@article{Araştırması:2948,
      recid = {2948},
      author = {Camci, Alican},
      title = {Saha Araştırması (Fieldwork) for Large Ensemble and  Electronics},
      publisher = {University of Chicago},
      school = {Ph.D.},
      address = {2021-06},
      pages = {73},
      abstract = {saha araştırması (fieldwork) is an attempt to make sense  of composition in an academic context and “composing a  dissertation.” As such, the music is accompanied by its  exegesis, almost as a verbal countermelody to the sounds  unfolding. Inspired by Richard Serra’s Verb List, in which  the artist reduces artistic activity to a list of physical  actions (“to roll,” “to crease,” “to fold,” etc.), the  musical discourse contemplates instrumental performance  through similar tasks such as pulling, pushing, and  blowing. Through such an emphasis on sound-producing  actions, saha araştırması (fieldwork) seeks to reconfigure  musical composition as a site where we encounter laboring  bodies, whose agency has been––to a large  extent––overlooked in the tradition of Western concert  music. The conceptual framework of the piece comes from my  interest in recent theatrical practices that underscore the  liveness of performance over the reenactment of a  prescriptive text, emphasizing the performative over the  representational. In saha araştırması (fieldwork), this  performative quality is mainly articulated by reframing the  relationship of the performers to their instruments in a  way that amplifies the physical aspect of sound production,  with a score that varies its prescriptive qualities to  investigate different conditions for coordinated  performance. The piece juxtaposes the labor on stage  against construction recordings from Istanbul, examining  the potential of one to tell us something about the other.  In fieldwork, my aim is to conceptualize the musical  composition as a site where not only the sounds, but also  the labor producing them, are audible.},
      url = {http://knowledge.uchicago.edu/record/2948},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.6082/uchicago.2948},
}