Seminar 1: Description

Critical Perspectives on Rhythm (Monday 29 October, 15:30-18:00, in 1440).

Our guest (on teleconference) will be Martin Scherzinger, Associate Professor of Media, Culture, and Communication at New York University. We will discuss his writings on Temporalities, and also more general philosophical texts on rhythm.

Readings for the seminar are:

1. Scherzinger, Martin. "Temporalities. Download Temporalities.
   " In The Oxford Handbook of Critical Concepts in Music Theory. (focus: Section 1 (Forward), 3 (Question of Musical Temporality), 4 (Spatial Geometries of Colonial Time), 6 (Legacies of Musical Newtonianism), 8 (Afterword)). 20 pages.
2. Lefebvre, Henri. Rhythmanalysis: Space, time and everyday life. Download Rhythmanalysis: Space, time and everyday life.
   A&C Black, 2004. (focus: Introduction by Stuart Elden (pp. vii-xv), Introduction to Rhythmanalysis (p.3), The critique of the thing (pp. 5-19, optional but recommended), The Rhythmanalytical Project: What is Rhythm? (pp. 77-83)). 33 pages.
   
3. Pascal Michon , "12. Rhythm from Art to Philosophy – Nietzsche (1867-1888) – part 1 Download 12. Rhythm from Art to Philosophy – Nietzsche (1867-1888) – part 1
   ", Rhuthmos, 1 June 2016 [en ligne]. http://rhuthmos.eu/spip.php?article1817 Links to an external site.(ca. 10 pages)

Assignments:

• Summarize the above readings in separate sections of one text. This summary may be short, and the goal is to serve as support for the seminar. Therefore, focus on the aspects you found most remarkable, or you had difficulties with.
• Find two-three definitions of rhythm from literature, and summarize them in a short text. Please include the references to the used literature.

Before the seminar, please upload these two assignments to the discussion of the seminar.