TY - JOUR
T1 - The Take and the Stutter
T2 - Glenn Gould’s Time Synthesis
AU - Vallee, Mickey
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© Edinburgh University Press.
PY - 2015/11
Y1 - 2015/11
N2 - In A Thousand Plateaus, Deleuze and Guattari refer to Glenn Gould as an illustration of the third principle of the rhizome, that of multiplicity: ‘When Glenn Gould speeds up the performance of a piece, he is not just displaying virtuosity, he is transforming the musical points into lines, he is making the whole piece proliferate’ (1987: 8). In an attempt to make sensible their ostensibly modest statement, I proliferate the relationships between Glenn Gould’s philosophy of sound recording, Deleuze’s theory of passive synthesis, and Deleuze and Guattari’s concept of the stutter. I argue, ultimately, that Glenn Gould’s radical recording practice stutters and deterritorialises the temporality of the recorded performance. More generally, the Deleuzian perspective broadens the scope of Gould’s aesthetic practices that highlights the importance of aesthetic acts in the redistribution of sensory experience. But the study serves a broader purpose than celebrating a pianist/recordist that Deleuze admired. Rather, while his contemporaries began to use the studio as a compositional element in sound recording, Gould bypassed such a step towards the informational logics of recording studios. Thus, it is inappropriate to think of Gould as having immersed himself in ‘technology’ than the broader concept of a complex, one that redistributed the striated listening space of the concert hall.
AB - In A Thousand Plateaus, Deleuze and Guattari refer to Glenn Gould as an illustration of the third principle of the rhizome, that of multiplicity: ‘When Glenn Gould speeds up the performance of a piece, he is not just displaying virtuosity, he is transforming the musical points into lines, he is making the whole piece proliferate’ (1987: 8). In an attempt to make sensible their ostensibly modest statement, I proliferate the relationships between Glenn Gould’s philosophy of sound recording, Deleuze’s theory of passive synthesis, and Deleuze and Guattari’s concept of the stutter. I argue, ultimately, that Glenn Gould’s radical recording practice stutters and deterritorialises the temporality of the recorded performance. More generally, the Deleuzian perspective broadens the scope of Gould’s aesthetic practices that highlights the importance of aesthetic acts in the redistribution of sensory experience. But the study serves a broader purpose than celebrating a pianist/recordist that Deleuze admired. Rather, while his contemporaries began to use the studio as a compositional element in sound recording, Gould bypassed such a step towards the informational logics of recording studios. Thus, it is inappropriate to think of Gould as having immersed himself in ‘technology’ than the broader concept of a complex, one that redistributed the striated listening space of the concert hall.
KW - Glenn Gould
KW - listening
KW - music
KW - performance
KW - recording practice
KW - sound studies
KW - stuttering
KW - subjectivity
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85134994617&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.3366/dls.2015.0204
DO - 10.3366/dls.2015.0204
M3 - Journal Article
AN - SCOPUS:85134994617
SN - 2398-9777
VL - 9
SP - 558
EP - 577
JO - Deleuze and Guattari Studies
JF - Deleuze and Guattari Studies
IS - 4
ER -