The FiddleLights project: an artist’s recording of bow-hand movements in fiddle tunes

Elisa  Sereno-Janz

The FiddleLights project: an artist’s recording of bow-hand movements in fiddle tunes

Elisa Sereno-Janz

Elphinstone Institute

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Abstract

Fiddling and dancing are inextricably entwined. Just as fiddle music moves the body of the dancer, the act of fiddling moves the body of the fiddler in its own dance. The performer executes complex movements in the manipulation of the bow, of the fingers, and of the entire body to release the voice of the instrument. I experience fiddling as part of the practice of
haptic art, that of aesthetic touch. In this, the corporeal experience is as much a part of the music making as the aural result. FiddleLights is a new media visual art project in which
I record the gestures of the bow, presenting a kinetic ‘drawing’ of the actual movements which create the bowed sound on the fiddle

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Ón gCos go Cluas
Subtitle of host publication	From Dancing to Listening
Editors	Liz Doherty, Fintan Vallely
Publisher	Aberdeen University Press
Chapter	29
Pages	247-257
Number of pages	11
ISBN (Print)	978-1-85752-073-6
Publication status	Published - 2019
Event	North Atlantic Fiddle Convention Conference - Northern Ireland, Derry/Londonderry, United Kingdom Duration: 27 Jun 2012 → 1 Jul 2012

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Name	Fiddle and Dance Studies from around the North Atlantic 5

Conference

Conference	North Atlantic Fiddle Convention Conference
Country/Territory	United Kingdom
City	Derry/Londonderry
Period	27/06/12 → 1/07/12

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The FiddleLights project: an artist’s recording of bow-hand movements in fiddle tunes. / Sereno-Janz, Elisa .
Ón gCos go Cluas: From Dancing to Listening. ed. / Liz Doherty; Fintan Vallely. Aberdeen University Press, 2019. p. 247-257 (Fiddle and Dance Studies from around the North Atlantic 5).

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Sereno-Janz, E 2019, The FiddleLights project: an artist’s recording of bow-hand movements in fiddle tunes. in L Doherty & F Vallely (eds), Ón gCos go Cluas: From Dancing to Listening. Fiddle and Dance Studies from around the North Atlantic 5, Aberdeen University Press, pp. 247-257, North Atlantic Fiddle Convention Conference, Derry/Londonderry, United Kingdom, 27/06/12.

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