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...1950: Afrological and Eurological Perspectives.” Black Music Research Journal 16 (1): 91–122. doi:10.2307/779379. ———. 2012. “In Search of Benjamin Patterson: An Improvised Journey.” Callaloo 35 (4): 979–92. doi:10.1353/cal.2013.0023. ———. 2013. “Critical Responses to ‘Theorizing Improvisation (Musically).’” Music Theory Online 19...
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 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...
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 03
Entextualization and Preparation in Patterson’s Variations for Double-Bass
Introduction Most composers of notation for improvisers are improvisers themselves. This is no coincidence. As composer-pianist and improvisation scholar Vijay Iyer has noted, The most savvy composers writing for improvisors are those with personal experience as improvisors –...
Chapter 02
A Treatise Remix Handbook
...by collecting a library of fifteen commercial recordings, six archival and broadcast recordings, and a few dozen more published online. 9 (Ultimately a total of twenty recordings were used; they are listed in Source Material.) The library encompassed a vast...
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...
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...
Chapter 04
Invitation to Collaborate — Répondez s’il vous plaît!
Notation is an invitation to collaborate. 1 In the planning of communities a score visible to all the people allows each one of us to respond, to find our own input, to influence before decisions are made. Scoring...