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Stefan Östersjö

Stefan Östersjö

Senior lecturer

Stefan Östersjö

Participation and creation: towards an ecological understanding of musical creativity

Author

  • Halla Steinunn Stefansdottir
  • Stefan Östersjö

Summary, in English

This paper draws on artistic explorations of territorial and spatial forces through analysis of projects set in the natural landscape, in a specific indoor site or at the threshold between the two. Specific attention is given to the artistic processes at play in the transformation of materials cre- ated/collected in the natural environment when shaped for presentation in an indoor location. What is the relation between being and becoming in this liminal space? According to Erwin Straus, the impetus to this process is the pathic moment of sensation, a moment which evolves in two dimensions: as an unfolding of the world and of the self (Straus 1965). Louis Schreel argues that in Deleuze and Guattari, artistic practice activates a process in which «the work ‘captures’ forces at work in the world and renders these sensible. Its effects are above all real and not merely im- aginary: the image is not a mental given but a concrete, existing reality» (Schreel 2014: 100). Here, Deleuze distinguishes between the percept – landscape in the absence of man – and affect, the non-human becomings contained in the artwork. This paper wishes to unpack these processes through a study of two concrete instances of artistic practice, aiming to create immediate interac- tion between musician and environment, in which either of the two authors took part.

Department/s

  • Teachers (Malmö Academy of Music)

Publishing year

2019

Language

English

Pages

371-385

Publication/Series

La Deleuziana - Online Journal of Philosophy

Issue

10

Document type

Journal article

Topic

  • Music

Status

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Other

  • ISSN: 2421-3098