improvisation is an important part of my work for many reasons, but in particular when creating live performance via internet technology there is always the possibility of failure, glitch, lag & other technical "improvisations" that can require an improvised response; and secondly with an interactive audience who are able to participate, comment and insert themselves into the work it's also very important to be able to improvise in response to this. improvisation emphasises the liveness of the work and the conversational nature of cyberformance. & it's fun :)
h : ) On 27/03/15 12:43 35PM, if wrote: > 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 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 >>> >> >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > NetBehaviour mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour > -- helen varley jamieson [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> http://www.creative-catalyst.com http://www.talesfromthetowpath.net http://www.upstage.org.nz
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