scholarly journals Contemporary Knowledge and Musical Creation: Ethic and Paradigms

2016 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ilza Nogueira

In this essay, the author reflects upon musical knowledge of the last thirty five years under the light of contemporary philosophy (Gilles Deleuze, Félix Guatarri and Sílvio Gallo), demonstrating, through music analysis, how the evolution of compositional thought from 1980 to 2010 accompanies ethical and paradigmatic concepts which apply to the broad intellectual thought of the time-period. Works by three composers from Bahia – Ernst Widmer (1927-1990), Paulo Costa Lima (b. 1954) and Paulo Rios Filho (b. 1985) – serve the analytical demonstration, which leads to a conclusive reflection on the interdependence of artistic creation and contemporary strategies of knowledge production.

Author(s):  
Nadia Petrunok

Modern philosophy tends to consider human reality in more and more interdisciplinary contexts. Thanks to that, at first traditional, and now new media as well as IT, attract philosophers’ attention and provide material for thinking over a lot of so-called “eternal philosophical questions”. Among them, there are some of the broadest questions: a) catching the margins of the real; b) understanding, which phenomena and objects to constitute human might be called real. The key goal of this article is to research one of the crucial concepts, which brings us to understanding reality, – the notion of virtuality. The author of this paper outlines background of this notion, describes its characteristics and usage in modern philosophical discourse. First of all, virtual is described in its connotations to all three dimensions of time being: past, present, and future. It is argued that the notion of virtuality at first used to be “rediscovered” by Gilles Deleuze, but then it has experienced crucial changes in philosophy of the XXth and XXIst centuries. By means of that, virtual is discussed as a counterpart of the concept of reality. In particular, this article touches upon a variety of connotations between the notions of virtuality, reality and actuality. It also shows the context of juxtaposition of the aforementioned notions. What is more, this paper reveals moral aspects of virtuality both in transcendental and as immanent senses. This article shows the background of indistinguishability for “real” and “virtual”. Finally, it is stated that in the situation of so-called “substituted reality” the multiplicity of connotations of the notion of virtuality ought to be used to rediscover the notion of reality itself.


2018 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 176
Author(s):  
Alik Wunder

Que potências as imagens tem quando descoladas do desejo de representar, explicar, apresentar um real pré-existente? Quando as imagens não desejam mais desvelar verdades, que forças intensivas ganham? O artigo passeia por obras de artistas que, por meio da criação fotográfica, oferecem ao mundo imagens que desequilibram os modos de ver e de pensar a visão e a percepção. Obras que desafiam ordens visuais e enveredam-nos para o não-dito, não percebido e irrepresentável. Diante do excesso de imagens e do esgotamento das possibilidades de absorção do mundo pelas imagens as obras de Miguel Rio Branco, Claudia Andujar, Moisés Patrício e Cao Guimarães criam vazios por onde vazam sensações. Com Peter Pal Pelbart e Gilles Deleuze, a criação artística é pensada (e vivida) como quebra dos automatismos da percepção, como janelas a outros modos de encontro e criação com o mundo.   PALAVRAS-CHAVE: Fotografia; visualidade; Gilles Deleuze.     ABSTRACT What forces do images have when they are detached from a desire of representing, explaining, presenting a preexisting real? When the images no longer tend to reveal truths, what intensive forces do they gain? This article presents the works of artists who offer the world, through photographic creation, images that unbalance the ways we see and think of vision and perception. These works defy visual orders and move us toward the unspoken, unperceived and unrepresentable. Faced with the excess of images and the exhaustion of the possibilities of absorption of the world by the images, the works of Miguel Rio Branco, Claudia Andujar, Moisés Patrício and Cao Guimarães create voids through which sensations leak. With Peter Pal Pelbart and Gilles Deleuze, artistic creation is thought of (and lived) as a break from the automatisms of perception, as windows to other kinds of world encounters and creations.   KEYWORDS: Photography; visuality; Gilles Deleuze.     RESUMEN ¿Qué poderes tienen las imágenes cuando se separan del deseo de representar, explicar, presentar una verdad pre-existente? Cuando las imágenes no desean revelar más verdades ¿que fuerzas ganan? El texto trata de obras de artistas que, a través de la creación fotográfica, ofrecen al mundo imágenes que cuestionan las formas tradicionales de ver y pensar la visión y la percepción. Obras que desafían el orden visual y perceptivo y que nos llevan a lo no-dicho, lo no representable. Ante el exceso de imágenes y el agotamiento de las posibilidades de absorber el mundo a través de ellas, las obras de Miguel Rio Branco, Claudia Andujar, Moises Patrício e Cao Guimarães abren un vacío donde residen sensaciones inauditas. Junto a Peter Pal Pelbart y Gilles Deleuze, la creación artística es pensada (y vivida) como quiebra del automatismo de la percepción, como ventanas a otros modos de encuentro y creación con el mundo.   PALABRAS CLAVE: Fotografía;, visualidad; Gilles Deleuze.


