{"product_id":"composing-under-the-skin-the-music-making-body-at-the-composers-desk-9789058679741","title":"Composing under the Skin: The Music-making Body","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eA revealing study of the physical presence of the musician in musical performance. Fingers 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 musician’s 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. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis publication is GPRC-labeled (Guaranteed Peer-Reviewed Content).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction \u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eChapter I: Music from Here and There\u003c\/strong\u003e Metamorphosis of the Sounding Space \u003cbr\u003eMusic in the World\u003cbr\u003eThe Space\u003cem\u003e surrounding\u003c\/em\u003e the Music The Space \u003cem\u003efor\u003c\/em\u003e the Music The Space \u003cem\u003eof\u003c\/em\u003e the Music \u003cbr\u003eMusic from Here and There Eye and Ear Music from \u003cem\u003eSomewhere\u003c\/em\u003e Points, Lines, Spheres Resonance Discipline Resistance Interruption Concrete Music, Moving Sound Music from \u003cem\u003eThere\u003c\/em\u003e Music from \u003cem\u003eHere\u003c\/em\u003e Travelling between \u003cem\u003eHere\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThere\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eSomewhere\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eChapter II: The Body Resounds\u003c\/strong\u003e The Silent Body Collective Tension Spatial Frustration \u003cbr\u003eThe Sounding Body Instrumental Theatre Contact Microphones and EEGs Between the Abstract and the Concrete The Voice Exposed \u003cbr\u003eA Concrete Turn Ideology, Rediscovery, Experiment Audible Processes Sound Art \u003cem\u003eMusique concrète\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003eMusique concrète instrumentale\u003c\/em\u003e Ambivalences \u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eChapter III: Composed Instruments\u003c\/strong\u003e A Mediated Relationship The Ecology of Hearing The Dynamics of Resonant Presence \u003cbr\u003eThe Instrumental Extension An Invisible Instrument Isolation and Selection Inspiring Effort \u003cbr\u003ePlaying Technique and Musicality The Virtuoso Body \u003cbr\u003eInstrumental Thinking \u003cbr\u003eMusic-Making as Performance Instrumental Intentions Instrumental Imagination \u003cbr\u003eInstrumental Identity Striking and Bowing Bowing Striking Seeing, Hearing, Feeling Mirroring the Strike, Voicing the Instrument Enacting and Subvocalising Multi-modal Gesture Plucking \u003cbr\u003eThe Point and the Line \u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eSequenza V\u003c\/em\u003e “Why?” The Trombone as Percussion Percussive Silence \u003cem\u003eSequenza V\u003c\/em\u003e, Section B \u003cbr\u003eComposed Instruments Dynamic Identity \u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eChapter IV: The Composed Body\u003c\/strong\u003e The Composer's Perspective An Impossible Object Access to the Body \u003cbr\u003eCompositional Strategies Revealing Enlarging Synchronising Demonstrating Conceptualising Projecting Infecting Interacting \u003cbr\u003eLinearity versus Nonlinearity Patchworks From Composition to Design \u003cbr\u003eThe Composing Body The Writing Body The Signature of the Composing Body The Body's Touch The “Now” of Timbre \u003cbr\u003eThe Body as a Strategic Zero Point—Beyond the Body The Body as a Filter The Body as Memory Kinaesthetic Explorations Beyond the Body \u003cbr\u003eRefences Index About the author\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Leuven University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51360807649623,"sku":"9789058679741","price":35.1,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/composing-under-the-skin-the-music-making-body-at-the-composers-desk-9789058679741","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}