Composing under the Skin : The Music-making Body at the Composer's Desk

Paul Craenen

ISBN 10: 9058679748 / ISBN 13: 9789058679741

Editore: Leuven University Press Apr 2014, 2014

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Neuware - A 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. This publication is GPRC-labeled (Guaranteed Peer-Reviewed Content).

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• Titolo: Composing under the Skin : The Music-making Body at the Composer's Desk
• Editore: Leuven University Press Apr 2014
• Data di pubblicazione: 2014
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 9058679748
• ISBN 13: 9789058679741
• Rilegatura: Taschenbuch
• Condizione: Neu
• Dimensioni: 284 L x 199 A x 22 P (millimetri) 284 millimetri di larghezza per 199 millimetri di altezza per 22 millimetri di profondità
• Peso: 1024 grammi

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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 musicians 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 nonlinear relationship of the composing body to time, casts new light on the relationships among musicians, composers, and music consumers.

Informazioni sull'autore

Paul Craenen is director of Musica, Impulse Centre for Music.