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Chapter 00
Chapter 0: The Ground
...the service of becoming better improvisers and change themselves and their communities 12 in the process. The intentional nature of this cultivation echoes my use of the word “embrace”: improvisers choose contingency as a creative resource. 13 This is a...
Chapter 03
Entextualization and Preparation in Patterson’s Variations for Double-Bass
...The “musical material” here is radically diffuse, ranging from tuning, to the application of butterflies and feather dusters, to postal service (XVII). The piece could (debatably) be situated within the genre of “Fluxus event scores”, but doing so would be...
Chapter 02
A Treatise Remix Handbook
...by collecting a library of fifteen commercial recordings, six archival and broadcast recordings, and a few dozen more published online. 9 (Ultimately a total of twenty recordings were used; they are listed in Source Material.) The library encompassed a vast...