Full Description
Being Time invites a deep consideration of the personal experience of temporality in music, focusing on the perceptual role of the listener. Through individual case studies, this book centers on musical works that deal with time in radical ways. These include pieces by Morton Feldman, James Saunders, Chiyoko Szlavnics, Ryoji Ikeda, Toshiya Tsunoda, Laurie Spiegel and André O. Möller. Multiple perspectives are explored through a series of encounters, initially between an individual and a work, and subsequently with each author's varying experiences of temporality. The authors compare their responses to features such as repetition, speed, duration and scale from a perceptual standpoint, drawing in reflections on aspects such as musical memory and anticipation. The observations made in this book are accessible and relevant to readers who are interested in exploring issues of temporality from a broad range of disciplinary perspectives.
Contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Richard Glover, Jennie Gottschalk, and Bryn Harrison
Chapter One: Foreshadowing and Recollection: Listening Through Morton Feldman's Piano, Violin, Viola, Cello
Bryn Harrison
Postlude to Chapter One
Richard Glover
Chapter Two: Musical brevity in James Saunders' Compatibility hides itself and 511 possible mosaics
Bryn Harrison
Postlude to Chapter Two
Jennie Gottschalk
Chapter Three: Separation and Continuity in Chiyoko Szlavnics' Gradients of Detail
Richard Glover
Postlude to Chapter Three
Jennie Gottschalk
Chapter Four: Filtering Temporality in Ryoji Ikeda's +/-
Richard Glover
Postlude to Chapter Four
Bryn Harrison
Chapter Five: Granulated Time: Toshiya Tsunoda's O Kokos Tis Anixis
Jennie Gottschalk
Postlude to Chapter Five
Bryn Harrison
Chapter Six: Monoliths: Laurie Spiegel's The Expanding Universe and André O. Möller's musik für orgel und eine(n) tonsetzer(in)
Jennie Gottschalk
Postlude to Chapter Six
Richard Glover
Chapter Seven: Observations on Musical Behaviors and Temporality
Richard Glover, Jennie Gottschalk, and Bryn Harrison
Epilogue
Appendix: Suggested Further Reading and Listening
