Experience Music Experiment
Pragmatism and Artistic Research
Edited by William Brooks
Challenging perspectives on artistic research in and
through experimental discourse
“Truth happens to an idea.” So wrote William James in
1907; and twenty-four years later John Dewey argued that artistic experience
entailed a process of “doing and undergoing.” But what do these ideas have to
do with music, or with research conducted in and through music—that is, with
“artistic research”? In this collection of essays, fourteen very different
authors respond with distinct and challenging perspectives. Some report on
their own experiments and experiences; some offer
probing analyses of noteworthy practices; some view historical continuities
through the lens of pragmatism and artistic experiment. The resulting
collection yields new insights into what musicians do, how they experiment, and
what they experience—insights that arise not from doctrine, but from diverse
voices seeking common ground in and through experimental discourse: artistic
research in and of itself.
Contributors:
William Brooks (Orpheus Institute), Richard Shusterman (Florida Atlantic
University), Winnie Huang (Orpheus Institute/University of Antwerp/Royal
Conservatoire Antwerp), Marco Fusi (Orpheus Institute/University of
Antwerp/Royal Conservatoire Antwerp), Victoria Tzotzkova (Massachusetts
Institute of Technology) and Fiona Smyth (Trinity College Dublin), Clare Lesser
(New York University Abu Dhabi), Caitlin Rowley (Bath Spa University), Nicholas
Brown (Trinity College Dublin), Ivana Miladinović Prica (University of Arts in
Belgrade), Thibault Galland (Université Libre de Bruxelles), Garry L. Hagberg
(Bard College), Ann Warde (Independent scholar), Deniz Ertan (Independent
scholar) and Ambrose Field (University of York)
This publication is GPRC-labeled (Guaranteed Peer-Reviewed Content).
Introduction
William Brooks
Music,
Poetry, and Possession
Richard Shusterman
Part 1: Doing
The
Pragmatic Musical-Gestural Performer
Winnie Huang
Shaping
Interpretation through Experience: A Case for a Pragmatic Approach to
Contemporary Music Performance
Marco Fusi
Experiments
in Experience: Listening to Rooms and Pianos
Victoria Tzotzkova and Fiona Smyth
The
Rehearsal Process: Finnissy, Hespos, and Pragmatic Approaches to Indeterminacy
Clare Lesser
Part 2: Making
As If
Unobserved: Experiments towards a Publicly Visible Composition Practice
Caitlin Rowley
Game-Show;
or, The Playful Work of the Voice
Nicholas Brown
The Velicon
and Music of Experience
Ivana Miladinović Prica
Part 3: Observing
How to
Embody Truth? Jenny Hval’s Experimentations with Music and Voice
Thibault Galland
The Life of
Rhythm: Musical Time, Dewey’s Pragmatism, and Jazz Improvisation
Garry L. Hagberg
Peirce’s
Aesthetic of Experiment
Ann Warde
Music News
in the Progressive Era: American Experience as Civic Participation, Everyday
Living, and Music Making
Deniz Ertan
Redefining
Progress at the Intersection of AI and Artistic Research
Ambrose Field
Online Materials
Notes on Contributors
Index
Format: Edited volume - paperback
Size: 285 × 195 × 25 mm
288 pages
Illustrated b/w
ISBN: 9789462702790
Publication: August 19, 2021
Series: Orpheus Institute Series
Languages: English
Stock item number: 143320