Distributed Creativity

Contents List of examples List of figures List of tables List of contributors Introduction and overview Eric Clarke and Mark Doffman Section 1: Frames Chapter 1 Composer-performer collaborations in the long twentieth-century Arnold Whittall Chapter 2 The labour that dare not speak its name: musical creativity, labour process and the materials of music Jason Toynbee Chapter 3. Distributed cognition, ecological theory and group improvisation Adam Linson and Eric Clarke Chapter 4. Domesticating gesture: the collaborative creative process of Florence Baschet's StreicherKreis for 'augmented' string quartet (2006-2008) Nicolas Donin Section 2: Collaborations Intervention. 'These four must be stopped' Irvine Arditti Chapter 5 Cross-cultural collaborations with the Kronos Quartet Amanda Bayley Intervention. Collaboration: making it work Sarah Nicolls Chapter 6 Fluid practices, solid roles? The evolution of Forlorn Hope Eric Clarke, Mark Doffman, David Gorton and Stefan Östersjö Intervention. surfaces James Saunders and Simon Limbrick Chapter 7 Composition changing instruments changing composition Christopher Redgate Intervention. My Mother Told Me Not To Stare: composition as a collaborative process Martyn Harry Intervention. The composer in the room: Jeremy West on Martyn Harry with His Majesty's Sagbutts and Cornetts Jeremy West Chapter 8 Negotiations: sound and speech in the making of a studio recording Maya Gratier, Rebecca Evans and Ksenija Stevanovic Intervention. Recording Paraphrase: a 'social occasion'? Emily Payne Chapter 9. Contemporary Music in Action: performer-composer collaboration within the conservatoire. Mark Doffman and Jean-Philippe Calvin Intervention. On working alone John Croft Section 3: Improvisation Intervention. Knots and other forms of entanglement Liza Lim Chapter 10 (Re-)imagining improvisation: discursive positions in Iranian music from classical to jazz Laudan Nooshin Intervention. On the conundrum of composing an improvisation Jeremy Thurlow Chapter 11 Improvisation as composition: the recorded organ improvisations of Vierne and Tournemire David Maw Intervention. Improvisation and composition in the French organ tradition: an interview with Thierry Escaich David Maw with Thierry Escaich Chapter 12 Learning to improvise, improvising to learn: a qualitative study of learning processes in improvising musicians Una MacGlone and Raymond MacDonald Intervention. Song Loré Lixenberg Chapter 13 The ensemble as plural subject: jazz improvisation, collective intention, and group agency Garry Hagberg Intervention. What is it like to be an improviser? Neil Heyde, Christopher Redgate, Roger Redgate and Matthew Wright