Notebooking Embodied Sonico-Musical Experience

Abstract:

This essay argues that notebooking practices—regular, routine writing about everyday experience—focused on the felt experiences of sonic / musical activity can be used to generate new forms of becoming and being. To do so, I begin with how such notebooking constitutes a daily, habitual, and revelatory practice. I then describe how notebooking is a potentially unique means of exploring the value of writing about music. Building on this potential, I look to how the rhythmic dimensions of sonico-musical experience can create interesting forms of resonance. Finally, in way of illustration, I offer a case study of my own notebooking focused on the resonant rhythms that have appeared at the nexus of my playing drums in a part-time touring rock band while carrying out my full-time work as a composition professor.