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Thesis Info
- LABS ID
- 00479
- Thesis Title
- Extending Opera – Artist-led Explorations in Operatic Practice through Interactivity and Electronics
- Author
- Carl Unander-Scharin
- E-mail
- carl.unander-scharin AT telia.com
- 2nd Author
- 3rd Author
- Degree
- PhD
- Year
- 2014, Thesis defended January 29, 2015
- Number of Pages
- 128 + seven papers
- University
- KTH Royal Institute of Technology
- Thesis Supervisor
- Kristina Höök
- Supervisor e-mail
- Khook AT kth.se
- Other Supervisor(s)
- Yngve Sundblad
- Language(s) of Thesis
- English
- Department / Discipline
- Media Technology and Interaction Design; Artistic Research
- Copyright Ownership
- Author
- Languages Familiar to Author
- English, French, German, Italian, Swedish (Native)
- URL where full thesis can be found
- www.electronic-opera.com/extendingopera_thesis
- Keywords
- Opera, Interaction Design, Media Technology, Interactivity, Electronics, Artistic Research
- Abstract: 200-500 words
- How can we re-empower opera singers, extending their control over accompa-niment and vocal expressivity? To answer this question, I have opened a novel design space, Extending Opera, consisting of interactive artist–operated tools to be used on-stage. The research has its methodological groundings in Re-search through Design (RtD) and Research through the Arts (RttA). This par-ticular method is coined "research-through-the-art-form-opera" – as I have worked within the realms and traditions of opera, probing its boundaries by designing, researching and creating through it