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PANEL: Aural/Visual Confluences (Part one)

Alain Derbez, Sara Villa

Published: 2011-09-07

Alain Derbez speaks about freedom and jazz, specifically improvisation and how artists in Mexico utilize visuals to correspond to sound in performance. Sarah Villa explores jazz improvisation as storytelling, specifically manifested in Jack Kerouak's writing as a narrative that bridges the gap of orality in jazz music.

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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