Yes.. Interesting.. Improvisation, in terms of meanings, has a range of time - as in an act in a given present for which a person hasn't rehearsed/prepared. A sort of an hack with a focus on time rather than object or objective.
What's the context for this immersion in improvisation? (..or is it an improvised immersion..?) cheers! aharon xx > 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 meaningsâperhaps 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. >>> >>> âOnly he who is well prepared has any opportunity to improvise.â >>> â >> 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 >> > > > > _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list [email protected] http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
