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Voicing the Unforseeable: Improvisation, Social Practice, Collaborative Research

Ajay Heble, Winfried Siemerling

Published: 2010-05-25

In a discussion of the ICASP project and the relationship between improvised music and literary texts, the authors argue that improvised practices, by virtue of their reliance upon collaboration, contain an element of unpredictability with extensive social implications. This aspect of "unforeseeability" in improvised practices is discussed in relation to cultural resistance, multiculturalism, business, and various other social concerns.

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...the innovative working models of improvisation developed by creative practitioners have helped to promote a dynamic exchange of cultural forms, and to encourage new, socially responsive forms of community building across national, cultural, and artistic boundaries.

– Ajay Heble