Improvisation offers a wealth of cultural connections. Part of my own practice is rooted in jazz. Jazz is a contested territory, with deep roots. I don't find that the same can be said of formal systems, which are the other side of my practice. That's probably why I try to muddy them up with symbolic meanings—perhaps also to spite my academic education, that insisted on the purity of formal systems and saw symbolic meaning as a sort of vestigial "literary" appendage.
Of course, historically, formal systems such as Western music theory are charged with all sorts of cultural freight. Their emptying out of nationalist fervor and programmatic detail seems to have been a Modernist project. The pure forms were supposed to offer a universality. Post-colonial and post-structuralist critiques suggest that notion was seriously flawed. We still seem to be recovering from that error. -- Paul On Thu, Mar 26, 2015 at 8:17 AM, Joumana Mourad < [email protected]> wrote: > Hi Pete > I find myself working on and exploring similar questions? Looking at > telematics as well in todays presence. > Can you contextualise your thoughts? > Hppy to talk, to explore, > On another note > tomorrow I am joining Marlon Barrios who is working at the Moment in > Poland to explore across platform creation... > ;-) > On 26 Mar 2015, at 12:43, Peter Gomes wrote: > > > I'm currently immersed in Improvisation across its many forms and > processes; music, performance, cinema, acting, making, living. > > I'm interested to hear peoples thoughts on potential connections between > improvisation and networks and contemporary ideas in and around technology. > > > > “Only he who is well prepared has any opportunity to improvise.” ― > Ingmar Bergman > > > > Pete > > > > _______________________________________________ > > NetBehaviour mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour > > _______________________________________________ > NetBehaviour mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour -- ----- |(*,+,#,=)(#,=,*,+)(=,#,+,*)(+,*,=,#)| --- http://paulhertz.net/
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