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Distributed Creativity: Collaboration and Improvisation in Contemporary Music
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by Eric F. Clarke, Mark DoffmanEric F. Clarke
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Overview
Creative practice in music, particularly in traditional concert culture, is commonly understood in terms of a rather stark division of labour between composer and performer. But this overlooks the distributed and interactive nature of the creative processes on which so much contemporary music depends. The incorporation of two features-improvisation and collaboration-into much contemporary music suggests that the received view of the relationship between composition and performance requires reassessment. Improvisation and collaborative working practices blur the composition/performance divide and, in doing so, provide important new perspectives on the forms of distributed creativity that play a central part in much contemporary music. Distributed Creativity: Collaboration and Improvisation in Contemporary Music explores the different ways in which collaboration and improvisation enable and constrain creative processes. Thirteen chapters and twelve shorter Interventions offer a range of perspectives on distributed creativity in music, on composer/performer collaborations and on contemporary improvisation practices. The chapters provide substantial discussions of a variety of conceptual frameworks and particular projects, while the Interventions present more informal contributions from a variety of practitioners (performers, composers, improvisers), giving insights into the pleasures and perils of working creatively in collaborative and improvised ways.
Product Details
ISBN-13: | 9780190905644 |
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Publisher: | Oxford University Press |
Publication date: | 12/13/2017 |
Series: | Studies in Musical Perf as Creative Prac |
Sold by: | Barnes & Noble |
Format: | NOOK Book |
Pages: | 384 |
File size: | 4 MB |
About the Author
Eric Clarke is Heather Professor of Music at the University of Oxford, a Professorial Fellow of Wadham College and a Fellow of the British Academy. He has published on issues in the psychology of music, musical meaning, music and consciousness, and the analysis of pop. His books include Ways of Listening (2005), Music and Mind in Everyday Life (2010), and Music and Consciousness (2011). Mark Doffman is a lecturer in the Faculty of Music, University of Oxford, where he was a research associate in the AHRC Research Centre for Musical Performance as Creative Practice before receiving a Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship. He has research interests in the psycho-social aspects of performance; has published on jazz, creativity and social interaction in music; and performs regularly as a jazz drummer.
Table of Contents
Contents List of examples List of figures List of tables List of contributors Introduction and overview Eric Clarke and Mark Doffman Section 1: Frames Chapter 1 Composer-performer collaborations in the long twentieth-century Arnold Whittall Chapter 2 The labour that dare not speak its name: musical creativity, labour process and the materials of music Jason Toynbee Chapter 3. Distributed cognition, ecological theory and group improvisation Adam Linson and Eric Clarke Chapter 4. Domesticating gesture: the collaborative creative process of Florence Baschet's StreicherKreis for 'augmented' string quartet (2006-2008) Nicolas Donin Section 2: Collaborations Intervention. 'These four must be stopped' Irvine Arditti Chapter 5 Cross-cultural collaborations with the Kronos Quartet Amanda Bayley Intervention. Collaboration: making it work Sarah Nicolls Chapter 6 Fluid practices, solid roles? The evolution of Forlorn Hope Eric Clarke, Mark Doffman, David Gorton and Stefan Östersjö Intervention. surfaces James Saunders and Simon Limbrick Chapter 7 Composition changing instruments changing composition Christopher Redgate Intervention. My Mother Told Me Not To Stare: composition as a collaborative process Martyn Harry Intervention. The composer in the room: Jeremy West on Martyn Harry with His Majesty's Sagbutts and Cornetts Jeremy West Chapter 8 Negotiations: sound and speech in the making of a studio recording Maya Gratier, Rebecca Evans and Ksenija Stevanovic Intervention. Recording Paraphrase: a 'social occasion'? Emily Payne Chapter 9. Contemporary Music in Action: performer-composer collaboration within the conservatoire. Mark Doffman and Jean-Philippe Calvin Intervention. On working alone John Croft Section 3: Improvisation Intervention. Knots and other forms of entanglement Liza Lim Chapter 10 (Re-)imagining improvisation: discursive positions in Iranian music from classical to jazz Laudan Nooshin Intervention. On the conundrum of composing an improvisation Jeremy Thurlow Chapter 11 Improvisation as composition: the recorded organ improvisations of Vierne and Tournemire David Maw Intervention. Improvisation and composition in the French organ tradition: an interview with Thierry Escaich David Maw with Thierry Escaich Chapter 12 Learning to improvise, improvising to learn: a qualitative study of learning processes in improvising musicians Una MacGlone and Raymond MacDonald Intervention. Song Loré Lixenberg Chapter 13 The ensemble as plural subject: jazz improvisation, collective intention, and group agency Garry Hagberg Intervention. What is it like to be an improviser? Neil Heyde, Christopher Redgate, Roger Redgate and Matthew WrightCustomer Reviews
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