Reflections and META-reflections on a pilot-project at the Norwegian Academy of Music: Counting, Memory and Interrogation.

Using the pilot-project as an example, the presentation will focus on the nature of reflection. The presentation will propose different possible angles depending on the understanding of the relevance for the intended audience. Since the limited time for the presentation not all angles will be touched in depth, rather raised as proposed phenomenological viewpoints, discussing their possible content.
Some possible viewpoints of relevance for reflections on the pilot-project:

Counting, Memory and Interrogation

• as a staged event(polymediality, doxality/paradoxality, how to create meaning?)
• as a concert (piece or process? Quality? Wholeness or uniqueness)
• as a technological experiment (notions of simultaneity, real time issues, structure, sound diffusion issues)
• as a contextual critique (music as a concert, phenomenological versus dramaturgical listening)

The meta-reflection will try to differentiate reflection into a number of interrelated stages or ‘situations’. Notions discussed: what is description, interpretation, contextualisation, (critical?) reflection and meta-reflection. How do these situations relate to the above-mentioned viewpoints?

Ivar Frounberg, Professor
The Norwegian Academy of Music