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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Schroeder, Franziska, editor.

Ó hAodha, Mícheál, editor.

Borgo, David, contributor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Improvisation (Music).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (199 p.)

Place of Publication:

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

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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...

Contents:

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

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed August 7, 2014).

ISBN:

1-4438-6317-3

OCLC:

882607431