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Polyphonizing as a Contemplative Practice (2025)

Jakob Stillmark
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When composing with musical borrowings within repetitive structures, a dual perception often occurs, in which listening shifts its focus from the inherent representation of the borrowings to their immediate sonic presence. This shift in attention is frequently characterized as a form of aesthetic contemplation. This paper demonstrates an artistic exploration of how the concept of aesthetic contemplation, along with contemplative practices, can inform the compositional process and what techniques this might require. The research draws on a series of compositional experiments with repetition and fragmentation of musical borrowings as well as on experiences from meditative practice. A central insight of the project is that the aforementioned moments of dual perception are inherently polyphonic in nature. Building on this, a compositional approach of "polyphonizing" is developed.
typeresearch exposition
keywordscomposition, contemplation, contemplative practice, contemplative reseach, repetition, musical borrowings, fragmentation, polyphony, polyphonizing, listening practices, Sound Mediation, Metacognition, aesthetic experience, temporal structures, resonance, presence, memory, Forgetting, quotation, circling time, poly-temporality, network structures, microphenomenology, semantic satiation
date15/09/2025
published17/11/2025
last modified17/11/2025
statuspublished
affiliationZurich University of the Arts
copyrightJakob Stillmark
licenseCC BY-NC-ND
languageEnglish
urlhttps://www.researchcatalogue.net/view/3867845/3867846
doihttps://doi.org/10.22501/rc.3867845
published inResearch Catalogue


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