What happens when choreography gives rise to music? What happens when choreographers compose? The expansion of the concept of composition has shown that basically every […]
Festival & Symposium LABOR SONOR : TRANSLATING MUSIC
What happens when music is translated into music? The festival LABOR SONOR : TRANSLATING MUSIC commiss ioned nine compositions: artists belonging to varying genres and […]
Transform: Subjectivation in Performing Arts Projects [2016-2019]
The joint research project ›Transform – Transformative educational processes in performative projects‹ (University Potsdam, Braunschweig University of Art) examines the conditions under which performative educational […]
The Power of Things – Materiality and Performance Practice in Contemporary Improvised and Experimental Music
The Expansion of the musical material and innovations of instrumental playing techniques are part of the history of improvised music, especially in Free Jazz and […]
Tacit Knowledge of Improvising Communities [2014-2016]
The research project ›Improvising Knowledge‹ is an interdisciplinary project between musicology, pedagogy and sociology and investigates the emergence of knowledge and the organisation of learning […]
Material Agency in Improvisation
Pushing the boundary of material and continually innovating instrumental techniques are part of the history of jazz, and can be found in an even more […]
Kunsttexte 2/2012: Improvisation: Theorie – Praxis – Ästhetik, Guest Editor: Matthias Haenisch, Contributions by Dirk Baecker, Christa Brüstle a.o.
For all too long, musical improvisation has been an art neglected by science. This situation has begun to change in recent years, both due to […]
Emergence. On a Theoretical Term in Current Improvisation Research
Theoretical analyses of improvisation in recent years often conceive of emergence in terms of group processes, calling upon, for example, chaos theory, theories of complex […]