Khyal: Music and Imagination

“Khyal：“音乐与想象力”建立在对印度音乐家和观众体验和想象古典声乐表演方式的基础研究之上，利用其见解产生新的参与和创造力。该项目首先将音乐家、民族音乐学家和视觉艺术家聚集在一起，探索khyal流派，并激励艺术家创作受音乐和现有采访材料启发的原创视觉艺术作品。这种新的艺术作品反过来又促进了各种各样的人可以接触到的新的参与形式：在学校，在音乐会和节日，以及在博物馆和画廊。首先，我们将把不同的人聚集到一个项目团队中：来自英国和印度的视觉艺术家，民族音乐学家和表演音乐家。我们将讨论我们早期研究的结果，特别是因为它涉及到音乐中表达的情绪和情感，以及视觉意象在演奏和聆听中的作用。艺术家将被介绍给我们广泛收集的视听记录和采访记录，从中选择相关的源材料。他们将被委托在他们选择的媒体（例如绘画，视频装置）中制作受此材料启发的原创艺术品。在这项工作继续进行的同时，我们将与在这一领域有着良好记录的当地艺术组织Gem Arts举办一系列学校研讨会，在此过程中，学校也将鼓励学生参与音乐和视觉图像的想法，并制作自己的艺术作品。与此同时，我们将开发一个简单的互动应用程序，允许用户参与印度音乐的视听记录。所有这些元素-原始研究材料，互动应用程序，专业和学校儿童的艺术作品-将在纽卡斯尔的Laing艺术画廊举办的公开展览中结合起来。我们还将在其他场所公开展示这些材料，包括英国最大的印度音乐节伦敦的Darbar音乐节。其目的是增加对这一音乐类型的参与，以及更广泛地参与音乐与视觉艺术之间的界面，促进学童之间新形式的创造性参与，并促进学者和创造性艺术家之间的对话。

"Khyal: Music and Imagination" builds on fundamental research into the ways in which Indian musicians and audiences experience and imagine classical vocal performance, using its insights to generate new kinds of engagement and creativity. The project brings together, first of all, musicians, ethnomusicologists and visual artists to explore the khyal genre and stimulate the artists to produce original works of visual art inspired by the music and by existing interview material. This new artistic production in turn facilitates new forms of engagement accessible to a wide range of people: in schools, at concerts and festivals, and at museums and galleries. In the first instance we will bring together a diverse group of people into a project team: visual artists based in both the UK and India, ethnomusicologists, and performing musicians. We will discuss findings of our earlier research, particularly as it relates to the moods and emotions expressed in the music and the role of visual imagery in both performance and listening. Artists will be introduced to our extensive collection of audiovisual recordings and interview transcripts, from which relevant source material will be selected. They will be commissioned to produced original artwork in media of their choice (e.g. paintings, video installations) inspired by this material. While this work continues, we will run a series of school workshops with a local arts organisation with a strong track record in this area, Gem Arts, in the course of which school children too will be encouraged to engage with the idea of music and visual imagery and to produce their own art works. At the same time, we will develop a simple interactive app which allows users to engage with audiovisual recordings of Indian music.All of these elements - original research materials, interactive app, professional and school children's artwork - will be combined in a public exhibition presented at the Laing Art Gallery in Newcastle. We will also give public presentations drawing on this material at other venues, including the Darbar Festival in London, the UK's largest festival of Indian music. The aim is to increase engagement with this genre of music and with the interface between music and visual arts more generally, to facilitate new forms of creative engagement amongst school children, and to foster dialogue between academics and creative artists.