
Tomie HahnRensselaer Polytechnic Institute | RPI · Department of the Arts
Tomie Hahn
Doctor of Philosophy, Ethnomusicology
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Considering the messy, fraught relationship between research and creative artmaking, this presentation contemplates diverse notions of “failure” as a creative, queering process (Halberstam 2011, Hahn 2017, Patel 2017). Offering a selection of precarious cases of unruly artist-scholarship, Hahn problematizes varieties of failure—transmission failure...
Engaging with sensory experience provides a gateway to the contemplation and cultivation of creativity and ideas. Tomie Hahn's workshopping recipes encourage us to incorporate sensory-rich experiences into our research, creative processes, and understanding of people. The exercises recognize that playfulness allows for a loosening of self while inc...
“Making Sense” presents the primary aims of the book, including how sensory information situates the body, self, and embodied knowledge. The basic theoretical stance regarding the body, senses, and experience is discussed alongside the pedagogical approaches incorporated into the various exercises. Details on how to use the book, specifically the r...
“Dessert” includes two short examples of experimental “recipe” texts written by the author.
The opening chapter, “Impulses,” introduces readers to the interdisciplinary concepts of the book and how the senses relate to interdisciplinarity. It presents readers with a background for employing sensory prompts in creative, practice-based settings and how the exercises support an expanding awareness of self and other, stressing communication,...
Arousing Sense spotlights the senses and embodied knowledge for exploring the realm of creativity, experimentation, and knowledge making. The book is a collection of practiced-based explorations to arouse the senses, to “make sense” of how sensory experiences help to orient the body and self with others. No specialization needed! The purpose of the...
“Tantalizing Recipes” contains thirty-four exercises, or “recipes.” The exercises are written in a consistent cooking recipe format for easy-to-deliver workshops using sensory prompts. The recipes range from engagements of sound, movement, touch, and smell to shifting perspective, memory, time, absence, pareidolia, and so on. As noted, some exercis...
Most of the exercises, or “recipes,” in Arousing Sense follow a consistent compositional form. This section presents a single page overview of the recipe format.
“On the Go” provides a collection of six quick and easy recipes for workshops. Each recipe reflects a category of exercises, suggesting sensory prompt approaches for workshop leaders.
The short article recollects Pauline Oliveros's transmission of Deep Listening through everyday, direct, and playful means of improvisation.
This chapter integrates ethnographic techniques, cognitive science, and enactive theory to examine the phenomenology dynamics that emerge during spontaneous interaction during a newly developed practice called banding. Specifically, participants are connected to each other via large rubber bands. An enactivist analysis of participants’ journals rev...
This article represents a collaborative integration of ethnographic techniques and cognitive neuroscience for examining the dynamics of the movement pedagogy that takes place within Japanese traditional dance. The goal is to examine the extent to which the notion of multiscale entrainment, a hallmark assumption of prospective cognition, can enhance...
Fieldwork can be a dance of disorientation. The encounters in the field often directly reveal contrasting constructs of reality that challenge the researcher's core sensibilities and act as catalysts for profound change through the sensuous nature of extreme experiences.
Pikapika is a collaborative solo performance by Bahn and Hahn that presents a simple model of composition, choreography and collaboration in an interactive context. The piece offers the possibility of a new kind of interactive theatre/costume design –an interactive sonic character. This essay is a case study of a design process for interactive perf...
continues to be based on a master-disciple (one-on-one) system. During lessons students follow the teacher's every movement through visual, kinesthetic, tactile, oral/aural means of transmission.2 Though research on the oral transmission of music has been strong through the history of ethnomusicology, few in-depth investigations of how students lea...
Musical performance in a cultural context has always been inextricably linked to the human body, yet, the body has played only a minor role in the creation and performance of electronic music. This paper will consider aesthetic and technical issues relating to: (1) the social/cultural construction of contexts for chamber music and dance; (2) our co...