Uwe Steinmetz
Biographic Data
| ID | 1638345 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Uwe Steinmetz |
| GIVEN NAMES | Uwe |
| FAMILY NAME | Steinmetz |
| SIGNATURE | STEINMETZ U |
| AFFILIATIONS | Institute of Musicology of the Slovak Academy of Sciences |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6811-3218 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
The Sonic Architecture of Time
This essay offers a synthesis of a recorded interdisciplinary conversation moderated by the author with Christian Seidler , a Munich based church organist, Swedish jazz bassist Anders Jormin, Joel Speerstra , a clavichord builder/musicologist from the University of Gothenburg, and Rainer Ahrens , a veteran sound engineer from national German Television. The participants examine how time, in relation to space and technological mediation, shapes mu…
Between Emerging and Fading
This article investigates the temporal dimensions of live musical events, with a focus on jazz improvisation. Drawing on phenomenology, cultural philosophy, and musicology, the Gestalt of a musical event is conceptualized as an interplay of three temporal dimensions: playing time (lived time), soundscape (spatial imagination of music), and Nachklang (lasting resonance beyond the event). Through examples from Coltrane, Miles Davis, George Russell,…
Time and Time Experience in Music
“Living Time”
This article explores the temporal dimensions of musical improvisation in contemporary creative performance, centered around George Russell’s Lydian Chromatic Concept of Tonal Organization and its application by composer and pianist Ben Schwendener. Schwendener delineates three primary modes of engaging time in jazz improvisation – Horizontal Tonal Gravity, Vertical Tonal Gravity, and Supra Vertical Tonal Gravity – each representing distinct rela…
Fragile Faith
Jazz, today a broadly defined, global form of improvised music, remains a music between heaven and earth, with its roots in both nightclubs and churches. Jazz can be dance music, as well as music that triggers emotions, memories, and subjective images. It can also lead to experiences of transcendence. In which ways, though, do jazz artists connect their spiritual and religious experiences and beliefs with their individual musical language? In con…
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Fragile Faith
Jazz, today a broadly defined, global form of improvised music, remains a music between heaven and earth, with its roots in both nightclubs and churches. Jazz can be dance music, as well as music that triggers emotions, memories, and subjective images. It can also lead to experiences of transcendence. In which ways, though, do jazz artists connect their spiritual and religious experiences and beliefs with their individual musical language? In con…
The Sonic Architecture of Time
This essay offers a synthesis of a recorded interdisciplinary conversation moderated by the author with Christian Seidler , a Munich based church organist, Swedish jazz bassist Anders Jormin, Joel Speerstra , a clavichord builder/musicologist from the University of Gothenburg, and Rainer Ahrens , a veteran sound engineer from national German Television. The participants examine how time, in relation to space and technological mediation, shapes mu…
Between Emerging and Fading
This article investigates the temporal dimensions of live musical events, with a focus on jazz improvisation. Drawing on phenomenology, cultural philosophy, and musicology, the Gestalt of a musical event is conceptualized as an interplay of three temporal dimensions: playing time (lived time), soundscape (spatial imagination of music), and Nachklang (lasting resonance beyond the event). Through examples from Coltrane, Miles Davis, George Russell,…
Time and Time Experience in Music
“Living Time”
This article explores the temporal dimensions of musical improvisation in contemporary creative performance, centered around George Russell’s Lydian Chromatic Concept of Tonal Organization and its application by composer and pianist Ben Schwendener. Schwendener delineates three primary modes of engaging time in jazz improvisation – Horizontal Tonal Gravity, Vertical Tonal Gravity, and Supra Vertical Tonal Gravity – each representing distinct rela…
Musicology and Musical Analysis (5 works) · Jazz (4 works) · Musical (4 works) · Improvisation (2 works) · Music History and Culture (2 works) · Aesthetics (1 work) · Art (1 work) · Conversation (1 work) · Dialogical self (1 work) · Diverse Music Education Insights (1 work)