Chapter 03
Entextualization and Preparation in Patterson’s Variations for Double-Bass
...by Germans for the most banal of record-keeping, the seventeen Variations are unassumingly sandwiched between Duo (1961), for voice and string instrument, and Paper Piece (1960), for an unspecified number of performers playing (with) paper. The humble presentation of this...
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 the...
References
...and Cultural Improvisation, edited by Elizabeth Hallam and Tim Ingold, 25–41. Oxford, New York: Berg. Barrett, Richard. 1999. Transmission. Suffolk: United Music Publishers. ———. 2002a. Blattwerk. Suffolk: United Music Publishers. ———. 2002b. “Blattwerk: Composition / Improvisation / Collaboration.” http://richardbarrettmusic.com/BlattwerkEssay.html. ———....
Chapter 00
Chapter 0: The Ground
...same piece to begin with. Research Questions Despite these nominal failures, the exercise of writing Apples produced a number of new, more nuanced questions from which creative possibilities, collaborations, and extended reflections have emerged ever since: What aspects of improvising...
Chapter 04
Invitation to Collaborate — Répondez s’il vous plaît!
...power) need not be followed to their bitter end, that creative community-building strategies may be substituted in place of a (partially) determining text. (Nicholls 2012, 114) Yet music by a number of improvisers who use notation does in fact privilege...
Chapter 02
A Treatise Remix Handbook
...pages of lines and shapes, clustered around a strong, almost continuous central line, which can be imagined as the lifeline of the reader, his center, around which all manner of activity takes place […] (Cardew 1971, 113) Any number of...
Chapter Ω
Chapter Ω
...do not by any means exhaustively represent the field of notation for improvisers. Nor do they represent, as I explain in Chapter 0 (“Objectives and Criteria”), the potentially infinite number of subcategories imaginable within the field. Rather, I believe they...
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Chapter 01
Seeing the Full Sounding
...my violin playing… an overflowing of myself in space. Sound as a physical reality, touching upon the ears of the body; (“upon the string, within the bow… breathing”)… reverberations within the skull become a changing landscape – a new music…...
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