Abstract
This article is a contribution to the debate which has been taking place for some years now around the use of artistic research methodologies in conservatories. To be precise, it supports a methodology centred on artistic activity, which is not conditioned by the dictates of science and the need to obtain results. Within this current of thought, we have developed a new methodology of artistic research, a/r/tography, which is adapted from Fine Arts, and is aimed at teachers in music conservatories and makes it possible to simultaneously research, perform and teach a piece of music.
Highlights
Resumo Este artigo é uma contribuição para o debate sobre a utilização das metodologias de pesquisa em arte nos conservatórios de música
To be precise, the Bologna Process and the creation of the European Higher Education Area which precipitated a degree of concern about new forms of research among music professionals in Conservatories (LÓPEZCANO; SAN CRISTÓBAL, 2014)
The acceptance of Artistic Research methodologies is entirely different among Spanish visual artists, even if in this sphere they bring a different kind of problem (MOLTÓ, 2016; BORGDORFF, 2010; LÓPEZ-CANO, 2013)
Summary
As Borgdorff (2010) has stated, the debate that has been under way for some years around Artistic Research methodologies has barely reached the field of music. To follow a narrow thread, the question could be expanded to ask what we can consider as research In general terms, those who defend the use of Artistic Research in music point out that in this kind of research both the questions and problems that need solving, as well as the knowledge generated, come directly from artistic experience; these are the very elements that artistic practice converts into research and which can only be resolved by professionals working within these fields (PACE, 2015). At the outset, appeared as potentially an added difficulty – given we could find no references to the use of these methods among conservatory teachers – became a positive for us in the end as it obliged us to reflect on the process and to take nothing for granted
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