ABSTRACT
This chapter combines the multifaceted approaches to practice-as-research: scholarly discourse, traces of subjectivities, sounds and images. As such, we are invited to read/imagine/hear/view the piece as our wish; however, there are markers in the text to guide us through the layers of discussion. Multiple/radical/forms maps the course of doctoral study in music practice, which used the methodologies of practice-as-research to enable an exploration of theory and creative practice, presenting a multimodal analysis of the critical implications of artistic invention. The need for reflexivity within practice-as-research and the responsibility of the artist-intellectual in navigating culture as a battleground for power calls for a consideration of the location of the composer and associated relationships. Pierre Bourdieu's concept of 'symbolic violence' has poetic, as well as theoretical, significance. It describes the strategies which maintain domination through the implicit and everyday exercise of symbolic capital, which establishes relations of dependence and hierarchical classifications disguised, or 'misrecognised', as natural.
