Experimental Encounters in Music and Beyond

Kathleen Coessens is director of the Koninklijk Conservatorium Brussel, professor at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel, and associate researcher at the Orpheus Institute, Ghent. Kathleen Coessens is director of the Koninklijk Conservatorium Brussel, professor at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel, and associate researcher at the Orpheus Institute, Ghent. Anne Douglas is a professor emerita, Gray’s School of Art, Robert Gordon University, Scotland, who explores the changing place of the artist in public life. Her research has increasingly focused on art and the environmental crisis from a practice-led perspective. She co-produced the Harrisons’ work ‘On the Deep Wealth of this Nation: Scotland’ (2017) in collaboration with Newton Harrison and the Centre for the Study of the Force Majeure, University of California Santa Cruz. Bob Gilmore is a Research Fellow at the Orpheus Institute (Belgium) and editor of Tempo: A Quarterly Review of New Music (UK).David Gorton is a composer, senior postgraduate tutor and associate head of research at the Royal Academy of Music, associate professor at the University of London, and associate researcher at the Orpheus Institute, Ghent.

• Faces, Spaces, and Traces: A Prelude to Experimental Encounters Kathleen Coessens PART ONE: CONTRASTING FACES Kathleen Coessens Down With the Experiment! Long Live the Process! or, Dance Doesn’t Exist Efva Lilja The Art of Risk Taking: Experimentation, Invention, and Discovery Chaya Czernowin PART TWO: CHALLENGING MATERIAL SPACES Kathleen Coessens Thingification of Compositional Process: The Emergence and Autonomy of Extramusical Objects in Western Art Music Svetlana Maraš Roll Over Czerny Frederik Croene Austerity Measures and Rich Rewards David Gorton and Christopher Redgate Cooperation and Collaboration between Interpreter and Composer in Electroacoustic Music Sebastian Berweck Trans-form: Sketches, Experiments, and Concepts in Artistic Creation Jan C. Schacher PART THREE: EXPERIMENTAL DIALOGUES WITH TRACES Kathleen Coessens Rational Spaces: The String Quartets of Ben Johnston as Experimental Process Bob Gilmore The Need for Artistic Experimentation When Preparing Organum Duplum for Performance Léonin and Pérotin and Twelfth- and Thirteenth-Century Polyphony from L’Ecole de Notre Dame Penelope Turner “Association”: A Way of Artistic Experimentation That Can Expand Interpretation Possibilities Valentin Gloor PART FOUR: NEGOTIATING EXPERIMENTAL(LY) SPACES AND FACES Kathleen Coessens From Experimentation to Construction Richard Barrett Exper-iment, Exper-ience, Exper-tise: Practice-as-Research in Jazz Performance Steve Tromans Improvisation as Experimentation in Everyday Life and Beyond Anne Douglas and Kathleen Coessens Composition as Improvisation/Improvisation as Composition David Horne and Melinda Maxwell The Kunstorchester Kwaggawerk Project: An Original Cultural Education Programme Reto Stadelmann An Afterthought to Experimental Encounters Kathleen Coessens