Improvisation Technologies and Creative Machines: The Performer-Instrument Relational Milieu

Project Description

This practice-led, artistic research study traces theoretical and practical understandings that explore the technicity and performance-practice of musical improvisation and builds upon the lead’s prior research on the fields of free improvisation, contemporary music notation, and interactive computer music to create a new, software-based generative musical system (pre-alpha, alpha). The project also invites internationally renowned performers/improvisers to test and to play with the developed system, and explores via its practice-led methodology whether the HCI performance setting promotes a dialogic and co-produced improvisational musical space.