EURHYTHMICS NULLSPACE

How is space being created through the lense of a musical score?

What is in the centre of a eurhythmician’s artistic routine? How is music being expressed as movement in space? Which space concepts are underlying in the music-choreographic formats (see “L’ interpretation corporelle”, Le Rythme 2017) existing in the realm of eurythmics (historically, contemporarily)? How does a eurhythmician apply his/her identities as an instrumentalist/ vocalist in a spatial setting and which kind of audio-corporeal expressions are generated by their body archive as mover-instrumentalists?

Concentrating on intermedial relations between music and movement (see the online exhibition on the topics of relatedness of music and movement and concepts of rhythm by Dorothea Weise 2023), Eurhythmics aims at developing the skills and abilities to connect an inner listening to an outer movement and vice versa: an inner movement to a sound or musical gesture. The interface where movement and music meet is the space, which allows a body to expand, a sound to resonate and to create a particular kinaesthetic awareness (Schroedter 2023, 15.5.). Among the senses kinaesthesia (Sieben 2003), as a proprioceptive system, links the body with space and becomes essential in smooth spaces research. Kinaesthesia not only tracks posture, movement or position of our own body in space but also gives feedback on our movement dynamics, muscle tone, textures of the body systems etc. as intensive qualities of movement. Connecting this idea of kinaesthetic awareness, which becomes a necessary factor for orientation in smooth spaces, how can the act of listening to music or sound (Calissendorf/ Jaresand 2013), the multi-dimensional interactions between listening and moving can become a smooth space research? 

EURHYTHMICS study cases:

\ Fractal Lab

Space explorations using the self-playing piano CEUS by Bösendorfer. Learn More

\ Description Lab

Dialectic Attempts of A Eurhythmician And A Complexity Scientist. Learn more

\ Movement Choir Lab

Study of different choral scores that contain movement or scenic elements. Learn more


Here is some of the output originated in this Nullspace:

Révélations @ Kunstzentrum Wachsfabrik
Mit Pauken und Paläste
Schweizer Rhythmik-Fachzeitschrift: «See my logic»
Tallis in Wonderland @ Atelierhaus (Akad. Bildende Künste)
Symbiotic Spaces: dialogues between a pianist and a self-playing piano
Dialectic Attempts in Artistic Eurhythmics Practice - Towards a notation of spatial qualities through an iterative multi-layered description
Six memos for a pianist and a self-playing piano - an artistic investigation of spatial phenomena with the self-playing piano system CEUS by Bösendorfer
These.Things.Again
Eurhythmics – Movements between composition, notation and sonic realisation
/spɜm/ @ Linz
Article for "Handbook Music and Motion"
Video presentation „Six Memos for a pianist and a self-playing piano” @ MDW
Workshops and lecture „Etudes d'espace – dialectic attempts of a Eurhythmician and a complexity scientist“
Article in "Le Rythme": Dialectic Attempts of A Eurhythmician And A Complexity Scientist
Null space experiment: double pendulum and a score by György Kúrtag
Sacrum @ Semperdepot
Conducting Spaces @ Ars Electronica

References

Artacho Bueno, Adrián/ Horstmeyer, Leonhard/ Kupferblum, Markus/ Pilgrim, Hanne (2023, in process of publication): Six memos for a pianist and a self-playing piano – sketches on an artistic investigation of spatial phenomena, in (ed.) Kim/ Schacher/ Schroedter: Handbook Music and Motion, mdw press.

Calissendorf, Maria/ Jaresand, Susanne (2013): A physical interpretation of a score in a listening attitude, Leuven University Press.

Dutkiewicz, Barbara (2023): Plastique animée – embodied music moving in space.
https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7789399

Horstmeyer, Leonhard/ Pilgrim, Hanne (2023): Dialectic Attempts in Artistic Eurhythmics Practice – Towards a notation of spatial qualities through an iterative multi-layered description, Le Rythme 2023.

Pilgrim, Hanne (2022): Fokus als fundamentale Kraft in musikbezogenen Bewegungshandlungen, Fachzeitschrift Rhythmik Schweiz Nr. 41.

Sieben, Irene (2003): Ohne Bewegung gibt es keine Wahrnehmung – warum der Tanz am
Anfang aller Künste steht
, Ballettanz, August/ September 2003, S.28.

