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Latest revision as of 08:46, 11 October 2022

The word `Free` has many meanings. Our understanding of the word free maybe shaped by the context it appears. Here we can investigate it's meaning within the phrase `free improvisation` .

Here are some definitions and sources.


free = liberated from social, historical, psychological and musical constraints

Source, The free jazz collective

web link: [1]


Freeness: to be exempt or released from something that controls, restrains or burdens.

Source

weblink: Freeness BBC radio 3

Corey Mwamba presents the best new jazz and improvised music with an adventurous spirit.



Source of the quotes below: As quoted & discussed in Free Ensemble Improvisation, Harald Stenström, page 115 url link 1 [2] link 2 [3]

What is presented in this section, is about the term and the experience of `free improvisation` not quite the same as the use of the word `free` as a separate word.

* Free improvisation has no predetermined musical variables as its starting points. (Sohlman Dictionary of Music [Sohlmans musiklexikon (Sohlman)]: Improvisation [Improvisation])
*Bailey finds it difficult to define free improvisation since it has a tendency to “slide off into some more readily identifiable area, jazz or comedy or into very obvious forms”. (Bailey 1993: 115)
* It is almost impossible to classify free improvisation “based on the amount of free improvisation allowed in each group”, because “the field is too large and the modes of improvisation too wide-ranging”. (Benitez 1986: 457)
* A typical definition of freely improvised music is that: “free music is what is played when players do not consciously reinforce musical idioms or existing compositions”. (Berndt 1996: 1)
* Free improvisation is “usually performed collectively between two or more players”, where “conception and realization are fused into one action or process”, and where there is “no storage of conceptual or thematic information to be drawn upon”. Free improvisation takes place “in the here and now without resorting to support systems of symbols to be translated”. (Gaudinsky 1982: 37)
* Free improvisation is a collective process, and it does not connect itself to common conventions and predetermined frameworks. (Lutz 1999: 2)
* Free improvisation is self-organizing patterns. (Nachmanovitch 1990: 33)
* Tuominen (1998) feels that the definition of free improvisation cannot be found in the sounding result but lies instead in the artistic method, the idea of which is that the music is created wholly in the now. (p. 9) Everything can be used as tools for creating music in the now, and one can decide to use any sound or technique at any moment. (p. 10)
* In free improvisation, the music is discovered and invented spontaneously, “while performing it, without preconceived formulation, scoring, or content”. (Solomon 1986: 226)
* Free improvisation follows “no preconceived or agreed-upon formal structure, although techniques of developing ideas in such a free context may be similar to those found in written-out compositions”. (Wallace White 1999: 21–22)
* Free improvisation is, according to Nunn (1998), among other things, “multiple, spontaneous processes of creating music in real time” as a direct response to the music itself. (p 35) Free improvisation is “essentially self-generating”. (p 37)


Source of the above quotes: As quoted & discussed in Free Ensemble Improvisation, Harald Stenström, page 115 url link 1 [4] link 2 [5]



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