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Contemporary Music
This collection of essays and interviews addresses important theoretical, philosophical and creative issues in Western art music at the end of the twentieth- and the beginning of the twenty-first centuries. Edited by Max Paddison and Irène Deliège, the book offers a wide range of international perspectives from prominent musicologists, philosophers and composers, including Célestin Deliège, Pascal Decroupet, Richard Toop, Rudolf Frisius, Alastair Williams, Herman Sabbe, François Nicolas, Marc Jimenez, Anne Boissière, Max Paddison, Hugues Dufourt, Jonathan Harvey, and new interviews with Pierre Boulez, Brian Ferneyhough, Helmut Lachenmann, and Wolfgang Rihm. Part I is mainly theoretical...
Patterns of Intuition
The present book is the result of a three year research project which investigated the creative act of composing by means of algorithmic composition. Central to the investigation are the compositional strategies of 12 composers, which were documented through a dialogic and cyclic process of modelling and evaluating musical materials. The aesthetic premises and compositional approaches configure a rich spectrum of diverse positions, which is reflected also in the kinds of approaches and methods used. These approaches and methods include the generation and evaluation of chord sequences using genetic algorithms, the application of morphing strategies to research harmonic transformations, an automatic classification of personal preferences via machine learning, and an application of mathematical music theory to the analysis and resynthesis of musical material. The second part of the book features contributions by Sandeep Bhagwati, William Brooks, David Cope, Darla Crispin, Nicolas Donin, and Guerino Mazzola. These authors variously consider the project from different perspectives, offer independent approaches, or provide more general reflections from their respective research fields.
Using Mathematics to Understand Biological Complexity
This volume tackles a variety of biological and medical questions using mathematical models to understand complex system dynamics. Working in collaborative teams of six, each with a senior research mentor, researchers developed new mathematical models to address questions in a range of application areas. Topics include retinal degeneration, biopolymer dynamics, the topological structure of DNA, ensemble analysis, multidrug-resistant organisms, tumor growth modeling, and geospatial modeling of malaria. The work is the result of newly formed collaborative groups begun during the Collaborative Workshop for Women in Mathematical Biology hosted by the Institute of Pure and Applied Mathematics at UCLA in June 2019. Previous workshops in this series have occurred at IMA, NIMBioS, and MBI.
Rethinking Relation-Substance Dualism
This book analyses anthropological debates on “relationism” (referring to methodological and theoretical issues) and sets out to reconsider these discussions with regards to the notion of “substance” (generally associated with the body). Reflecting on the philosophical origins and implications of these two concepts, the author aims to bring them to the heart of contemporary anthropological discourse and addresses the erasure (or blurring) of “substance” in favour of “relation.” The argument put forward is that the conceptual pairing of “substance-relation” should be substituted for the “nature-culture” dualism that has been dominant in structural anthropology. The cha...
Beyond Chinoiserie
The complex interweaving of different Western visions of China had a profound impact on artistic exchange between China and the West during the nineteenth century. Beyond Chinoiserie addresses the complexity of this exchange. While the playful Western “vision of Cathay” formed in the previous century continued to thrive, a more realistic vision of China was increasingly formed through travel accounts, paintings, watercolors, prints, book illustrations, and photographs. Simultaneously, the new discipline of sinology led to a deepening of the understanding of Chinese cultural history. Leading and emerging scholars in the fields of art history, literary studies and material culture, have authored the ten essays in this book, which deal with artistic relations between China and the West at a time when Western powers’ attempts to extend a sphere of influence in China led to increasingly hostile political interactions.
Mythologies et mythes individuels
À partir des notions de « mythologie individuelle » et de « mythe individuel », il s'agit d'interroger les caractéristiques prêtées à l’art brut, renouvelées par leur extension ou déplacement dans le champ de la création moderne et contemporaine, ainsi que leur rapport à l’histoire. Ce qu’on nomme « l’art brut », en incluant ses extensions dans...
Approche philosophique du geste dansé
A partir d'une réflexion sur la danse contemporaine, les auteurs étudient le geste dansé selon une approche philosophique et chorégraphique.
Pascal Quignard. La voix de la danse
Au mois de novembre 2010, Pascal Quignard et la danseuse de butô Carlotta Ikeda ont créé la pièce Medea, sur la scène du Théâtre Molière, à Bordeaux. Cette rencontre de la danse et de la littérature était-elle donc marquée du sceau de l'inéluctable ? ...
Filosofia del sentire
Il presente volume si inscrive nel contesto degli studi filosofici che rendono operativa la nozione di aisthesis al fine di promuovere un approccio estetologico orientato al sentire. La peculiarità di tale approccio è la valorizzazione del movimento spontaneo e della nozione di ascolto e l’integrazione della prospettiva storica della modernità nella trattazione dell’arte. Ad accomunare i saggi qui tradotti è, pertanto, l’elaborazione di una “filosofia del sentire” mediante le categorie di movimento, spazio e ritmo. L’approccio fenomenologico di Erwin Straus (1891-1975), il legame tra musica e danza e l’analisi estetico-filosofica di quest’ultimo da parte di Henri Maldiney (1912-2013), orientano la problematizzazione del sentire proseguita nella versione inedita del testo Il gioco del sentire nell’arte.