Schroedter, Stephanie (2023, 15.05.): The Mind is a Muscle – or: the Muscle is a Mind?https://doi.org/10.25624/kuenste-1950

Weise, Dorothea (2023): Relatedness of music and movement. Intellectual Output in the Erasmus+ Project Eurhythmics in Education and Artistic Practice. https://www.kmh.se/in-english/atlas-of-eurhythmics/results-from-the-project/verbs-a-glossary/relatedness-of-music-and-movement.html and https://www.atlaz.space/atlas/2Z49CWb3bEZgpZ8JE/item/fS5eKQwNa7GdD6aMf


Eurhythmics Representatives

👤 Hanne Pilgrim
👤 Stephanie Schroedter
👤 Magdalena Eidenhammer

Révélations @ Kunstzentrum Wachsfabrik

In Révélations [Offenbarungen] kreieren Marie-Louise Wundling (Cello), Hanne Pilgrim (Choreografie und Tanz) und Moritz Wesp (Elektronik und Posaune) einen audio-korporalen Raum. Dieser spannt einen Bogen zwischen Ligetis Sonate für Violoncello solo (1948) zu seinen in den Kölner Studios für elektronische Musik entstandenen elektronischen Kompositionen Glissandi (1957) und Artikulation for Tape (1958). Ligetis Werke sind dabei in verschiedene Raumfigurationen eingebettet. Sie erklingen in einer dynamisch-beweglichen Anordnung zwischen der Cellistin, der Tänzerin, die Ligetis Musik mit ihrem Körper interpretiert, den Stimmen beider Protagonistinnen, den Lautsprechern und dem Publikum. Der Raum zwischen den Performenden und den Lautsprechern entsteht aus Gesten des Dialogs. Dialog, in Révélations verstanden als ein „zwischen den Worten sein“, wird von Ligeti auch in der Vortragsbezeichnung des ersten Satzes der Cellosonate angesprochen. Der Tanz / die Bewegung als animierte Plastik spiegelt die Musik im Raum, gibt ihr eine kinetische Energie und eine körperliche Präsenz: Schwünge, Drehungen, Raumwege, Handgesten, Atemmuster, Artikulationen, Reibungen, Konsonanzen, Stille.

Die Lautsprecher als klangerzeugende Körper, von uns Objets Sonors Vivants genannt, nehmen den Raum auf ihre Weise ein. Sie treten in Verbindung mit den Performerinnen, interagieren mit ihren Kinesphären und jenen des Publikums.


Where: Kunstzentrum Wachsfabrik

When: 2024-07-18

Who: Hanne Pilgrim, Marie-Louise Wundling, Moritz Wesp

Mit Pauken und Paläste

In Zusammenarbeit mit dem Resident Music Collective (RCU) und dem Humboldt Forum Berlin erforschen wir in diesem transmedialen Konzertexperiment die Nutzung von Raum, Projektion und interaktiven Installationen, um das Engagement und die Beteiligung des Publikums zu fördern.


Where: Humboldt Forum Berlin

When: 2024-03-28,30,31

Who: Hanne Pilgrim, Adrián Artacho, Rose Breus, Junjian Wang.

Tallis in Wonderland @ Atelierhaus (Akad. Bildende Künste)

Tallis in Wonderland ist ein [Un]möglichkeitsraum, den der Chorus Sine Nomine zusammen mit Tänzerinnen, einer PianistinPerformerin, Filmtonangler*innen, einem Live-Elektroniker, einem Lichtkünstler und einem Mathematiker betritt. Im Atelierhaus der Akademie der bildenden Künste berühren sich im ‘Wunderland’ audio-korporale Räume aus der Renaissance und dem Hier-und-Jetzt. Thomas Tallis’ 40-stimmige Motette “Spem in alium” prägt den Abend mit einem Appell zur Hoffnung. Hier spannt sich ein Raum der Extreme auf, in der die Hoffnung in einer Bewegung zwischen diesen Extremen und einer Elevation aus der Niedrigkeit vermutet wird. Eine solche Bewegung deutet der Tanz als Schwung. Er ist ein aus der Fallenergie entstehendes Raumgebilde. Tallis in Wonderland hinterfragt, wie es in der Gegenwart möglich ist, aus dem Pendeln zwischen Fall und Elevation Hoffnung zu generieren? Und was würde das weiße Kaninchen dazu sagen?


