Music of Absence
Christine Dysers, Peter Edwards and Judith Lochhead (eds)
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John Cage, Gilles Deleuze and the Practice of Experimentation
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How do Gilles Deleuze and John Cage develop philosophical and musical notions of experimentation?
- Gives an account of the important role of experimentation in Deleuze’s philosophy
- Develops a new philosophical account of the work of John Cage and its legacy
- Expands on the relationship between Deleuze’s thought and musical practices, and, more widely, between Deleuze and art, suggesting new lines of inquiry between the fields
- Provides a theoretical intervention into recent musicological debates concerning experimental music
- Contributes to and challenges the application of Deleuzian philosophy in recent musical research and sound studies
The philosophy of Gilles Deleuze is experimental. So too is the music of John Cage. But what do they share and where do they differ?
Iain Campbell examines the question of experimentation by staging an encounter between two domains, music and philosophy, framed through two major twentieth-century figures in these fields, Cage and Deleuze. Through a critical study of Deleuzian philosophy and experimental music as developed by Cage, Campbell provides a new account of what it means, has meant, and can mean to experiment in, between and beyond music and philosophy.
Table of contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction: Experiments in sound and thought
1. In the laboratory: problematising experimentation
2. From the chamber to the shore: silence, listening, and the Idea of sound
3. Chance and indeterminacy: series, structure, and practice
4. Nature’s rhythmic modulations: an onto-ethological experimentalism
5. A minor music?: rethinking and redoing experimentation
Postscript: Transdisciplinary experimentation
Appendix: Selected media
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