The purpose of this phenomenological study was to explore the musical and inner human processes that emerged in the lived experience of solo and joint free improvisation from the viewpoint of the improviser, also exploring how those processes related to the improviser’s world. The study included eight adult participants, musicians and non-musicians (amateurs), who varied in their improvisational experience as well as in age, personal and professional background. Each participant was engaged in one solo and one joint improvisation (with the researcher) on their chosen musical instruments. Improvisations were followed by an in-depth semi-structured interviews involving immediate impressions of the experience as a whole, followed by listening to the recorded improvisations where participants identified significant musical moments The synthesis of verbal and musical data revealed five interconnected, non-linear phases of the improvisers’ movement toward the attainment of creative freedom. Those were: Acceptance and Trust (letting go of expectations and judgment), Adaptation (moving through uncertainty with self and with another), Emergence (taking individual and social risks toward discovery), Transcendence (experiencing flow and moments of sync) and Expansion (experiencing the joy of individual and mutual creation). These emerged phases portrayed various musical and extra musical dimensions of the improvisers’ way of thinking, searching, acting, being and feeling in and through sound making- from the very beginning to the ending phases of their solo and joint experiences.   Reflecting humanistic-existential thinking and other relevant literature, the findings of the study showed a direct link between individuals’ involvement in improvisation and the development of courage, intentionality, adaptability, vulnerability, and empathy within meaningful musical engagement as essential qualities toward authentic growth. Participants’ musical experiences also showed a link between improvisation and life meaning. They specifically discussed issues of letting go of judgment, developing flexibility, taking personal and interpersonal risks and practicing mindful ways of listening to self and others. Applications of improvisation were discussed in the context of psychotherapy, suggesting a protocol on the conditions, practices and emerging meanings within clinical improvisation work. / Music Therapy / Accompanied by one compressed .rar file.

La version intégrale de ce mémoire est disponible uniquement pour consultation individuelle à la Bibliothèque de musique de l’Université de Montréal (www.bib.umontreal.ca/MU). / Ce mémoire porte sur l’improvisation libre, pratique musicale apparue au cours de la seconde moitié du vingtième siècle en musique savante occidentale et en parallèle avec le courant du free jazz. Évoquée fréquemment par l’emploi du terme de « musiques improvisées », dans un premier temps, nous abordons le rapport entre cette appellation et la musique qui s’y rattache à travers son emploi chez certains auteurs en musicologie dans l’optique d’en montrer les différentes acceptions. Dans un second temps, nous réfléchissons sur la dualité des origines de la pratique d’improvisation libre afin d’expliquer en quoi celle-ci peut causer une certaine confusion lorsqu’elle est abordée en musicologie. Cette étude se concentre ensuite sur les aspects de pluralisme esthétique et de multiculturalisme qu’on peut rencontrer en improvisation libre. Nous explorons plusieurs explications quant aux fondements de la pratique musicale à partir d’une analyse de ses origines culturelles et historiques. Suite à cela est abordée la question de transculturation, un concept qui a été évoqué à plusieurs reprises ces quinze dernières années concernant les musiques improvisées, sans jamais avoir été appliqué de façon très spécifique à ces dernières. Le mémoire est complété par une analyse de l’improvisation The Usual Turmoil (1997) du tromboniste George E. Lewis et de la kotoïste Myia Masaoka, qui a pour objectif de mettre en application certains éléments de la réflexion théorique précédemment élaborée et de trouver les prémisses d’une méthode propre à l’analyse de l’improvisation libre. / This memoire treat about a specific musical practice which is free improvisation, and which appeared during the second half of the twentieth century in western art music and with the free jazz wave/trend. Frequently referred by the term « improvised music », we will first go through some definitions from authors in musicology to show the different underlying problematic of the term. We will return to the duality of the origins of free improvisation practice in order to explain why such duality caused confusion in musicology studies. We will then look at some specific aspects concerning multicultural and esthetic pluralism in free improvisation. We will try to bring forth some explanations from our analysis of the cultural roots of free improvisation. Furthermore, we will address the question of transculturation, a recent concept frequently used during the last fifteen years in improvised music studies and which had never been deeply studied. Finally, with the analysis of The Usual turmoil, a duet improvisation by the trombonist George E. Lewis and koto player Miya Masaoka, we will be able to consider free improvisation from an analytic point of view.

