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Chapter 00
Chapter 0: The Ground
...outside the context of building – and the ad hoc plans of Gothic cathedrals – drawn literally on the grounds of construction sites with the aid of string and templates. 5 Like this medieval variant, notation offers improvisers conceptual and...
Chapter 03
Entextualization and Preparation in Patterson’s Variations for Double-Bass
...by the composer and untouched by other performers. 5 This workflow has obvious benefits: it eliminates ambiguity between classes of notational symbols; makes revising a quick and simple matter; bypasses the cost and potential for mistakes associated with hiring a...
Chapter 05
Say No Score: a Lexical Improvisation after Bob Ostertag
...the development of a personal “sound” over longer periods of time. 5 Composer and digital instrument designer Newton Armstrong summarizes this neatly in the language of enactive cognition: In a sequence of on-going negotiations between performer and instrument, the performer...
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...
Chapter 02
A Treatise Remix Handbook
...by collecting a library of fifteen commercial recordings, six archival and broadcast recordings, and a few dozen more published online. 9 (Ultimately a total of twenty recordings were used; they are listed in Source Material.) The library encompassed a vast...
About
...continuum has been published in Open Space Magazine, The Improvisor, and Critical Studies in Improvisation, and has been presented at major universities and international conferences in North America, Europe, and India. A book chapter co-written with Mathias Maschat is forthcoming...
Chapter 04
Invitation to Collaborate — Répondez s’il vous plaît!
...with development planning. Example: “the cool, damp climate was outside the human comfort zone. The data also indicated that wind was the most easily controlled climate variable” (John-Alder 2014, 56). 5. Scores (↔ Resources) → Valuaction “Thematic early scores” (Halprin...
Chapter 01
Seeing the Full Sounding
...of these recipes, Sennett shows how “the imaginative trope becomes itself the explanation […] and how unpacked tacit knowledge can become expressive instruction” (184). In the vein (forgive the pun) of “Poularde à la d’Albufera”, 5 Goldstein’s music offers a...