{"id":598,"date":"2018-09-06T11:04:19","date_gmt":"2018-09-06T11:04:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/?p=598"},"modified":"2018-09-06T11:04:19","modified_gmt":"2018-09-06T11:04:19","slug":"philosophy-of-improvisation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy-blog\/2018\/09\/06\/philosophy-of-improvisation\/","title":{"rendered":"Philosophy of Improvisation"},"content":{"rendered":"
Philosophy of Improvisation Workshop: The Aesthetics of Imperfection<\/span><\/b>
\n6th-7th October 2018, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK<\/p>\n

A collaboration between academics, musicians and arts practitioners, this two-day workshop examines a central issue of creativity in music and other arts: improvisation and spontaneity.<\/p>\n

The idea of an\u00a0aesthetics of imperfection<\/i>\u00a0is explored by jazz and improvising musicians, interpreters and composers in Western and non-Western music \u2013 plus practitioners from other art forms.<\/p>\n

The contrast is between process and product, the unfinished and finished work, spontaneity and structure. The workshop explores the compositional aspects of improvisation, and the improvisatory aspects of composition.<\/p>\n

All are welcome \u2013 free entry on the door.<\/p><\/div>\n

\nFull information:\u00a0<\/a>https:\/\/www.andyhamilton.org\/aesthetics-of-imperfection<\/a>
\nFor enquiries contact Samuel Horlor:\u00a0s.p.horlor@durham.ac.uk<\/a><\/div>\n
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\nOrganised by Andy Hamilton, Lara Pearson and Samuel Horlor for Durham University Department of Philosophy. Funded by Durham University, with the\u00a0Newcastle Festival of Jazz and Improvised Music<\/a>.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Sat 6th October: The Black Swan, Newcastle Arts Centre, NE1 1SG<\/b><\/div>\n
\nClaire Zakiewicz (visual artist)
\n\u2018Struggle and Surrender: Process and Material in Painting\u2019<\/p>\n

Martin Mayes (improvising horn player and alphornist)
\n‘ “Stardust”: Seeing and Imagining What Isn’t There’<\/p>\n

Corey Mwamba (improvising vibraphone player)
\n\u2018The Mistake as Material\u2019<\/p>\n

Elizabeth Baldwin Gray (architecture and design academic)
\n\u2018Architecture of Imperfection: Unfinished Sketches and the Sublime\u2019<\/p>\n

Annie Kloppenberg (theatre and dance academic)
\n\u2018Moving Principles and Principled Movements: Ethics and Embodiment in Dance Improvisation\u2019<\/p>\n

Graeme Wilson (free improv researcher and performer)
\n\u2018Cross Purposes: Imperfect Interactions When Improvising with Others\u2019<\/p>\n

Philip G. Robinson (author, editor, working gardener, and researcher)
\n\u2018Still Water Moves\u2019<\/p>\n

David Brown (improvising guitarist and composer)
\n\u2018Rarely Heard, Small Unwanted Sounds Form the Focus\u2019<\/p>\n

Dave Lloyd (rock guitarist and recording engineer)
\n‘Perfection and Authenticity: Editing Improvised Recordings’<\/p>\n

Ilias Giannopoulos (music researcher)
\n‘Stockhausen\u2019s Flexible Concept of the Musical Work: Between Improvisation and Composition’<\/p>\n

Sun 7th October: Literary and Philosophical Society, Newcastle, NE1 1SE<\/b><\/div>\n

\nAndy Hamilton (philosophy academic and jazz writer)
\n‘The Aesthetics of Imperfection Revisited’<\/p>\n

Pak Yan Lau (improvising pianist)
\n\u2018The Aesthetics of Possibilities\u2019<\/p>\n

John Snijders (pianist and music researcher)
\n\u2018 \u201cThat’s Not Freedom, That’s Taking License\u201d: The Pitfalls in Interpreting Morton Feldman’s Graphic Scores\u2019<\/p>\n

Adam Fairhall (improvising pianist)
\n\u2018The Instrumental Impulse: Developing an Improvisation Vocabulary for Unconventional Keyboard Instruments\u2019<\/p>\n

Chris Corsano (free improv drummer)
\n\u2018The Present Imperfect\u2019<\/p>\n

Joe McPhee (improvising multi-instrumentalist)
\nInterview with Andy Hamilton<\/p>\n

Kiku Day (shakuhachi Japanese flute player)
\n\u2018Learning Music Aesthetics through Imperfection: The Transmission of Shakuhachi Music\u2019<\/p>\n

Nate Wooley (improvising trumpeter)
\n\u2018Built from the Root, Ever-changing at the Bloom: The role of Imperfection in the Processes of Musical Phonology, Morphology, and Syntax\u2019<\/p>\n

Mark Hanslip (improvising saxophonist)
\n\u2018Processes and Outcomes: Generative Systems for Improvised Music\u2019<\/p>\n

Otto Willberg (improvising bassist)
\n\u2018Evading Manipulation and Control: Playing with Perspectives\u2019<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Philosophy of Improvisation Workshop: The Aesthetics of Imperfection 6th-7th October 2018, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK A collaboration between academics, musicians and arts practitioners, this two-day workshop examines a central issue of creativity in music and other arts: improvisation and spontaneity. The idea of an\u00a0aesthetics of imperfection\u00a0is explored by jazz and improvising musicians, interpreters and composers … Continue reading Philosophy of Improvisation<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6597,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-598","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/598","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6597"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=598"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/598\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":599,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/598\/revisions\/599"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}