ResearchWorks: Slip, Sign, Truck Joke and Twist (an alter-practice of ongoing undoing?)

  • 5pm
Paul Abbott setting up a drum kit

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Category:
Interdisciplinary | Platform / Discussion | Research | ResearchWorks
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Booking required | Free | Online
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Free, registration required
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Online

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This presentation focuses on a number of Paul Abbott's music-practice based research projects: "Playing no solo imagination: synthesising the rhythmic emergence of sound and sign through embodied drum kit performance and writing" and "Grow Music!".

The presentation will discuss what the researcher did, how he did it, why he did it: motivated by the experimental search to find new critical and non-standard ways to write, think and play music. As a part of the talk, Paul will share some of the words, sounds and methods these projects generated.

It will outline how Paul's recent research has been approached primarily through a practice as a performing musician, playing a drum kit, and writing in response, or to facilitate that play.

Paul's work is concerned with aspects of embodied cognition, intersubjectivity, musical imagination, and writing in creative music practice. Exploring relationships between writing and music performance to develop structures to facilitate musical improvisation. The presentation will discuss the affordances and limitations of the interactions between creative practice and academic research, and Paul's work with fictional characterisation as a compositional method to compose structures for improvisation.

Recently Paul's work has focused on exploring specific generative features of embodied music making, primarily in the context of live experimental improvised music. This has followed the idea of music making as an ecology, in which simultaneously real (material, sonic) and imaginary (subjective, embodied) music is grown.

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Guildhall School’s ResearchWorks is a programme of events centred around the School’s research activity, bringing together staff, students and guests of international standing. We run regular events throughout the term intended to share the innovative research findings of the School and its guests with students, staff and the public.

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