References
Andersen, Eric. 2012. “In Mezzo a Quattro Tempi.” In Word Events: Perspectives on Verbal Notation, edited by John Lely and James Saunders, 79–82. London: Continuum. Anderson, Michael L. 2003. “Embodied Cognition: A Field Guide.” Artificial Intelligence 149...
Chapter 00
Chapter 0: The Ground
...material orientation in a sound world or “taskscape” 6 where reading may be a form of preparation or an interface during performance. Following composer-improviser Barrett, paths are also “invitations to collaborate” (Barrett, personal email to the author, 12 December 2015):...
Chapter 03
Entextualization and Preparation in Patterson’s Variations for Double-Bass
...only a means to recreate the piece in a generic sense; it also traces an actual performance history. (What is the relationship between the two?) Moving on to page 2, I find the handwritten word “(Tuning)” at the end of...
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 04
Invitation to Collaborate — Répondez s’il vous plaît!
...For artists and scholars working with notation for improvisers, these “major configurations” are extremely promising in themselves. They offer a gradated view of prescription and preservation, as well as a view of what lies beyond the work. Unfortunately, however, Halprin’s...
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 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...
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...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...
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