The Aesthetics of Imperfection in Music and the Arts: Spontaneity, Flaws and the Unfinished
- Editor: Hamilton, Andy
- Editor: Pearson, Lara
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$71.75Contents
- List of Figures Notes on
- Contributors
- Acknowledgments Introduction, Andy Hamilton and Lara Pearson
- SECTION 1 : THE POSITIVE VALUE OF IMPERFECTION
- 1. The Aesthetics of Imperfection: The Finished Work, and Process Versus Product, Andy Hamilton
- 2. Taking Aim at Imperfection , David Lloyd
- 3. The Aesthetics of Imperfection, John Tilbury
- 4. Reflections on the Value of Imperfection in Crafts Through the Japanese Philosophy of Wabi-Sabi, Vasiliki Tsaknaki
- 5. Built from the Root, Ever-changing at the Bloom: The Role of Imperfection in Systems of Musical Phonology, Morphology, and Syntax, Nate Wooley
- 6. Imperfect World, Linda Catlin Smith
- SECTION 2 : SOCIAL AND CULTURAL CONTEXT
- 7. A Socially Situated Approach to Aesthetics: Games and Challenges in Karnatak Music, Lara Pearson
- 8. A Social Aesthetics of Imperfection: Spontaneity and Meaning in Pop on the Streets of China, Samuel Horlor
- 9. Age, Process, and Self-Raising Flour, Cara Stacey
- 10. Learning Music Aesthetics Through Imperfection: The Transmission of Shakuhachi Music, Kiku Day
- SECTION 3 : COMPOSITION V. IMPROVISATION
- 11. The Inter-Dependence of Composition and Improvisation, Rohan De Saram
- 12. Improvising Beyond Hamilton's Aesthetics of Imperfection, Louise Gibbs
- 13. Better Than Perfect: Dave Brubeck and The Aesthetics of Imperfection, Darius Brubeck
- 14. The Aesthetics of Imperfection in Jazz and Free Improvisation, Trevor Barre
- 15. Decisions, Revisions, Intentions and Integrity: A Subjective Understanding of Composition and Improvisation, Paul Edis
- 16. A Literary Aesthetic of Perfection and Imperfection, Rebecca Wallbank
- SECTION 4 : INTERPRETATION AND FREEDOM
- 17. Embracing Serendipity in Classical Performance, Stephanie Cant
- 18. That is Not Freedom, That is Taking License: The Pitfalls in Performing Morton Feldman's Graph Scores, John Snijders
- 19. Expanding the Ideal: Systemic Music as a Dialogue of Becoming, Kris Tiner
- SECTION 5 : RISK, DISRUPTION AND FAILURE
- 20. Live Coding and Failure, Shelly Knotts
- 21. The Aesthetics of Failure, Claire Zakiewicz
- 22. The Mistake as Material, Corey Mwamba
- 23. The Aesthetics of Imperfection: Mistakes, and Hearing What You Intend, Enrico Pieranunzi
- 24. Risk in Improvisation and in Comedy, Donnchadh O'Conaill
- 25. Risk, Failure and Courage: Improvisation and Stand-Up Comedy, Victor Dura-Vila
- 26. Inciting Uncertainty, Mike Baggetta
- 27. Championing Risk and Discovery: Satoko Fujii and the Experimental Composition Improvisation Continuum, Alister Spence
- SECTION 6 : COLLABORATION IN PERFORMANCE
- 28. Imperfect Unity and Productive Frictions: Ethics and Aesthetics of Play in Dance Improvisation, Annie Kloppenberg
- 29. Cross Purposes: Imperfect Interactions When Improvising With Others, Graeme B. Wilson
- 30. An Audience for Free Jazz: Joe McPhee Interviewed, Joe McPhee
- 31. Is Love Too Strong a Term?The Dissolution of Distinction Between Aesthetics and Sociality in a Moving Orchestra, Jim Denley
- SECTION 7 : THE INSTRUMENTAL IMPULSE
- 32. The Instrumental Impulse: Developing a Free Improvisation Vocabulary for Alternative Keyboard Instruments, Adam Fairhall
- 33. Rarely Heard, Small Unwanted Sounds Form the Focus, Dave Brown aka Candlesnuffer
- 34. The Disagreeable Subject of Varese's Father: In Conversation With David Brown, Reuben Lewis
- 35. The Necks on the Aesthetics of Imperfection, Chris Abrahams, Lloyd Swanton, Tony Buck
- 36. 'Stardust': Seeing and Imagining What isn't There, Martin Mayes
- SECTION 8 : FINISHED AND UNFINISHED WORK
- 37. Architecture of Imperfection: Unfinished Sketches and Burke's Sublime, Elizabeth Baldwin Gray
- 38. Still Water Moves, Philip G. Robinson
- 39. Notating Perfection? Beethoven and the Late String Quartets, Rachel Stroud
- Index