Die Welt strukturieren queeren [?]

Bilingual edition

Compositional thinking as a practice of opening up, queering, and rearranging—beyond authorship, control, and musical autonomy.

What does compositional thinking mean beyond sheet music, parameters, and musical autonomy? This essay conceives of composition as a practice of structuring, opening up, and queering the world. Drawing on music, theater, and performance, a mode of thinking emerges that views scores not as instructions but as invitations: to cooperation, ambivalence, loss of control, and repurposing. Compositional thinking appears here as a transdisciplinary strategy—political, physical, material—that opposes normative order, academic seriousness, and binary logics. Music becomes a field of experimentation for other forms of collaboration, for collective authorship, and for working in the in-between.

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