Njål Ølnes

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Njål Ølnes is professor at the Department of Arts and Cultural Studies. He holds an PhD in performance practice from the Norwegian Academy of Music in Oslo. From 2016-2020, Ølnes was a postdoctoral fellow at the jazz programme, NTNU, where he examined relational functions in the interplay and investigated how the concept of ‘roles’ can be vital in understanding the improvised interaction.

Ølnes is a jazz saxophonist and has used his musicianship as a basis for research, for example in the article Å forska på eiga speling.

The research uses Aural Sonology analyses as a method and combine these with research in the art of music performance.

This fall Ølnes is contributing with the article 'Roles' in improvised music: Using aural sonology to uncover musical intentions and functions in improvised interplay in an anthology on Aural Sonology, which will be published by Éditions Delatour, Canada.