Individual Decisions and Perceived Form in Collective Free Improvisationby Clement Canonne
This paper proposes a first attempt to study quantitatively Collective Free Improvisation (CFI). We report an experiment designed to study the relationship between the improvisers' individual high-level decisions and the improvisation's form perceived by external auditors. We recorded 16 trios in which the improvisers used a MIDI-pedal to indicate in real-time a signicant change in their own musical production. Expert listeners were later asked to segment each improvisation so that we obtained their perception of the structure. By analyzing the correlations between musicians' individual...
Jazz and the Critical Potential of Heteronomous Expressive Form - Introductionby Fumi Okiji
This dissertation shows how the socio-musical interaction involved in jazz work relates to ideas of a progressive, more empathetic and communicative, form of social organisation. Ruling out the possibility of a rehabilitation of genuine human relations under late capitalism, critical theorist Theodor Adorno has argued that an alternative mode of social existence is prefigured in the way musical works of the Austro- German tradition are composed. The study shows that in jazz, the creative tension involved in the desire to make collaborative work while nurturing the particularities of each...
Jazz in Cyprus: The Breakdown of Bordersby Mike Papapavlou
