Sound work : composition as critical technical practice / Patricia Alessandrini [and sixteen others] ; edited by Jonathan Impett.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Alessandrini, Patricia, 1970- author.

Contributor:

Impett, Jonathan, editor.

Series:

Orpheus Institute

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Composition (Music).

Composition (Music)--Collaboration.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (376 pages)

Place of Publication:

Leuven, Belgium : Leuven University Press, [2021]

Summary:

The practices and perception of music creation have evolved with the cultural, social and technological contexts of music and musicians. But musical authorship, in its many technical and aesthetic modes, remains an important component of music culture. Musicians are increasingly called on to share their experience in writing. However, cultural imperatives to account for composition as knowledge production and to make claims for its uniqueness inhibit the development of discourse in both expert and public spheres. Internet pioneer Philip Agre observed a discourse deficit in artificial intelligence research and proposed a critical technical practice, a single disciplinary field with ?one foot planted in the craft work of design and the other foot planted in the reflexive work of critique. ? A critical technical practice rethinks its own premises, re-evaluates its own methods, and reconsiders its own concepts as a routine part of its daily work.?0This volume considers the potential for critical technical practice in the evolving situation of composition across a wide range of current practices. In seeking to tell more honest, useful stories of composition, it hopes to contribute to a new discourse around the creation of music.

Contents:

ExperienceMusicExperiment_COV_Def

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Acknowledgements

Introduction

William Brooks

Music, Poetry, and Possession

Richard Shusterman

Part 1

Doing

The Pragmatic Musical-Gestural Performer

Winnie Huang

Shaping Interpretation through Experience:

A Case for a Pragmatic Approach to Contemporary Music Performance

Marco Fusi

Experiments in Experience:

Listening to Rooms and Pianos

Victoria Tzotzkova

Fiona Smyth

The Rehearsal Process:

Finnissy, Hespos, and Pragmatic Approaches to Indeterminacy

Clare Lesser

Part 2

Making

As If Unobserved:

Experiments towards a Publicly Visible Composition Practice

Caitlin Rowley

Game-Show

or, The Playful Work of the Voice

Nicholas Brown

The Velicon and Music of Experience

Ivana Miladinović Prica

Part 3

Observing

How to Embody Truth?

Jenny Hval's Experimentations with Music and Voice

Thibault Galland

The Life of Rhythm:

Musical Time, Dewey's Pragmatism, and Jazz Improvisation

Garry L. Hagberg

Peirce's Aesthetic of Experiment

Ann Warde

Music News in the Progressive Era:

American Experience as Civic Participation, Everyday Living, and Music Making

Deniz Ertan

Redefining Progress at the Intersection of AI and Artistic Research

Ambrose Field

Online Materials

Notes on Contributors

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9789461663665

9461663668

OCLC:

1287616642