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SUMMARY:Seminar Series: Where do we go when we play? Attention\, embodimen
 t\, and ensemble performance - Speaker to be confirmed
DTSTART:20220224T170000Z
DTEND:20220224T183000Z
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DESCRIPTION:Using a psychological study on body language in ensemble perfo
 rmance and poet Wayne Koestenbaum’s essay on playing the piano (mostly) 
 alone as our starting points\, we will discuss the relationship between mu
 sical experience and attention\, effort\, presence\, co-presence\, and abs
 ence. How much does intention matter when we play\, and how is intentional
 ity formed and shared when we play with others? How does our perception of
  the performance as public (“for others”) or private (“for ourselves
 ”) change our presence and participation? In blurring the borders of the
  individual mind\, does musical experience create assemblage or a kind of 
 absence\, or both?\n\nThis event series aims to reflect on how distributed
  models of cognition apply to\, and change our perception of\, musical eng
 agement. Growing interest in music-making practices outside the normative\
 , and ideally sterilised\, settings of the concert hall and the studio has
  already highlighted the extent to which ‘musicking’ creates living\, 
 distributed assemblages out of performers\, listeners\, instruments\, and 
 architectural spaces. In each session of the series\, the academics\, perf
 ormers\, and practitioners interviewed will share their reflections on the
  way the language and insights of distributed cognition engage and enrich 
 models of aural encounter in fields such as music performance\, environmen
 tal studies\, history\, religious studies\, and literature.
LOCATION:Online via zoom
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