Tools of the trade: click-tracks and conductors

• Authors: Thomas R. Moore
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

This essay will examine the manner in which composers and artistic directors have used conductors and click-tracks within the context of new music ensembles performing integrative concerts. The analyses and examples provided will rely for the most part on material gathered during in-depth interviews that I conducted with artistic directors, composers, conductors, and musicians, all of whom are professionally active in the new music field in Europe (and beyond). I will examine the application of both click-tracks and conductors and demonstrate that their implementation represents an active choice made by either the composer and/or artistic directors. Both click-tracks and conductors are viewed by the interviewees as potential tools with somewhat overlapping possibilities and capacities and their presence is no secondary phenomenon of the music. They become instead a means for the above actors to meet their objectives, be they artistic, pragmatic, technical, or otherwise.

Keywords

EN

Conducting; Click-Track; New Music conducting; click-track; new music

• Publisher: Uniwersytet im. Adama Mickiewicza w Poznaniu
• Journal: Interdisciplinary Studies in Musicology
• Year: 2020
• Issue: 20
• Pages: 9-20

Dates

published

2020-12-31

Contributors

author

Thomas R. Moore

• University of Antwerp and Royal Conservatoire of Antwerp (ARIA)

• https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6614-2330

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Identifiers

DOI

10.14746/ism.2020.20.1