Where: Atelierhaus der Akademie der bildende Künste Wien

When: 2023-10-08, 18:00h

Who: Johannes Hiemetsberger, Adrián Artacho, Hanne Pilgrim, Rose Breuss, Leonhard Horstmeyer, Mariia Shurkhal, Damián Cortés Alberti, Marcela López Morales, Žiga Jereb, Eszter Petrány, Boglárka Heim, William Edouard Franck und Chorus Sine Nomine

Read more “Tallis in Wonderland @ Atelierhaus (Akad. Bildende Künste)”

Symbiotic Spaces: dialogues between a pianist and a self-playing piano

Image by: ICDS6

Research paper on sketches from our research process investigating spatial qualities in eurhythmics performance as a specific audio-corporeal practice, within the context of the artistic research project ‘Atlas of Smooth Spaces’.


Where: Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh USA

When: 2023-08-04, 8:30h

Who: Leonhard Horstmeyer, Adrián Artacho, Hanne Pilgrim

Read more “Symbiotic Spaces: dialogues between a pianist and a self-playing piano”

Six memos for a pianist and a self-playing piano – an artistic investigation of spatial phenomena with the self-playing piano system CEUS by Bösendorfer

Adrián Artacho, Leonhard Horstmeyer, Markus Kupferblum, Hanne Pilgrim

Eurhythmics – Movements between composition, notation and sonic realisation

Coming soon:

Article “Rhythmik/ Musik und Bewegung” by Hanne Pilgrim, Stephanie Schroedter and Dorothea Weise in “Handbuch Tanzpädagogik/ Tanzvermittlung”

After a historical outline of the origins of eurhythmics, Dorothea Weise discusses this subject area as a movement pedagogy to and through music. Hanne Pilgrim shares methodological sketches on scores as movement readings based on eurhythmics’ characteristic view on movement/ dance from the reference system of music. Stephanie Schroedter sheds theoretical light on the intertwining of music and movement/dance and discusses music for and in movement.

Who: Hanne Pilgrim, Stephanie Schroedter

Article for “Handbook Music and Motion”

(upcoming) Publication by Hyun Kim/ Schacher/ Schroedter

In the article “Six memos for a pianist and a self-playing piano” we share sketches of our research process investigating spatial qualities with the the self-playing piano system CEUS by Bösendorfer which were conducted by pianist and eurhythmician Hanne Pilgrim, composer Adrián Artacho, complexity scientist Leonhard Horstmeyer and music theater director and video artist Markus Kupferblum.

Who: Hanne Pilgrim, Adrián Artacho, Leonhard Horstmeyer

Video presentation „Six Memos for a pianist and a self-playing piano” @ MDW

Collage from video Stills from Markus Kupferblum

The composition “Six memos for a pianist and a self-playing piano” emerged from a peer-to-peer interaction between Adrián Artacho and Hanne Pilgrim with the self-playing piano “CEUS” by Bösendorfer as case study on the null space of Eurhythmics. Markus Kupferblum developed a cinematic concept for the six co-created compositions by Adrián Artacho and Hanne Pilgrim.


Where: University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna

When: 2022-10-01, 20h

Who: Hanne Pilgrim, Adrián Artacho, Leonhard Horstmeyer

Read more “Video presentation „Six Memos for a pianist and a self-playing piano” @ MDW”

Workshops and lecture „Etudes d’espace – dialectic attempts of a Eurhythmician and a complexity scientist“

Image by: Leonhard Horstmeyer, Hanne Pilgrim

We gave insights into our case study on notation through description in the frame of the Symposia”rhythmik:connect“:

Where: University of Music and Performing Arts, Vienna

When: 2022-10-01, 14:30h

Who: Leonhard Horstmeyer, Hanne Pilgrim

and “we listen.we move. we connect” at Royal College of Music in Stockholm:

Where: Royal College of Music, Stockholm

When: 2023-06-04, 14:30h

Who: Hanne Pilgrim

Null space experiment: double pendulum and a score by György Kúrtag

Who: LeoHanne

Leonhard Horstmeyer and Hanne Pilgrim conducted a workshop with eurhythmics students from Vienna and Stockholm as part of a “Learning, Teaching, Training Activity” in the Erasmus+ funded project “Eurhythmics in Education and Artistic Practice”.

Participants were ask to project the motif of a double pendulum as departure point for a movement composition “Tenyeres” from Játekók Vol.1 by György Kúrtag as musical departure point.

Screenshot by Hanne Pilgrim

The output generated by the workshop participants can be found here

Still from the digital canvas where students’ works are uploaded (see link above)