Here you will find my conceptual framework for how I approach improvisation in general, and specifically my analysis of my own improvisations.
I have broken up all of the decision making that happens during an improvisation into the following streams:
Material – Decisions dealing with manipulations of local, sonic materials. This can come in the form of instrumental behaviours or general development, but is open to context and interpretation.
Formal – Decisions dealing with form and transitions.
Interface – Decisions dealing with instrument, ergonomics, technology, and performance modalities.
Interaction – Decisions dealing with how materials interact. This is primarily dealing with simultaneous materials (as opposed to Formal decisions), but is not exclusively so.
Generating these analyses has given me some insight into how my decision making apparatus works in time. I can see explicit patterns and tendencies in the way decisions are structured, but more importantly, tuning in to that decision framework has let me draw a conceptual circle around that creative plane, and let me articulate on it.
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List of completed analyses:
- Sam Andreae – Electronics improvisation
- Sam Andreae – Tenor Sax improvisation
- Gemma Bass – Violin improvisation
- David Birchall – Guitar + Objects improvisation 1
- David Birchall – Guitar + Objects improvisation 2
- Jorge Boehringer – Electronics improvisation 1
- Jorge Boehringer – Electronics improvisation 2
- Matthew Bourne – Piano improvisation 1
- Matthew Bourne – Piano improvisation 2
- Greta Buitkute – I was thinking betula pendula
- Rodrigo Constanzo – Everything. Everything at once. Once. (1a)
- Rodrigo Constanzo – Everything. Everything at once. Once. (1b)
- Rodrigo Constanzo – Everything. Everything at once. Once. (1c)
- Rodrigo Constanzo – Light Vomit
- Simon Fell – Double Bass improvisation 1
- Pete Furniss – the outside-in side / 1
- Pete Furniss – the outside-in side / 2
- Jay Gilligan – Improvisation Nov. 28, 2015
- Angela Guyton – Amplified Canvas improvisation
- Anton Hunter – Guitar + Pedals improvisation
- Keith Jafrate – Chimes
- Lê Quan Ninh – Percussion improvisation 1
- Simon Prince – 15.11.2015
- Cath Roberts – Baritone Sax improvisation 1
- Tullis Rennie – Trombone improvisation 1
- Tullis Rennie – Trombone improvisation 2
- Chris Sharkey – Guitar + Pedals improvisation
- THF Drenching – The Invention of Duct Tape
- THF Drenching – The Eventual Skimming of Black Milk
- Sam Thursfield – number8
- Pierre Alexandre Tremblay – Bass + Laptop improvisation 1
- Pierre Alexandre Tremblay – Bass + Laptop improvisation 2
- Otto Willberg – all weather
- Upright Citizens Brigade – ASSSSCAT! (Buzzards scene)
- Morton Feldman – Triadic Memories (Bryn Harrison’s reflective listening)