wandelweiser journal volume now open access

The volume of Contemporary Music Review I edited with Nicholas Melia is now available for free download from the Taylor and Francis website. It contains a co-authored introduction, along with articles by me, Nic, G. Douglas Barrett and M.J.Grant. My article, titled Testing the Consequences: Multipart Series in the Work of the Wandelweiser Composers looks at series comprising multiple autonomous parts that share common features and/or a determining principle. The article compares the Wandelweiser composers’ use of multipart series with related practices in the visual arts, considering the differences between open and closed series. It focuses on three conditions by which series may be terminated: predetermined conditions decided upon in advance of making the series; circumstantial conditions which emerge whilst making the series and logical conditions which are integral to the materials and processes used in making the series. It examines differences in the methods of presentation of work framed as series and the way this impacts on the eventual perception of the work.