Abstract:In this article I examine the role of the instrument in Evan Johnson and Carl Rosman's collaboration on a new work for eighteenth-century basset clarinet, 'indolentiae ars', a medium to be kept (2015). Drawing on material collected over 30 months -including interviews; audio-visual footage; and correspondence containing sketches, fingering charts, and recordings -I consider the latent practices that lie within the instrument, and their role in the creative process. From the aesthetic discourses that pervaded t… Show more
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