Distributed Creativity: Collaboration and Improvisation in Contemporary Music
- Editor: Clarke, Eric F.
- Editor: Doffman, Mark
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Contents
- Contents
- List of examples
- List of figures
- List of tables
- List of contributors
- Introduction and overview
- Eric Clarke and Mark Doffman
- Section 1: Frames
- Chapter 1 Composer-performer collaborations in the long twentieth-century
- Arnold Whittall
- Chapter 2 The labour that dare not speak its name: musical creativity, labour process and the materials of music
- Jason Toynbee
- Chapter 3. Distributed cognition, ecological theory and group improvisation
- Adam Linson and Eric Clarke
- Chapter 4. Domesticating gesture: the collaborative creative process of Florence Baschet's StreicherKreis for 'augmented' string quartet (2006-2008)
- Nicolas Donin
- Section 2: Collaborations
- Intervention. 'These four must be stopped'
- Irvine Arditti
- Chapter 5 Cross-cultural collaborations with the Kronos Quartet
- Amanda Bayley
- Intervention. Collaboration: making it work
- Sarah Nicolls
- Chapter 6 Fluid practices, solid roles? The evolution of Forlorn Hope
- Eric Clarke, Mark Doffman, David Gorton and Stefan Ostersjo
- Intervention. surfaces
- James Saunders and Simon Limbrick
- Chapter 7 Composition changing instruments changing composition
- Christopher Redgate
- Intervention. My Mother Told Me Not To Stare: composition as a collaborative process
- Martyn Harry
- Intervention. The composer in the room: Jeremy West on Martyn Harry with His Majesty's Sagbutts and Cornetts
- Jeremy West
- Chapter 8 Negotiations: sound and speech in the making of a studio recording
- Maya Gratier, Rebecca Evans and Ksenija Stevanovic
- Intervention. Recording Paraphrase: a 'social occasion'?
- Emily Payne
- Chapter 9. Contemporary Music in Action: performer-composer collaboration within the conservatoire.
- Mark Doffman and Jean-Philippe Calvin
- Intervention. On working alone
- John Croft
- Section 3: Improvisation
- Intervention. Knots and other forms of entanglement
- Liza Lim
- Chapter 10 (Re-)imagining improvisation: discursive positions in Iranian music from classical to jazz
- Laudan Nooshin
- Intervention. On the conundrum of composing an improvisation
- Jeremy Thurlow
- Chapter 11 Improvisation as composition: the recorded organ improvisations of Vierne and Tournemire
- David Maw
- Intervention. Improvisation and composition in the French organ tradition: an interview with Thierry Escaich
- David Maw with Thierry Escaich
- Chapter 12 Learning to improvise, improvising to learn: a qualitative study of learning processes in improvising musicians
- Una MacGlone and Raymond MacDonald
- Intervention. Song
- Lore Lixenberg
- Chapter 13 The ensemble as plural subject: jazz improvisation, collective intention, and group agency
- Garry Hagberg
- Intervention. What is it like to be an improviser?
- Neil Heyde, Christopher Redgate, Roger Redgate and Matthew Wright