Flow, Gesture, and Spaces in Free Jazz Towards a Theory of Collaboration /

• Main Authors: Mazzola, Guerino B. (Author), Cherlin, Paul B. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2009.
• Series: Computational Music Science,
• Subjects: Culture > Study and teaching.; Music.; Artificial intelligence.; Application software.; Multimedia systems.; Category theory (Mathematics).; Homological algebra.; Computer mathematics.; Cultural and Media Studies.; Computer Appl. in Arts and Humanities.; Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics).; Category Theory, Homological Algebra.; Computational Science and Engineering.; Media Design.

The scientific approach of this book transcends the limits of art literature in that it also develops geometric theories of gestures and distributed identities, also known as swarm intelligence. We exemplify this approach in the framework of free jazz, which is a prototypical creative and collaborat...

Table of Contents:

• Getting off Ground
• What Is Free Jazz?
• Jazz in Transition
• The Landscape of Free Jazz
• Out of this World
• The Art of Collaboration
• Collaborative Spaces in Free Jazz
• Which Collaboratories?
• The Innards of Time
• Gestural Creativity
• Gestures: From Philosophy to Thought Experiments
• Geometry of Gestures
• The Escher Theorem and Gestural Creativity in Free Jazz
• What Group Flow Generates
• What Is Flow?
• The Symbolic Axis of Distributed Identity
• Epilogue
• From Pre-to Postproduction: The Infinite Listening
• Global Strategies for Free Jazz
• The Future of Free Jazz.