Year: 2024
Type: article
Abstract: [1] In addition to the conceptual ideas Isang Yun shares in his interview—which, as I will suggest below, have profound implications for music theory and analysis far beyond Yun’s music specifically—we should take note of the value the interview format itself holds for the production of new knowledge. The interviewer, Akira Nishimura, asks nuanced questions that lead Yun to consider aspects of his compositional practice that might be glossed differently in a different presentational format. Nishimura also introduces examples from Yun’s compositions that illustrate key concepts, draws comparisons to concepts from other compositional practices, and pushes Yun to clarify important ideas. All of this illustrates the value of thinking through ideas in dialogue (Chua 2022)—resisting the Western assumption that philosophical thinking and theory-making (and, by extension, composing) are fundamentally solitary endeavors (Ahmed 2006; Collins 2000).
Source: Music Theory Online
DOI: 10.30535/mto.30.4.24
Author: Chris Stover
Institution: Griffith University
Language: English
Subfield: Music
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W4409016836