Conference Music in Context: “The Scream and the Falsetto in Poizat and Artaud. Voice and Physicality.”
by Maria João Serrão

Music in Context Cycle Colloquium Series organized by CESEM and INET-MD

The Scream and the Falsetto in Poizat and Artaud.
Voice and Physicality.

The human voice is so immense with humanity itself; she belongs to the human race by the same title as all the faculties that nature has given her privilege and is thus part of her unusual talents. This implies that the Voice will be the object of a development according to the creative opportunities of each one. However, its specific nature pays tribute to it being one of the most intangible talents among all, a fluid, abstract matter, capable of attracting adherence and rejection on the part of those who receive it or those who emit it, according to opportunity and taste. Considerations about various uses of Voice in the scope of artistic creation, from the analysis of Michel Poizat on the female characters of some operas such as Salomé de Strauss and Lulu de Berg, from the acute to the falsetto, from the sprechgesang to the scream, with references also significant in Antonin Artaud’s assumptions and particular forms in composers of the 20th and 21st centuries.

Maria João Serrão. Coordinating Professor with Aggregation of the Voice / Music Area at the School of Theater and Cinema, IPL, between 1985 and 2010. Scientific Coordinator of the Masters in Performing Arts at ESTC since Feb. 2009. Created the Master in Theater-Music no. Semester of 2010. Currently retired. Researcher and member of the CESEM Scientific Council (FCSH / UNL). Graduated in Higher Corner by the National Conservatory of Lisbon, with Improvement and Virtuosity at the Conservatoire de Musique de Genève (1976 and 77); Singing masterclasses with Elisabeth Grümmer, Hugo Diez, Ernst Haeflieger, Heidi Raymond, Mimi Seiler, Patricia Chiti, Juliette Bise, Ursula Buckel. Maîtrise diplomas from the University of Rouen (1992); Masters (1993) and PhD in Sciences, Techniques and Aesthetics of Arts – Music (1997), from the University of Paris VIII with the thesis Constança Capdeville et le théâtre musical au Portugal. La voix contemporaine (Scholarship from FC Gulbenkian) .

In the 70’s and 90’s, he was a contemporary music interpreter with GMCL and performer in collaboration with artists Gracinda Candeias, João Vieira, Guy Chaplain; with guitarist and composer J. Lopes e Silva and with Eduardo Sérgio and the group Amarg’arte. And with Águeda Sena, Madalena Vitorino, Margarida Serrão, Yvon Bayer, Mónica Lapa and Cristina Delius. He performed theater-music works by Georges Aperghis, Tom Johnson, Horatiu Radulescu, Vinko Globokar, Michael Finnissy, Paulo Brandão, Jorge Peixinho, Lopes e Silva, Clotilde Rosa, Cândido Lima, Luciano Berio, Bernard van Beurden, Zigmunt Krauze, Pierre- Albert Castanet, in several concerts and festivals in Europe. Since 2002, he has been part of the international project Voyages du Geste, created by Compagnie Subito Presto, (France), which promotes Training and Creation Meetings for young professionals in the performance of France, Italy, Belgium, Lebanon, Palestine, Portugal and Bulgaria. He is part of the Propositário Azul Artistic Association, a member of the Euro-Mediterranean Anna Lindh Foundation.

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