Musical Encounters with Deleuze and Guattari

This is the first volume to mobilize encounters between the work of Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari and the rich developments in cultural studies of music and sound. The book takes seriously the intellectual and political challenge that the process philosophy of Deleuze and Guattari poses for previous understandings of music as permanent objects and primarily discursive texts. By elaborating on the concepts of Deleuze and Guattari in innovative ways, the chapters of the book demonstrate how musical and sonic practices and expressions can be reconsidered as instances of becoming, actors in assemblages, and actualizations of virtual tendencies. The collection pushes notions of music and sound beyond such long-term paradigms as identity thinking, the privileging of signification, and the centrality of the human subject.

The chapters of the volume bring a range of new topics and methodological approaches in contact with Deleuze and Guattari. These span from movement improvisation, jazz and western art music studies, sound and performance art and reality TV talent shows to deaf musicians and indigenous music. The book also highlights such fresh ways of doing analysis and shaping the methodological tools of music and sound studies that are enabled by Deleuze and Guattari's philosophy. Their philosophy, too, gains renewed capacities and potential when responding to ethnographic, cultural, ethnomusicological, participatory, aesthetic, new materialist, feminist and queer perspectives to music and sound.

Pirkko Moisala is Professor of Musicology and Ethnomusicology at the University of Helsinki, Finland.

Taru Leppänen is Lecturer in Gender Studies at the University of Turku, Finland, and Adjunct Professor of Musicology at the Universities of Turku and Helsinki.

Milla Tiainen works as a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Musicology at the University of Helsinki, Finland.

Hanna Väätäinen is a music and dance scholar who worked as a Senior Research Fellow at the University of Helsinki, Finland from 2013 to 2015.

Introduction

BODIES
Marie Thompson (Lecturer, Lincoln School of Media, University of Lincoln): Experimental Music and the Question of 'What a Body Can Do?'
Taru Leppänen (Senior Research Fellow, Dept. of Musicology, University of Helsinki): Becoming Deaf with Music
Hanna Väätäinen (Senior Research Fellow, Dept. of Musicology, University of Helsinki): Forming Common Notions in Kinetic Research Collaboration

PERCEPTIONS
Janne Vanhanen (Postdoctoral Researcher, Dept. of Aesthetics, University of Helsinki): 4 Minutes and 33 Seconds of What? – Cage, Deleuze and the Pedagogy of Listening
Amy Cimini (Assistant Professor of Music, University of California at San Diego): Indebted, Listening
Eleni Ikoniadou (Lecturer in Media and Cultural Studies, Kingston University): Abstract Audio

ENCOUNTERS
Pirkko Moisala (Professor of Musicology and Ethnomusicology, Dept. of musicology, University of Helsinki): Becoming Through Materialities of Musicking in a Himalayan Village – An Ethnomusicological View on Deleuze
Jay Hammond (Ph.D Candidate in Cultural Anthropology, Duke University): The Experimental Present: Deterritorializing the Evolution of Sound

SOUNDS
Heidi Fast (vocal artist-researcher, School of Arts, Aalto University): (Co)attuning Voice
Milla Tiainen (Research Fellow, Dept. musicology, University of Helsinki): Singing, Performance and Microperception: Towards an Ecological Micropolitics of Voice
Michelle Duffy (Senior Lecturer, Federation University Australia): Re-sounding Place and Mapping the Affects of Sound

FEMINISMS
Sally Macarthur (Senior Lecturer in Music, University of Western Sydney): Music-as-Feminist-machine: Deleuze's Becoming-woman
Marianne Kielian-Gilbert (Professor of Music, Jacobs School of Music, Indiana University): The Twists of Musical Affect: Extravagance, Cruelty, Social Potential
Elizabeth Gould (Associate Professor, Faculty of Music, University of Toronto): Queer Transversal: The Spectacle Adam Lambert

Index

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