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From body schema to score: creating spatial grammars in contemporary electric guitar practice Buckley, D 2015, From body schema to score: creating spatial grammars in contemporary electric guitar practice, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Architecture and Design, RMIT University. Document type: Thesis Collection: Theses Title From body schema to score: creating spatial grammars in contemporary electric guitar practice Author(s) Buckley, D Year 2015 Abstract Johnson (1987) and Acitores’ (2011) work in defining body schema as a form of consciousness potentially offers a new platform for reconceptualising musical relations spatially. What if music composition, traditionally considered as the temporal organisation of parameters of pitch, timbre and rhythm, can be approached through embodiment, through a more visceral approach to abstracted domains? My research investigates how a performer’s inherent proprioceptive knowledge can be accessed and manipulated through metaphors, cognitive structuring that might then describe possible organisation of sonic behaviours. My methodology is to examine and commission scores that choreograph performative behaviours (Cassidy, 2007; McCormack, 2012–13, Sergeant 2012–13) as well as scores that compose sonic materials directly (Barrett, 2012–14). Fragments of the thinking articulated within the PhD can be found in my practice as far back as several decades ago and have been re-examined within this lens. I will investigate the roles metaphor can play in engendering a personalised set of gestural possibilities; how internalised body schema can then be enacted and understood through interpretative patterning, how these personal accounts of a relational articulation of the body externalised as a score offer insights and potentials for establishing new vocabularies in electric lap-steel guitar practice. Degree Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Institution RMIT University School, Department or Centre Architecture and Design Keyword(s) Embodiment Gesture Schemata Metaphor Miniature Related Links Link Description https://equella.rmit.edu.au/rmit/file/2ed3f042-8093-4d53-82ec-1e6a02de2b80/1/... Thesis   https://equella.rmit.edu.au/rmit/items/f94bc23f-350e-42bf-9f2e-1a227f617c16/1... Video 1 - Lens 15.05 mins   https://equella.rmit.edu.au/rmit/items/2ed3f042-8093-4d53-82ec-1e6a02de2b80/1... Video 2 - Timothy McCormack 38.37 mins   https://equella.rmit.edu.au/rmit/items/2ed3f042-8093-4d53-82ec-1e6a02de2b80/1... Video 3 - Matthew Sergeant 1   https://equella.rmit.edu.au/rmit/preview/b740761d-e1da-49d5-8206-5e0f691a701b... Video 4 - Matthew Sergeant 2   https://equella.rmit.edu.au/rmit/preview/b740761d-e1da-49d5-8206-5e0f691a701b... Video 5 - Test for Subsidence   https://equella.rmit.edu.au/rmit/preview/b740761d-e1da-49d5-8206-5e0f691a701b... Video 6 - Richard Barrett   Versions Version Filter Type Mon, 22 Feb 2016, 10:08:54 EST Mon, 22 Feb 2016, 10:11:39 EST Mon, 22 Feb 2016, 10:22:40 EST Thu, 25 Feb 2016, 13:06:56 EST Wed, 30 Mar 2016, 12:41:51 EST Wed, 30 Mar 2016, 12:42:58 EST Wed, 30 Mar 2016, 12:44:57 EST Wed, 30 Mar 2016, 13:43:23 EST Wed, 30 Mar 2016, 15:20:18 EST Wed, 30 Mar 2016, 15:21:06 EST Wed, 30 Mar 2016, 15:21:41 EST Wed, 30 Mar 2016, 15:27:05 EST Wed, 30 Mar 2016, 15:27:54 EST Wed, 30 Mar 2016, 15:28:36 EST Wed, 08 Feb 2017, 12:35:59 EST Filtered Full Access Statistics: 66 Abstract Views  -  Detailed Statistics Created: Mon, 22 Feb 2016, 10:08:50 EST by Denise Paciocco