{"title":"Time Folding • Folding Time","authors":"L. Miller","doi":"10.21083/CSIECI.V14I2.6407","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21083/CSIECI.V14I2.6407","url":null,"abstract":"Lisa Cay Miller is a pianist/composer/improviser and Artistic Director of the NOW Society. In this piece, she offers a poetic description of the technological challenges associated with a large-scale sequential improvisation project in which thirty-six musicians and two sound engineers collaborated with one another to produce a total of thirty-eight videos of improvised musical performances.","PeriodicalId":277401,"journal":{"name":"Critical Studies in Improvisation / Études critiques en improvisation","volume":"47 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-05-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122811888","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Brûler les champs, pour voir ensuite ce qui va repousser","authors":"Éléonore Pitre, Frannie Holder","doi":"10.21083/CSIECI.V14I2.6306","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21083/CSIECI.V14I2.6306","url":null,"abstract":"Presented here in conversation, guitarists Frannie Holder (Dear Criminals, Random Recipe) and Éléonore Pitre (Rosier, Star Académie house band) discuss the pandemic as a moment to reflect on their lives as musicians and to focus more on the “why” of their work. Both musicians also describe the singular experience of performing in person during the pandemic..","PeriodicalId":277401,"journal":{"name":"Critical Studies in Improvisation / Études critiques en improvisation","volume":"75 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-05-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125996351","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Cri du coeur","authors":"Marianne Trudel","doi":"10.21083/CSIECI.V14I1.6303","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21083/CSIECI.V14I1.6303","url":null,"abstract":"Marianne Trudel's contribution for the COVID-19 Special Issue. \u0000Contribution de Marianne Trudel pour le numéro spécial de COVID-19.","PeriodicalId":277401,"journal":{"name":"Critical Studies in Improvisation / Études critiques en improvisation","volume":"92 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-03-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126787944","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Alone Together","authors":"A. Bajakian","doi":"10.21083/CSIECI.V14I1.6332","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21083/CSIECI.V14I1.6332","url":null,"abstract":"Aram Bajakian's contribution to the COVID-19 Special Issue.","PeriodicalId":277401,"journal":{"name":"Critical Studies in Improvisation / Études critiques en improvisation","volume":"65 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-03-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116408368","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Jam Sessions","authors":"Max Suechting, Jonathan Leal","doi":"10.21083/csieci.v13i1.5795","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21083/csieci.v13i1.5795","url":null,"abstract":"In this essay, we consider what musical improvisation can offer humanists interested in interdisciplinary cultural study. We begin by exploring our shared backgrounds as jazz-informed percussionists and our coincidental meeting in the same interdisciplinary graduate program. In the process, we identify key homologies between our musical and scholarly practices: namely, careful and constant practice; a deep commitment to listening; and an openness to conceptual translations across a variety of contexts. As we unpack these ideas, we draw on a wide range of artistic-theoretical texts, years of after-hours conversations, and occasional music collaboration; ultimately, we articulate, for each other and potential readers, that the dynamic, collaborative ethic required for successful improvisation nurtures scholarly interdisciplinary practice by valuing individual efforts as part of communal strivings.","PeriodicalId":277401,"journal":{"name":"Critical Studies in Improvisation / Études critiques en improvisation","volume":"34 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-06-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128844517","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Generative Music with the Living Machine: Using Rule-Based Improvisation to Generate Narrative and Soundtrack","authors":"Ryan Martin","doi":"10.21083/CSIECI.V12I2.4227","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21083/CSIECI.V12I2.4227","url":null,"abstract":"This paper proposes the term generative improvisation to describe free improvisations that are constrained by a set of human-determined limits. The purpose of this term is to emphasize the way that rules limit performer choices and define the meanings of different musical gestures to generate specific kinds of performances. By examining Narrative Generator (for Living Machine), a rule-based improvisation for narrator, instruments, and electronics, I demonstrate that generative improvisation can be used to produce a performance of a