B8690 - International Seminar (1) (LM)

Learning outcomes

At the end of the course the student: - acquainted with the various interdisciplinary perspectives that - in the international panorama - focus on the relationship between music and theatre; - has the opportunity to meet scholars and national and international artists in order to investigate the processes of creation. In terms of skills, this knowledge provides the student with: - analytical tools to be applied in the historical-critical field and in the curatorship of specific events in the fields of music, theatre and choreography.

Course contents

Title: Forms of voice research

 

The seminar is strictly connected with the two fundamental courses of the degree programme, one dedicated to methodologies and the other to creative processes in music and theatre, from a historical-analytical perspective. Specifically, the seminar is designed to identify and develop the main elements of convergence between the two disciplinary fields and analyse them in light of the research perspectives adopted by colleagues from European universities who will be invited from time to time to explore one or more specific topics in depth. The seminar format we adopt here also includes meetings and discussions with artists who have dedicated their research to the relationship between music and the performing arts.

The horizon we will be tackling this year concerns the theme of voice and vocal research. In twentieth-century musical research, as in theatrical research – from Cathy Berberian to Demetrio Stratos, via Antonin Artaud and Carmelo Bene, and then Gabriella Bartolomei, Chiara Guidi and Ermanna Montanari – the presence of the voice, what it names by calling, precedes and anticipates every possible condition of language, probes its limits and inhabits its margins. In the true sense, the voice does not say, it shows: by naming something in the world, it announces it. This means that the voice does not coincide with the word, but rather takes shape in an intermediate space between the sign (the word) and the discourse that articulates it.

Accompanying us in this research will be colleagues from the Universities of Frankfurt, Paris and Girona (the detailed schedule of events will be available in autumn), as well as artists who will animate the dialogues designed for the seminar.

 

Students with SLD or temporary or permanent disabilities. It is suggested that they get in touch as soon as possible with the relevantUniversity office [https://site.unibo.it/studenti-con-disabilita-e-dsa/en]and with the lecturer in order to seek together the most effective strategies for following the lessons and/or preparing for the examination.

Readings/Bibliography

Recommanded readings (not mandatory):

 

1)- E. Pitozzi, Acusma. Il teatro sonoro di Ermanna Montanari, Macerata, Quodlibet, 2017.

2)- V. Valentini (a cura di), Drammaturgie sonore II, Roma, Bulzoni, (dicembre 2021).

3)- L. Amara, P. Di Matteo, Teatri di voce - numero monografico della rivista «Culture Teatrali», n. 20. Lucca, La casa Usher, 2011.

4)- Michela Garda, La mediazione tecnologica della voce, Roma, Neoclassica, 2023.

5)- Serena Facci, Michela Garda (a cura di), The Female Voice in the Twentieth Century, London, Taylor & Francis, 2021.

6)- L. Cardilli S. Vallauri, L’arte orale. Poesia, musica, performance, Torino, Accademia University Press, 2020.

7)- I. Ferber, P. Schwebel (a cura di), Lament in Jewish Thought: Philosophical, Theological, and Literary Perspectives, Berlino, De Gruyter, 2017.

8)- C. Bologna, Flatus Vocis. Metafisica e antropologia della voce, Bologna, Mulino, 2000.

Other texts will be suggested during the lessons.

Teaching methods

Lectures with seminar discussions.

Assessment methods

This seminar, like other similar activities, does not provide for an exam. The constant and active participation in the lessons, monitored by the attendance register, will therefore determine the achievement of eligibility. To obtain eligibility, it is essential to attend at least 80% of the classes.

Students with SLD or temporary or permanent disabilities. It is necessary to contact the relevant University office [https://site.unibo.it/studenti-con-disabilita-e-dsa/en/for-students] with ample time in advance: the office will propose some adjustments, which must in any case be submitted 15 days in advance to the lecturer, who will assess the appropriateness of these in relation to the teaching objectives.

Teaching tools

Audiovisual material from theatre, digital archives; platforms and websites.

Office hours

See the website of Enrico Pitozzi