Publications & Lectures

Carl Unander-Scharin gives lectures and writes essays in the opera/ voice/ mecatronic/ electronic context.
TO BE UPDATED (November 2013) with scholarly writing. Search Google scholar if in a hurry)
Publications:
• Om skönheten i det fasansfulla (On the beauty in the horrifying)
Essay on Giuseppe Verdi and "Il Trovatore", Royal Opera Programme book on Il Trovatore, 2005.

• Halifax, Litterär kalender, nr 10/1996
• Divan, tidskrift för psykoanalys och kultur, nr 4/1996
• Vadstena-Akademiens 40 årsjubiléums bok, 2004
• Utvärderingen av I sing the body electric, 2004
• Interviews in Dagens Nyheter, Sydsvenska Dagbladet, Nutida Musik/ Tritonus”
• Programkommentarer i programböckerna till verken:

  • Mannen på Sluttningen
  • Figurer i ett landskap
  • Tokfursten
  • Hummelhonung
  • Byrgitta
  • Lysistrate
  • I sing the Body Electric!

 • Essays written during Dialogseminarium, KTH 2006

  • Domens Kultur/ The Culture of Judgement
  • Instudering och Intuition/ Learning and Intuition
  • Om koloristen och intervjuaren. Några tankar om att tonsätta samtalsterapi./ The Colourist and the Interviewer. Thoughts on putting music to an act of Therapy.
  • Det svartvita fotografiet i skiduthyrarens bod – om sökandet i minnets branter. The Black and White print in the skishop - thoughts on memories and ruins.

 
Lectures:
• Om skönheten i det fasansfulla (On the beauty in the horrifying), lecture on Verdi and Il Trovatore
• From Things to Sounds. Lecture on some uses of artefacts in music.
• Music for Dance and for Mechatronics
• How does an operasinger study and learn a part?