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  • Michel Waisvisz: No Backup/Hyper Instruments

    Author(s)
    Ferguson, John
    Griffith University Author(s)
    Ferguson, John R.
    Year published
    2016
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    Abstract
    Focusing on Michel Waisvisz’s No Backup (2004) and Hyper Instruments (ca. 1999), this chapter draws upon a range of examples relevant to a discussion around electroacoustic improvisation with new instruments and technologies. The approach to ‘analysis’ I shall take is in many ways a critique of some of the more traditional methods. The open-ended, interactive structures characteristic of digital media are not wholly compatible with conventional conceptualisations of music where ‘performers’ play ‘compositions’. Improvisation offers a distinctive mode of engagement, in that it not only challenges the separability of performance ...
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    Focusing on Michel Waisvisz’s No Backup (2004) and Hyper Instruments (ca. 1999), this chapter draws upon a range of examples relevant to a discussion around electroacoustic improvisation with new instruments and technologies. The approach to ‘analysis’ I shall take is in many ways a critique of some of the more traditional methods. The open-ended, interactive structures characteristic of digital media are not wholly compatible with conventional conceptualisations of music where ‘performers’ play ‘compositions’. Improvisation offers a distinctive mode of engagement, in that it not only challenges the separability of performance from composition, but also emphasises process over product, and is therefore more compatible with the interactive capabilities of new technologies. The impact of these issues on what we, as a culture, imagine musicians to be, and the interrogation of received notions of authorship and creativity, is an important undercurrent that shapes the discussion within this chapter.
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    Book Title
    Expanding the Horizon of Electroacustic Music Analysis
    DOI
    https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781316339633.013
    Subject
    Performing Arts and Creative Writing not elsewhere classified
    Technology not elsewhere classified
    Publication URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/10072/142072
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