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Summary:

Abstract: Making Sense of Things is a piece composed through consideration of the relationship between music, meaning, and materiality. The piece, written for voice, flute, percussion, and live electronics, explores topics of the "sensible" and "nonsensical" in music, moving through a variety of sonic episodes that feature different notational approaches, electronic textures, technical instrumental practice, and theatrical elements in order to explore a variety of expressive possibilities while unified around the central musical ideas of scratching sounds and metal bars. The critical essay examines the relationship between the piece and the theoretical writings which inspired it. Reading through the work of Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari, I examine the relationship between Making Sense of Things and new materialist discourses, affect theory, and semiotics.

Table of Contents:

• Part I, Critical analysis. Introduction ; Theory ; Deleuze in experimental music ; Making Sense of Things ; Conclusion: Coming into focus
• Part II, Making Sense of Things. Notes to the score ; Score: Making Sense of Things.

Author/Creator:

Fox, West , author

Contributors:

Kokoras, Panayiotis, 1974- , major professor

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Main Work:

Making Sense of Things [by Fox, W.]

Related Series:

NT thesis, Music (Complete); [volume] 2021

Subjects:

Composition (Music)

Music and philosophy

Music — Semiotics

Music

Genres:

Academic theses

Scores

Dissertation Notes:

M.A. ― University of North Texas, 2021.

General Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (page 32).
Description based on: Online resource; title from PDF title page (UNT Digital Library, viewed June 30, 2022).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (iv, 53 pages) : music.

Call Numbers:

Electronic Thesis

OCLC Numbers:

1341354402