Dr. Dorothea Schürch

Profile

Dr. Dorothea Schürch Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin

  • Contact hours Monday
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    Thursday
    Friday
  • Address Berner Fachhochschule
    Bern Academy of the Arts
    Forschung
    Fellerstrasse 11
    3027 Bern

Activities

  • extended voices, early electronics, musique concrète vocale

Teaching

  • MA Contemporary Arts Practice

  • Mentorate künstlerische Praxis

  • Performance Stage – Performance Space

  • Bodily Skills – Performance Skills

Research

  • Musicology, Art

CV

  • 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.

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Language skills and intercultural knowledge

  • German - Native or bilingual proficiency
  • French - Elementary proficiency
  • English - Elementary proficiency