Music Improvisation and Social Inclusion
Music Improvisation and Social Inclusion
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音乐即兴创作和社会包容
DOI:
10.1080/07494467.2019.1684057
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发表时间:
2019
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0.4
通讯作者:
Schroeder F
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作者:
Schroeder F
The improviser abandons self to the moment; abandons momentarily the world of necessity and causality for a world of possibility and free will. Things do not happen by necessity, nor by chance. They simply happen. Listening is the primary act. Performing is the secondary act. Every sound that one makes is a response to a sound one has heard. A solo improviser must respond to sounds made by self, as though made by another person. There is no solo without a group. In improvising we must momentarily suspend the sense of self, and of our own identity. This is a game which can be dangerous if not played under controlled conditions. Under uncontrolled conditions, it can lead to insanity. Identity is learned. It is useful for survival. It is essential to remember who we are and what we are doing while we are crossing a street. At the same time, it is important not to think about every movement we make. We must trust the unconscious. When we act, we momentarily free ourselves from reflection. We simply act.(Rzewski 2006)13 years ago, in 2006 (volume 25, issues 5–6 of Contemporary Music Review), Frances-Marie Uitti,‘musicienne extraordinaire’, improviser and femme fatale of the cello, issued one of the cornerstone publications of musical improvisation, published by Taylor & Francis. For that double issue Uitti, famous for having made a musical career out of demolishing musical boundaries and inventing a unique technique of playing her cello with two bows simultaneously, had interviewed many of the ‘big’names working in the musical improv scene at the time. Articles included views on improvisation by experimental vocalist Joan La Barbara, by British saxophonist Evan Parker, American trombonist and composer George E. Lewis, Dutch percussionist Han Bennink and Dutch jazz pianist and composer Misha Mengelberg, as well words by much loved improviser and deep listener Pauline Oliveros and American composer and vocalist Meredith Monk, amongst many others.