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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 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...
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 02
A Treatise Remix Handbook
...each other within the situation and personnel of a given performance. Performances of Treatise are best undertaken and assessed on their own terms; grafting strategies or values from one interpretation to another is unlikely to bear fruit. With respect to...
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...
About
...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...