Instrumental intentionality: an exploration of mediated intentionality in musical improvisation

Authors: Davis, T.

Journal: International Journal of Performance Arts and Digital Media

Volume: 15

Issue: 1

Pages: 70-83

eISSN: 2040-0934

ISSN: 1479-4713

DOI: 10.1080/14794713.2018.1545209

Abstract:

This paper examines the musician/instrument relationship through exploring notions of mediated intentionality. Ihde’s (1990) writings are taken as a starting point for examining these human–technology relationships with a particular focus on the intentionality of the human-instrument construction. Notions of instruments as mediators of intentionality are then examined from a variety of standpoints found in improvisational practice, with a focus on different conceptions of mediation, instrumental resistance and instrumental agency. Verbeek’s (2008, 387–395) conception of Cyborg Intentionality is explored as one way to extend these notions within a post-phenomenological posthuman framework. To help contextualise this discussion the author presents a performance system, the Feral Cello, whose design has been informed by the above discussion. Verbeek’s hybrid and composition notions of intentionality are used as a framework for reflection upon the performance system.

https://eprints.bournemouth.ac.uk/31545/

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Instrumental intentionality: an exploration of mediated intentionality in musical improvisation

Authors: Davis, T.

Journal: INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF PERFORMANCE ARTS AND DIGITAL MEDIA

Volume: 15

Issue: 1

Pages: 70-83

eISSN: 2040-0934

ISSN: 1479-4713

DOI: 10.1080/14794713.2018.1545209

https://eprints.bournemouth.ac.uk/31545/

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Instrumental intentionality: an exploration of mediated intentionality in musical improvisation

Authors: Davis, T.

Journal: International Journal of Performance Arts and Digital Media

Volume: 15

Issue: 1

Pages: 70-83

Publisher: Routledge

DOI: 10.1080/14794713.2018.1545209

Abstract:

This paper examines the musician/instrument relationship through exploring notions of mediated intentionality. Ihde’s [1990. Technology and the Lifeworld. Bloomington: Indiana University Press] writings are taken as a starting point for examining these human– technology relationships with a particular focus on the intentionality of the human-instrument construction. Notions of instruments as mediators of intentionality are then examined from a variety of standpoints found in improvisational practice, with a focus on different conceptions of mediation, instrumental resistance and instrumental agency. Verbeek’s [2008. “Cyborg Intentionality: Rethinking the Phenomenology of Human– Technology Relations.” Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences 7: 387–395] conception of Cyborg Intentionality is explored as one way to extend these notions within a post-phenomenological posthuman framework. To help contextualise this discussion the author presents a performance system, the Feral Cello, whose design has been informed by the above discussion. Verbeek’s hybrid and composition notions of intentionality are used as a framework for reflection upon the performance system.

https://eprints.bournemouth.ac.uk/31545/

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Instrumental intentionality: an exploration of mediated intentionality in musical improvisation

Authors: Davis, T.

Journal: International Journal of Performance Arts and Digital Media

Volume: 15

Issue: 1

Pages: 70-83

ISSN: 1479-4713

Abstract:

This paper examines the musician/instrument relationship through exploring notions of mediated intentionality. Ihde’s [1990. Technology and the Lifeworld. Bloomington: Indiana University Press] writings are taken as a starting point for examining these human– technology relationships with a particular focus on the intentionality of the human-instrument construction. Notions of instruments as mediators of intentionality are then examined from a variety of standpoints found in improvisational practice, with a focus on different conceptions of mediation, instrumental resistance and instrumental agency. Verbeek’s [2008. “Cyborg Intentionality: Rethinking the Phenomenology of Human– Technology Relations.” Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences 7: 387–395] conception of Cyborg Intentionality is explored as one way to extend these notions within a post-phenomenological posthuman framework. To help contextualise this discussion the author presents a performance system, the Feral Cello, whose design has been informed by the above discussion. Verbeek’s hybrid and composition notions of intentionality are used as a framework for reflection upon the performance system.

https://eprints.bournemouth.ac.uk/31545/

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