References
Andersen, Eric. 2012. “In Mezzo a Quattro Tempi.” In Word Events: Perspectives on Verbal Notation, edited by John Lely and James Saunders, 79–82. London: Continuum. Anderson, Michael L. 2003. “Embodied Cognition: A Field Guide.” Artificial Intelligence 149...
Chapter 00
Chapter 0: The Ground
...it might be that of scores themselves: to feed back on practice and thus call themselves into question. However, given the range of material included in the dissertation, a working definition may be helpful. We begin with pianist and artistic...
Chapter 03
Entextualization and Preparation in Patterson’s Variations for Double-Bass
...shifting, contingent, and reflective – might be best termed improvisation. Entextualization Explaining the performative, improvisational nature of Variations’ notation – as well as that of most notation for improvisers – can benefit from the notion of entextualization. A brief historical...
Chapter 05
Say No Score: a Lexical Improvisation after Bob Ostertag
...Andersen does not mention is that they specifically derive from partitus, past participle of the verb partire, which also means to share. This collective sense of the score contradicts the top-down allotment of parts suggested by Rutherford-Johnson’s definition of the...
Chapter 04
Invitation to Collaborate — Répondez s’il vous plaît!
...people” (Canty 2004, 23). Natural conditions of the site: undeveloped coastal land 120 miles north of San Francisco near the San Andreas fault; cool, damp, windy climate; active ocean; rolling meadows; patches of redwood forest. Historical conditions of the site:...
Chapter Ω
Chapter Ω
...methods fit best within improvisers’ environments. A basic respect and sympathy for the score is necessary for this transformation to occur; however, integrity in performance cannot be measured on the axis of faithfulness to either symbols on the page or...
Sample Page
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Chapter 02
A Treatise Remix Handbook
...each other within the situation and personnel of a given performance. Performances of Treatise are best undertaken and assessed on their own terms; grafting strategies or values from one interpretation to another is unlikely to bear fruit. With respect to...
Chapter 01
Seeing the Full Sounding
For the improviser, the physicality of producing sound (the hardware) is not a separate activity from the thoughts, emotions and ideas in music (the software). In the act of creation, there is a constant loop between the hierarchy...
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...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...