Logic of Experimentation: Reshaping Music Performance in and Through Artistic Research

Beyond interpretation: a proposal for experimental
performance practices

Logic of
Experimentation offers several innovative and ground-breaking perspectives on music
performance, music ontology, research methodologies and ethics of performance.
It proposes new modes of thinking and exposing past musical works to
contemporary audiences, arguing for a new kind of performer, emancipated from
authoritative texts and traditions, whose creativity is propelled by intensive
research and inventive imagination. Moving beyond the work-concept, Logic of
Experimentation presents a new image of musical works, based upon the
notions of strata, assemblage and diagram, advancing innovative practice-based
methodologies that integrate archival and musicological research into the
creative process leading to a performance. Beyond representational modes of
performance—be it mainstream or historically informed performance practices—Logic
of Experimentation creates an ontological, methodological and ethical space
for experimental performance practices,
arguing for a new mode of performance. Written in an experimental style, its
eight chapters appropriate music performance concepts from post-structural
philosophy, psychoanalysis, science and technology studies, epistemology and
semiotics, displaying how transdisciplinarity is central to artistic research.
An indispensable contribution to artistic research in music, Logic of
Experimentation is compelling
reading for music performers, composers,
musicologists, philosophers and artist researchers alike.

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