Vermehrstimmigen als kontemplative Praxis - Dokumentationsteil
(2025)
author(s): Jakob Stillmark
published in: Research Catalogue
Abbildungen und Medien zur Dissertation
Polyphonizing as a Contemplative Practice
(2025)
author(s): Jakob Stillmark
published in: Research Catalogue
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.
