Choose Your Own Adventure Music : On the Emergence of Voice in Musical Collaboration
(2016) In Contemporary Music Review 35(6). p.579-598- Abstract
The practices of collaborating composers and performers have been receiving increasing attention within academic discourse. Such collaborations are often presented from two complementary perspectives: pre-compositional joint invention and post-compositional negotiations in the realisation of a score and its notation. This article attempts to bridge the gap between the two perspectives through a discussion on the emergence of ‘voice’ that pervades the artistic practice, and binds the pre- and post-compositional phases together. Two compositions by David Gorton, written in collaboration with guitar player Stefan Östersjö, will be examined: Forlorn Hope for 11-string alto guitar and optional live electronics and Austerity Measures I for... (More)
The practices of collaborating composers and performers have been receiving increasing attention within academic discourse. Such collaborations are often presented from two complementary perspectives: pre-compositional joint invention and post-compositional negotiations in the realisation of a score and its notation. This article attempts to bridge the gap between the two perspectives through a discussion on the emergence of ‘voice’ that pervades the artistic practice, and binds the pre- and post-compositional phases together. Two compositions by David Gorton, written in collaboration with guitar player Stefan Östersjö, will be examined: Forlorn Hope for 11-string alto guitar and optional live electronics and Austerity Measures I for 10-string guitar. Both pieces are the result of an extended pre-composition experimental phase, and both pieces attempt to recreate something of those experiments in the contexts of their performance, establishing the conditions for the emergence of a ‘discursive voice’ of both composer and performer.
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- Gorton, David and Östersjö, Stefan LU
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- publishing date
- 2016-11-01
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- Contribution to journal
- publication status
- published
- keywords
- Affordance, Collaboration, Composer, Guitar, Performer, Resistance, Voice
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- Contemporary Music Review
- volume
- 35
- issue
- 6
- pages
- 20 pages
- publisher
- Routledge
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- scopus:85011796809
- ISSN
- 0749-4467
- DOI
- 10.1080/07494467.2016.1282596
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- English
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