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Musical Practice as a Form of Life
How is musical practice connected with everyday life? Eva-Maria Houben shows that performing music as an activity - indeed, as playing - is a meaningful shift from an approach based on structural analysis. Musical practice, Eva-Maria Houben contends, can be understood as open and never finished. Such an emphasis on repetition offers freedom from perfection, productivity, and purpose, thus allowing meaning to unfold in specific situations, places, and relationships. Musical practice can become a form of life and a reality in its own right. The study includes musical examples from the 17th, 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries as well as contemporary music.
Hespos
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Silence as a Personal Practice
This dissertation will present an analysis of solo double bass compositions by Eva-Maria Houben, Jürg Frey and Antoine Beuger. Each of these composers belongs to the international music group Wandelweiser and share similar artistic ascetics surrounding the topics of silence, performance and musical practice. The analysis will be centered around the perspective of the performer and will highlight the experiences that occur from interacting with these scores. The specific compositions being discussed are the double bass by Houben, accurate placement by Frey and calme étendue (double bass) by Beuger.
Adriana Hölszky
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Eva-Maria
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On Minimalism
"Minimalism changed everything. When composers like Philip Glass and Steve Reich began creating hypnotically repetitive music in the 1960s, it upended the world of American composition. Hip, young listeners flocked to a genre that had long been insular and academic, packing concert halls and buying millions of records. But minimalism wasn't just a classical phenomenon: its static harmonies and groovy pulses swept through the avant-garde landscape, shaping the work of experimental mavens Yoko Ono and Brian Eno, radical improvisers John and Alice Coltrane, outre innovators Pauline Oliveros and Julius Eastman, and many others. This book provides a comprehensive, revisionist retelling of minimalism's transformative rise, through the voices of the musicians who created it. Featuring more than a hundred rare historical sources, On Minimalism moves from the style's origins in psychedelic counterculture through its arrival in the mainstream and into its present-day manifestations in doom metal and ambient jazz. O'Brien and Robin curate minimalism's history anew, documenting one of the most important musical movements of our time"--
Eva-Maria Bogaert
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MusikDenken
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Writing the Field Recording
The 11 essays collected here take the recent explosion of interest in field recordings as the point of departure for an investigation of the sound field in music and its relationship to literature and writing.
