Introduction to (Musical) Improvisation and Ethics at Hochschule Osnabrück


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Introduction to (Musical) Improvisation and Ethics at Hochschule Osnabrück
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Hochschule Osnabrück, Institut für Musik

An introduction to the “(Musical) Improvisation and Ethics” project for students at the Hochschule Osnabrück, Institut für Musik.

What do music and ethics have to do with each other? How does the phenomenon of improvisation tie them together? What can we learn about human life by studying experimental music? These are some of the many questions I, anthropologist Caroline Gatt, and philosopher Joshua Bergamin are currently thinking about in the context of a four-year interdisciplinary project funded by the Austrian Science Fund (FWF, grant number ZK93) called “(Musical) Improvisation and Ethics” https://improv-ethics.net/. In this presentation, I will share some of our assumptions about this broad topic, outline our methods, and offer documentation from our first three (Musical) Ethics Labs with large improvising ensembles, which form the heart of the (creative) research.