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Being Time: Case Studies in Musical Temporality

Being Time: Case Studies in Musical Temporality

by Bryn Harrison (Author), Jennie Gottschalk (Author), Research Fellow Richard Glover (Author)

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Synopsis

Being Time invites a deep consideration of the personal experience of temporality in music, focusing on the perceptual role of the listener. Through individual case studies, this book centers on musical works that deal with time in radical ways. These include pieces by Morton Feldman, James Saunders, Chiyoko Szlavnics, Ryoji Ikeda, Toshiya Tsunoda, Laurie Spiegel, and Andre O. Moeller. Multiple perspectives are explored through a series of encounters, initially between an individual and a work and subsequently with each author's varying experiences of temporality. The authors compare their responses to features such as repetition, speed, duration, and scale from a perceptual standpoint, drawing in reflections on aspects such as musical memory and anticipation. The observations made in this book focus on the listening experience, rather than on established modes of musical analysis. This shift in focus makes the text accessible and relevant to readers who are interested in exploring issues of temporality from a broad range of disciplinary perspectives.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 200
 Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic USA
Published: 27 Dec 2018
ISBN 10: 1623564948
ISBN 13: 9781623564940
Book Overview: Investigations into the temporal experiences in contemporary experimental and minimal music.

Media Reviews
Being Time is fearless in its approach and makes a powerful case for musical experience as a fundamentally intersubjective encounter. It is deeply experimental-a humane and pedagogical project. * Ryan Dohoney, Assistant Professor of Musicology at Northwestern University, USA, author of Saving Abstraction: Morton Feldman, the de Menils, and the Rothko Chapel (forthcoming) *
Being Time locates the potentialities of a work in a listener's ears, mind, and body; centralising listening as the phenomenal, temporal process of seeking identity, form, context, and meaning by reverberations that energize the sensory experiences of location, dislocation; the material and the immaterial; and the mirroring and unmooring of personal and social narratives. This book seeks to find and expand our ways of talking and writing about music and sound art practices, appreciating perception as a critical part of reception. * Michelle Lou, Composer and Sound Artist, USA *
Author Bio
Richard Glover is a composer and Reader in Music at the University of Wolverhampton, UK. Jennie Gottschalk is a composer and the author of Experimental Music Since 1970. Bryn Harrison is a composer and Reader in Composition at the University of Huddersfield, UK.