Artistic Process – An Inspirational Guide from a Musician’s Perspective is full of methods, tips and ideas about how to make things happen when we’re stuck. It looks at how to move forward by using Flow Parameters, as well as methods like The Star, The Cake, A Hundred Days – and how our Neurons can help; how writing, walking or doing nothing at all can be pretty useful methods for achieving Reflection.
All this is interspersed with the author’s meandering ideas inspired by her own artistic processes, together with insights into other
artists’ ways of thinking prompted by questions like:
How do you start? What inspires you?
Although the book initially reflects the perspective of a musician, the methods, ideas and concepts are useful or transferrable to other artistic forms and
activities.
Susanne Rosenberg is a singer and Professor of Folk Singing at Royal College of Music in Stockholm, Sweden. She has long been interested in artistic processes, and in what does – and what doesn’t – get things to happen.
The artistic research she carried out in her own doctoral thesis, Kurbits-ReBoot – Swedish traditional singing in new artistic contexts (2013), involved
studying methods and concepts related to artistic process involving the use of Flow Parameters such as Play – Risk – Mimicry – Reorientation – Feedback as important catalysts in artistic work.