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Book SynopsisThe increasing interest in artistic research, especially in music, is throwing open doors to exciting ideas about how we generate new musical knowledge and understanding. This book examines the wide array of factors at play in innovative practice and how by treating it as research we can make new ideas more widely accessible.Three key ideas propel the book. First, it argues that artistic research comes from inside the practice and exists in a space that accommodates both objective and subjective observation and analyses because the researcher is the practitioner. It is a space for dialogue between apparently opposing binaries: the composer and the performer, the past and the present, the fixed and the fluid, the intellectual and the intuitive, the abstract and the embodied, the prepared and the spontaneous, the enduring and the transitory, and so on. It is not so much constructed in a logical, sequential manner in the way of the scientific method of doing research but more as a braided
Trade ReviewThis book enters the core of artistic research and connects developments in Australia with the world. From many angles artistic research is explained from within experimentation, exploration and discovery, unraveling intentions, processes, outcomes and dissemination of research in and through musical practice. It asks the difficult but necessary questions and is aware of all actual, contemporary relevant international literature on the subject. It is a must for any artist/researcher. -- Frans de Ruiter, Leiden University
Table of ContentsIntroduction Section I - Theorizing Practice Based Artistic Research 1. Robert Burke and Andrys Onsman - Discordant Methodologies: Prioritising Performance in Artistic Research in Music 2. Deniz Peters - Six Propositions on Artistic Research 3. Stephen Emmerson - Is my Performance Research? 4. Robert Vincs - …that is the question: the nature and scope of the research question within practice-led artistic research 5. Michael Hooper - The Art of Scholarship Section II - Locating Artistic Research in Universities 6. Linda Barwick and Joseph Toltz - Quantifying the ineffable? The University of Sydney’s 2014 guidelines for non-traditional research outputs 7. Jenny Wilson - Equal, inferior or different? Research equivalence and university attitudes to artistic research 8. Glen Hodges - Keep Your Eye on the Prize Section III – Artistic Research in Music Practice 9. Zubin Kanga - ‘Building an instrument’ in the collaborative composition and performance of works for piano and live electronics 10. Thomas Reiner - Approaching music through language: a Lacanian perspective 11. Nick Haywood - Developing Key Concepts of Ensemble Performance 12. Cat Hope - The Decibel new music ensemble - artistic research in experimental music at the academy 13. Tim Dargaville - Speaking in Tongues”: An investigation into a compositional practice informed by intercultural exploration 14. Johanna Selleck - Creativity and the blues: a philosophical approach to practice and research 15. Andrys Onsman & Robert Burke - Disturbing Perspectives of Research in Music
