THURSDAY APRIL 2
8.15 — Arrival/ Registration/ Coffee (A)
9.15 — Welcome to the conference! An introduction by Jonny and Irine (A)
Presentations Session 1(PH)
09.30 — MONTI Helicona: Improvisation within a multidisciplinary historical approach
09.55 — STUTTART Assessing historically informed improvisation: a case study of solo lute performances in 15th-century style
10.20 — JEDRZEJEWSKI Self-expression (performance)
Coffee break (A)
Presentation Session 2
| 11.00 | PERKS Extended Techniques and Expanded Sound-Palette Specific to the Fretless Electric Guitar (Solo improvisation: 10 – 12 mins.) (PH) | SORENSEN The challenge of teaching musical improvisation improvisationally: towards a theoretical framework. (G0/1) | |||||
| 11.25 | MAXWELL Sounding Out Varese (PH) | WETHERICK What do improvisation tasks reveal in auditions for music therapy training? An analysis of accounts by trainers.(G0/1) | |||||
| 11.50 | FILLINGHAM Small-group improvisation in classical music: reflections from within (PH) | WILLIAMS Implicitly Explicit: A Theoretical Modelling of the Cognitive Strategies and Processes in Jazz Improvisation Practice (G0/1) | |||||
| 12.15 | FILLINGHAM ‘We can do it too!’: A classical improvising duo (PH) | BRAND Musical Intersubjectivity in Improvised Music Performance: key aspects of an investigation into ensemble interrelationship through practice research (G0/1) |
12.40 Lunch break
13. 45 — Keynote speaker: Django Bates (PH)
15.15 — Coffee Break (A)
Presentations Session 3
| 15.30 | MOGENSEN Computational co-improvisation in music (performance paper) (PH) | DE CEUSER A Materialistic Approach to Improvisation: Chris Corsano’s “Famously Short Arms (G0/1) | ||||
| 15.55 | PHILLIPS Can a Scientific Perspective on Improvisation Avoid ‘Un-weaving the Rainbow? (PH) | MCPHERSON Towards a New Transdisciplinarity in Improvised Performance (G0/1) | ||||
| 16.20 | HOWELL Digital signatures in the improvisational style of Richard Spaven (PH) | JEDRZEJEWSKI Pure Intuitive Act (performance paper) (G0/1) |
16.45 Short Improv (A)
17. 15 Dinner at San Vivo Restaurant
FRIDAY APRIL 3
08.30 — Coffee
09.30 — Round Table
10.30 — Coffee break
Presentation Session 1
| 11.00 | VENTURI Interlingua (performance) (PH) | MILLER “Approaches to Improvisation in Cuban Dance Music (G0/1) | |||
| 11.25 | DEVEK Improvisers kinds of knowing: generating and sharing knowledge AND DEVEK Sensing and imagining movement – piano and voice improvisation (7 to 8 minutes) (PH) | SANI Freedoms and limitations of composing with improvisation (performance paper) (G0/1) | |||
| 11.50 | WHITELEY Provoking aspects of power in sonic improvisation (performance paper) (PH) | DONOHUE The Improvisers Cookbook: Archiving and Analysing the Assemblage of Free Improvisation (G0/1) |
12.15 Coffee break
Presentation session 2
| 13.00 | KUBIAK-KENWORTHY The creative value of multitasking – simultaneous violin and vocal improvisation (performance paper) (PH) | COOPER Between Focus: Liminality as a Productive Site for Collaborative Improvisation (performance paper) (G0/1) | |||
| 13.25 | BURSTYN CIAO (Communal Interactive Audiovisual Orchestra (PH) | GANSINGER The musical practice of collective improvisation as an analogy to the Habermas’ Ideal Speech Situation and its potential for Intercultural Communication (G0/1) | |||
| 13.50 | SHOLL The Unmasking Scene in The Phantom of the Opera: Improvisation in Context (PH) | MUREDDU Master of Puppets: A computer controlled group improvisation (performance) (G0/1) |
14. 15 Meeting in Phipps Hall.
(A) — Atrium
(PH) — Phipps hall
G/01 — presentation room
ALL EVENTS WILL FIND PLACE AT THE RICHARD STEINITZ (RS) BUILDING, UNIVERSITY OF HUDDERSFIELD
