What is Experimental Music today? This book offers an up to date survey of this field for anyone with an interest, from seasoned practitioners to curious readers.
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Since receiving a doctorate in composition from Northwestern University in 2008, she has traveled extensively to gather first-hand information about Experimental Music practices.
About the Author: Jennie Gottschalk is a composer and independent scholar based in Boston.
These restless and exploratory modes of engagement have continued to develop over recent decades, expanding the scope of both musical practice and listening.
Musical materials may be subject, among other treatments, to systemization, observation, examination, magnification, fragmentation, translation, or destabilization.
Instead, they are organized according to the content areas that are their subjects, including resonance, harmony, objects, shapes, perception, language, interaction, sites, and histories.
These practices are not presented according to a chronology, a set of techniques, or social groupings.
Scientific, perceptual, or social phenomena become catalysts in the operation of the work.
For each of these composers and sound artists, craft is developed and transformed in response to the questions they bring to their work.
It pushes past that which is known to discover what lies beyond it, finding new knowledge, forms, and relationships, or accepting a state of uncertainty.
Experimentation is a way of working.
An Experimental work is not identifiable by its sound alone, but by the nature of the questions it poses and its openness to the sounding event.
This book takes the stance that Experimental Music is not a limited historical event, but is a proliferation of approaches to sound that reveals much about present-day experience.
What is Experimental Music today? This book offers an up to date survey of this field for anyone with an interest, from seasoned practitioners to curious readers
