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the roamer<a href="https://io.waxandleather.com/@composergreg" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@composergreg</a> This piece keeps me thinking. I got Arved Ashby's book from the library. A real find.Ashby on Gould: "An imaginative mind taking an example of common-practice music and teasing out its textual possibilities to extremes, risking incursions into the bizarre and the arbitrary, and testing the various prospects for coherent musical wholes that may or may not have anything to do with the composer’s thinking."<a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/GlennGould" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#GlennGould</a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/improvisation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#improvisation</a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/performance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#performance</a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/defamiliarisation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#defamiliarisation</a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/ArvedAshby" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ArvedAshby</a>

the roamer<a href="https://io.waxandleather.com/@composergreg" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@composergreg</a> Oh, this is illuminating. A "compositional approach to performance" as dual to "improvisational composition" makes perfect sense for Gould. And as you suggest, Gould stays true to the material, no self-indulgence.I am not a musician myself, but as a lecturer I experience a similar tension: the exposition must be free and created afresh in front of the students, and yet it must remain true to the canon. <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/GlenGould" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#GlenGould</a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/Shklovsky" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Shklovsky</a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/improvisation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#improvisation</a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/defamiliarisation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#defamiliarisation</a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/lecturing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#lecturing</a>

the roamer"Art exists that one may recover the sensation of life; it exists to make one feel things, to make the stone stony."Art as Technique (1917), Viktor Shklovsky"To make the stone stony" --- Shklovsky speaks about literature and the characteristic difference between poetry and prose. But for me, "to make the stone stony" is also the battle cry of good teaching. Let the student experience the stone, for the first time.<a href="https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/english/currentstudents/undergraduate/modules/fulllist/first/en122/lecturelist-2015-16-2/shklovsky.pdf" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/english/currentstudents/undergraduate/modules/fulllist/first/en122/lecturelist-2015-16-2/shklovsky.pdf</a><a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/Shklovsky" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Shklovsky</a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/defamiliarisation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#defamiliarisation</a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/pedagogy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#pedagogy</a>

the roamer<a href="https://historians.social/@chashale" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@chashale</a> Lately I've become obsessed with the concept of <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/defamiliarisation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#defamiliarisation</a> by literary theorist Viktor <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/Shklovsky" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Shklovsky</a>. Make the familiar become unfamiliar, understand a thing by making it strange. Once you recognise the principle, you see it at work everywhere. So in this photograph!<a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/Feininger" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Feininger</a> was important to me when I started snapping as a young man. His handbook was my guide for many years, his photographs served as the standard. I now see that they are exercises in defamiliarisation.

the roamer<a href="https://lor.sh/@Alan" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@Alan</a> Lots of wisdom in your post. About <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/humour" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#humour</a>, human <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/authorship" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#authorship</a>, the unordinariness of the <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/ordinary" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ordinary</a>."When the ordinary stops being ordinary" --- to me as a teacher, that experience is also the key to a meaningful teaching moment.<a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/Shklovsky" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Shklovsky</a> and the notion of <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/defamiliarisation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#defamiliarisation</a> come to mind.Defamiliarisation as the haven for authentic human authorship!<a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/OrdinaryNoMore" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#OrdinaryNoMore</a>

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