{"id":280,"date":"2014-03-01T12:33:13","date_gmt":"2012-10-31T11:23:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nancyannroth.com\/?p=280"},"modified":"2016-10-09T13:34:01","modified_gmt":"2016-10-09T13:34:01","slug":"gesture-and-necessity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nancyannroth.com\/?p=280","title":{"rendered":"Gesture and Necessity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/nancyannroth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Glenn-Gould.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-948\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-948\" src=\"https:\/\/nancyannroth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Glenn-Gould.jpg\" alt=\"Glenn Gould\" width=\"200\" height=\"156\" \/><\/a>The Extending Gesture colloquium in Edinburgh this past weekend was brilliant!\u00a0 I think I&#8217;m gradually forming elements of the\u00a0papers and\u00a0discussion into coherent thoughts, usually within the context of a given word or phrase.<\/p>\n<p>The idea of necessity in connection with gesture was one leitmotiv over the weekend.\u00a0 In Rolf Godoy&#8217;s memorable paper on his group&#8217;s research into\u00a0connections between physical movement and music, the question was posed of whether Glenn Gould&#8217;s\u00a0hand, body, facial movment during his playing&#8211;features that might seem excessive&#8211;were in fact necessary.\u00a0 Godoy&#8217;s understanding is that they are necessary <em>for Gould<\/em>.\u00a0 It coincides smoothly with Flusser&#8217;s description of a ritual gesture, a movement that &#8220;acts out&#8221; a unique existence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Extending Gesture colloquium in Edinburgh this past weekend was brilliant!\u00a0 I think I&#8217;m gradually forming elements of the\u00a0papers and\u00a0discussion into coherent thoughts, usually within the context of a given word or phrase. The&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":948,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"bgseo_title":"","bgseo_description":"","bgseo_robots_index":"","bgseo_robots_follow":"","_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[194],"tags":[67,147,77],"class_list":["post-280","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gesture","tag-extending-gesture","tag-gesture","tag-rolf-godoy"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nancyannroth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nancyannroth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nancyannroth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nancyannroth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nancyannroth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=280"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/nancyannroth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":949,"href":"https:\/\/nancyannroth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280\/revisions\/949"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nancyannroth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/948"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nancyannroth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nancyannroth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nancyannroth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}