2018 ◽  
Vol 74 (4) ◽  
pp. 1043-1076
Author(s):  
Eduardo Augusto G. Gatto

The purpose of this paper is to elaborate some considerations about the musical issue from the poetic-hermeneutic ontology started by Heidegger. It has for support, among others, the essay ‘Der Ursprung des Kunstwerkes’ (The Origin of the Work of Art), but during our discussion, other works and authors will appear as possibilities of dialogue from the necessities of the path. Under the musical perspective, the paper takes on principle the thesis which affirms the music in a pre-representational condition as original poetic responding to the primordial question that starts all philosophy. Having it in focus, we structure the text in three main pillars of inquiry based on the musical happening: a) the reference between music and musical works; b) the role of the musicians and the audience-listeners; c) the musical knowledge. Guided by both, thesis and principles, we structure four parts interrelated whose titles are: 1) work and sound/sonority; 2) music and musical creation; 3) work, musical performing interpretation, and musical composition; 4) knowledge [coda]. The present way of organization has the intention of merging the issues proposed by the titles in order for them to be thought from the own perspectives of each section.


2015 ◽  
Vol 21 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Estelle Barrett

Since all theories of knowing deal with the being of subjects, objects, instruments and environments, they can be viewed as onto-epistemological.  This chapter examines key ideas that emerge from the work of Julia Kristeva – 'the speaking subject', 'materiality of language' and 'heterogeneity' – to demonstrate how ontology and epistemology are inextricably entwined in knowledge production. Kristeva also affirms both the agency of matter and  the dimension of human/subjective agency implicated in cultural production. This is contrasted with Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari’s account creative practice. The article also draws on the artistic work of researcher-practitioner Brian Martin, and his account of the relationship between Indigenous Australian art and culture to demonstrate that in an Indigenous world view, the real, the immaterial, the imaginary and the representational occur concurrently.


Author(s):  
Vinicius Jonas de AGUIAR (Universidade de Lisboa)

: In the last decades, many studies on diagrams have endeavored to show how that kind of sign influences and is part of reasoning – not only mathematical and scientific reasoning but artistic reasoning as well. Gilles Deleuze (1925-1995), for instance, depicts the role of the diagrams in the art of Francis Bacon. The American philosopher C.S. Peirce (1839-1914), on the other hand, develops such concept mainly in the context of scientific reasoning. Bearing that in mind, we will argue that in both cases, the philosophers did not present a thorough analysis of how the diagrams are or might be part of the artistic creation. In that sense, we intend to show how relevant their philosophies and more specifically their thoughts on diagrams can be to the understanding of arts and creativity


2021 ◽  
Vol 22 (2) ◽  
pp. 100-104
Author(s):  
Peter Angga Branco De'Vries Mau ◽  
Prima Dona Hapsari

Modes in Modality concept is a musical thinking that was used before 1600s. After 1600s (Baroque Era), the concept of modes changed into a contrast concept called Tonality (major-minor) and still exist today, in our era. Musical knowledge will evolve along with technological advances, but in fact there are so many composers today using the concept of modes to give another nuance and interpretation in their musical works. As academic musicians, surely the students of Music Department of ISI Yogyakarta got the concept of modes in several subject such as music theory, music structure and style, music analysis, and etc. However, the tonality concept that always used by common academic musicians today makes the concept of Modality become so hard to identify if they are heard a musical work that contains modes. This research will show us how many students of Music Department of ISI Yogyakarta who can’t identify a musical work that contains modes.


