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 00
Chapter 0: The Ground
...State of the Field Despite the large number and wide array of artists working with notation for improvisers in contemporary music, “notation for improvisers” does not – to the best of my knowledge – constitute a cohesive field of research....
Chapter 02
A Treatise Remix Handbook
...It did not resolve the question above once and for all: I cracked no hidden code in the score, nor did I discover any magical thread uniting Treatise‘s performance history. Indeed making A Treatise Remix revealed far more about my...
Chapter 04
Invitation to Collaborate — Répondez s’il vous plaît!
...simultaneous action and perception of musicians with instruments, each other, physical and social spaces, and many other “actors, factors, and vectors” (Cobussen, Frisk, and Weijland 2010). Borgo: When viewed ecologically, cognition is best understood as a process co-constituted by the...
Chapter 05
Say No Score: a Lexical Improvisation after Bob Ostertag
...Documents such as tape recordings of improvisation are essentially empty, as they chiefly preserve the form that something took and give at best an indistinct hint as to the feeling and cannot convey any sense of time and place. […]...
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...