...response here based on the work of two artists and thinkers who have made the collective and political aspects of notation for improvisers a primary feature of their work: visionary American landscape architect Lawrence Halprin (1916-2009) and British composer-improviser Richard...

...Andrew W. 1995. “Cecil Taylor, Identity Energy, and the Avant-Garde African American Body.” Perspectives of New Music 33 (1/2): 274–93. Beins, Burkhard. 2011. “Scheme and Event.” In Echtzeitmusik Berlin: Selbstbestimmung Einer Szene | Self-Defining a Scene, edited by Burkhard Beins,...

...In the modern period, the increased emphasis on the textual analysis of the “work” establishes the composer’s score as the site of music, marginalizing music’s corporeal aspects, including its embodied and contingent performers (Taruskin; Goehr). And improvisation – which privileges...

...North American and European experimental music circuits, this work has been presented by VPRO Radio 6 (Holland), Deutschlandradio Kultur, the Museum of Contemporary Art Barcelona, and the American Documentary Film Festival. Williams’ artistic research on improvisation, notation, and his body-mind...

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...realizations of p. 1 – Cardew directing the American premiere, QuaX Ensemble, and Art Lange – last respectively 4:30, 3:30, and 2:00. The number 34 at the beginning of p. 1, interpreted in all three versions as sustained chords, lasts...

...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...