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Record Nr.

UNINA9910279732503321

Autore

D'Errico Lucia

Titolo

Powers of divergence : an experimental approach to music performance / / Lucia D'Errico

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Leuven, Belgium : , : Leuven University Press, , [2018]

©2018

ISBN

94-6270-139-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (196 pages) : illustrations; PDF, digital file(s)

Collana

Orpheus Institute series

Disciplina

781.4301

Soggetti

Music - Performance

Music - Philosophy and aesthetics

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Machine generated contents note: BOOK I Description the Unspeakable Body -- 1.The Problem of Resemblance -- 2.Beyond Improvisation -- 3.A Series of Anamorphic Glances -- 4.On Methodology -- 5.Phonographic Writing -- 6.The Phantasmic Image of the Musical Work -- 7.The Vectors of the Body -- 8.The Musical Work as a "Manifold" -- 9.A Peripheral Instrument -- 10.Modes of Exposition -- Appendix 1 Techniques of Minoration -- Appendix 2 List of Musical Examples -- Closing Remarks -- References -- Biographical Note -- BOOK II Derivates -- BOOK III Five Glances upon the practice -- Derivative I On Three Different (Musical) Eyes -- Derivative II The Phonocentric Vision of Music -- First Glance -- Derivative III An Eye That Sees Itself -- Derivative IV The Joyous Power of Simulacra -- Derivative V How to Defy Perspective through Perspective -- Derivative VI Automaton -- Derivative VII How to Produce a Phantasm? Part I: Gian Lorenzo Bernini -- Second Glance

Note continued: Derivative VIII How to Produce a Phantasm? Part II: Francis Bacon -- Derivative IX How to Produce a Phantasm? Part III: Salvatore Sciarrino -- Derivative X How to Produce a Phantasm? Part IV: Carmelo Bene -- Third Glance -- Fourth Glance.

Sommario/riassunto

What does it mean to produce resemblance in the performance of written music? Starting from how this question is commonly answered by the practice of interpretation in Western notated art music, this book



proposes a move beyond commonly accepted codes, conventions and territories of music performance. Appropriating reflections from post-structural philosophy, visual arts and semiotics, and crucially based upon an artistic research project with a strong creative and practical component, it proposes a new approach to music performance. The approach is based on divergence, on the difference produced by intensifying the chasm between the symbolic aspect of music notation and the irreducible materiality of performance. Instead of regarding performance as reiteration, reconstruction and reproduction of past musical works, Powers of Divergence emphasises its potential for the emergence of the new and for the problematisation of the limits of musical semiotics.