| Flow, Gesture, and Spaces in Free Jazz: Towards a Theory of Collaboration 2009 Edition Contributor(s): Mazzola, Guerino (Author), Rissi, Mathias (Other), Cherlin, Paul B. (Author) |
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ISBN: 3642432840 ISBN-13: 9783642432842 Publisher: Springer OUR PRICE: $52.24 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: November 2014 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Computers | Computer Science - Computers | Intelligence (ai) & Semantics - Mathematics | Algebra - Abstract |
| Dewey: 004 |
| Series: Computational Music Science |
| Physical Information: 0.33" H x 6.14" W x 9.21" (0.50 lbs) 141 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Let s try to play the music and not the background. Ornette Coleman, liner notes of the LP Free Jazz 20] WhenIbegantocreateacourseonfreejazz, theriskofsuchanenterprise was immediately apparent: I knew that Cecil Taylor had failed to teach such a matter, and that for other, more academic instructors, the topic was still a sort of outlandish adventure. To be clear, we are not talking about tea- ing improvisation here a di?erent, and also problematic, matter rather, we wish to create a scholarly discourse about free jazz as a cultural achievement, and follow its genealogy from the American jazz tradition through its various outbranchings, suchastheEuropeanandJapanesejazzconceptionsandint- pretations. We also wish to discuss some of the underlying mechanisms that are extant in free improvisation, things that could be called technical aspects. Such a discourse bears the ?avor of a contradicto in adjecto: Teachingthe unteachable, the very negation of rules, above all those posited by white jazz theorists, and talking about the making of sounds without aiming at so-called factual results and all those intellectual sedimentations: is this not a suicidal topic? My own endeavors as a free jazz pianist have informed and advanced my conviction that this art has never been theorized in a satisfactory way, not even by Ekkehard Jost in his unequaled, phenomenologically precise p- neering book Free Jazz 57]." |