On the entropy circuit: Brian Ferneyhough's Time and Motion Study II
Author: Iddon, Martin
Source: Contemporary Music Review, Volume 25, Numbers 1-2, -2/February–April 2006 , pp. 93-105(13)
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Abstract:
This article discusses aspects of the relationship between the vocalising cellist and the live electronics in Brian Ferneyhough's piece Time and Motion Study II . These include: first, the suggestion that the relation, rather than being oppositional as Ferneyhough himself has suggested, is actually one of a combined cyborg identity, albeit one that will end in mutually assured destruction; and, second, the idea that the electronics act as an `entropy circuit', both absorbing and preserving the piece's potential gestural energy, and simultaneously guaranteeing that the energy will be exhausted by removing its gestural element.Keywords: Ferneyhough, Brian; Haraway, Donna; Cyborg; Entropy; Gesture
Document Type: Research article
DOI: 10.1080/07494460600647493
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