Vocal artistic research methods: tools for accessing an atmospheric experience

Abstract

Heidi Fast is an artist-researcher and singer, who is currently finalizing her artistic doctoral research on the transformational potential of non-verbal affective communication, in Aalto University. The research is actualized in cooperation with Helsinki University Central Hospital of Psychiatry. The themes of the artistic research are imminently connected with art working, that involves wide projects and series of artworks, such as Hospital Symphonies (2015-2019), which was actualized to the hospital space, concert hall and radio.