Being Time

This is one of the richest, most innovative treatments of temporality's relation to music to appear in the last decade. Musicologists, composers, sound artists, and interdisciplinary scholars interested in the experience of time will find this book rewarding. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty and professionals. * CHOICE *
Being Time invites readers to share in the subjective reflections of its three authors, who are also accomplished composers ... The selection of musical material is adventurous and uncompromising ... [It] offers closely monitored, musicologically precise commentaries. * The Wire Magazine *
Being Time is fearless in its approach and makes a powerful case for musical experience as a fundamentally intersubjective encounter. It is deeply experimental—a humane and pedagogical project. * Ryan Dohoney, Assistant Professor of Musicology at Northwestern University, USA, author of Saving Abstraction: Morton Feldman, the de Menils, and the Rothko Chapel (forthcoming) *
Being Time locates the potentialities of a work in a listener’s ears, mind, and body; centralising listening as the phenomenal, temporal process of seeking identity, form, context, and meaning by reverberations that energize the sensory experiences of location, dislocation; the material and the immaterial; and the mirroring and unmooring of personal and social narratives. This book seeks to find and expand our ways of talking and writing about music and sound art practices, appreciating perception as a critical part of reception. * Michelle Lou, Composer and Sound Artist, USA *