Lapidge, Lisa (2024) Visceral vocalities: investigating in-betweenness in embodied voice and affect towards an intravocal approach to performance making and performance. Doctoral thesis, University of Essex.
Lapidge, Lisa (2024) Visceral vocalities: investigating in-betweenness in embodied voice and affect towards an intravocal approach to performance making and performance. Doctoral thesis, University of Essex.
Lapidge, Lisa (2024) Visceral vocalities: investigating in-betweenness in embodied voice and affect towards an intravocal approach to performance making and performance. Doctoral thesis, University of Essex.
Abstract
This thesis presents a unique practice-as-research investigation into the interplay between embodied voice and affect within the context of performance making and performance. Drawing on PaR models pioneered by Robin Nelson and Konstantinos Thomaidis, augmented by Christina Kapadocha’s somatic praxis, a tailored PaR model for vocal practice-as-logos is developed. The inquiry unfolds through a series of vocal experiments, performance rehearsals, and productions, contextualised within sociocultural landscapes shaped by the COVID-19 pandemic and the #metoo movement, titled Solace Song and Waking the Witch, respectively. Employing a theoretical framework encompassing vocal in-betweens, new materialism, and affect theory, this inquiry investigates the intricate relationship between voice, affective sensations, and emotions. This PaR inquiry offers a novel contribution to PaR methodologies in the form of a methodological tool entitled vocal unveilings that enables practitioners to engage in a critical reflective mode that can be documented from within the practice itself. Embracing new materialist perspectives, voice is conceptualised as complex and co-constituted. This study signals a departure from traditional vocal paradigms, towards embracing new materialist approaches that emphasise the collaborative and processual aspects of vocal performance making and performance. The culmination of the research yields an innovative intravocal approach to embodied voice for actor-voicers, leveraging diverse materials to facilitate the creation of vocal performances eliciting affective responses.
Item Type: | Thesis (Doctoral) |
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Uncontrolled Keywords: | Voice; Intravocality; Intervocality; Vocal unveilings; Theatre; Performance; Acting; metoo; New Materialism; Affect; Emotion; Sensation; Vibration; Goosebumps |
Divisions: | Faculty of Arts and Humanities > East 15 Acting School |
Depositing User: | Lisa Lapidge |
Date Deposited: | 07 Jan 2025 14:22 |
Last Modified: | 07 Jan 2025 14:22 |
URI: | http://repository.essex.ac.uk/id/eprint/39948 |
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