An Experiment in Educational Research-Creation Using Music as Diagram

Abstract

In response to the call for this special issue to begin our inquiries with concepts rather than methods, the DeleuzeoGuattarian notion of the diagram is taken up in this article as part of a musical experiment with educational inquiry. In doing so, two musical sound creatures are created through the use of music as a molecular and imperceptible image of thought that is different from language and its semiotic modes of representation. This article asks how music might be plugged into the world and what a musical onto-epistemology could produce as a result. Perhaps educational inquiry would open up to new explorations and different configurations, discursive and non-semantic, through music as diagram.

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music diagram Deleuze method concept research-creation

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