Score-Making
Creative Prompts for Mapping Personal Experience Through Sound
Will be published approx. on 10. December 2026
Book
Hardback
384 pages
979-8-7651-3945-5 (ISBN)
Description
Score-Making is an invitation to develop meaningful links between sound practices and everyday experience.
There are prompts in several broad sections-maps, necessities, difficulties-that involve responding to questions and then drawing from those responses to create a set of instructions for sound-making ("scores"). Several example scores are included under each set of questions. Through performance of these scores, abstract ideas are brought into the realm of direct, immediate experience.
While this project is grounded in a text score tradition associated with experimental music, it is open to any number of approaches and can be bent to the creative will and technical resources of each individual reader. It mainly calls for honesty and a willingness to seek out alignment between personal and creative intentions.
There are prompts in several broad sections-maps, necessities, difficulties-that involve responding to questions and then drawing from those responses to create a set of instructions for sound-making ("scores"). Several example scores are included under each set of questions. Through performance of these scores, abstract ideas are brought into the realm of direct, immediate experience.
While this project is grounded in a text score tradition associated with experimental music, it is open to any number of approaches and can be bent to the creative will and technical resources of each individual reader. It mainly calls for honesty and a willingness to seek out alignment between personal and creative intentions.
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
ISBN-13
979-8-7651-3945-5 (9798765139455)
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Schweitzer Classification
Person
Jennie Gottschalk is a composer based in Boston. She holds a bachelor's degree in composition from The Boston Conservatory (2001) and a master's degree and doctorate from Northwestern University (2008). She is the bestselling author of Experimental Music Since 1970 (Bloomsbury 2016) and co-author of Being Time: Case Studies in Musical Temporality (Bloomsbury 2019). Her dissertation and current work explore connections between American pragmatist thought and experimental music. Teachers have included Larry Bell, Yakov Gubanov, Jay Alan Yim, Augusta Read Thomas, and Aaron Cassidy. Recent performances have been in Los Angeles (Dog Star Orchestra) and Chicago (Northwestern University Symphony Orchestra and Contemporary Music Ensemble). Current projects include a string quartet, a children's book, an experimental music blog (soundexpanse.com), and a residency at the Conway School of Landscape Design. For additional resources related to this book, please visit the author's website at soundexpanse.com.
Content
Acknowledgements
1. Introduction
2. Maps
2.1 Frameworks
2.2 Place
2.3 Practice
2.4 Bodies
2.5 Language
2.6 Access
2.7 Change
2.8 Futures
3. Necessities
3.1 Stability
3.2 Order
3.3 Time
3.4 Tasks
3.5 Home
3.6 Food
3.7 Rest
3.8 Happiness
3.9 Connection
3.10 Citizenship
4. Difficulties
4.1 Burden
4.2 Habit
4.3 Distraction
4.4 Confusion
4.5 Fear
4.6 Hurt
4.7 Regret
4.8 Grief
5. Context, Precedents, Parameters
5.1 Personal and Social Context
5.2 Precedents, Related Practices, and Further Reading
5.3 Parameters and Conditions
6. Appendix
6a Contributors
6b Score-Making Approaches
6c Online Repository
6d Score-Making Journal
Index
1. Introduction
2. Maps
2.1 Frameworks
2.2 Place
2.3 Practice
2.4 Bodies
2.5 Language
2.6 Access
2.7 Change
2.8 Futures
3. Necessities
3.1 Stability
3.2 Order
3.3 Time
3.4 Tasks
3.5 Home
3.6 Food
3.7 Rest
3.8 Happiness
3.9 Connection
3.10 Citizenship
4. Difficulties
4.1 Burden
4.2 Habit
4.3 Distraction
4.4 Confusion
4.5 Fear
4.6 Hurt
4.7 Regret
4.8 Grief
5. Context, Precedents, Parameters
5.1 Personal and Social Context
5.2 Precedents, Related Practices, and Further Reading
5.3 Parameters and Conditions
6. Appendix
6a Contributors
6b Score-Making Approaches
6c Online Repository
6d Score-Making Journal
Index