Part 1, Doing. Clare Lesser -- The rehearsal process : Finnissy, Hespos, and pragmatic approaches to indeterminacy / 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, Fiona Smyth. The rehearsal process : Finnissy, Hespos, and pragmatic approaches to indeterminacy / Clare Lesser -- Part 3, Observing. Redefining progress at the intersection of AI and artistic research / Ambrose Field. Game-show, or, The playful work of the voice / Nicholas Brown. The Velicon and music of experience / Ivana Miladinovic 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.
Summary:
"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.--Publisher.
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