coherent improvised narrative and soundtrack by basing the rules of the work on the theories and practices employed in film and video games. From there, the paper examines the relationships between different performers, the performers and the composer, and the composer, performer, and audience in the work, discussing the potential impacts of these relationships. Finally, I consider the role accessibility plays in spreading these potential impacts to a broader audience.","PeriodicalId":277401,"journal":{"name":"Critical Studies in Improvisation / Études critiques en improvisation","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-12-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131372382","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Improvisation and Exhaustion","authors":"Kevin M. Mcneilly","doi":"10.21083/CSIECI.V12I2.5056","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21083/CSIECI.V12I2.5056","url":null,"abstract":"To start to respond to this provocative question, I want to take Lorna Goodison at her word. In “Keith Jarrett—Rainmaker,” a meditative lyric from her 1984 collection I Am Becoming My Mother, the Jamaican-born poet situates herself in a conflicted moment of exhaustion, her desiccated spirit “seared” by the “vengeance” of the sun. She describes her own spare, thin lines in the poem as blurry, mixing severe want with a few vestiges of promise, traces of hope for remedy or even survival, recognizing how the sun’s warmth might revitalize even as it dries and evoking a Marley-like “song of redemption” that conjures “petals of resurrection / lilies.” But what’s really needed, she asserts, is rain: “So my prayers are usually / for rain.” The poem becomes a form of prayer not, in this instance, supplicant to a withdrawn or uncertain divinity, but instead as an evocation of openness to a particular impossibility, a coincidence of the extemporal and the a-temporal in a moment of close listening. Rain answers her prayer for vitality, but as an improvised coincidence—a brief shower—of musical, or at least aural, attentions.","PeriodicalId":277401,"journal":{"name":"Critical Studies in Improvisation / Études critiques en improvisation","volume":"43 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-12-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124872290","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Suspending the Habit Body through Immersive Resonance:Hesitation and Constitutive Duet in Jen Reimer and Max Stein’s Site-Specific Improvisation","authors":"R. Elliott","doi":"10.21083/CSIECI.V12I2.4096","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21083/CSIECI.V12I2.4096","url":null,"abstract":"There is increasing appreciation for the role that location plays in the experience of a musical event. This paper seeks to understand this role in terms of our habitual relationships to place, asking whether and how being musical somewhere can expand and transform our habituated comportment there, and with what consequences. This inquiry is anchored in a series of site-specific improvised performances by Jen Reimer and Max Stein, and the theory and practice of the late experimental music pioneer Pauline Oliveros. The argument made interpreting these performances is grounded in Maurice Merleau-Ponty’s phenomenology of embodiment, and Alia Al-Saji’s reception of it. This paper claims that such site-specific improvised performances can elicit a sort of hesitation in our everyday style of sensory-motor conditioning, and, concomitantly, awaken a layer of sensory living amenable to radically new sonic and behavioural configurations.","PeriodicalId":277401,"journal":{"name":"Critical Studies in Improvisation / Études critiques en improvisation","volume":"19 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-12-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124468085","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Loft Jazz: Improvising New York in the 1970s, Michael Heller","authors":"Kwami Coleman","doi":"10.21083/CSIECI.V12I2.4605","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21083/CSIECI.V12I2.4605","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":277401,"journal":{"name":"Critical Studies in Improvisation / Études critiques en improvisation","volume":"319 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-12-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115947626","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Sputtering Rituals: Remembering Pauline Oliveros as Improvisation-in-Action","authors":"Tomie Hahn","doi":"10.21083/CSIECI.V12I2.4385","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21083/CSIECI.V12I2.4385","url":null,"abstract":"The short article recollects Pauline Oliveros's transmission of Deep Listening through everyday, direct, and playful means of improvisation.","PeriodicalId":277401,"journal":{"name":"Critical Studies in Improvisation / Études critiques en improvisation","volume":"8 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-12-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115438951","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}