| | Thursday, March 18th | | | Friday March 19th | | |
9:15 AM | | Welcome; Intro Jonny & Irine | | | Welcome; Jonny & Irine | | |
| Session 1 | | | | | | |
9:30 AM | Presentation 1 | LINDSEY FILLINGHAM Small-group improvisation in classical music: reflections from within | | | RICHARD PERKS Extended Techniques and Expanded Sound-Palette Specific to the Fretless Electric Guitar (Solo improvisation: 10 – 12 mins.) | | |
9:55 AM | Presenation 2 | MARTIN DEVEK Improvisers kinds of knowing: generating and sharing knowledge + Sensing and imagining movement – piano and voice improvisation (7 to 8 minutes) | | | FRANCESCO VENTURI Interlingua (performance) | | |
10.20 AM | Presentation 3 | RENÉ MOGENSEN Computational co-improvisation in music (performance paper) | | | D HENRY MC PHERSON Meanings in the Moment: Nonsense and Narrative Interactions in Transdisciplinary Free Improvisation | | |
10.45AM | Break | | | | | | |
| Session 2 | | | | | | |
11.00 AM | Presenation 1 | MARTIN GANSINGER The musical practice of collective improvisation as an analogy to the Habermas’ Ideal Speech Situation and its potential for Intercultural Communication | | | ROBERT SHOLL The Unmasking Scene in The Phantom of the Opera: Improvisation in Context | | |
11.25 AM | Presenation 2 | MELINDA MAXWELL Transformations and Metamorphoses: Structures for Improvisation | | | SUE MILLER “Approaches to Improvisation in Cuban Dance Music | | |
11.50 AM | Presentation 3 | JAMIE HOWELL Digital signatures in the improvisational style of Richard Spaven | | | ROBERT JEDRZEJEWSKI Pure Intuitive Act (performance paper) | | |
12.15 PM | Presenation 4 | KEITH PHILLIPS Can a Scientific Perspective on Improvisation Avoid ‘Un-weaving the Rainbow? | | | ROBERT JEDRZEJEWSKI Self-expression (performance) | | |
12.40 PM | Lunch Break | | | | | | |
| Session 3 | | | | | | |
13.30 PM | Presenation 1 | LIBERO MUREDDU Joy Against the Machine: A computer controlled group improvisation (performance) | | | ED COOPER Between Focus: Liminality as a Productive Site for Collaborative Improvisation (performance paper) | | |
13.55 PM | Presenation 2 | DAVIDE MONTI Helicona: Improvisation within a multidisciplinary historical approach | | | DIEDRIK DE CEUSTER A Materialistic Approach to Improvisation: Chris Corsano’s “Famously Short Arms” | | |
14.20 PM | Presenation 3 | MARIA SAPPHO DONOHUE What mushroom? What free improvisation?: spontaneity in unexpected landscapes | | | DONALD WETHERICK What do improvisation tasks reveal in auditions for music therapy training? An analysis of accounts by trainers | | |
14.45 PM | Presentation 4 | DORIAN BANDY Playing Dumb: Theatricality, Failure, and the Aesthetics of Improvisation | | | LEAH STUTTART Assessing historically informed improvisation: a case study of solo lute performance in 15th-century style | | |
15.10 PM | Break | | | | End of day discussion | | |
| Session 4 | | | | END OF THE CONFERENCE | | |
15.30 PM | Presenation 1 | MAX BURSTYN Communal Interactive Audiovisual Orchestra | | | | | |
15.55 PM | Presentation 2 | GILLIAN WHITELEY Provoking aspects of power in sonic improvisation (performance paper) | | | | | |
16.20 PM | Presentation 3 | NICK SORENSEN The challenge of teaching musical improvisation improvisationally: towards a theoretical framework. | | | | | |
16.45 PM | End of day discussion | | | | | | |
17.00 PM | END OF DAY 1 | | | | |