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Book SynopsisTruth happens to an idea. So wrote William James in 1907; and twenty-four years later John Dewey argued that artistic experience entailed a process of doing and undergoing. But what do these ideas have to do with music, or with research conducted in and through music--that is, with artistic research? In this collection of essays, fourteen very different authors respond with distinct and challenging perspectives. Some report on their own experiments and experiences; some offer probing analyses of noteworthy practices; some view historical continuities through the lens of pragmatism and artistic experiment. The resulting collection yields new insights into what musicians do, how they experiment, and what they experience--insights that arise not from doctrine, but from diverse voices seeking common ground in and through experimental discourse: artistic research in and of itself. Contributors: William Brooks (Orpheus Institute), Richard Shusterman (Florida Atlantic University), Thibault Galland (Universite Libre de Bruxelles), Ivana Miladinovic Prica (University of Arts in Belgrade), Caitlin Rowley (Bath Spa University), Nicholas Brown (Trinity College Dublin / Orpheus Institute), Winnie Huang (Orpheus Institute / Royal Conservatoire of Antwerp), Fiona Smyth and Victoria Tzotzkova (Independent Scholars), Marco Fusi (Royal Conservatoire of Antwerp), Clare Lesser (New York University Abu Dhabi), Garry Hagberg (Bard College), Ann Warde (Independent Scholar), Deniz Ertan (Independent Scholar), Ambrose Field (University of York)
Table of ContentsAcknowledgements
Introduction
William Brooks
Music, Poetry, and Possession
Richard Shusterman
Part 1: Doing
The Pragmatic Musical-Gestural Performer
Winnie Huang
Shaping Interpretation through Experience: A Case for a Pragmatic Approach to Contemporary Music Performance
Marco Fusi
Experiments in Experience: Listening to Rooms and Pianos
Victoria Tzotzkova and Fiona Smyth
The Rehearsal Process: Finnissy, Hespos, and Pragmatic Approaches to Indeterminacy
Clare Lesser
Part 2: Making
As If Unobserved: Experiments towards a Publicly Visible Composition Practice
Caitlin Rowley
Game-Show; or, The Playful Work of the Voice
Nicholas Brown
The Velicon and Music of Experience
Ivana Miladinović Prica
Part 3: Observing
How to Embody Truth? Jenny Hval’s Experimentations with Music and Voice
Thibault Galland
The Life of Rhythm: Musical Time, Dewey’s Pragmatism, and Jazz Improvisation
Garry L. Hagberg
Peirce’s Aesthetic of Experiment
Ann Warde
Music News in the Progressive Era: American Experience as Civic Participation, Everyday Living, and Music Making
Deniz Ertan
Redefining Progress at the Intersection of AI and Artistic Research
Ambrose Field
Online Materials
Notes on Contributors
Index
