
Stefan Östersjö
Senior lecturer

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