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Improvisation and the Unnameable: On Being Instrumental
Critical Studies in Improvisation / Études critiques en improvisation, 2009 This editorial frames the problem of improvisation as both an embodied social practice and an "unthinkable" event-horizon of the possible. If this observation approximates a truth about improvisation, we may well ask, how musical improvisation in the forms it has taken in the last century, aligns with other social practices in which similarly high ...
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Organised Sound, 2021 Electronic systems designed to improvise with a live instrumental performer are a constant mediation of musical language and artificial decision-making. Often these systems are designed to elicit a reaction in a very broad way, relying on segmenting and playing back audio material according to a fixed or mobile set of rules or analysis.
Gillies, Sam, Sappho Donohue, Maria
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Pensamiento Palabra y Obra, 2014 The content of this article was generated from an ongoing study, funded by the Foundation for Research Support of São Paulo (FAPESP), developed at the music postgraduate program at University of Campinas - UNICAMP.
Luciano da Costa Nazario
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A Device for Children’s Instrumental Creativity and Learning: An Overview of the MIROR Platform
Frontiers in Psychology, 2020 This article presents the pedagogical paradigm of reflexive interaction and its application in the field of technology-enhanced learning and children’s musical creativity.
Anna Rita Addessi
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Automatism and Creativity in Contact Improvisation: Re-Inventing Habit and Opening Up to Change
PhilosophiesThis article aims to show that the artistic creativity at work in improvised dance depends on the acquisition of automatisms through the capacity of gestural repetition to dissolve the instrumental character of the movements performed and leads to a ...
Serena Massimo
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Sound Before Symbol Strategies and Beginning Band Performance Skills
Canadian Journal for New Scholars in Education, 2022 Beginning instrumental instruction often ignores the common elementary pedagogical practice of teaching by sound before symbol, instead focusing on learning through notation.
Jennifer Ausman
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New Perspectives on Music in Rehabilitation of Executive and Attention Functions
Frontiers in Neuroscience, 2019 Modern music therapy, starting around the middle of the twentieth century was primarily conceived to promote emotional well-being and to facilitate social group association and integration. Therefore, it was rooted mostly in social science concepts. More
Yuko Koshimori, Michael H. Thaut
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Tunes from the Land: Can Folk Music Cultivate Awareness and Respect for Nature?
Nota BeneThis basic qualitative research study explores ecoliterate approaches to instrumental music education, focusing on cultivating environmental awareness through using folk music to address a disconnect from nature in educational contexts in the United ...
Emma Robinson
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International Journal of Qualitative Studies on Health & Well-Being, 2013 This article presents and discusses a long-term repeated-immersion research process that explores meaning allocated to an episode of 50 seconds of music improvisation in early neurosurgical rehabilitation by a teenage boy with severe traumatic brain ...
Simon Gilbertson
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Think Piece: Sustainability Education and (Curriculum) Improvisation
Southern African Journal of Environmental Education, 2016 In this article I (re)think sustainability education in view of a (re)turn to realisms because existing philosophies have failed to adequately respond to an impending ecological disaster and the fast pace of new technologies. This historical moment has
Lesley le Grange
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