The experimental body in free improvisation practices: eutony as presence strategy

• Grant number: 16/05096-4
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Scientific Initiation
• Start date: August 01, 2016
• End date: July 31, 2017
• Field of knowledge: Linguistics, Literature and Arts - Arts - Music
• Principal Investigator: Rogério Luiz Moraes Costa
• Grantee: Mariana Pasquero Lima Torres de Carvalho
• Host Institution: Escola de Comunicações e Artes (ECA). Universidade de São Paulo (USP). São Paulo , SP, Brazil

Abstract

I intend to investigate the possible contributions of eutony in free improvisation. The somatic work of eutony - of knowledge, perception and awareness of the body in its totality - may allow the construction of state of presence which is fundamental in free improvisation, practice that continuously seeks to create other contexts and territories in present time. To be present is make the sound corporeal. This correspondence between eutony (body) and free improvisation (sound) takes place in an experimental manner, for both share an assumption of a processual character, of constant search, seeking to escape of pre-estabilished rules and the shaping of its practices into form. This work is composed of one theoretical part and other of practical experimentation, individually and collectively in two ensembles that I take part in, located in the Music Department of University of São Paulo: Orquestra Errante and Coro Profano.