INSTRUMENT
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Necessarily implicated in the screen of technical facility is the
instrument. If "correct" technique has been formed in
conjunction with possible positionings of the performer in
relation to the instrument, so has the instrument become
complicitous in its very materiality. It is literally composed
and manufactured by culture and its possibilities are previously
encoded to the degree that the instrument facilitates facility.
Implicit in the instrument are techniques for playing it; the
knowledge one can have on an instrument is mapped out
progressively in terms of a training that allows the musician to
move only a certain way and thereby forces the instrument to
sound only a certain way. Contained in the very body of the
instrument is the power/knowledge juncture capable of producing
correct gesture. As a result, improvisors often divide into two
groups regarding the question of technique/instrument: those who
limit themselves to the instruments of culture and those who
deface, deconstruct, and/or reconstruct them.
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