Rethinking Modes, Making, and Composition

Learning through Critical Making

In this artist case study, James Cicatko explores practices of extended techniques: adapting tools, accepted methods, and traditional ‘modes’ and bending them to aesthetic purposes other than their established design/purpose or conventional function.

The author also explores how anyone can create and learn music through critical making and DIY compositional practices.

James Cicatko is a visual and soundwork artist located on the West Coast.