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The Improvising Eye: Genesis

Mauricio Martinez

Published: 2010-08-30

VIDEO: Part 1 of 5 in a documentary series on the ICASP project's objectives, research, and progress to date. An introduction to improvisation as a social practice and to the nature of the project is the focus of this entry. TEXT: An artist's statement by creator Mauricio Martinez.

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So one of the things that improvisation has come to mean in the context of highly technological performance is that improvisation is the last claim to the legitimate presence of a human in the performance of music.

– Bob Ostertag