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

这个研究项目将考虑收集局外人音乐作为激进的创作实践的替代档案。局外人音乐被广泛地理解为在规范的制度框架之外工作的自学成才或天真的音乐家，或者相反地，试图在这些框架内工作的非规范机构（通常失败）。局外人音乐的记录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”，但却包含了创造性实践的替代概念的令人难以置信的资源。这个博士项目的目的是寻找一个真正激进的创作实践不受规范（即资本主义，白色至上主义，异性恋父权）的质量，严谨，生产力和个人主义的概念。通过与局外人音乐亲密的情感接触，我希望能发现一个实验主义的替代档案。局外人音乐提供了一个“偶然实验主义”的模型：在非规范人群的社会生活中发现的激进潜力的声音表演。我想把这些项目定义为“创造世界”的项目，在它们中发现未来实验性创造性思维的生成潜力。在这样做的过程中，局外人音乐的“偶然实验主义”可能暗示了一种真正激进和易于理解的艺术创作形式;一种拒绝完美或天才的假设，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.