deconstructive music, deconstruction, algorithmic composition www.thedkprojection.com http://musicadeconstructiva.blogcindario.com/ 2009-01-22T14:16:04+01:00 text/html 2009-01-21T20:28:46+01:00 dkproject http://musicadeconstructiva.blogcindario.com/2009/01/00002-deconstruccion-sinusoidal-sinusoidal-deconstruction.html <br />Sinusoidal deconstruction<br />dk&lt;sin&gt; for ensemble, &Aacute;ngel Arranz 2008<br />Institute of Sonology, The Hague (The Netherlands)<br /><br /><strong>www.thedkprojection.com</strong><br />&Aacute;ngel Arranz<br /><br /><img src="http://img179.imageshack.us/img179/5525/logodkprojectionpj2.jpg " /> text/html 2009-01-21T13:33:35+01:00 dkproject http://musicadeconstructiva.blogcindario.com/2009/01/00001-deconstruccion.html Deconstruction, www.wikipedia.org<br /><br /> <p><strong>Deconstruction</strong> is a term used in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philosophy" title="Philosophy">philosophy</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Literary_criticism" title="Literary criticism">literary criticism</a>, and the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_sciences" title="Social sciences">social sciences</a>, popularised through its usage by <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacques_Derrida" title="Jacques Derrida">Jacques Derrida</a> in the 1960s<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-0"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deconstruction#cite_note-0"><span>[</span>1<span>]</span></a></sup>. The <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxford_English_Dictionary" title="Oxford English Dictionary">Oxford English Dictionary</a> defines deconstruction as "A strategy of critical analysis [...] directed towards exposing unquestioned metaphysical assumptions and internal contradictions in philosophical and literary language."<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-1"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deconstruction#cite_note-1"><span>[</span>2<span>]</span></a></sup> Derrida developed the term deconstruction in relation to his critical engagement with <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phenomenology_%28philosophy%29" title="Phenomenology (philosophy)">phenomenology</a>, <a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Structural_linguistics" title="Structural linguistics">structural linguistics</a>, politics, aesthetics, feminism and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Literature" title="Literature">literature</a> in the 1960s. The term is also related to the traditions of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hermeneutics" title="Hermeneutics">hermeneutics</a> as it works with questions of how texts should be read and interpreted and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immanent_critique" title="Immanent critique">immanent critique</a> as a deconstruction demonstrates problems or contradictions that are already operating within the deconstructed text. Concerning deconstruction Derrida states that</p> <blockquote> <p>[F]rom about 1963 to 1968, I tried to work out - in particular in the three works published in 1967 - what was in no way meant to be a system but rather a sort of strategic device, opening its own abyss, an unclosed, unenclosable, not wholly formalizable ensemble of rules for reading, interpretation and writing. This type of device may have enabled me to detect not only in the history of philosophy and in the related socio-historical totality, but also in what are alleged to be sciences and in so-called post-philosophical discourses that figure among the most modern (in linguistics, in anthropology, in psychoanalysis), to detect in these an evaluation of writing, or, to tell the truth, rather a devaluation of writing whose insistent, repetitive, even obscurely compulsive, character was the sign of a whole set of long-standing constraints. These constraints were practised at the price of contradictions, of denials, of dogmatic decrees"<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-2"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deconstruction#cite_note-2"><span>[</span>3<span>]</span></a></sup></p> </blockquote> <p>Derrida has on occasion tried to clarify some possible misunderstandings of deconstruction. He has stated, for example, that deconstruction is not a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Methodology" title="Methodology">methodology</a>. Today the term deconstruction is popular far beyond Derrida's own usage of it and is most closely associated with <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continental_philosophy" title="Continental philosophy">continental philosophy</a> and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Literary_criticism" title="Literary criticism">literary criticism</a>. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_de_Man" title="Paul de Man">Paul de Man</a> is a prominent practitioner of his own interpretation of deconstruction and the most famous member of what came to be referred to as the <a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yale_School" title="Yale School">Yale School</a> of deconstruction.</p>