TY - JOUR
T1 - An Overabundance of Signifiers
T2 - Derridean Play in Hans-Joachim Hespos’ Weiβschatten
AU - Lesser, Clare
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
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PY - 2021
Y1 - 2021
N2 - An interwoven reading of Hans Joachim Hespos’ Weiβschatten and Jacques Derrida’s ‘Structure, Sign, and Play in the Discourse of the Human Sciences’ (Writing and Difference, 1967). I examine the impact that improvisation has on performance and consider how an information overload creates shifting layers of reference. I explore the ways in which Hespos combines information systems, and infinite, or ‘overabundant’, chains of signifiers, which allow the space for collaboration and performer agency, thereby keeping the performer/composer/audience interface in constant movement.
AB - An interwoven reading of Hans Joachim Hespos’ Weiβschatten and Jacques Derrida’s ‘Structure, Sign, and Play in the Discourse of the Human Sciences’ (Writing and Difference, 1967). I examine the impact that improvisation has on performance and consider how an information overload creates shifting layers of reference. I explore the ways in which Hespos combines information systems, and infinite, or ‘overabundant’, chains of signifiers, which allow the space for collaboration and performer agency, thereby keeping the performer/composer/audience interface in constant movement.
KW - Agency
KW - Derrida
KW - Hespos
KW - Improvisation
KW - Play
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U2 - 10.1080/07494467.2021.2001947
DO - 10.1080/07494467.2021.2001947
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85121667477
SN - 0749-4467
VL - 40
SP - 453
EP - 470
JO - Contemporary Music Review
JF - Contemporary Music Review
IS - 4
ER -