Daímon ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 49-62
Author(s):  
Axel Cherniavsky

En la vida cotidiana y el lenguaje corriente, muchas veces la idiotez remite a una falta de inteligencia o a un defecto del pensamiento. Se trata de una concepción que alcanzó gran precisión en la psiquiatría clásica y que no se halla totalmente ausente de la filosofía contemporánea. Sin embargo, a juicio de Deleuze y Guattari, el idiota constituye el personaje filosófico por excelencia. ¿En qué medida este personaje supone o permite construir una concepción alternativa de la idiotez? En realidad, existen tres tipos de idiotas en la obra de Deleuze: uno que se identifica con el tonto, otro que se identifica con el loco y un tercero que ríe de la creencia en este mundo. Intentaremos ofrecer una respuesta al interrogante anterior analizando cada uno de estos tres personajes. In everyday life and common language, idiocy often refers to a lack of intelligence or a defect in thinking. This conception achieved great precision in classical psychiatry and it is not totally absent from contemporary philosophy. However, according to Deleuze and Guattari, the idiot constitutes the philosophical persona par excellence. To what extent does this persona entail or allow constructing an alternative conception of idiocy? Actually, there are three kinds of idiots in Deleuze’s work: one that identifies itself with the fool, another that identifies itself with the madman and a third that laughs at the belief in this world. We will try to offer an answer to the aforementioned question by analyzing each of these three characters.


Author(s):  
David Meredith

David Meredith focuses on how the musical knowledge that underpins both music perception and musical imagery can be acquired by compressing musical information. He works from the notion that the goal of music analysis is to find the best possible explanations for the structures of musical “objects,” such as individual works or movements as well as extracts from works or collections of works. In opposition to what Meredith considers to be the subjectively grounded evaluation of different analyses of the same music that is carried out by music analysts adopting a humanistic approach, he proposes that the relative quality of two analyses of the same object can be measured in terms of how well they allow us to carry out objectively evaluable tasks, such as recognizing composers or genres, or finding errors in musical data.


2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Camilla Kvaal

A society considered to be in a multicultural condition is likely to condition the way things are seen and what is seen as important. Attention is likely to be drawn to difference and diversity and the prospects of including it, and high hopes may be set on music in this. Within a certain multicultural discourse, music is expected to affirm and represent identities, while at the same time to create unity across diversity. Departing from a Norwegian context, drawing on results from fieldwork within the intercultural ensemble Kaleidoscope, this paper explores collaborative music making in relation to diversity and knowledge production. It is argued that musical knowledge may be generated in useful ways by thinking beyond music as representation. Knowing music as operation may better benefit co-construction of diverse and inclusive music practices.  


2019 ◽  
Vol 47 (127) ◽  
pp. 71-90
Author(s):  
Maja Bak Herrie

Comparison as a methodological or technical tool to perceive something that was not perceptible beforehand is a complex manoeuvre that gives rise to both potentials and challenges. While emphasising concealed or unseen similarities in artworks or literature, comparison also risks operating on the expense of the potential distance between the two subject matters compared. This article argues that the complex and curious art project Dominique Lambert (2004-2016) by the French artist Stéphanie Solinas offers itself as a valuable starting point for a discussion of a range of meta-theoretical and methodological questions related to ideas of comparison in a broader theoretical framework. The project not only questions how or when a comparison is possible, but also what the nature of comparisons is, and how comparisons are legitimised as such in humanistic knowledge production. Thus, it is the central hypothesis of the article that modes of comparing build upon ideas of virtuality, that is, that the ‘object’ of the comparison is produced as a manoeuvre connecting or relating two previously separated subject matters. Accordingly, Gilles Deleuze’ idea of virtuality is applied in order to understand and discuss prevailing uses of comparison, e.g. in the recent field of Digital Humanities.


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