The poetics of the classical philosophers did not consist of lyrical dissertations about natural talent and about the essence of beauty. For the the single word techné embraced both the fine arts and the useful arts and was applied to the knowledge and study of the certain and inevitable rules of the craft. That is why Aristotle's Poetics constantly suggest ideas regarding personal work, arrangements of materials, and structure. The poetics of music is exactly what I am going to talk to you about; that is to say, I shall talk about making in the field of music. (Igor Stravinsky. Poetics of Music. p4)
Musicing is a word that was used in the distant past and recently revived by NYU's David J. Elliott, retrieving our field description from an inanimate noun condition and restoring music to the verb status like dancing, acting, painting... hence musicing.
So I will explore musicing through the lens of technology (techné) as an extension of the ways we music, our making or doing of music. I am inspired to work on this by a class of composers, musicers, and educators, all engaged in exploring techné as an extension of musicing.
