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Shared sounds in detached movements: flautist identities inside the ‘local-field’ spaces

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 March 2005

TAINA RIIKONEN
TAINA RIIKONEN
Affiliation:
Department of Musicology, Arwidssoninkatu 1, 20014 University of Turku, Finland E-mail: taina.riikonen@utu.fi
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Abstract

This article explores the spatial identities of the flautists in playing Kaija Saariaho's music with live electronics, particularly reverberation and harmonisation. The varying spatial position of the flautists are theorised mainly via two approaches: that of ‘local/field’ concepts by Simon Emmerson, and through the philosophy of narrative identity developed by Paul Ricoeur. The article investigates the flautists' experiences of control over the sound, and especially its most intimate form, direct control, by discussing the relationship between the choices of live flautist and the sound director. The sound result is constantly negotiated by several authorial activities, the contributions of which are closely overlapping and conversing with each other.

Type
Research Article
Information
Organised Sound , Volume 9 , Issue 3 , December 2004 , pp. 233 - 242
Copyright
© Cambridge University Press 2004

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Footnotes

I wish to thank Simon Emmerson for the inspiring discussions and many invaluable comments regarding this article during autumn term, 2003, at the City University, London.