1st Edition

Relational Improvisation Music, Dance and Contemporary Art

By Simon Rose Copyright 2024
262 Pages 19 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

262 Pages 19 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

262 Pages 19 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Relational Improvisation explores the creative exchanges that occur between artistic disciplines through the practice of improvisation in performance. Building upon the growing research into improvisation, the book explores contemporary transdisciplinary collaborations between improvised music and other fields including dance and visual arts, offering insights from a wide range of... Read more

Contents

 

Chapter 1 Double-resonance: improvisation, relationality and transdisciplinarity. Simon Rose

 

Chapter 2 The performance of improvised music: what do we mean when we talk about performance? Simon Rose

 

Chapter 3 Contemporary Art and Improvisation. Simon Rose and Julie Myers

 

Chapter 4 The shared space of improvisation in dance and music. Simon Rose and Ingo Reulecke

 

Chapter 5 Levels of improvisation and neocybernetic relations. Simon Rose and Adam Pultz Melbye

 

Chapter 6 Interspecies improvisation. Simon Rose and Barbara Berti.

 

Chapter 7 A phenomenology of improvisation in dance and music: peripatetic symphilosophein. Simon Rose and Andrew Wass

 

Chapter 8 From South Korea to Berlin: ‘moving between the notes’ in collaborative and improvisation. Simon Rose and Youjin Sung 

 

Chapter 9 Sympoiesis and improvisation: how I work, how you work and how we work.

Simon Rose and Paul Stapleton

 

Chapter 10 Musical identity and exchange in improvisation. Simon Rose and Kriton Beyer

 

Chapter 11 Light, music and improvisation. Simon Rose, Lena Czerniawska, Emese Csornai and Viola Yip

 

Chapter 12 Improvisation and uncovering collaboration. Simon Rose and Nicola L. Hein.

Biography

Simon Rose is an independent researcher and professional musician. He holds a PhD from Glasgow Caledonian University and is the author of The Lived Experience of Improvisation: In Music, Learning and Life.

"This massively interdisciplinary book of dialogues on improvisation, conducted by one of the most influential and innovative scholar-artists in the field, provides trenchant new insights on creativity, performance, collaboration, and ultimately, the human spirit itself."

George E. Lewis, Columbia University