty of Fine Arts. Supervisor: Robin Rolfhamre, co-supervisor: Arnulf Christian Mattes and Elin Angelo. https://uia.no/en/content/download/142965/2197745/file/PhD%20Thesis%20DH%20%C3%98vreb%C3%B8%20til_trykking.pdf

Members in the group

Associate members

  • Daniel Henry Øvrebø, OsloMet—Oslo Metropolitan University

Students in the group

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