Reflections on the Politics of Sentiment Score for Performing the Criticality of a Sonic Sensibility

‘Reflections on the Politics of Sentiment’, in Sensorial Aesthetics in Music Practices, Kathleen Coessens ed., Orpheus Institute book series, Ghent, Belgium, 2019.

The following text and the succeeding score were both spoken and performed, respectively, as part of Sensible and Sensorial Explorations in Music, International Orpheus Academy for Music and Theory 2015, which took place from 30 March to 1 April 2015. The first invites reflections on the politics of sentiment, and the second stages the performance of a sonic sensibility that might reach this sentiment. Both are independent works and yet they relate and expand each other in form and in content: the text provides a more academic consideration on the themes of politics, sentiment, and rhythm while the score enables...