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Showing 1 to 15 of 15 for “"improvised music"”.
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After Silence: Improvised Music, Listening and Environmental Sound
This research concerns the practice of Improvised Music. It was originally prompted by a musical episode that took place in 2007 whilst I was involved in a dance and music festival, organised in Turkey by French choreographer, Yanaël Plumet. During that time in Istanbul, I participated with other …
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Playing It By Ear: Improvised Music Livestreaming During COVID-19
… pandemic rendering in-person concerts untenable, music communities adopted livestreaming on Twitch as an alternate mode of throwing events. This thesis studies a time of mass improvisation by examining how communities built around improvised music — which themselves are often supported by …
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Improvised Musical Play: A Way of Fostering Group Play Among Handicapped and Non-Handicapped Preschool Children
The author examined the effect of improvised music and lyrics on the social play of handicapped and non-handicapped preschool children. The study sought to discover (1) how the teacher and children interact to create improvised musical play, (2) to understand the effect of improvised music and …
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Musicians in Space
Musicians in space (MiS) is a practice-based research project investigating the impact of spatialization on the performance of free improvised music (FiM). It draws heavily on Christopher Small’s idea of musicking to contextualize the argument that in the fifty year history of FiM, improvisers have …
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Building Mobile Instruments for Improvised Musical Performance
… explores an approach to building electronic musical instruments for use in improvised music that I have found to be particularly effective for developing flexible, dynamic, and versatile instruments well adapted to the improvised context, and a resultant set of suites of solo improvised …
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The Joy of Improvising Music Together – An Autoethnographic study into using simplicity and humour in music improvisation as a vehicle to elicit joy and build community
Music improvisation has been the subject of a vast body of research, a lot of which has focused on techniques and pedagogy. This paper accompanies its author’s creative work and argues that the practice of group music improvisation can be used to elicit joy and build communities.<br/>Drawing from …
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Soundpainting as a system for the collaborative creation of music in performance
… gestures for the spontaneous creation of music, Soundpainting therefore shares similarities with other types of gesture-based systems for music performance, such as orchestral conducting. Thompson himself (2006) describes his Soundpainting system as a "universal live composing sign …
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The application of Konokol to guitar improvisation and composition
… the rhythmic concepts used in two South Indian musical theory concepts, solkattu and konokol. Konokol application largely depends on instrument limitations and musical contexts. The principle focus here is on my personal application of konokol to the guitar both through composed and improvised …
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Animate Structures: The Compositions and Improvisations of the Instant Composers Pool Orchestra
… of the longest consistently performing groups in improvised music. This thesis forms an ethnography and musicological study of the ICP Orchestra, which originated when the "pool" developed a more coherent line-up around 1980. With a background in experimental music as well as free jazz, their …
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A Phenomenological Inquiry into the Process of Teaching Jazz Improvisation
… and were organized through four features of improvised music found across a variety of genres: creative, spontaneous, social, and accessible. These findings challenge de-socialized ways of teaching and learning creativity and add to the knowledge base on the teaching beliefs and practices of …
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Investigating the cognitive foundations of collaborative musical free improvisation: Experimental case studies using a novel application of the subsumption architecture
… the cognitive foundations of collaborative musical free improvisation. To explore the cognitive underpinnings of the collaborative process, a series of experimental case studies was undertaken in which expert improvisors performed with an artificial agent. The research connects ecological …
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Improvising pianists : aspects of keyboard technique and musical structure in free jazz - 1955-1980
… we had come to know it, a movement of unbridled musical energy and passion without the essential restraining influences of formal guidelines and reverence for - traditions. With the benefit of hindsight, from observing the almost neoclassical stance of jazz in the 80s, the notion that this music …
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Maloya dance and music: Réunionese Créole togetherness
… culture has been the development of maloya, an improvised music-and-dance form that so alienated French colonial authorities and landowners that it was unofficially banned until 1981. While maloya music has been taught since 1987 at Conservatoire de La Réunion and has reached international …
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The Limits of Indeterminacy: The Performance and Analysis of Selected Indeterminate Compositions by John Cage and Earle Brown
… between notation, performance practice, and musical realization in several indeterminate compositions by John Cage and Earle Brown. While both Cage and Brown emphasized the multiplicity of possible outcomes in these works, the distinct configurations of fixed and unfixed elements in each …
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Searching for Sounds: Instrumental Agency and Modularity in Electroacoustic Improvisation
… challenge to prevalent Western concepts of musical instruments. These concepts—which generally treat instruments as fixed objects—are ill-equipped to account for the ways in which electroacoustic improvisers foreground the agency of their instruments and abandon the quest for “mastery” …