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Improvisation and Social Aesthetics [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
Addressing a wide range of improvised art and music forms—from jazz and cinema to dance and literature—this volume's contributors locate improvisation as a key site of mediation between the social and the aesthetic.

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Towards a wide approach to improvisation [PDF]

open access: yes, 2021
This paper pursues two main aims. First, it distinguishes two kinds of improvisation: expert and inexpert. Expert improvisation is a (usually artistic) practice that the agent consciously sets as their goal and is evaluated according to (usually artistic)
Krueger, Joel   +3 more
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Many roads lead to Rome: How improvisation and absorptive capacity affect entrepreneurial orientation and new venture performance relationship.

open access: yesPLoS ONE, 2023
This paper develops and tests a model that highlights the roles of improvisation and absorptive capacity as important mediating mechanisms through which entrepreneurial orientation (EO) influences new venture performance.
Wei Sun   +3 more
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What makes a musical improvisation creative? [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
Background in musical improvisation and creativity. What makes musical improvisation creative? And what exactly is it that justifies one improviser being described as more creative than another?
Keller, Bill   +3 more
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Understanding the Impact of Expertise in Joint and Solo-Improvisation

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychology, 2017
Joint-improvisation is not only an open-ended creative action that two or more people perform together in the context of an artistic performance (e.g., theatre, music or dance).
Johann Issartel   +2 more
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How improvisation drives lean search: The moderating role of entrepreneurial team heterogeneity and environmental uncertainty

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychology, 2022
Although lean search is seen as an important action in lean startup, previous studies have less knowledge on how to realize it, especially in the face of traditional plans that cannot cope with sudden changes in the environment. To fill the research gap,
Bo Huang   +4 more
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Control Improvisation

open access: yesCoRR, 2014
We formalize and analyze a new automata-theoretic problem termed control improvisation. Given an automaton, the problem is to produce an improviser, a probabilistic algorithm that randomly generates words in its language, subject to two additional constraints: the satisfaction of an admissibility predicate, and the exhibition of a specified amount of ...
Daniel J. Fremont   +3 more
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‘Mind the Gap’. L'improvvisazione come azione intenzionale

open access: yesItinera, 2015
In this paper I aim at discussing the following questions: is improvisation an intentional action? If it is an intentional action, in what sense is improvisation intentional? Can improvisation contribute to the understanding of intentional action? I will
Alessandro Bertinetto
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Visualization Improvisation

open access: yesCoRR, 2021
This paper has been peer-reviewed and accepted to VisActivities: IEEE VIS Workshop on Data Vis Activities held in conjunction with IEEE VIS ...
Swaroop Panda, Shatarupa Thakurta Roy
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Teachers’ Conceptions of Improvisation in Teaching: Inherent Human Quality or a Professional Teaching Skill?

open access: yesEducation Inquiry, 2017
This article is based on a qualitative case study of teachers’ conceptions of improvisation in teaching. Empirical data are master student teachers’ texts (transcripts, reflections) based on observations and interviews of practising teachers.
Kjellfrid Mæland, Magne Espeland
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