Do you compose (music) with (improvising) people? Do you improvise with composers? Do you wonder what is at stake in collaborations between composers and (improvising) people? Do you find these questions preposterous? And/or reprehensibly irrelevant to the existential threats facing (human) life as we know it? If so, I offer you this text. Not a real manifesto with answers for everybody everywhere, but a few proposals on their way to a few injunctions, all born of personal experience and reflection.
In December 2016, I successfully defended a natively digital dissertation in Artistic Research entitled 'Tactile Paths: On and through Notation for Improvisers' at the Academy of Creative and Performing Arts, Leiden University. In this chapter I will …
“Three performances: a virtual (musical) improvisation” is an artistic experiment that the authors call a ‘performance-reading’. It delineates three different stages of liveness by combining and interweaving a verbal/ graphic transcription of a …