Campbell, Edward and De Souza, Jonathan and Heile, Björn and Jan, Chun-Yang Oli and Moran, Nikki (2024) What is it like to be a tree? Sonic layers, doubleness and ecology in Martin Iddon's Sapindales. Tempo, 78 (310). pp. 25-35. ISSN 0040-2982

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In this collaborative account of Iddon's Sapindales, the authors recount how their experiences of live and virtual clarinet sounds and environmental sounds combine in varied ways. By focusing on relationships among sonic layers, the authors emphasise the dynamic interplay of live and recorded performance, music and environment, the real and the virtual, the abstract and the concrete. Each relationship involves mediation and ambiguity, with elements that alternatively split apart or join together. The listening outcomes that we describe repeatedly highlight a positional swing between subject and object, as the authors reach across explanatory modes, drawing on phenomenology, musicology, psychoanalysis and ecological psychology, among others. We aim to capture the process of aesthetic listening, a process that is live, interactive, constructive, imaginative.

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Campbell, Edward
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Campbell, Edward and De Souza, Jonathan and Heile, Björn and Jan, Chun-Yang Oli and Moran, Nikki (2024) What is it like to be a tree? Sonic layers, doubleness and ecology in Martin Iddon's Sapindales. Tempo, 78 (310). pp. 25-35. ISSN 0040-2982

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De Souza, Jonathan
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Campbell, Edward and De Souza, Jonathan and Heile, Björn and Jan, Chun-Yang Oli and Moran, Nikki (2024) What is it like to be a tree? Sonic layers, doubleness and ecology in Martin Iddon's Sapindales. Tempo, 78 (310). pp. 25-35. ISSN 0040-2982

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Heile, Björn
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Heile, Björn and Iddon, Martin (2024) Introduction: theory and practice of somatic music. Tempo, 78 (310). pp. 5-12. ISSN 0040-2982

Heile, Björn and Moran, Nikki (2024) The music of Proxima Centauri B: Three Singers on Planet M, by Oli Jan. Tempo, 78 (310). pp. 47-50. ISSN 0040-2982

Campbell, Edward and De Souza, Jonathan and Heile, Björn and Jan, Chun-Yang Oli and Moran, Nikki (2024) What is it like to be a tree? Sonic layers, doubleness and ecology in Martin Iddon's Sapindales. Tempo, 78 (310). pp. 25-35. ISSN 0040-2982

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Jan, Chun-Yang Oli
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Campbell, Edward and De Souza, Jonathan and Heile, Björn and Jan, Chun-Yang Oli and Moran, Nikki (2024) What is it like to be a tree? Sonic layers, doubleness and ecology in Martin Iddon's Sapindales. Tempo, 78 (310). pp. 25-35. ISSN 0040-2982

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Moran, Nikki
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Heile, Björn and Moran, Nikki (2024) The music of Proxima Centauri B: Three Singers on Planet M, by Oli Jan. Tempo, 78 (310). pp. 47-50. ISSN 0040-2982

Campbell, Edward and De Souza, Jonathan and Heile, Björn and Jan, Chun-Yang Oli and Moran, Nikki (2024) What is it like to be a tree? Sonic layers, doubleness and ecology in Martin Iddon's Sapindales. Tempo, 78 (310). pp. 25-35. ISSN 0040-2982

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Title:
What is it like to be a tree? Sonic layers, doubleness and ecology in Martin Iddon's Sapindales
Creators:
Campbell, Edward and De Souza, Jonathan and Heile, Björn and Jan, Chun-Yang Oli and Moran, Nikki
Identification Number:
10.1017/S0040298224000366
Date:
October 2024
Subjects:
M Music and Books on Music > ML Literature of music
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College of Arts & Humanities > School of Culture and Creative Arts > Music
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Cambridge University Press
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Date Deposited:
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