Techno-Vernacular Creativity and Innovation by Nettrice R. Gaskins

Author:Nettrice R. Gaskins
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: maker; makers; DIY; maker spaces; marginalized; STEM; STEAM
Publisher: MIT Press

TVC practitioners improvise over musical compositions using cyclical rhythm patterns that repeat elements, and a phenomenal amount of change and development can occur in the process. For example, musicians deliberately fracture and disrupt typical rhythmic patterns to create arrangements. Improvisation through repetition is activated by the use of designs that play out patterns. For the song “Giant Steps,” jazz maverick John Coltrane created a way to use a cosmographic design as a mnemonic device (figure 5.2). Coltrane was inspired by quantum mechanics, a physics domain that looks at how objects travel (Alexander 2017). He made a correlation to how musicians improvise, playing with all possible notes on a scale (Rudolph 2010). What Coltrane did with sound is similar to what artists do with visual designs (figure 5.3).

Figure 5.2

A rendition of the mnemonic device John Coltrane created for “Giant Steps.”

Photo: Nettrice Gaskins.

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