[ANPPOM-Lista] Anthony Gritten: "Determination and Negotiation in Artistic Practice as Research in Music"

[Carlos Palombini]

What is Artistic Practice as Research not? It is not research in anything
like the puresense associated with the STEM subjects (Science, Technology,
Engineering, Mathematics), although it makes knowledge claims of some sort
along the way. It also seems to be not quite practice simpliciter, since it
maintains a more than passing interest in self-documentation, and since it
invests much of its energy not just into self-reflection per se but also
into understanding how self-reflection might be both a process and a
product, often seeking to turn the one into the other in a never-ending
spiralling motion. So it is neither practice nor research pure and simple.
It is also more complex than their mathematically linear combination: here,
one plus one is not two. This much seems clear from the phrase itself, at
least initially, since, hanging on the coat tails of the two older parent
activities without which it would not have been born at all, it complicates
things from the outset. Furthermore, the ‘as’ in the middle of the phrase
Artistic Practice as Research (hereafter APaR) is not to be apprehended as
a mere matter of metaphorical transfer. When we hear sounds ‘as’ tones, for
example, we are led to believe that the latter have ultimate value and
that, as far as music is concerned (as opposed to sound or noise), the
former are a means to an end. This is not the case withAPaR, for its
practice is not merely a means to its research, and its research is not
deemed to be any more valuable than its practice (at least, not within the
practitioner-led discourse of APaR).

Anthony Gritten, "Determination and Negotiation in Artistic Practice as
Research in Music", *in* Mine Dogantan-Dack (org.), *Artistic Practice as
Research in Music: Theory, Criticism, Practice*, Ashgate, 2013, Chapter 4
(in press).

http://www.academia.edu/3320902/Determination_and_Negotiation_in_Artistic_Practice_as_Research_in_Music

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carlos palombini
ufmg.academia.edu/CarlosPalombini
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