Klang komponieren, inszenieren, erforschen: Handlungsprofile im Vergleich

The huge variety of approaches, goals, and interests in artistic circles, society, science, and industry challenges new methods of evaluating the particularities of culturally formed sound. In the realm of musicological sound research, it might be interesting to compare different musical ways of composing sound from the middle of the twentieth century onwards, and even to compare musical works with non-musical creativity focussed on sound. To this end, the present essay suggests an action-based analytical approach. This ongoing project does not mean to trivialize analytical purposes by narrating biographical circumstances of sound creation, but intends a systematic approach in describing qualitatively aesthetic actions, actors, and their frames of reference