Description

This book brings together music improvisation and composition and Gilles Deleuze’s philosophy of time for the purpose of creating a musical-philosophical concept that the author calls Rhythmicity. In three practice as research projects and their attendant chapters, Tromans argues that the relationship between music and philosophy can be understood in rhythmic terms, as a complex interdisciplinary movement operating in multiple dimensions. Rhythmicity is evolved by incorporating the insights of each project into the apparatus of its successor/s. Alongside offering a concept of the ways in which music and philosophy interact, the author concludes that Rhythmicity provides a way to rethink the temporal in respect of how we model its movements and relationships. Through the models of temporal interaction devised in each project, Deleuze’s concepts are transformed via their incorporation into the musical-philosophical mix. In addition, music improvisation and composition are shown to be utilisable for more than the making of music alone, with the book providing fresh insight for the fields of practice as research in music, Deleuze studies, experimental music, and Performance Philosophy in respect of its uniqueness of process and output.