Alone/Together: Simulacral “A-Presentation” in/into Practice-As-Research in Jazz
Steve Tromans, Mike Fletcher
No series enjoys a privilege over others, none posses the identity
of a model, none the resemblance of a copy . . . Each is
constituted by differences, and communicates with the others
through differences of differences.
—Gilles Deleuze (2004: 348) This lecture-recital, interposing live
music making and spoken word is concerned with our understandings
of the creative processes by which...
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conference: DARE 2015: the dark precursor
date: November 10, 2015
venue: De Bijloke Music Center, Kraakhuis
format: performed
practice: music and sound
keywords: aesthetics, apparatus, jazz, music performance, Plato, simulacrum
Maintenant: Seeing the Untouchable, Touching the Unseen
Eleanor Stubley
We can say . . . of time . . . that it is the
whole of relations.
—Gilles Deleuze (1986, 10) A cinematic screen is filled with the
image of my hands conducting, caught from above and behind my left
shoulder. The motion and the touch of my hands captivate as they
reach out into the blackness of empty space to make visible the
materiality of sound as I sculpt and shape the evolving mu...
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conference: DARE 2015: the dark precursor
date: ongoing
venue: Orpheus Institute, Auditorium
format: in absence
practice: music and sound
keywords: Cinema 1, Michel Serres, music performance, sculpture, voice
Time, Territorialisation, and Improvisational Spaces
Chris Stover
The ongoingness of improvisational musical space is productively
described by a creative engagement with Deleuze’s three syntheses
of time. The first synthesis describes a process of contracting the
past into the ongoing, living present and the projections onto an
open range of future actions engendered by such a contraction; the
second synthesis confirms the present as the now-actual instantiat...
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conference: DARE 2015: the dark precursor
date: November 10, 2015
venue: De Bijloke Music Center, Kraakhuis
format: in words
practice: music and sound
keywords: de/re-territorialisation, improvisation, jazz, refrain, stratum, synthesis of time
Exploring the Longitude and Latitude of Public Space Through Sound Art
Åsa Stjerna
This presentation addresses site-specific sonic practices from the
artistic practitioner’s perspective. The intention is to outline a
proposal for a revitalisation of the field of site-specificity
beyond transcendentalism, offering a challenge to
conceptualisations of “form” and “content” that still hover around
site-specific practice today. Departing from the assumption that
spatial pr...
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conference: DARE 2015: the dark precursor
date: November 10, 2015
venue: De Bijloke Music Center, Rotonde
format: in words
practice: music and sound
keywords: assemblage, body, site-specificity, sound