CoordenaÃÃo de AperfeiÃoamento de Pessoal de NÃvel Superior / Esta tese estuda a qualidade formativa dos processos criativos e improvisaÃÃo livre, mediante interaÃÃes poÃtico-estÃticas (a partir da concepÃÃo grega) em prÃticas artÃstico-pedagÃgicas, voltados para a educaÃÃo sonoro-musical contemporÃnea, em sintonia com prÃticas musicais desta mesma contemporaneidade. Subsidiada pelo suporte teÃrico-metodolÃgico de um grupo de autores, decisivos em minha formaÃÃo como artista-docente, trata-se de propostas cruciais para o desenvolvimento do potencial inventivo de pessoas envolvidas em situaÃÃes de ensino/aprendizagem participativas. Seu escopo maior à investigar o alcance qualitativos de tais propostas, à luz dos novos paradigmas do conhecimento, com alunos de Licenciatura em MÃsica, Teatro e DanÃa, e do Bacharelado em Cinema/Audiovisual do ICA da UFC. Visa-se, com isso, ao desenvolvimento individual e coletivo do potencial perceptivo e expressivo desses artistas/educadores em formaÃÃo, via saberes produzidos de modo interativo por aÃÃes empreendidas em ateliers/laboratÃrios e performances pÃblicas, assim como suas ressonÃncias multiplicadoras em outras situaÃÃes de ensino/aprendizagem e projetos artÃsticos. Em seus trÃs capÃtulos, a tese analisa: a) os autores H.-J. Koellreutter, Conrado Silva, Murray Schafer e Chefa Alonso, com seus interlocutores brasileiros como Teca A. de Brito (Koellreutter), Luiz Botelho Albuquerque (Silva) e Marisa Fonterrada (Schafer), bem como Paulo Freire, cujas vidas e produÃÃes intelectuais testemunham, com seus aportes especÃficos, intensa dedicaÃÃo a uma educaÃÃo inovadora, alÃm de partilhar objetivos formativos comuns como autonomia, criatividade, criticidade, dialogicidade e interatividade entre as linguagens; b) o diÃlogo destes autores com outros dedicados ao estudo das grandes mudanÃas do pensamento contemporÃneo com fortes ressonÃncias em vÃrias Ãreas, fazendo emergir novos paradigmas para afirmar o ato cognitivo como processo, a criatividade como excelÃncia pedagÃgica e a metodologia da pesquisa-aÃÃo como imperativo ditado pela articulaÃÃo da produÃÃo partilhada de saberes com a criaÃÃo artÃstico-pedagÃgica e a investigaÃÃo propriamente dita, na busca de estratÃgias solidÃrias de superaÃÃo das situaÃÃes-problema vividas; c) os resultados concretos das aÃÃes artÃstico-pedagÃgicas vivenciadas nos ateliers/laboratÃrios, nas performances pÃblicas e nas salas de aula, a partir de uma sÃrie de instrumentos da pesquisaaÃÃo, a exemplo dos diversos registros em relatos individuais e/ou coletivos, etapa crucial da sÃntese analÃtica e avaliaÃÃo de todo o processo da construÃÃo da tese, cujo exame nos revela a qualidade das transformaÃÃes e avanÃos obtidos por todos. / This thesis studies the quality of formation in creative processes and free improvisation, through poetic-aesthetic interactions (in its Greek original conception), in artistic and pedagogical practices facing the contemporary sound-musical education, with emphasis on diverse listening, in tune with the contemporary musical practices. Subsidized by the theoretical and methodological support of a group of authors, crucial in my development as artist-professor, it is crucial proposals for the development of the inventive potential of people involved in teaching situations/participatory learning. The major goal is to investigate the performance and qualitative scope of these proposals, in the light of the new paradigms of contemporary knowledge, which I have applied to my work with students of Bachelor of Music, Theatre, Dance, Film and Audiovisual at the ICA of the UFC. The aim is, therefore, the individual and collective development of perceptive and expressive potential of these artists/educators in formation, through knowledge produced interactively by actions undertaken in workshops/laboratories and performances as well as their results in other teaching/learning situations and artistic projects. The thesis is structured in three chapters: a) first I present a revision of the work made by H.-J. Koellreutter, Conrado Silva, Murray Schafer e Chefa Alonso, with their Brazilian counterparts as Teca A. de Brito (Koellreutter), LuÃs B. Albuquerque (Silva) and Marisa Fonterrada (Schafer), together with Paulo Freireâs work, all of whose lives and intellectual productions attest, with specific contributions, intense dedication to innovative education and the sharing of formative objectives such as autonomy, creativity, critical thinking, dialogism and interactivity; b) then I create dialogues between these authors and other that have studied the great changes in contemporary thought, with strong effects in several areas, leading to the emergence of new paradigms that assert cognitive act as process, creation as pedagogical excellence, and action-research methodology as an imperative dictated by the articulation of shared knowledge production and artisticeducational settings to an actual investigation, seeking supportive strategies to overcome the problems lived; c) then I present the concrete results of the artistic and educational activities in workshops/laboratories, performances and classrooms from a number of action-research instruments, such as the individual and collective documentation, revealing their power of synthesis and analytical evaluation of the whole construction process theoretical of the thesis, whose examination reveals the quality of the changes and advances made by all participants.

