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Invited presentation at the International Conference on Improvisation, Ecology and Digital Technology at NRW-Forum Düsseldorf

Activity: Talk or presentation types › Invited or keynote talk at national or international conference

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Improvising Bodies: The Virtual is Material

In this performative talk I will deploy a diffractive approach to explore differences across my artistic and discursive practices, with a particular focus on the materiality of improvising with the virtual. In this process I will revisit a number of questions, including: How can we move past the design motivation of interface transparency towards a recognition and celebration of resistance, instability and co-tuning? What might it feel like to be within a co-constituting assemblage of music-making humans and machines, and what is the role of feeling, or touch, in the creation of distributed musical agency? How might the practice of feedback musicianship challenge our desires for mastery and stability, where feedback breeds complexity in and across different domains (e.g. acoustic and electric, signal and control data)? After all, as experienced improvisers know, stability (or equilibrium) actually means death, where uncertainty, movement and contingent connections are the realm of the living.
Period25 Jun 2022
Event titleInternational Conference on Improvisation, Ecology and Digital Technology
Event typeConference
LocationDüsseldorf, GermanyShow on map
Degree of RecognitionInternational