Papers by Jonathan Impett
Solo percussionist, ensemble, installation and computer
Routledge Handbook to Luigi Nono and Musical Thought, 2018
Berio's Sequenzas, 2017
Studies to elucidate the molecular targets of two potent antimalarial benzoxaborole compounds in ... more Studies to elucidate the molecular targets of two potent antimalarial benzoxaborole compounds in Plasmodium falciparum
Routledge Handbook to Luigi Nono and Musical Thought, 2018
Of the postwar , post-serialist generation of European composers, it was Luigi Nono who succeeded... more Of the postwar , post-serialist generation of European composers, it was Luigi Nono who succeeded not only in identifying and addressing aesthetic and technical questions of his time, but in showing a way ahead to a new condition of music in the twenty-first century. His music has found a listenership beyond the ageing constituency of 'contemporary music'. In Nono's work, the audiences of sound art, improvisation, electronic, experimental and radical musics of many kinds find common cause with those concerned with the renewal of Western art music. His work explores the individually and socially transformative role of music; its relationship with history and with language; the nature of the musical work as distributed through text, time, technology and individuals; the nature and performativity of the act of composition; and, above all, the role and nature of listening as a cultural activity. In many respects his music anticipates the new technological state of culture of the twenty-first century while radically reconnecting with our past. His work is itself a case study in the evolution of musical activity and the musical object: from the period of an apparently stable place for art music in Western culture to its manifold new states in our century. Routledge Handbook to Luigi Nono and Musical Thought seeks to trace the evolution of Nono's musical thought through detailed examination of the vast body of sketches, and to situate this narrative in its personal, cultural and political contexts.
The practices and perception of music creation have evolved with the cultural, social and technol... more The practices and perception of music creation have evolved with the cultural, social and technological contexts of music and musicians. But musical authorship, in its many technical and aesthetic modes, remains an important component of music culture. Musicians are increasingly called on to share their experience in writing. However, cultural imperatives to account for composition as knowledge production and to make claims for its uniqueness inhibit the development of discourse in both expert and public spheres. Internet pioneer Philip Agre observed a discourse deficit in artificial intelligence research and proposed a critical technical practice, a single disciplinary field with “one foot planted in the craft work of design and the other foot planted in the reflexive work of critique. … A critical technical practice rethinks its own premises, re-evaluates its own methods, and reconsiders its own concepts as a routine part of its daily work.” This volume considers the potential for...
Routledge Handbook to Luigi Nono and Musical Thought, 2018
Routledge Handbook to Luigi Nono and Musical Thought, 2018
Routledge Handbook to Luigi Nono and Musical Thought, 2018
Artistic Research in Music: Discipline and Resistance, 2017
Full bibliographic details must be given when referring to, or quoting from full items including ... more Full bibliographic details must be given when referring to, or quoting from full items including the author's name, the title of the work, publication details where relevant (place, publisher, date), pagination, and for theses or dissertations the awarding institution, the degree type awarded, and the date of the award.
This paper explores the nature of the work in the case of computer-mediated real-time, interactiv... more This paper explores the nature of the work in the case of computer-mediated real-time, interactive, situated or improvised music – works often defined principally in terms of uniqueness but which constitute a common practice. The context for such an understanding derives from criticism of contemporary culture, especially Alain Badiou's call for an affirmationist art. The notion of the work without content is proposed, developed from the philosophy of Giorgio Agamben. Such works are characterised by the map of their dynamical redistribution of the materials and mechanisms whereby they inscribe a unique surface in a particular context. They must incorporate some mechanism for emergent events to transform space or discourse; modelling, simulation and the state-change of representation have crucial roles. The work without content acts as an interface between the originating impulse and a shared present. Its apparatus is understood as an economy of interactions. As a broader cultural...
Routledge Handbook to Luigi Nono and Musical Thought, 2018
Routledge Handbook to Luigi Nono and Musical Thought, 2018
Routledge Handbook to Luigi Nono and Musical Thought, 2018
Routledge Handbook to Luigi Nono and Musical Thought, 2018
Three States of Wax is a performance environment for an ensemble of computer-extended instruments... more Three States of Wax is a performance environment for an ensemble of computer-extended instruments. It investigates the nature of musical materials in a live computational environment. Three States of Wax develops ideas from Michel Serres’ early work on the materials of physics. He takes as his example a piece of wax: it has form or figure, however malleable, it can be understood on a molecular level and in terms of the physical laws of propagation, and it bears the traces of its own history – of the feeding habits of the bees, of temperature, of intentional or circumstantial forming. Serres proposes that the interference between different models, theories or modes of representation is the engine of knowledge. A central computer monitors interaction and the dynamics and evolution of the whole, identifying emergent phenomena. The differences between various modes of representation determine its responses of amplifying, inhibiting or contradicting the live behaviours.
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Papers by Jonathan Impett