'From Body to Body, on the Hither Side of Words or Concepts' Transferability in, and following, an Artistic Experiment in Practice-as-Research

an engagement by senses other than that involved in cognition: expert sensing processes at the level of feelings, beyond discourse and the discursivisable. This article is concerned with the question of transferability, in terms of the dissemination of the outcomes of practice-as-research in the wider music-research community, and also with regard to the project-to-project trajectories of such research undertakings. Specifically, it is focused on my recent doctoral enquiry in jazz, investigating the emergence and elaboration of a method of experimenting with the performance practice of the standard repertoire, with a series of different bands. In setting up each new project in my practice-as-research, I repeatedly faced the problem of how best to convey, to each of the musicians concerned, details I considered to be most pertinent about the work already undertaken, while permitting enough flexibility to enable the further elaboration of the experimental method at the centre of the research trajectory itself. In this way, the issue of discursivising research undertaken in music-making became a central, and ongoing, research question in my doctoral enquiry,