Bernhard Lang

<p><em>Bernhard Lang: Critical Guides to Contemporary Composers</em> offers a critical guide and introduction to the work of Austrian composer Bernhard Lang (b. 1957). It identifies the phenomenon of repetition as a central concern in Lang's thinking and making. The composer's artistic practice is identified as one of 'loop aesthetics': a creative poetics in which repetition serves not only as methodology but also as material language and subject matter.<br /> <br /> The book is structured around the four central thematic nodes of philosophy music theatre and politics. After introducing Lang as a composer whose work is thoroughly influenced by philosophical thought the book develops a typology of musical repetition as it is explored and activated in Lang's oeuvre.<br /> <br /> Pointing towards the several repetitions within the performance of Lang's works the book explores the heavily trans-medial nature of the repeat across domains such as literature dance and theatre. Finally the book investigates Lang's use of textual quotation and musical borrowing.<br /> <br /> Christine Dysers is a musicologist specialising in contemporary music aesthetics. Her research centres around repetition politics absence the liminal and the uncanny. This is the first full-length study of the works of Bernhard Lang and is a new volume in the <a href=https://www.intellectbooks.com/critical-guides-to-contemporary-composers>Critical Guides to Contemporary Composers</a> series from Intellect.</p>