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Extensive Structure No 1: Back Inside

from Line​-​in: R by Stephen Roddy

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Motivated by Ancient Greek thinking on epistêmê and technê this piece explores the tension between composition and performance. To do this it treats musical material as an instrument in the traditional acoustic sense, and formal musical structure as the performance of that instrument.
The piece was created by first composing musical material and then re-organising that material into larger structural patterns, in effect using the musical material to perform the patterns. These patterns were informed by music composition research undertaken in the field of embodied cognitive science. The result is a constantly shifting tapestry of musical motion that feels familiar and yet alien at the same time.

It explore the tension between what philosophers refer to as epistêmê and technê. In music epistêmê is the high level theoretical knowledge and logical processes a composer draws upon to shape a piece and a listener draws upon to understand a piece. Technê is concerned with the intuitive gut feelings with which a composer crafts, and a listener enjoys, a piece regardless of theoretical sensibility.
This piece explored the role of technê in making music meaningful to a listener. It does this through a systematic application of the thought of Leonard Meyer who proposed that the manipulation of expectation patterns through the design of embodied musical gestalts creates a unique technê for the listener that lends that music its sense of meaning.

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from Line​-​in: R, released March 7, 2014

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