Description
Investigations into the temporal experiences in contemporary experimental and minimal music.
About the Author
Richard Glover is a composer and Reader in Music at the University of Wolverhampton, UK. Jennie Gottschalk is a composer and the author of Experimental Music Since 1970. Bryn Harrison is a composer and Reader in Composition at the University of Huddersfield, UK.
Reviews
This is one of the richest, most innovative treatments of temporality's relation to music to appear in the last decade. Musicologists, composers, sound artists, and interdisciplinary scholars interested in the experience of time will find this book rewarding. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty and professionals. * CHOICE *
Being Time invites readers to share in the subjective reflections of its three authors, who are also accomplished composers ... The selection of musical material is adventurous and uncompromising ... [It] offers closely monitored, musicologically precise commentaries. * The Wire Magazine *
Being Time is fearless in its approach and makes a powerful case for musical experience as a fundamentally intersubjective encounter. It is deeply experimental-a humane and pedagogical project. * Ryan Dohoney, Assistant Professor of Musicology at Northwestern University, USA, author of Saving Abstraction: Morton Feldman, the de Menils, and the Rothko Chapel (forthcoming) *
Being Time locates the potentialities of a work in a listener's ears, mind, and body; centralising listening as the phenomenal, temporal process of seeking identity, form, context, and meaning by reverberations that energize the sensory experiences of location, dislocation; the material and the immaterial; and the mirroring and unmooring of personal and social narratives. This book seeks to find and expand our ways of talking and writing about music and sound art practices, appreciating perception as a critical part of reception. * Michelle Lou, Composer and Sound Artist, USA *
Book Information
ISBN 9781623564940
Author Research Fellow Richard Glover
Format Paperback
Page Count 200
Imprint Bloomsbury Academic USA
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Weight(grams) 304g