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| This paper is a descriptive study of the creation of a new work that usedpractice-based and practice-led methodology, birdsong, electro-acoustics and philosophical argument to explore the theories of becomingas representative of the concept of ‘bring forth’ new truth. The composition which was the focus of the study employed electro-acoustics, live performance and Malaysian avian motifs.Electro-acoustics to create an accompanying soundscape of bird-calls, and to manipulate particular calls in interplay with the live performer. Live performance withtwo extra dimensions: the first being extended flute technique and the secondbeing the application of a digital signal processor to create a ‘more-than-flute’ timbre. The Malaysian avian songs were transcribed into common notationto derive motif materialfrom which some of the melodic, harmonic and rhythmic elements of the composition were created. Based on the case study, it will be argued that the becoming (coming into being) notion of process-relational philosophy validates the creative act as a valid research into ‘cultural’ truth. That the Heideggerian notion of ‘bringing forth’ art supports this premise as does Nietzsche’s thoughts “that what mattered in existence lay in the dynamic and energetic qualities of becoming” (Lines, 2003, p.11). |
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