Embodiment of Authority

Taina Riikonen, PhD, is a sound explorer who works at the intersection of sound arts and research. Her interests include tactile recording, body sounds, machine noises and the issues surrounding performance, performativity, bodies and site-specific arts.Marjaana Virtanen, PhD, is a researcher at the University of Turku’s Department of Musicology, in Finland. Her research interests include performance studies, performance-oriented music analysis, musical gestures and contemporary Finnish art music.

• Contents: Lina Navickaitė-Martinelli: On Musical Performance as a Creative Process: A Semiotic Perspective – Yrjö Heinonen: Breaking up the Fourth Wall: Playing with, Questioning and Crossing the Implicit Barrier between Performer and Audience in Arja Koriseva’s Stage Performance – Johanna Tiensuu: Different Pianists with Different Bodies: Does the Body Matter? Constructing Discursive-Material Interconnections in a Study on Piano Pedagogy – Ana Dinger: Curatorship as Conservation: The Role of the Curator in the Perpetuation of Performance-Based Artworks – Anthony Pryer: The Ontology of Music and the Challenge of Performance: Identity versus Variety, and the Persistence of the «Text» – Marjaana Virtanen: From Sketches to First Performance: Composer-Performer Interaction in the Creation Process of Jyrki Linjama’s Completorium – Thomas Gardner: Sound Art, Music and the Rehabilitation of Schizophonia – Heidi Korhonen-Björkman/Ritva Koistinen: The Impact of the Musical Instrument on Debussy’s La fille aux cheveux de lin: A Dialogue between a Pianist and a Kantele Musician – Catherine Lee: Reeds: Play within Shared Authority – Marjo Suominen: Signs and Messages of Love in Performing Handel’s Giulio Cesare – Guerino Mazzola: Flow and Gesture in Free Jazz.