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 03
Entextualization and Preparation in Patterson’s Variations for Double-Bass
...In the modern period, the increased emphasis on the textual analysis of the “work” establishes the composer’s score as the site of music, marginalizing music’s corporeal aspects, including its embodied and contingent performers (Taruskin; Goehr). And improvisation – which privileges...
Chapter 05
Say No Score: a Lexical Improvisation after Bob Ostertag
A Score can become a notch cut or line, an account kept, number of points made, set of twenty, a topic, piece of good fortune, worst in repartee, and much more. And not to forget a Partitura from...
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 00
Chapter 0: The Ground
A Personal Beginning In 2007, violist Mary Oliver and contrabassist Rozemarie Heggen invited me to write a piece for their duo incorporating improvisation. Despite my diverse experience writing chamber music, free improvising, interpreting, and working in a host...
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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...
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...
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...