Experimental affinities in music
By: edited by Paulo de Assis
Contributors: International Orpheus Academy for Music and Theory
Series: Orpheus Institute series; Orpheus Institute series
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 249
ISBN-13: 9789462700611
Copyright date: 2015
Subjects: Arts; Music; Philosophy and aesthetics; Performance; Experimental methods; Avant-garde (Music); History and criticism
Description: Lectures of the International Orpehus Acdemies for Music and Theory, 2011, 2012, and 2013, along with interviews of musicians, Leon Fleisher, Frederic Rzewski, and Helmut Lachenmann.

Brings together diverse artistic, philosophical, historical and methodological approaches, creating a broad discourse on artistic experimentation, in dialogue with more orthodox notions of interpretation, and contributing to a better understanding of an "experimental attitude" in music. "Experimentation" is taken to be an adventurous compositional, interpretive, or performative attitude that can cut across different ages and styles; "affinities" suggests connectors and connections, convergences, contiguities, and adjacencies that are found in and through a diversity of approaches and topics. The golden thread running through the essays is the quest for "inherently experimental" musical practices, pursued variously from interrogating, descriptive, or challenging perspectives, and applied to music composed between the thirteenth and the twentieth centuries.
Notes: Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International license (CC-BY-NC-ND).

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Explosive experiments and the fragility of the experimental  -- Lydia Goehr; title: Omnis ars ex experimentis dependeat : "experiments" in fourteenth-century musical thought  -- Felix Diergarten; title: "Vieltönigkeit" instead of microtonality : the theory and practice of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century "microtonal" music  -- Martin Kirnbauer; title: Inscriptions : an interview with Helmut Lachenmann --; title: Nuance and innovation in Part I of the "48"  -- Mark Lindley; title: Tales from Babel : musical adventures in the science of hearing  -- Edward Wickham; title: From clockwork to pulsation : music and artificial life in the eighteenth century  -- Lawrence Kramer; title: The inner ear : an interview with Leon Fleisher --; title: Execution-Interpretation-Performance : the history of a terminological conflict  -- Hermann Danuser; title: Monumental theory  -- Thomas Christensen; title: Testing respect(fully) : an interview with Frederic Rzewski -- Luk Vaes.