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The Artistic Turn: a manifesto
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The emergent field of artistic research remains controversial, and is accepted with varying degrees of enthusiasm in academic institutions. The challenges and opportunities presented by this discipline may be better understood by re-emphasising the centrality of the artist through a fresh paradigm - an ‘artistic turn'. The aim is to create a field of meaning that may illuminate the most promising, though correspondingly problematic, aspects of artistic research: the essential ineffability of artistic creativity, and the consequent insufficiency of verbal and written accounts. The discourse articulated charts a constellation of ideas that outlines the new discipline and points to its manifold and open-ended possibilities.
192p, ISBN 9789490389000
€29,5
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metaCage:
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metaCage investigates the musical practice of John Cage in four essays written by current ORCiM Fellows. Three works (Fontana Mix, Aria, and Freeman Etudes) serve as threads that link the contributions, and a CD containing performances of these works, by the Fellows, is included with the volume. The essays embrace both compositional practice, as viewed by musicologically-oriented performers Juan Parra Cancino and Mieko Kanno, and Cage's aesthetic framework, explored by practice-based musicologists Magnus Andersson and William Brooks.
104p, ISBN 9789490389017
€22
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Dynamics of Constraints: |
The three essays of Dynamics of Constraints express some fundamental issues addressed by ORCiM's research group ‘the musician's relation to notation'. Paulo de Assis argues that critical editions should generate critical users, advocating for a new kind of editor and performer; Mieko Kanno's contribution reflects the rapid expansion of the use of electronics in contemporary music, stating that every new work creates an original compositional environment, where the performer's movement-sound co-ordination is given a new significance, while Juan Parra Cancino points towards a kind of composition, where both the performing and the listening experience don't aim to achieve a 'final' version of the piece - an entity that might ever manifest.
48p, ISBN 9789490389024
€15
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The Practice of Practising
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Alessandro Cervino, Maria Lettberg, Tania Lisboa (co-authors Roger Chaffin and Topher Logan)
edited by Catherine Laws
To date, the literature on practice has been primarily pedagogical and psychological. Little attention is paid to the significance of practice, and especially to the role of embodied experience - of understanding gained through doing - in the forming of musical ideas. The Practice of Practising is primarily concerned with considering practising as a practice in itself: a collection of processes that determines musical creativity and significance.
92p, ISBN 978 90 5867 848 5 €25