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Phillip Morton

Liverpool:UK Website curator
Site created in 2014 approx.
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Monday, 17 December 2018 08:51

Experimental Sound Art Workshops London

Published in London an events archive

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Tuesday, 08 March 2022 08:37

Oxford Improvisers - Open Sessions March 2022

Join Us : Oxford Improvisers is an inclusive organisation and is always happy to welcome anyone interested in performing with us or just finding out what we do.

Published in South East of England an events archive

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Monday, 17 December 2018 08:17

Safehouse open sessions - Brighton UK

What happens at a Safehouse Open Session?

Published in South East of England an events archive

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Saturday, 15 December 2018 20:08

Free Ensemble Improvisation, Harald Stenström A Thesis

booksFree Ensemble Improvisation, Harald Stenström
Academy of Music and Drama
Faculty of Fine, Applied and Performing Arts
University of Gothenburg

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The aim of this doctoral project has been to study so-called non-idiomatic improvisation in ensembles consisting of two or three musicians who play together without any restrictions regarding style or genre and without having predetermined what is to be played or how they should play. The background to this thesis has been the author’s own free improvising, which he has pursued since 1974, and the questions that have arisen whilst music-making. The thesis takes three of these questions as its point of departure: – what is free ensemble improvisation, what characterizes free ensemble improvisation and how can it be defined – how does free ensemble improvisation relate to: – – instrumental technique – – idiomatic improvisation and stylistic influences – – composition – – interpretation – – aleatorics and indeterminacy – – different types of sytems (e.g. biological, social, dynamic/chaotic systems) – what might a conceptual model as a theoretical base for free ensemble improvisation look like? The artistic/performative part of this research project has primarily consisted of public concerts, as a result of longer/shorter periods of cooperation with four permanent and a number of temporary (ad hoc) ensembles. The results provide a better understanding of what free ensemble improvisation is, in what respects it differs from other forms of music-making and how it can be defined. Free ensemble improvisation’s relations to the points mentioned above were found to be more multifaceted than expected. However, it was possible to attain a basic twolayered conceptual model as a theoretical base for free ensemble improvisation and, in its extension, as a basis for the analysis of free ensemble improvisation. The study includes numerous concert projects, of which several are recorded and included in this book on two CDs with MP3 files.

Key words

aleatorics
artistic research
attractor state
central tone
chaotic systems
collective understanding
comprovisation
conceptual model
directed motion
ensemble size
feedback and feedforward
free ensemble improvisation
gesture
importance of rhythm
indeterminacy
interactional skill
listening skill
musical evaluation
musical interaction
musical maturity
musical chemistry
musical interpretation
musical composition
non-idiomatic improvisation
rhythmic flow
sound properties
stylistic influences

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Saturday, 15 December 2018 19:41

Red room

The Red Room is a volunteer-run space in Baltimore dedicated to mind-expanding experimental culture, headquartered at Normals Books and Records.

Published in USA

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Saturday, 15 December 2018 19:32

High Zero

High Zero is the premier festival of Improvised, Experimental music on the East Coast of the USA, being fully devoted to new collaborations between the most inspired improvisors from around the world.

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Wednesday, 12 December 2018 08:44