Composing Under the Skin: The Music-Making Body at the Composer's Desk
- Type:
- boek
- Titel:
- Composing Under the Skin: The Music-Making Body at the Composer's Desk
- Jaar:
- 2014
- Onderwerp:
- artistic research
Composing - Taal:
- Onbepaald
- Uitgever:
- Leuven Leuven University Press 2014
- Plaatsnummer:
- ORPH.MTP2 CRAE (Orpheus Instituut)
- ISBN:
- 9789058679741
- Paginering:
- 284 pages
- Reeks:
- Orpheus Institute Series 4
- Samenvatting:
- A revealing study of the physical presence of the musician in musical performanceFingers slipping over guitar strings, the tap of a bow against the body of a cello, a pianist humming along to the music: contemporary composers often work with parasitic, non-conventional sounds such as these. Are they to be perceived as musical elements or do they shift attention to the physical effort of music-making, contact between a body and an instrument?Composer Paul Craenen explores ways in which the musicians body is revealed in musical performance. He leads us from Cage, Lachenmann, Kagel and their contemporaries to a discussion of how today's generation of young composers is writing a body paradigm into composition itself. Micro-temporal physical gestures and instrumental timbre provide the key to unveiling the physical presence of both a musician and a composing body.The author's concept of intercorporeality, along with the idea of an alternating linear and non-linear relationship of the composing body to time, casts new light on the relationship between musicians, composers, and music consumers.
- Permalink:
- https://cageweb.be/catalog/orp01:000014594
