Cosmo Gardner presents 7 musical experiments in forming, and comments on how they have been produced from a composed performance-practice beginning with the empirical observation of musical experience. This practice consists of a nested hierarchy of formulae, which are attitudes toward space.
Further, these works as considered facets of a spectrum, shed light on more recent experiences and findings.
The attempt to frame the work of the Camerata in one sitting was made by presenting the current work in it's most experimental phase, and work backward from that point to another study upon which the principles and assumtions of the current work derive or depend. The studies regarded in this initial 'back-stepping' are projects which have the strongest affinity of all to the first item, and it's implications in performance. A point is reached which embodies the most basic point of view relevant to the context of the Camerata. At this point ('Part 2'), there is a change of direction as the programme follows other work as it proceeded forward from this basic set of triangulations, without intersecting the other studies encountered in our backward movement, up to the present experimental frontier, re-visiting the first item.
This approach is an effort to convey an attitude toward listening, playing, and composing in such a way as not to reduce, disembody, or analogize the music and the performance practice associated with it, or the motivations and hopes which are carried into experimental activity.
Experpts of a broadcast on WEBR, a 'public-access' radio and television station in Fairfax, Virginia, US, which took place on December 19th, 2009 - hosted by Debbie Sears.
Part 1
Part 2
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