Worlds of accidental experimentalism: radical queer utopian impulses in Outsider Music

这项研究项目将考虑将《局外人音乐》作为激进创作实践的替代档案。局外人音乐被广泛理解为自学成才或天真的音乐家在规范的机构框架外工作，或者相反，非规范的机构试图(往往失败)在这些框架内工作。局外人音乐的录音档案由一系列短暂的声音对象组成，这些对象通常被认为是微不足道的，没有‘使用’或‘价值’，但却包含了令人难以置信的资源，可以用来替代创作实践的概念。这个博士项目旨在寻找一种真正激进的创造性实践，不受质量、严谨、生产力和个人主义的规范性(即资本主义、白人至上主义、异类父权主义)概念的限制。通过与局外人音乐的亲密情感接触，我希望能发现另一种实验主义档案。“局外人音乐”提供了一种“偶然实验主义”的模式：在非规范人士的社会生活中发现的激进潜能的声学演绎。我想把这些项目确定为“创造世界”的项目，从中发现未来实验性创作实践的生成潜力。在这样做的时候，局外人音乐的“偶然实验主义”可能暗示了一种真正激进和可接受的艺术创作形式；这种形式拒绝完美或天才的假设，转而支持合作和即兴音乐创作中的情感愉悦。

This research project will consider the collection of Outsider Music as an alternative archive of radical creative practice. Outsider music is broadly understood as self-taught or naive musicians working outside of normative institutional frameworks, or conversely non-normative bodies attempting (and often failing) to work within these frameworks. Outsider music's recorded archive consists of a collection of ephemeral sonic objects, often once deemed insignificant, without 'use' or 'value' which nonetheless contain incredible resources for alternative conceptions of creative practice. This PhD project aims to search for a genuinely radical creative practice unrestricted by normative (meaning capitalist, white supremacist, hetero-patriarchal) notions of quality, rigour, productivity, and individualism. Through an intimate affective engagement with Outsider Music I hope to uncover an alternative archive of experimentalism. Outsider Music provides a model of 'accidental experimentalism:' the sonic enactment of the radical potential found in the social life of nonnormative people. I want to identify these as 'World-Making' projects, finding in them generative potentials for future experimental creative practises. In doing so, the 'accidental experimentalism' of Outsider Music might hint at a genuinely radical and accessible form of art-making; one which rejects the assumption of perfection or genius in favour of affective pleasure in collaborative and improvisatory music-making.