A Manifesto of Nodalism

  • Monty Adkins Centre for Research in New Music University of Huddersfield | Yorkshire | England
DOI: https://doi.org/10.7559/citarj.v6i1.128
Keywords: Electronic music, Manifesto, Meme, Network, Node, Rhizome.

Abstract

This paper proposes the notion of Nodalism as a means describing contemporary culture and of understanding my own creative practice in electronic music composition. It draws on theories and ideas from Kirby, Bauman, Bourriaud, Deleuze, Guatarri, and Gochenour, to demonstrate how networks of ideas or connectionist neural models of cognitive behaviour can be used to contextualize, understand and become a creative tool for the creation of contemporary electronic music.

Author Biography

Monty Adkins, Centre for Research in New Music University of Huddersfield | Yorkshire | England
Monty Adkins is a composer, performer and professor of experimental electronic music. His work is characterised by slow shifting organic textures often derived from processed instrumental sounds. Inhabiting a post-acousmatic sensibility, his work draws together elements from ambient, acousmatic and microsound music. His recent work has been released on the Audiobulb and Crónica labels. He has written extensively on the aesthetics of electronic music presenting papers at conferences worldwide. In 2013 his book (co-edited with Prof. Michael Russ), the Roberto Gerhard Companion was published by Ashgate. A second book on the music of Gerhard post-1939 will be published by in early 2015.

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Published
2014-12-30
Issue
Vol 6 No 1 (2014): Volume 6 - Number 1, 2014 (Special Issue)
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Articles

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