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Performance Studies Network International Conference, July 2011: online resource

Thursday 14 July 2011 | Friday 15 July 2011 | Saturday 16 July 2011

Thursday 14 July 2011

Improvisation 1 | Composer–performer collaborations | Instruments and contexts |
Recording | Contemporary music performance | Performing recitative | Shaping sound

Session 1A:   Improvisation 1

  • Louise Gibbs
  • How creative is musical improvisation? (text)
  • Danae Stefanou
  • Towards a practical philosophy of collectively improvised space (text)
  • David Dolan (working with Vivian Lee, Jenny Lewisohn & Oscar Perks)
    Improvisation as a teaching and learning tool: creative performance and real-time analysis (special session) (text)

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Session 1B:   Composer–performer collaborations

  • Mieko Kanno & Sam Hayden
  • Live performance, the interactive computer and the Violectra (slides; text; sound 1; sound 2)
  • Michael Hooper
  • Tracking the process of innovation: improvisatory moments in the early stages of collaboration
  • David Gorton & Stefan Östersjö
  • 'Forlorn Hope': tracing the dynamics of composer–performer collaboration (slides; text)
  • Sheila Guymer
  • Experimental music in Melbourne, Australia: a case study

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Session IC:   Instruments and contexts

  • Christopher Redgate
  • Reinventing the oboe: responding to technical challenges and creating new horizons
    (text)
  • Murphy McCaleb
  • Communication of interaction? Applied environmental knowledge in ensemble performance (text)
  • Clare Hammond
  • Creative responses to disability and the performer's prerogative in Benjamin Britten's Diversions, Op. 2

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Session 2A:   Recording

  • Stephen Johns
  • Recording: live in the concert hall or dead in the studio? (text)
  • Amy Blier-Carruthers
  • From stage to studio ( . . . and back again) (text)
  • Gaia Varon
  • Performing performances: some considerations on the role of the filming and recording crews in classical music videos (text)

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Session 2B:  Contemporary music performance

  • Martin Iddon
  • Praxis and Poiesis in indeterminate music: the case of David Tudor
  • Roger Heaton
  • Contemporary performance practice and tradition
    (published in the CMPCP/PSN special issue of Music Performance Research)
  • Peter Cornish
  • Improvisation in the performance of notated music (text)

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Session 2C:  Performing recitative

  • Jane Davidson, Andrew Lawrence-King, Steven Player & Katerina Antonenko
    Il corso del ragionare [Italy, circa 1607]: reflections on rhythm, recitative and rehearsals (special session)
  • Alan Maddox
  • The performance of affect in recitativo semplice
    (published in the CMPCP/PSN special issue of Music Performance Research)

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Session 2D:  Shaping sound

  • Mathieu Barthet, Philippe Guillemain, Richard Kronland-Martinet & Sølvi Ystad
  • The way timbre shapes musical preference: a clarinet performance case study (slides)
  • Victoria Tzotzkova
  • Obtaining the right sound, or elements of extemporising in performing Debussy's Des pas sur la neige
  • Mats Küssner
    Music and shape: preliminary findings from performers' visualisations of sounds
  • (research report) (slides)

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