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 04
Invitation to Collaborate — Répondez s’il vous plaît!
...free the creative process by making the process visible” (1969, 3). In my following exposition of the RSVP cycle, I will concentrate on those aspects of the model that bear out Halprin’s claim, with an eye on its applicability to...
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 of...
References
...Andrew W. 1995. “Cecil Taylor, Identity Energy, and the Avant-Garde African American Body.” Perspectives of New Music 33 (1/2): 274–93. Beins, Burkhard. 2011. “Scheme and Event.” In Echtzeitmusik Berlin: Selbstbestimmung Einer Szene | Self-Defining a Scene, edited by Burkhard Beins,...
Chapter 05
Say No Score: a Lexical Improvisation after Bob Ostertag
...appear fixed and finished, such as articulation and ornamentation; and dyed-in-the-wool free improvisers might warm up to the potential of scores for diverse reasons, such as minimizing clichés in their own music. With this objective in mind, I dedicate the...
Chapter 03
Entextualization and Preparation in Patterson’s Variations for Double-Bass
...and White File to order and often gave them away for free, up until his scores were published together in an anthology edited by Benedikt Stegmayer (2012). In my opinion Patterson’s direct, unfussy approach to writing, publishing, and distributing his...
Chapter Ω
Chapter Ω
...takeaway has been a renewed emphasis on the continuity and value-neutrality of notation and improvisation as parts of a larger creative landscape. In other words, I feel as free as ever to notate and improvise, together or separately, or not,...
Chapter 01
Seeing the Full Sounding
...by showing that physicality belongs to both practices, linking over-time and in-time processes in unexpected and fundamental ways. Such links stand to illuminate a dynamism central not only to Goldstein’s music, but to notation for improvisers as a whole....