Communication

Digital device in the mediation of classical music: the challenge of agency”.

From the beginning of the 2000s, classical music actors used digital devices at the heart of live performances, which included, among other things, mediation actions (Chaumier, 2008; Dorin, 2018; Kirchberg, 2020). Recent examples of these manifestations are Faust – operatic spectacle by Cie Miroirs Étendus (France, 2017) and Egérie(s) by Quatuor Debussy (France, 2021), mobilizing stage screens and graphic creation. We are going to study these shows to understand how the digital devices used in each of them give rise to the agency of artists and spectators. The observation of creative residency preparation for the concert, the analysis of performance video and the analysis of interviews with the artists will allow us to identify the differences and particularities of the respective approaches of the creators, as well as to understand in which moments and how can the spectator’s action be chosen voluntarily.

Biography

Elena Lapina is a doctoral student-researcher in the LERASS laboratory (Toulouse University – Paul Sabatier) and teacher-contractor at the University Toulouse – Jean Jaurès (Sociology of culture, Written expression, Mediations and scientific culture) where she also directs dissertations of research. Coming from a double course (Pianist-concertist at the Academy of Music in Petrozavodsk in Russia, graduated in 2014, and M2 in Audiovisual Communication and Media at the University of Toulouse – Jean Jaurès in 2020), Elena is interested in devices scenic digital devices – such as screens, mobile phones, consoles, robots – in classical music concerts, paying particular attention to the issues of symbolic and identity transformations linked to this hybridization. She is currently preparing a communication on musical emotion for an international conference “Culture and Emotions” (ENS de Lyon, May 2022).