Research-Creation in Music and the Arts: Towards a Collaborative Interdiscipline

ISBN-13: 9780367231552 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 188 str.

Sophie Stevance; Serge Lacasse

Opis

This fully revised translation of Sophie Stévance and Serge Lacasse’s original French book offers an overview of the historical, political, social, cultural and academic contexts within which research-creation has emerged in Quebec and Canada, before similar conceptions appeared elsewhere in the world.

O autorze

Sophie Stévance is Canada Chair Research in research-creation in music (www.chairs-chaires.gc.ca/chairholders-titulaires/profile-eng.aspx?profileId=3481). She is Professor in musicology at the Faculty of Music, University Laval, Quebec City (Canada), Head of Laboratoire de recherche-création en musique et multimedia (LARCEM) and Groupe de recherche-création en musique (grecem.oicrm.org). She is the author of several books (such as Quand la musique prend corps, with M. Desroches and S. Lacasse, 2014; Les Enjeux de la recherche-création en musique, with Lacasse, 2013; Musique actuelle, 2011; Duchamp, compositeur, 2009; Composer au XXIe siècle, 2010; L’Itinéraire du timbre, 2006). She has received two awards from The Académie Charles-Cros, in 2006 and in 2010, as well as research grants (Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council, Quebec Research Funds, Canada Foundation for Innovation’s Leaders). Her field of study is research-creation in music around different projects with creators, particularly about genetic analysis of creative process in music and modernization of Inuit throat-singing (with Tanya Tagaq).

Serge Lacasse is Professor of musicology, specializing in popular music, at the Faculty of Music, Université Laval in Quebec City, Canada. He heads both the Laval site of the Observatoire interdisciplinaire de création et de recherche en musique (oicrm.org) and the Laboratoire audionumérique de recherche et de création (larc.oicrm.org). Favouring an interdisciplinary approach, his research and research-creation projects mostly deal with the study and practice of recorded popular music and the singing voice. In addition to multiple chapters, articles and conference papers, he co-authored (with Sophie Stévance) Les enjeux de la recherche-création en musique (PUL, 2013) and co-edited Quand la musique prend corps (PUM, 2014) with Monique Desroches and Sophie Stévance, as well as Rewriting the Rules of Record Production (Routledge, forthcoming) with Simon Zagorski-Thomas, Katia Isakoff and Sophie Stévance. He is also active as a record producer, musician and songwriter.