Web
- www.lisadillan.com
- www.headstanding.wordpress.com
- www.facebook.com/lisadillan
Research Areas / Expertise
- Improvisation: Improvised training methods for improvisation, from classical and contemporary music to mainstream jazz and freely improvised music or other art forms.
- Singer: Experimental/jazz/improvised/pop/contemporary.
- Composer: Regular composing techniques, graphic/open scores, structures or modules to be used as improvising framework.
- Intermedia and performance: The improvised meeting point between dance, music, light, video and fine arts.
- Meta Competence: Meta training for improvising and performing artists. Techniques for increasing awareness, concentration, the improvised state of mind, listening, kinesthetic/tactile sense and visual orientation in a performative context.
Teaching
- Vocal
- Improvisation for students at improvisation/jazz, classical, composers, music pedagogic
- Inter medial improvisation
- Performance
Bio and CV
Lisa Dillan (b. 1969) is an improvising singer, composer and performing artist. She has worked with several leading pop, jazz- and improvisation musicians and dancers at home and abroad, touring in Russia, China, the USA, Europe and Scandinavia with her solo concerts and bands.
Lisa Dillan is an associate professor in improvisation, educated at the Norwegian State Academy of Music, where she also has taught improvisation, jazz singing and intermedia improvisation since 2001. She also does workshops, lectures and seminars on improvisation and intermedia art performing.
Main projects: Lisa Dillan Solo, Lisa Dillan Quite Quiet Project with Asbjørn Lerheim, Lisa Dillan improvised – ad hoc improvisation with various performers and musicians.
Background
Education
- Romerike Folkehøgskole 1989/90 – Theater/directing
- Grunnfag musikk, Bodø lærerhøgskole 1990/91 – Music
- Bachelor Jazz, NMH 2000 – 50 % performing, 50 % pedagogical
- Master's degree, Improvisation, NMH 2008
Professional experience
- Singer, composer and performance artist since 1991
- Teaching improvisation and singing at NMH since 2001
Publications
- Album (CD): Change of habit Lisa Dillan and Asbjørn Lerheim (FXCD411) 2015
- Sverm: et mikrounivers av dans og musikk 2012
- Sverm - mikrobevegelser og mikrolyd 2012
- Sverm: Visning og felles utprøving av mikrolyd/mikrobevegelser 2012
- Sverm: foreløpige resultater 2012
- Album (CD, vinyl): Love me tender - the quite quiet way Lisa Dillan and Asbjørn Lerheim (FXCD377, FXLP377) 2012
