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Beyond interpretation: a proposal for experimentalperformance practices

Logic ofExperimentation offers several innovative and ground-breaking perspectives on musicperformance, music ontology, research methodologies and ethics of performance.It proposes new modes of thinking and exposing past musical works tocontemporary audiences, arguing for a new kind of performer, emancipated fromauthoritative texts and traditions, whose creativity is propelled by intensiveresearch and inventive imagination. Moving beyond the work-concept, Logic ofExperimentation presents a new image of musical works, based upon thenotions of strata, assemblage and diagram, advancing innovative practice-basedmethodologies that integrate archival and musicological research into thecreative process leading to a performance. Beyond representational modes ofperformance--be it mainstream or historically informed performance practices--Logicof Experimentation creates an ontological, methodological and ethical spacefor experimental performance practices, arguing for a new mode of performance. Written in an experimental style, itseight chapters appropriate music performance concepts from post-structuralphilosophy, psychoanalysis, science and technology studies, epistemology andsemiotics, displaying how transdisciplinarity is central to artistic research.An indispensable contribution to artistic research in music, Logic ofExperimentation is compellingreading for music performers, composers, musicologists, philosophers and artist researchers alike.