The Mediations of Music: Critical Approaches after Adorno

Contents

• Introduction
• GIANMARIO BORIO
• PART I The Dynamics of Musical Mediation
• 1 'Music is the Logic of Judgmentless Synthesis'.
• Adorno on Music, Language, and Mediation
• DIETRICH MERSCH
• 2 Beyond Mediation
• ESTEBAN BUCH
• 3 Radio Voices: Progressive Broadcasting between Aesthetics and Mass Pedagogy
• MICHELA GARDA
• PART II Notation and Performance
• 4 'Jedes Notenzeichen ... ein Schlag'.
• Rethinking Adorno's critique of notation
• ANDREAS MEYER
• 5 Towards a Practice of Musical Performance Creativity
• DANIEL LEECH-WILKINSON
• 6 A 'Radical Mediation' Approach to the Text/Performance Relation in Music
• ALESSANDRO CECCHI
• PART III Music on Screen
• 7 Instrumentalising Music for the Film:
• Pianos, Harps, and Fiddles in Backbreaking Moves of Social Labour
• LYDIA GOEHR
• 8 Composing for the Films in the Age of Digital Media
• JAMES BUHLER
• PART IV Recorded Sound in Changing Environments
• 9 Adorno and Jazz:
• A Critical Revision from an Audiotactile Perspective
• VINCENZO CAPORALETTI
• 10 'To become transformed into an insect, man needs that energy
• which might possibly achieve his transformation into a man'.
• Adorno, the domination of nature and the becoming-insect of music
• MAKIS SOLOMOS