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Record Nr.

UNINA9910464643203321

Titolo

Soundweaving : writings on improvisation / / edited by Franziska Schroeder and Mícheál Ó hAodha ; contributors, David Borgo [and eleven others]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Newcastle upon Tyne, [England] : , : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, , 2014

©2014

ISBN

1-4438-6317-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (199 p.)

Disciplina

781.36

Soggetti

Improvisation (Music)

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

CONTENTS; PERFORMING IMPROVISATION; INTRODUCTION; EDITORIAL; STEPS TO AN ECOLOGY OF IMPROVISATION; EDITORIAL; WHAT THE MUSICWANTS; EDITORIAL; ENCOUNTERINGMUSICAL OBJECTS; EDITORIAL; FREE IMPROVISATIONAND THE UNCERTAINTY PRINCIPLE; THEMOLECULAR IMAGINATION; EDITORIAL; BREATH AND IMPROVISATION; IMPROVISATION, INDETERMINACYAND GAME-MEDIATED PARTICIPATIONIN NETWORKMUSIC PERFORMANCE; EDITORIAL; IMPROVISATION AND THE SELF; EDITORIAL; CONTRIBUTORS

Sommario/riassunto

This book is about music improvisation. It forges exciting and provocative new links between a range of theories and practices in texts that explore topics as varied as object-oriented ontology, game theory, ethical responsibility and breath. In improvisatory fashion, this book has been edited so that it weaves the texts amongst each other, subversively inserting a tactile piece of text - a text interlaced, as a woven cloth, among the contributing authors. The writings in this volume are...