Hyperimprovisation
Hyperimprovisation

Author: Roger Dean

Publisher: A-R Editions, Inc.

Published: 2003-01-01

Total Pages: 233

ISBN-13: 0895795086

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Hyperimprovisation is the first book to focus on the unique potential of computer-interactive sound improvisation. Instrumental improvisation, through the intermediacy of computers, allows musicians to create and modify large scale and long term structures at a highly polyphonic level, yet still in real-time. Computers also allow the construction of hyperinstruments, with many levels of explicit control of sound generation and transformation. Further, networked improvisation allows mutual—or competitive!— adaptation of the performing interfaces and mechanisms by several performers, again, in real-time. The achievements and future possibilities of the “hyperimprovisation” which is released by computer technology are explored in this book.

The Oxford Handbook of Algorithmic Music
The Oxford Handbook of Algorithmic Music

Author: R. T. Dean

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2018

Total Pages: 713

ISBN-13: 0190226994

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Featuring chapters by emerging and established scholars as well as by leading practitioners in the field, this Handbook both describes the state of algorithmic composition and also set the agenda for critical research on and analysis of algorithmic music.

The Routledge Companion to Dance Studies
The Routledge Companion to Dance Studies

Author: Helen Thomas

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2019-10-30

Total Pages: 741

ISBN-13: 1315306530

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The Routledge Companion to Dance Studies maps out the key features of dance studies as the field stands today, while pointing to potential future developments. It locates these features both historically—within dance in particular social and cultural contexts—and in relation to other academic influences that have impinged on dance studies as a discipline. The editors use a thematically based approach that emphasizes that dance scholarship does not stand alone as a single entity, but is inevitably linked to other related fields, debates, and concerns. Authors from across continents have contributed chapters based on theoretical, methodological, ethnographic, and practice-based case studies, bringing together a wealth of expertise and insight to offer a study that is in-depth and wide-ranging. Ideal for scholars and upper-level students of dance and performance studies, The Routledge Companion to Dance Studies challenges the reader to expand their knowledge of this vibrant, exciting interdisciplinary field.

Uptown Conversation
Uptown Conversation

Author: Robert G. O'Meally

Publisher: Columbia University Press

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 460

ISBN-13: 9780231123518

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'Uptown Conversation' asserts that jazz is not only a music to define, it is a culture. The essays illustrate how for more than a century jazz has initiated a call and response across art forms, geographies, and cultures, inspiring musicians, filmmakers,painters and poets.