New publication: "Logic of Experimentation"
News October 24, 2018Rethinking Music Performance through Artistic Research (Paulo de Assis)
The Orpheus Institute is delighted to launch the last publication in the output series of the research cluster MusicExperiment21, led by Paulo de Assis. The book "Logic of Experimentation" (Paulo de Assis) is part of the Orpheus Institute Series and is available through Open Access.
Image: Gerhard Richter, Abstract Painting 748-3, oil on canvas, 112 × 102 cm (1991) © Gerhard Richter Archiv, Dresden.
The book is published by Leuven University Press and is available through Open Access and in print.
Logic of Experimentation
Rethinking Music Performance through Artistic Research
(Paulo de Assis)
Logic of Experimentation offers several innovative and groundbreaking 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, this book 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. This volume appropriates concepts for music performance from post-structural philosophy, psychoanalytical theory, science and technology studies, epistemology, and semiotics, showing 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 artistic researchers alike.
With support from
The research leading to these results has received funding from the European Research Council under the European Union's Seventh Framework Programme (FP7/2007-2013) / ERC grant agreement n° 313419.
