New publications spring summer 2020

New publications - Spring Summer 2020

Nieuws 1 juli 2020

Orpheus Institute Series

Twee nieuwe publicaties in de Orpheus Institute Series zijn nu beschikbaar: "Listening to the Other" (Stefan Östersjö) and "Performance, Subjectivity, and Experimentation" (Catherine Laws, ed.).

De boeken werden gepubliceerd door Leuven University Press en zijn beschikbaar in zowel print als e-book.

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Listening to the Other

(Stefan Östersjö)

New modes of listening and methods for contemporary sound art practices

Our contemporary, globalised society demands new forms of listening. But what are these new forms? In Listening to the Other, Stefan Östersjö challenges conventional understandings of the ways musicians listen. He develops a transmodal understanding of listening that is situated in the body—a body that is extended by its mediation through musical instruments and other technologies. Listening habits can turn these tools—and even the body itself—into resistant objects or musical Others. Supported by extensive multimedia documentation and drawing on examples from the author’s own artistic projects spanning electronics, intercultural collaboration, and ecological sound art, this volume enables musicians to learn how to approach musical Others through alternative modes of listening and allows readers to discover artistic methods for intercultural collaboration and ecological sound art practices.

This book is closely linked to a series of cutting-edge artistic works, including a triple concerto recorded with the Seattle Symphony and several video works with ecological sound art. It represents the analytical outcomes of artistic research projects carried out in Sweden, the UK, and Belgium between 2009 and 2015.

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Performance, Subjectivity, and Experimentation

(Catherine Laws, ed.)

Performance in the fields of contemporary music, subjectivity, and identity.

Music reflects subjectivity and identity: that idea is now deeply ingrained in both musicology and popular media commentary. The study of music across cultures and practices often addresses the enactment of subjectivity “in” music – how music expresses or represents “an” individual or “a” group. However, a sense of selfhood is also formed and continually reformed through musical practices, not least performance. How does this take place? How might the work of practitioners reveal aspects of this process? In what sense is subjectivity performed in and through musical practices? This book explores these questions in relation to a range of artistic research involving contemporary musical practices, drawing on perspectives from performance studies, phenomenology, embodied cognition, and theories of gendered and cultural identity.

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