References
...of Musical Dialogue: A Phenomenology of Music. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Boretz, Benjamin. 1981. “If I Am a Musical Thinker.” Perspectives of New Music 20 (1/2): 465–517. doi:10.2307/942424. Borgo, David. n.d. “Entangled: The Complex Dynamics of Improvisation.” https://www.academia.edu/22893440/Entangled_The_Complex_Dynamics_of_Improvisation. ———. 2007....
Chapter 05
Say No Score: a Lexical Improvisation after Bob Ostertag
...Latin Pars indicating both partial, direction and task. It sounds like music but really isn’t. 1 I imagine these musicians meeting not to read scores but to improvise from available scores, as was common in the Renaissance. A recording of...
Chapter 03
Entextualization and Preparation in Patterson’s Variations for Double-Bass
...Variations as a site of improvisation – particularly since it never once asks the performer to “improvise” as such? I would explain my use of the term as a further emphasis on the practice of notating, as opposed to the...
Chapter 04
Invitation to Collaborate — Répondez s’il vous plaît!
...50) Some scholars who emphasize the political dimension of improvisation, such as philosopher Tracey Nicholls, even suggest that notation is incompatible with true collectivity: I want to highlight two ways in which improvisatory practices and principles of improvisation can be...
Chapter 00
Chapter 0: The Ground
...interdisciplinary formats, the request seemed odd.“Why do they want a notated piece if they are going to improvise?” I asked myself naively.“And what can my written intervention offer these perfectly self-sufficient virtuose other than needless complication?” Nonetheless I accepted the...
Chapter Ω
Chapter Ω
...The End? Tactile Paths is modular in nature; as I mention in Chapter 0, its constituent chapters, or paths, can be traversed in any order. It might therefore seem odd to offer a conclusion, since readers are encouraged to...
Sample Page
...to potential site visitors. It might say something like this: Hi there! I’m a bike messenger by day, aspiring actor by night, and this is my blog. I live in Los Angeles, have a great dog named Jack, and I...
Chapter 02
A Treatise Remix Handbook
...What is the relevant way of speaking about Treatise? What are the terms? Can one really say anything explicit about it? (Cardew 1971, 102) 1 Introduction In “The Ground”, I asked myself two questions in response to an invitation...
Chapter 01
Seeing the Full Sounding
...factors involved in the process. My lungs, lips, fingers, voice box and their working together with the potentials of sound are dialoguing with other levels which I might call mind and perception. The thoughts and decisions are sustained and modified...
About
...Darmstadt Summer Courses, the Arts Council of Catalunya, Goethe Institut, Hauptstadtkulturfonds Berlin, the Festival Acanthes, and the American Documentary Film Festival. He also co-curates the Berlin concert series KONTRAKLANG, and works with sound experience designer Charles Morrow Productions. www.christopherisnow.com...