Artistic research in music: discipline and resistance: artists and researchers at the Orpheus Institute
- Submitting institution
-
Middlesex University
- Unit of assessment
- 33 - Music, Drama, Dance, Performing Arts, Film and Screen Studies
- Output identifier
- 1665
- Type
- B - Edited book
- DOI
-
10.2307/j.ctt21c4s2g
- Publisher
- Leuven University Press
- ISBN
- 9789462700901
- Open access status
- -
- Month of publication
- December
- Year of publication
- 2017
- URL
-
http://eprints.mdx.ac.uk/32088/
- Supplementary information
-
-
- Request cross-referral to
- -
- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
- -
- Forensic science
- No
- Criminology
- No
- Interdisciplinary
- No
- Number of additional authors
-
0
- Research group(s)
-
-
- Proposed double-weighted
- No
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- No
- Additional information
- This edited volume surveys the field of artisticresearch in music after two decades in which the topic has been both hotly debated and widely introduced as an integral component of higher education in music. It considers artistic research from several perspectives-its methodologies, its theoretical background, its institutional context and the narrative of its development–as well as presenting significant examples of new work.
My own chapter –uniquely in this literature–addresses the relationship between the evolving practice of artistic research and the musician. The musician is considered as a professional, cultural, economic and knowledge-producing agent, and these roles are presented in their historical context. Major changes in the professional environment, the cultural landscape and associated funding structures of music have produced a highly dynamic situation presenting both opportunities and challenges for the musician. This requires a high level of awareness, reflection and responsiveness. In this context, the practices of artistic research represent a vital skill-set for the artist to identify and maintain roles and relevance. At the same time, the evolving principles of artistic research afford an ethical and conceptual framework for the musician working in a fluid context in which they have to construct their own multiply-networked identity. The notion of shareable knowledge produced through individual artistic endeavour suggests a way of framing common purpose and cultural development in a seemingly fragmented environment. Artistic research is thus presented not only as an important aspect of contemporary musical creative practice, but also as an emergent phenomenon within the fast-evolving dynamics of cultural knowledge-production. As such, it reflects significant tendencies in the philosophies of both culture and epistemology.
- Author contribution statement
- -
- Non-English
- No
- English abstract
- -