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MULTIMODAL PERFORMER COORDINATION AS A CREATIVE COMPOSITIONAL PARAMETER

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 June 2020

Larry Goves
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Abstract

This article looks at a creative trajectory in my recent work, an ongoing exploration of how the coordination of and precise interaction between performers in music-performance can be considered a primary compositional parameter (and perhaps compositional material in its own right). This investigation began with a survey of performer interactions in Olivier Messiaen's Quatuor pour la fin du temps and older music of my own. This led to an interest in the entanglement of ‘instrumental theatre’ and compositional scenarios in which performer behaviours, in relation to coordination and interaction, contribute idiosyncratically (i.e. outside of the more typical interpretation/improvisation models) to the music.

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Tempo , Volume 74 , Issue 293 , July 2020 , pp. 32 - 53
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2020

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