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Stefan Östersjö

Stefan Östersjö

Senior lecturer

Stefan Östersjö

The resistance of the Turkish makam and the habitus of a performer. Reflections on a collaborative CD-project with erdem helvaciolu

Author

  • Stefan Östersjö

Summary, in English

I will take a recent CD-project as point of departure, a collaboration with the Turkish composer and electronic musician Erdem Helvaciolu. We did a series of recording sessions in Istanbul in December 2009 for which we agreed to use the Turkish makam as common point of departure in all the pieces. In this paper I will discuss the resistance of this material and specifically the relation between the resistance and the habitus of a performer. In the sessions we agreed to approach the different makam by applying different scordaturas to the instruments. I will develop on the resistance of the instrument with regard to this phase, also looking back at Kent Olofsson's Il Liuto d'Orfeo.

Department/s

  • Teachers (Malmö Academy of Music)

Publishing year

2013-06-01

Language

English

Pages

201-213

Publication/Series

Contemporary Music Review

Volume

32

Issue

2-3

Document type

Journal article

Publisher

Routledge

Keywords

  • Habitus
  • Instrument
  • Musical Experiment
  • Musical Tradition

Status

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Other

  • ISSN: 0749-4467