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 00
Chapter 0: The Ground
...spontaneous reactivity, so bypassing the necessity of semantic clarification. (Apples thus takes advantage of the blatancy that made Corita’s work so apt for commercial advertising in the 1960s and 1970s – if to rather different ends.) The score’s use of...
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 05
Say No Score: a Lexical Improvisation after Bob Ostertag
...present chapter to a brief exploration of a word that I have elsewhere used somewhat irresponsibly: score. In the other chapters of the dissertation I use the term almost interchangeably with notation, primarily in an attempt to refrain from numbing...
Chapter 03
Entextualization and Preparation in Patterson’s Variations for Double-Bass
...The present chapter aims to articulate the dynamics of this intertwining – the process of inscription. It centers on the following question: how do composer-improvisers use notation to share, challenge, or transform their own ways of improvising? By tracing my...
Chapter Ω
Chapter Ω
...explicitly with practical investigation, and the arguments of early chapters (“Seeing the Full Sounding”; “A Treatise Remix Handbook”) foreground creative media. “Entextualization and Preparation…”, written next, takes personal artistic experience as an object, but does not use it as a...
Acknowledgements
...and the website design; to my academic adviser Marcel Cobussen for The Field of Musical Improvisation and knowing when to use honey and when vinegar; and to my artistic adviser Richard Barrett for his never-ending supply of “what if?” questions...
Chapter 01
Seeing the Full Sounding
...David, and his teacher Madame Benshaw for an elaborate French chicken dish called “Poularde à la d’Albufera”. According to Sennett, each of these recipes provides a successful alternative to the traps of “dead denotation”, or the debilitating use of commands...