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...

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...

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...

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...

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