Runko.net | Singer-songwriter and researcher of singing Anne Tarvainen | In English
In English
Anne Tarvainen is a Finnish singer/songwriter, researcher of singing and a vocal coach. She graduated in 2000 as an ethnomusicologist (M.A.) from the University of Tampere, Department of Music Anthropology. At the moment she is working on her doctoral thesis on singer's expression. She makes music under the alias Aava Uusikuu.
Music
Anne writes songs in Finnish as well as in English. The album
Vedessä palaa – musiikkia Mirkka Rekolan runoihin [Water is Burning –
Music to the Poems of Mirkka Rekola] was released in June 2011.
www.aavauusikuu.com
She also makes voice improvisations with different artists. At the moment she has
an improvisation project going on with visual artist Outi Aho and sound designer Jouni Korhonen.
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Anne's previous groups have been Normenon 2006-2009 (voice improvisation group), Modular Moon 2000-2005 (pop/jazz/world-music group) and Kukkaduo 1995-1999 (singer/songwriter -duo).
Research
In her doctoral dissertation Anne is developing a sensitive and body-based analysis method for the study of musical expression. Her main argument is that a listener understands the singer's expression with her own body.
This kind of "listening with your whole body" is known, for example, among singing teachers, although it is not usually verbalized. Anne is using a phenomenological approach as well as Daniel Stern's theory of vitality affects to verbalize this bodily knowledge of a listener.
In her work she is using Icelandic singer Björk as her analysis example. In her analysis she uses different kinds of listening methods. With analytic listening she approaches the voice qualities, and with emphatic listening the vitality affects and expression of a singer.
A Singer's expression consists of the small nuances one can sense from the voice of a singer. In the level of vitality affects the singer's expression can be felt as something more subtle than in the level of categorical affects (sorrow, joy etc.). These expressive nuances arise from the singer's body movements that create her voice. Singer can, for example, make a sound with sudden, expansive or tense movements. A listener can understand these qualities of movement in her/his own affective body. In this way a listener can actually be moved by a singer's expression.
You can read the english abstract of the doctoral thesis here (pdf).
Teaching
Anne teaches voice maintenance to singers, and guides people to use their own voice as a way to relax. She gives private lessons and teaches in different institutes. She holds voice training courses for companies and groups by order via Nonni Creative.
Expertise
* Physiology of voice production
* Body awareness
* Voice and emotions
* Voice improvisation
* Pop-, rock-, folk-, and jazz -singing
* Studio singing
Special Interests
* The importance of presence and sensibility in the production of voice
* Listening a singer's expression with the whole body
* Teaching the singing technique from within the body and emotions
* The relaxing and integrative possibilities of a human voice
Contact
Anne Tarvainen
Pauniementie 30
33880 Lempäälä
FINLAND
+358 (0)50 3483174
www.annetarvainen.fi
www.nonnicreative.fi
Links
LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/annetarvainen
Academia.edu: http://uta-fi.academia.edu/AnneTarvainen