Collective Improvisation

Collective improvisation as a creative practice is intensely social, trusting, unpopular, anti-hierarchical and, for these reasons, political. Cooper describes the risks and rich rewards of improvising with fellow artists and identifies the parallels between improvising ensembles of musicians in Au...

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Main Author: Clare M. Cooper
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: UTS ePRESS 2016-08-01
Series:PORTAL: Journal of Multidisciplinary International Studies
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Online Access:https://learning-analytics.info/journals/index.php/portal/article/view/5048
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Summary:Collective improvisation as a creative practice is intensely social, trusting, unpopular, anti-hierarchical and, for these reasons, political. Cooper describes the risks and rich rewards of improvising with fellow artists and identifies the parallels between improvising ensembles of musicians in Australia with the collectively painted protest banners of the Taring Padi Collective in Indonesia after a brief visit to Jogjakarta.
ISSN:1449-2490