Music play spaces : a portfolio
Abstract/Contents
- Abstract
- Humans negotiate unpredictable environments every day. Responding to and engaging with new situations and rule-sets as and when they arise is quotidian, not a new or outlandish phenomenon. Interplay of object and meaning, interpretation via deduction and assumption, testing our theories and asking "what if I...?" in multimodal 3D environments happens in museums, galleries, concert halls and amusement parks but also in regular human interaction. There are no contexts that lack variables: we enlist templates that contain possibility spaces over scripts that forbid them. The phenomenon of the template—the signifying structure that stands in for the content—provides extremely fertile ground for an artistic praxis that seeks structural experimentation. The template is fallible in its incompleteness, humble in its neutral identity and aims of accessibility, and at the same time lifeless without human engagement and awesome in the multitude of possible branches it possesses. A template is a composed space that invites addition, subtraction, transformation, and reorganization. As participants in such composed spaces we are often unaware of the potential we possess as co-composers, as players. My work asks all those present to consider their significance as co-composers, as players in music spaces. In this portfolio of new works I draw on recent play research and explore composed possibility spaces for music experiences. I engage aspects of ritual, role and boundary in four new intermedial works: Situation #1: Agency (for Players, Explorer and Guide), Situation #2: Human Forms (a self-guided sound-sculpture audio tour), Situation #3: Interstices (for audience members, electronics, video and percussionist), and Metanoia: A Journey in 6 Scenes (a virtual environment for singers, percussion and single interacting player).
Description
| Type of resource | text |
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| Form | electronic; electronic resource; remote |
| Extent | 1 online resource. |
| Publication date | 2015 |
| Issuance | monographic |
| Language | English |
Creators/Contributors
| Associated with | Hay, Alexandra Claire |
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| Associated with | Stanford University, Department of Music. |
| Primary advisor | Kapuscinski, Jaroslaw, 1964- |
| Thesis advisor | Kapuscinski, Jaroslaw, 1964- |
| Thesis advisor | Applebaum, Mark |
| Thesis advisor | Chafe, Chris |
| Advisor | Applebaum, Mark |
| Advisor | Chafe, Chris |
Subjects
| Genre | Theses |
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Bibliographic information
| Statement of responsibility | Alexandra Claire Hay. |
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| Note | Submitted to the Department of Music. |
| Thesis | Thesis (DMA)--Stanford University, 2015. |
| Location | electronic resource |
Access conditions
- Copyright
- © 2015 by Alexandra Claire Hay
- License
- This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported license (CC BY).
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