Looking through my notebooks from two summers ago, to a lecture by Robert Irving III (here, FWIW: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Irving_III). He suggested improvisation is the basis for a unified theory of the arts, arts created and informed by improvisation. Language is a codified improvisation. Improvisation is also a way of health (chaos is healthy) and a way of knowledge or a way to get outside of knowledge.
When these points of view also arise from a cultural tradition, improvisation takes on political meaning (my thoughts). -- Paul On Fri, Mar 27, 2015 at 1:57 PM, Alan Sondheim <[email protected]> wrote: > > > The music/soundwork I do is all improvisaqitonal, as has been the work we > did with Foofwa d'Imobilite a few years ago - we worked together for close > to 18 years. There were always sites and negotiations. The video as well is > improvisation, as are the texts that accompany them in-world. Theory is > another thing, but it's also a continuous meditation on phenomenology, the > digital, the body, etc. It flows that way. When I give a public talk, it's > the same - I'll have a rough outline and improvise from that. Soome of this > stems from jazz; certainly free jazz is real-time and a complex negotiation > between musicians, instruments, technologies, etc.; Schutz wrote an essay > on making music together and Valerie Wilmer among others captured the > spirit of it all. When I put up a piece of music or sound- work, I usually > accompany it with an 'explanation' of a kind of basis, for example rev rev > in terms of sonic architectures and anticipatory music, which are in flux. > The work I did for the Interrupt festival was also improvised within and > among virtual worlds; I'm still working through the documentation, and even > the Cave performances were improvised, although Kathleen Ottinger's pieces > weren't. So much of this, for me, stems from altered mocap sessions, which > again were real-time negotiations with the limits of the software. All of > this makes it difficult, at times, for others to work with me, since > there's only a certain 'sense' of what will happen, and that can be hard > for people used to operating within or among certain forms, which might be > pre-established or even compositions. I do want again to apologize for not > participating more in the discussion or the upcoming event; March has been > particularly bad, with too many things coming due. > > Thanks for reading, the discussion is really stimulating!, Alan > > == > email archive http://sondheim.rupamsunyata.org/ > web http://www.alansondheim.org / cell 718-813-3285 > music: http://www.espdisk.com/alansondheim/ > current text http://www.alansondheim.org/tc.txt > == > > _______________________________________________ > NetBehaviour mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour > -- ----- |(*,+,#,=)(#,=,*,+)(=,#,+,*)(+,*,=,#)| --- http://paulhertz.net/
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