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
share statusprivate
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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721756 sections in Endless…structure scott mclaughlin CC BY
721757 zubin choices scott mclaughlin CC BY
721758 mira choices scott mclaughlin CC BY
721762 endless carpet of partials scott mclaughlin CC BY
721844 The Endless Mobility of Listening (Mira Benjamin - Violin) scott mclaughlin CC BY
721848 The Endless Mobility of Listening SCORE scott mclaughlin All rights reserved
721857 chorale example scott mclaughlin CC BY
722087 superEbowV3 scott mclaughlin CC BY
722092 score draft v5 4-11-18 scott mclaughlin CC BY
722097 prepared piano resonator short example scott mclaughlin CC BY
722193 zubin in the unknown leeds scott mclaughlin CC BY
1158303 seekTRANS JAR endless-mobility structure scott mc laughlin All rights reserved
1158310 choraleTRANS JAR endless-mobility structure scott mc laughlin All rights reserved
1158311 tuningTRANS JAR endless-mobility structure scott mc laughlin All rights reserved
1158318 JAR endless-mobility structure (2) scott mc laughlin All rights reserved
1174289 Mira drone-bowing example Mira Benjamin All rights reserved
1174301 contingency and hysteresis ebow prep piano scott mclaughlin All rights reserved
1250033 endlessMobility-S1a-seeking Scott McLaughlin All rights reserved
1250196 endlessMobility-S1b-chorale Scott McLaughlin All rights reserved
1250232 endlessMobility-S2a-tuning Scott McLaughlin All rights reserved
1250265 endlessMobility-S2b-seeking Scott McLaughlin All rights reserved
1250727 endlessMobility-S3b-seeking Scott McLaughlin All rights reserved
1250878 endlessMobility-S2c-chorale Scott McLaughlin All rights reserved
1250923 endlessMobility-S3a-tuning Scott McLaughlin All rights reserved
1251278 endlessMobility-S3b-seeking Scott McLaughlin All rights reserved
1251327 endlessMobility-S3c-chorale Scott McLaughlin All rights reserved
1253085 endlessMobility-S2b-seeking Scott McLaughlin All rights reserved
1254017 endlessMobility2018 samples-v2 Scott McLaughlin All rights reserved
1255627 technique-II score excerpt Scott McLaughlin All rights reserved

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