Dr. Dorothea Schürch
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Dr. Dorothea Schürch Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin
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Contact hours
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Address
Berner Fachhochschule
Bern Academy of the Arts
Forschung
Fellerstrasse 11
3027 Bern
You can find more information on the
German profile page.
Activities
Focus areas
extended voices, early electronics, musique concrète vocale
Teaching
Degree programmes
MA Contemporary Arts Practice
Subjects
Mentorate künstlerische Praxis
Performance Stage – Performance Space
Bodily Skills – Performance Skills
Research
Specialisations
Musicology, Art
CV
Biography
- Dorothea Schürch (*1960) is a singer, performer and improviser. After completing the MA Contemporary Arts Practice (HKB, Bern) and the MA Research on the Arts (University of Bern) she did her PhD on avant-garde vocal practices of the 1950s (Graduate School of the Arts, GSA, University of Bern) using "Audioscoring" a method she specially developed for her research. She is now working as a postdoctoral researcher on tape compositions for voices of the 1950s and 1960s as part of the research project "Schreiben mit Stimmen" [Writing with Voices] at the BUA funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation.
Projects
Publications
Lecture Performances
Schürch, Dorothea (2022). Small Inner Spaces V.[Performance Lecture]. In: Le son dans l`art performance - une épistemologie Intermedia. Institut Supérieur des Beaux Arts Besançon (ISBA). 6.4.2022
Awards
2009
Werkbeiträge der Stadt Zürich, der Stadt Genf und der Lotterie Romand
2008
Kulturfonds des Bundesamtes für Kultur
2001
Werkjahr der Stadt Zürich
Language skills and intercultural knowledge
Language skills
- German - Native or bilingual proficiency
- French - Elementary proficiency
- English - Elementary proficiency
Intercultural knowledge
- Switzerland