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Toward a spatial understanding of openness: Richard Sennett’s “five open forms” and/in music

Abstract:
This article offers a new strategy for cognizing musical indeterminacy based on Richard Sennett’s “five open forms for the city,” an intrinsically spatial way of thinking about what is “open” and how it is open. Sennett’s five forms (“synchronicity,” “punctuatedness,” “porosity,” “incompleteness,” and “multiplicity”) are explored individually as they impact our understanding of openness and/in music, illuminated by examples from contemporary experimental music.
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Published
Peer review status:
Peer reviewed

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10.1162/leon_a_02470

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Institution:
University of Oxford
Division:
HUMS
Department:
Music Faculty
Role:
Author
ORCID:
0000-0003-2620-0935


Publisher:
Massachusetts Institute of Technology Press
Journal:
Leonardo More from this journal
Volume:
57
Issue:
5
Pages:
560-565
Publication date:
2024-10-01
Acceptance date:
2023-08-11
DOI:
EISSN:
1530-9282
ISSN:
0024-094X


Language:
English
Pubs id:
2078530
Local pid:
pubs:2078530
Deposit date:
2025-01-14

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