Heya. Performing Agency: women, networks and experimental music and sound in Cairo, Tehran, Istanbul and Beirut

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• 批准号: 2442881
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Goldsmiths University of London
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Studentship
• 财政年份: 2020
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2020 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=studentship-2442881
• 关键词: Heya.; Performing; Agency; women; networks

This project will explore connections between experimental music practices with political and social agency for Middle Eastern female experimental music artists. Heya is a practice-based research project that uses collaborative methods to balance roles between researcher and subjects, and nonverbal communication inherent in musical composition provide an exchange of experience and knowledge not accessed by traditional research methods. Feminist musicologists exploring subjects like gender and noise and feminist performance, are almost exclusively limited to European and American subjects. Heya will investigate the cultural and sociological situation of women composers in the Middle East through composition, performance and community building. Tara Rodgers' approach to feminist music discourse has sought to negate "the reproduction of an existing cultural order". The language of computer culture (and therefor music production) continues to be embedded with words such as "'master' and 'slave', 'controller', 'command', 'trigger' and 'bang'". There simply isn't an existing common language for decolonising electronic and experimental music in any real way. This lack of meaningful language has meant that feminist musicology and ethnomusicology and scholars of Arab modernism have mostly failed to merge to yield ontologies from experiences of women outside of the West who engage music practices.Modernism and the 'avant garde' in the ME are often indistinguishable from political agency in the region. Existing online networks, readily accessed throughout the Middle East, expedite the transmission of music creating a transnational solidarity across the region. These networks stimulate an interest in 'alternative' musical forms (Anderson 2006, 57). Esoteric, experimental, noise and metal produced and distributed over the web (particularly on Youtube) or played live, either publicly or underground, are acts of "rebellion" and "activism" positioned against popular culture (and hegemony) or deterritorialization of institutional "milieus". Contemporary interdisciplinary discourse within ME women's studies is evolving and interdisciplinary. An understanding of relationships between gender, revolution and state building within the diverse social and political contexts since the Arab Spring and Iranian Green Movement (Persian Spring) in these predominantly Muslim countries (Egypt, Iran and Lebanon), will form an integral basis from which the collaborative work will be done. The revolutionary movements and responses by those in power in 2019 will have a significant impact on female artists in those regions and therefore on this research.This project will explore developing a new decolonised descriptive language for electronic and experimental music composition which will in turn inform this project and discourse in the field and beyond. This matters and is theoretically significant because the language and methods used will generate essential (currently absent) knowledge in musicology, ME women's studies and music culture more broadly including the language of electronic music production. The project will add to the limited number of comparative studies of women in the ME, bring to light the effects of modernism and globalisation on gender roles in the ME, and make a significant contribution to knowledge about women in the ME and their relationship with technology and global networks. The academic audience for Heya includes practice based researchers, ethnomusicologists, musicologists.Musical projects emerging from the ME such as Egyptian Female Experimental Music, Parallel Persia and Experimental Music from Iranian have already attracted attention in European media. Heya will be of interest to a very broad audience through platforms such as CTM Berlin, Mutek, NTS Radio, Resident Advisor, The Wire, The Guardian and Quietus, which have all featured similar projects, though often with a predominantly male artist bias.

该项目将为中东女性实验音乐艺术家探索实验音乐实践与政治和社会机构之间的联系。Heya是一个以实践为基础的研究项目，它使用协作方法来平衡研究人员和受试者之间的角色，而音乐作品中固有的非语言交流提供了传统研究方法无法获得的经验和知识的交流。探索性别、噪音和女权主义表演等主题的女权主义音乐学家，几乎只限于欧洲和美国的主题。Heya将通过作曲、表演和社区建设来调查中东女性作曲家的文化和社会学状况。塔拉·罗杰斯对女权主义音乐话语的态度试图否定“现有文化秩序的再现”。计算机文化的语言(以及由此产生的音乐作品)继续被诸如“主‘和’奴‘、’控制者‘、’命令‘、’触发‘和’砰‘这样的词所嵌入。”根本没有一种现有的共同语言来真正地将电子音乐和实验音乐去殖民化。缺乏有意义的语言意味着，女性主义音乐学和民族音乐学以及阿拉伯现代主义学者大多未能融合在一起，从西方以外从事音乐实践的女性的经历中产生本体论。ME中的现代主义和前卫往往与该地区的政治机构难以区分。现有的在线网络在整个中东地区随处可见，加快了音乐的传播，在整个区域形成了跨国团结。这些网络激发了人们对“另类”音乐形式的兴趣(Anderson 2006，57)。在网络上(特别是在YouTube上)制作和传播或在公开或地下现场播放的深奥、实验性、噪音和金属是反对流行文化(和霸权)或剥夺体制“氛围”的“反叛”和“激进主义”行为。当代ME女性研究中的跨学科话语是不断发展和跨学科的。在这些以穆斯林为主的国家(埃及、伊朗和黎巴嫩)，了解自阿拉伯之春和伊朗绿色运动(波斯之春)以来不同社会和政治背景下的性别、革命和国家建设之间的关系，将成为开展合作工作的不可分割的基础。2019年当权者的革命运动和反应将对这些地区的女性艺术家产生重大影响，从而对这项研究产生重大影响。该项目将探索为电子和实验音乐创作开发一种新的非殖民化描述语言，这反过来将为该领域和其他领域的项目和话语提供信息。这很重要，而且在理论上意义重大，因为所使用的语言和方法将产生音乐学、ME妇女研究和更广泛地包括电子音乐制作语言在内的音乐文化方面的基本知识(目前尚不具备)。该项目将增加对ME中有限数量的女性的比较研究，揭示现代主义和全球化对ME中性别角色的影响，并对了解ME中的女性及其与技术和全球网络的关系做出重大贡献。Heya的学术受众包括基于实践的研究人员、民族音乐学家和音乐学家。ME涌现的音乐项目，如埃及女性实验音乐、平行波斯和来自伊朗的实验音乐，已经引起了欧洲媒体的关注。Heya将通过CTM柏林、Mutek、NTS Radio、Resident Advisor、The Wire、The Guardian和Quitus等平台吸引非常广泛的观众，这些平台都有类似的项目，尽管往往以男性艺术家为主。