Research Assistant: ‘Creative Practice in Contemporary Concert Music, UK College Scholarships
College Scholarships Job Description: Creative practice in music, particularly the music of our own time, takes place in a distributed and interactive manner embracing the activities of composers, performers and improvisers, despite the sharp division of labor between these roles that traditional concert culture often presents. By concentrating largely on music of the common practice period, performance studies has neglected a proper consideration of music for which performance practices remain in flux – the music of our own time – precluding direct study of the ways in which the primary creative agents (composers and performers) interact and negotiate. This project investigates the creative interactions between composers and performers through the specific circumstances of (1) the preparation, and delivery, of first performances of newly commissioned works; and (2) the creative dynamics of improvisation/collaborative composition – both conceptualized within the framework of distributed creativity.
Aims
The project has three broad aims:
• to study in detail the creative interactions of performers with composers in the specific
context of preparing and presenting performances of new works
• to examine a range of notation, preparation and performance practices in
contemporary music
• to investigate and interrogate the distributed creativity between composer and
performer in contemporary performance, and in so doing to revive a broad notion of
improvisation that has been sidelined in the history of performance.
To participate in the ‘Creative Practice in Contemporary Concert Music’ research project in
line with the objectives defined in the project description. The Research Assistant will:
(1) Take primary responsibility for a thorough survey of the literature on post-WWII writing on composer/performer collaborations, and on collaborative composition/improvisation more
generally; (2) Collect and analyse qualitative and quantitative data from composer/performer/ improviser interactions (including interviews, diaries, performance data); (3) Help to organize and run workshops; (4) Take an active role in authoring and/or preparing publications; (5) Take an active role in presenting at workshops and conferences.
University International Scholarships Application deadline: 25 October 2010
Further College International Scholarships information and Application
http://www.ox.ac.uk/media/global/wwwoxacuk/localsites/currentvacancies/furtherparticularsforcurrentjobs/cmpcprasst.pdf
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