Kathleen Coessens Experimental Encounters in Music and Beyond

Erscheinungsjahr 2018
ISBN: 978-94-6166-231-6
Verlag: Leuven University Press
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 212 Seiten

Multidisciplinary analysis of experimentalism in music and the wider arts today
Experimental Encounters in Music and Beyond opens a necessary dialogue on experimental practices in the arts and negotiates their place in contemporary society. Going beyond the music-historical usage of the term “experimental”, this book reimagines experimentation as an open working definition encompassing multiple forms of artistic attitudes and processes. The texts, images, and sounds offer multiple traces, faces, and spaces, revealing what experimentalism in music and the wider arts entails today. With perspectives from a range of disciplines—from choreography through composition to philosophy and beyond—the different experiences and artistic projects documented and discussed explore the complexity of experimentation in a way that is all the richer for being never-ending.

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Contributors

Richard Barrett (Institute of Sonology, The Hague), Sebastian Berweck (pianist and performer), Kathleen Coessens (Orpheus Institute, Ghent), Frederik Croene (pianist and composer, Belgium), Chaya Czernowin (Harvard University, Cambridge), Anne Douglas (Grays School of Art, Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen), Bob Gilmore † (Orpheus Institute, Ghent), Valentin Gloor (Orpheus Institute, Ghent), David Gorton (Royal Academy of Music, University of London), David Horne (Royal Northern College of Music, Manchester), Efva Lilja (Dansehallerne, Copenhagen), Svetlana Maraš (independent music professional, Radio Belgrade, Electronic Studio), Melinda Maxwell (Royal Northern College of Music, Manchester), Christopher Redgate (Royal Academy of Music, University of London), Jan C. Schacher (Royal Conservatoire, Artesis Plantijn University College, Antwerp, and Zurich University of the Arts), Reto Stadelmann (composer and musician, Germany), Steve Tromans (Middlesex University, UK), Penelope Turner (singer, musician, and performer, UK and Belgium)

Autoren/Hrsg.

Kathleen Coessens, Coessens

Weitere Mitwirkende

Coessens, Kathleen

Barrett, Richard

Berweck, Sebastian

Croene, Frederik

Czernowin, Chaya

Douglas, Anne

Gilmore, Bob

Gloor, Valentin

Gorton, David

Horne, David

Lilja, Efva

Maras, Svetlana

Maxwell, Melinda

Redgate, Christopher

Schacher, Jan C.

Stadelmann, Reto

Tromans, Steve

Turner, Penelope

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Musikwissenschaft Musikwissenschaft Allgemein Musiktheorie, Musikästhetik, Kompositionslehre

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Faces, Spaces, and Traces: A Prelude to Experimental Encounters Kathleen Coessens

PART ONE: CONTRASTING FACES Kathleen Coessens

Down With the Experiment! Long Live the Process! or, Dance Doesn’t Exist Efva Lilja

The Art of Risk Taking: Experimentation, Invention, and Discovery Chaya Czernowin

PART TWO: CHALLENGING MATERIAL SPACES Kathleen Coessens

Thingification of Compositional Process: The Emergence and Autonomy of Extramusical Objects in Western Art Music Svetlana Maraš

Roll Over Czerny Frederik Croene

Austerity Measures and Rich Rewards David Gorton and Christopher Redgate

Cooperation and Collaboration between Interpreter and Composer in Electroacoustic Music Sebastian Berweck

Trans-form: Sketches, Experiments, and Concepts in Artistic Creation Jan C. Schacher

PART THREE: EXPERIMENTAL DIALOGUES WITH TRACES Kathleen Coessens

Rational Spaces: The String Quartets of Ben Johnston as Experimental Process Bob Gilmore

The Need for Artistic Experimentation When Preparing Organum Duplum for Performance Léonin and Pérotin and Twelfth- and Thirteenth-Century Polyphony from L’Ecole de Notre Dame Penelope Turner

“Association”: A Way of Artistic Experimentation That Can Expand Interpretation Possibilities Valentin Gloor

PART FOUR: NEGOTIATING EXPERIMENTAL(LY) SPACES AND FACES Kathleen Coessens

From Experimentation to Construction Richard Barrett Exper-iment, Exper-ience, Exper-tise: Practice-as-Research in Jazz Performance Steve Tromans

Improvisation as Experimentation in Everyday Life and Beyond Anne Douglas and Kathleen Coessens

Composition as Improvisation/Improvisation as Composition David Horne and Melinda Maxwell

The Kunstorchester Kwaggawerk Project: An Original Cultural Education Programme Reto Stadelmann

An Afterthought to Experimental Encounters Kathleen Coessens

Über Autor(innen)

Gorton, David
David Gorton is a composer, senior postgraduate tutor and associate head of research at the Royal Academy of Music, associate professor at the University of London, and associate researcher at the Orpheus Institute, Ghent.

Coessens, Kathleen
Kathleen Coessens is director of the Koninklijk Conservatorium Brussel, professor at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel, and associate researcher at the Orpheus Institute, Ghent.

Douglas, Anne
Anne Douglas is a professor emerita, Gray’s School of Art, Robert Gordon University, Scotland, who explores the changing place of the artist in public life. Her research has increasingly focused on art and the environmental crisis from a practice-led perspective. She co-produced the Harrisons’ work ‘On the Deep Wealth of this Nation: Scotland’ (2017) in collaboration with Newton Harrison and the Centre for the Study of the Force Majeure, University of California Santa Cruz.

Gilmore, Bob
Bob Gilmore is a Research Fellow at the Orpheus Institute (Belgium) and editor of Tempo: A Quarterly Review of New Music (UK).