Impett Sound Work

Composition as Critical Technical Practice
Erscheinungsjahr 2021
ISBN: 978-94-6166-366-5
Verlag: Leuven University Press
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 376 Seiten

The potential for critical technical practice in the creation of music

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.”

This 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.

Contributors: Patricia Alessandrini (Stanford University), Alan Blackwell (University of Cambridge), Nicholas Brown (Trinity College Dublin), Marko Ciciliani (University of Music and Performing Arts Graz, Austria), Nicolas Collins (The School of the Art Institute of Chicago), Agostino Di Scipio (Music Conservatory of L’Aquila / "Arts, écologies, transitions" Research Team, Paris), Daniela Fantechi (Orpheus Institute / University of Antwerp), Ambrose Field (University of York), Karim Haddad (IRCAM - Centre Georges Pompidou), Jonathan Impett (Orpheus Institute), Thor Magnusson (University of Sussex / Iceland University of the Arts), Scott McLaughlin (University of Leeds), Lula Romero (composer), David Rosenboom (composer), Ann Warde (independent scholar), Laura Zattra (IRCAM / Rovigo Conservatories of Music), Julie Zhu (Stanford University)

This publication is GPRC-labeled (Guaranteed Peer-Reviewed Content).

Autoren/Hrsg.

Impett, Jonathan

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Musikwissenschaft Musikwissenschaft Allgemein Musiktheorie, Musikästhetik, Kompositionslehre

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: Music-Making and Storytelling Jonathan Impett

Too Cool to Boogie: Craft, Culture, and Critique in Computing Alan F. Blackwell

Illusions of Form David Rosenboom

What to Ware? A Guide to Today’s Technological Wardrobe Nicolas Collins

Toward a Critical Musical Practice Ann Warde

The Composer’s Domain: Method and Material Nicholas Brown

Dissociation and Interference in Composers’ Stories about Music: The Renewal of Musical Discourse Jonathan Impett

Plates

The Impossibility of Material Foundations Scott McLaughlin

Thinking Liveness in Performance with Live Electronics: The Need for an Eco-systemic Notion of Agency Agostino Di Scipio

Experiment and Experience: Compositional Practice as Critique Lula Romero

Designing the Threnoscope or, How I Wrote One of My Pieces Thor Magnusson

A Few Reflections about Compositional Practice through a Personal Narrative Daniela Fantechi

Temporal Poetics as a Critical Technical Practice Karim Haddad

Collaborative Creation in Electroacoustic Music: Practices and Self-Awareness in the Work of Musical Assistants Marino Zuccheri, Alvise Vidolin, and Carl Faia Laura Zattra

Parlour Sounds: A Critical Compositional Process towards a Cyberfeminist Theory of Music Technology Patricia Alessandrini and Julie Zhu

Changing the Vocabulary of Creative Research: The Role of Networks, Risk, and Accountability in Transcending Technical Rationality Ambrose Field

Designing Audience–Work Relationships Marko Ciciliani

Online Materials Notes on Contributors Index

Über Autor(innen)

Impett, Jonathan
Jonathan Impett is director of research at the Orpheus Institute and associate professor at Middlesex University London.