The fundamental question in this study is what elements from my folk music back ground will I bring into my work when I aim to articulate a new sound? I’m a singer, composer and choir conductor based in the folk music tradition. 

After a while my research question grew into three directions: composing, shaping of voice and influences from other fields of art. 

To re-orientate in my artistic practice I have projected my musical ideas on a fantasy world. The purpose is to find new ways of composing that can be both recognized as folk music and at the same time different from what I used to call my tradition. At the start a fictional world was created with a storyline, and inhabitants with a backstory. This narrative has remained my research ground though the whole project. After some time the ensemble side of the project grew and the solo project diminished. 

A new ensemble, Stormsvalan, was formed and interactive collaborative methods became more central. My goal was to create space for both individual and collective work in our performance, in a way that is sprung from traditional music. Together we did twohree live performances, video documentations and a studio recording. 

The findings of my study is the long term development of voice personas, and how a fantasy narrative influences performance and ensemble work. In the ensemble we can go further to explore a new soundscape that belongs to my fictional world of new folk music. The findings has arised new questions about metamorphose, voice shaping, music bridge building and the process of artistic research.