London Contemporary Dance School
Contextual Studies
Focusing on a selection of musical works from within three genres –- symphony, string quartet, and the piano repertoire –- I argue that the experience of music from the late 20th and early 21st centuries must be understood in terms of its... more
London Conference in Critical Thought 2015 included a stream on ‘Legacies of the Immaterial in the Arts and Practice’. This document contains an overview and description of the stream. Each of the three sections were delivered at the... more
Music can articulate ideas of selfhood, as is often illustrated with regard to the ‘Heroic’ works of Beethoven, and the relationship found between Beethoven’s music and Hegel’s philosophy. Alfred Schnittke confronts this tradition in... more
A collision of two thoughts on prostheses provides a point of theoretical ignition for this article: the first is that 'the musical instrument is a prosthetic augmentation of the human body, enabling the body to exceed itself' [Johnson,... more
There is a growing interest in what psychoanalytic theory brings to studying and researching music. Bringing together established scholars within the field, as well as emerging voices, this collection outlines and advances psychoanalytic... more
This book explores the transformation of ideas of the material in late twentieth- and early twenty-first-century musical composition. New music of this era is argued to reflect a historical moment when the idea of materiality itself is in... more
This paper will risk interpreting a “not quite” artwork; that is, an artwork whose unclear status throws the work of interpretation into relief. Manufactured by Eva Hesse at her studio on the Bowery, S-105 (1968) is one of a series of... more