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This is an interview conducted in 2016 in Madrid, Spain, where I introduced around sixty improvising musicians and dancers to a combined practice of Nancy Stark-Smith's Underscore and my music based version of the same practice. David Leahy - musicians in spcae
Introduction
Musicians in Place and Space: The Impact of a Spatialized Model of Improvised Music Performance
1. Introduction
Free improvisation is often explained as a non-hierarchical musical process that emerges out of the precise acoustic, emotional, environmental, psychological, and social conditions in existence at the time of the music’s creation. But given that free improvisers continue to perform in conditions that involve the static positioning and formal separation of the performer and the audience, the extent to which these claims can be realized is questioned by this chapter.
This article reports on a practice-based research project, ‘Musicians in Space’ (MiS), which aims to offer insights into how the free improviser, through the introduction of a spatialized approach to the music, can develop an all-encompassing and non-hierarchical musicking practice. An outline of the research process and the findings from the first stage of the research are offered, before the discussion is extended to look at the connection between spatialized free improvisation and deep ecology.
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The underscore is a preparatory process for dancers and it takes the participants through a series of states of awareness towards a shared improvisational practice and it can be seen as both a research tool for the individual but also a collective practice.
The underscore is a preparatory process.
To allow them to take their existing practice and build on what they already know., perhaps in a different way.
The `underscore` is a body of work originated by Nancy Stark Smith [USA], linked to contact improvisation.
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