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The Pontydian Performance: the performative layer

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 June 2009

Franziska Schroeder  and
Pedro Rebelo
Franziska Schroeder*
Affiliation:
Sonic Arts Research Centre, Queen’s University Belfast, Belfast, BT7 1NN
Pedro Rebelo*
Affiliation:
Sonic Arts Research Centre, Queen’s University Belfast, Belfast, BT7 1NN
*
E-mail: *f.schroeder@qub.ac.uk
†p.rebelo@qub.ac.uk
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Abstract

In this paper we reflect on the performer–instrument relationship by turning towards the thinking practices of the French philosopher Maurice Merleau-Ponty (1908–1961). Merleau-Ponty’s phenomenological idea of the body as being at the centre of the world highlights an embodied position in the world and bestows significance onto the body as a whole, onto the body as a lived body. In order to better understand this two-way relationship of instrument and performer, we introduce the notion of the performative layer, which emerges through strategies for dealing with discontinuities, breakdowns and the unexpected in network performance.

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Organised Sound , Volume 14 , Issue 2 , August 2009 , pp. 134 - 141
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2009

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