Presented By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance
Ethel V. Curry Distinguished Lecture in Musicology Nicholas Cook, Cambridge
Music as Creative Practice
Not long ago the idea of creativity in music brought to mind images of Beethoven and composers in garrets. Now the talk is all of collaborative and performative creativity, with Beethoven dropping out of the picture. This talk proposes a way of thinking about musical creativity that embraces both individual and collaborative practice. It is based on the idea of creative emergence, which arises out of the social interactions of collective performance. Cook develops existing approaches to jazz improvisation into a general model of real-time musical collaboration with an approach to composition that focuses on composers' interactions with physical or conceptual objects in the realm of “extended imagination.” Ostensibly solo creativity is based on the structures of social interaction, now translated into the domain of physical and symbolic objects.
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- Free - no tickets required
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