Preface: A Transdisciplinary Conjuncture
Introduction: Experimentation versus Interpretation
Part 1. Assemblage Theory for Music
Chapter 1: Virtual Works—Actual Things
Rasch — The limits of music philosophy and the role of artistic research — Music ontologies: some problems — Beyond transcendence: approaching a Deleuzian ontology — Virtual works, actual things: towards a new image of musical work — Strata — Rasch25: . . . vers la nuit
Chapter 2: Assemblage, Strata, Diagram
Musical works as assemblages — Agencement, logic of assemblage, assemblage theory — Intermezzo: a note on translation — From structure to assemblage — Strata — Diagram — Logic of assemblage
Part 2: Experimental Systems in Music
Chapter 3: Experimental Systems and Artistic Research
An epistemology for artistic research? — A methodology for artistic research — Hans-Jörg Rheinberger's experimental systems — Thought collective and ensembles of experimental systems: MusicExperiment21 — Series of experiments and modules of research
Chapter 4: Epistemic Complexity in Music Performance
Complexity and epistemic complexity — Epistemic complexity in biology — Epistemic complexity in technology — Epistemic complexity in music — Experimentation in music performance: how to make the future?
Part 3. Beyond Interpretation: Bodies-in-Action
Chapter 5: Transduction and the Body as a Transducer
Transduction in music performance: relaying f lows of intensities; — Gilbert Simondon's various definitions of transduction — Discharge (potentiality); — Passage (time and temporality); — Energy (thermodynamics): potential, scales, entropy — Information theory: structural germs and singularities (structuration) — Haecceity: from haecceitas (Duns Scotus) to eccéité (Simondon) to heccéité (Deleuze and Guattari) to microhaecceity — Topology: in-formation — Corporeality: somatic transduction — Permanent transduction: being-in-the-world and fluctuatio animi; 11. Conclusion
Chapter 6: Rasch26: The Somatheme
The somatheme — Roland Barthes at the piano: musica practica — The impact of Julia Kristeva: phenotext and genotext — New musical concepts: geno-song, pheno-song, somatheme — Intermezzo: fourteen somathemes — The impact of Jacques Lacan: signifier and jouissance — Lacan's desire — Situating the somatheme within Lacan's graphs of desire — Conclusion: artistic research and transdisciplinarity
Part 4. A New Ethics of Performance
Chapter 7: The Emancipated Performer:
Musical Renderings and Power Relations Music performance and power relations — The dominant image of work and the problem of interpretation — The tacit authorities: Deleuze's "Postscript on the Societies of Control" — Nietzsche's three modes of relation to history: monumental, antiquarian, critical — A new image of work — The emancipated performer
Chapter 8. . . . at the borders of time that surround our presence . . .
What is the contemporary? — Agamben's contemporary: Barthes reading Nietzsche — Nietzsche's untimely: lost in translation — . . . at the border of time that surrounds our presence . . . — Artistic research as the carrier of the contemporary
Appendix 1: Beyond Urtext: A Dynamic Conception of Musical Editing
On notation and time — The urtext era — Urtext editions: an epistemological obstacle — Critical editing of music and different types of editions — Music editing and performance practice: a dynamic conception
Appendix 2: The Conditions of Creation and the Haecceity of Musical Material: Philosophical-Aesthetic Convergences between Helmut Lachenmann and Gilles Deleuze
Helmut Lachenmann and Gilles Deleuze: an unconnected connection — Helmut Lachenmann: toward an aestheticostructural methodology — Helmut Lachenmann's three "theses" on composing — Gilles Deleuze's diagnostic function of art, capture of forces, and body without organs: first convergences with Helmut Lachenmann — Helmut Lachenmann's four conditions of the musical material — Gilles Deleuze's opinion, corporeity, fold, and latitude: further convergences with Helmut Lachenmann — The conditions of creation and the haecceity of musical material: a philosophical-aesthetic Erewhon
Acknowledgements
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