Exposition

Composing Technique, Performing Technique (2021)

Scott McLaughlin, Zubin Kanga, Mira Benjamin
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Technique as the entanglement of composition and performance as an epistemic object (Knorr Cetina) emergent from contingent materiality. Two pieces by Scott McLaughlin—respectively for Zubin Kanga (piano) and Mira Benjamin (violin)—are discussed as case studies of strategies for entwining the specific embodied techniques of instrumental performance with the material agency (Pickering) of the instrument as a 'material indeterminacy' in which knowledge inheres through practice (Spatz). This exposition situates the artistic research as a novel conceptualisation of 'technique' that treats composition and performance not as separate domains but as an Ingoldian 'meshwork' where virtual structures in the performance technique are amplified through processes of listening and through compositional structures into open-ended local feedback loops.
typeresearch exposition
keywordsmateriality, embodiment, agency, indeterminacy, performance, resonance, epistemic
date22/05/2021
published23/05/2021
last modified23/05/2021
statuspublished
affiliationUniversity of Leeds, Goldsmiths University, Royal Holloway University
copyrightScott McLaughlin, Zubin Kanga, Mira Benjamin
licenseCC BY-NC-ND
languageEnglish
urlhttps://www.researchcatalogue.net/view/711320/711321
doihttps://doi.org/10.22501/jar.711320
published inJournal for Artistic Research
portal issue23. 23


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