Open AccessMUSIC AS NOMAD RESEARCH
Author(s) -
Christopher Stover
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
atos de pesquisa em educação
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 1809-0354
DOI - 10.7867/1809-0354.2019v14n3p1044-1068
Subject(s) - key (lock) , musical , function (biology) , composition (language) , musical composition , musical expression , epistemology , state (computer science) , expression (computer science) , linguistics , cognitive science , computer science , sociology , literature , psychology , art , philosophy , programming language , computer security , evolutionary biology , biology
This essay uses the Deleuzo-Guattarian concept of the war machine to develop a way of thinking about research-creation, following Erin Manning’s suggestion that the latter—as a hyphenated compound structure—can function as a knowledge-producing act on its own terms, as a ‘making as thinking’. After considering several examples of musical processes that exemplify this concept (as nomadic conjunctions with ‘State’ apparatuses that rearrange the latter as new knowledge-producing expressions), it engages two moments from Benjamin Boretz’s Language ,as a music as an example of an original expression of research-creation that operates between music and verbal discourse. It closes by considering how this shift in thinking can function as a potent form of radical pedagogy.KEY WORDS: Benjamin Boretz. Carolyn Shaw. Musical composition. Nomad. Research-creation. War machine.