Cette thèse étudie la question de l'idiomaticité dans la pratique musicale de l'improvisation libre. Notre enquête débute avec une discussion sur les difficultés qu'implique toute tentative de délimiter cette activité ou de la définir en termes positifs. En effet, le produit d'une performance improvisée émerge au moment de la prestation et s'évanouit immédiatement. Ce fait a poussé de nombreux musiciens et chercheurs à classer cette pratique comme étant « non-idiomatique » (et donc comme étant résistante à l'analyse sémiotique), une désignation qui a été popularisée par Derek Bailey dans son oeuvre pionnière Improvisation. Cependant, malgré son apparent caractère insaisissable, le genre a été capable de subsister depuis plusieurs décennies et continue a se propager à de nouvelles scènes musicales à travers le monde, supporté par un ensemble relativement consistant de préoccupations idéologiques et esthétiques quiunissent et habilitent ses praticiens et admirateurs. En utilisant un modèle sémiotique triadique dans la tradition de C.S. Peirce et en considérant les différents aspects de l'improvisation libre à la lumière de sa théorie des catégories, nous sommes capables d'élaborer une analyse sémiotique des aspects émergents/évanescents de l'improvisation libre, ainsi que de ses propriétés plus durables/idiomatiques. L'improvisation libre n'est pas du tout, comme aiment l'affirmercertains, libre de toutes conventions. Un des accomplissements de cette thèse est de déconstruire de mythe de la non-idiomaticité de l'improvisation libre et de démontrer que les engagements idiomatiques particuliers de cette pratique ont tout simplement été déplacés, abandonnant pour la plupart les idiomes formels (tels des approches génériques, codifiées et reconnaissables à la tonalité et au rythme) pour privilégier des codes de conduite qui rendent l'activité cohérente et signifiante à ses participants. Les témoignages d'improvisateurs révèlent qu'ils sont largement motivés par des préoccupations et principes similaires. Quant à la valeur momentanée reconnue de n'importe quel aspect formel d'une performance improvisée, c'est grâce à l'implémentation soudaine de conventions localisées et habituellement de trèscourte durée (que nous appelons « entente ») que les musiciens arrivent à cette reconnaissance mutuelle (mais toujours contingente). Les improvisateurs tendent à vouloir déconstruire ces conventions formelle émergentes assez rapidement. Ils comptent ne laisser aucun engagement formel se solidifier au delà d'un certain caractère liminaire qu'ils jugent désirable dans le cadre de leur activité. Finalement, n'importe quel indicateur pour mesurer le succès d'une performance improvisée doit se référer soit aux principes unificateurs qui soutendent la pratique et représentent le coeur de sonidiomaticité, soit aux exigences momentanées imposées par l'entente. / This thesis studies the question of idiomaticity in the musical practice of free improvisation. Our enquiry begins with a discussion on the difficulties of delineating this activity and of defining it in positive terms. The production of improvised performances indeed emerges at the moment of its delivery and is immediately fleeting. This has led many musicians and writers to classify the practice as "non-idiomatic" (and thus resistant to semiotic analysis), a designation popularized by Derek Bailey in his pioneering book Improvisation. Yet despite its apparent elusiveness, the genre has been able to endure for several decades and keeps spreading to new music scenes throughout the world, supported by relatively consistent ideological and aesthetic preoccupations that unify and enable its practitioners and fans. By using a triadic semiotic model in the tradition of C.S. Peirce and by considering the different aspects of free improvisation in the light of his theory of categories, we are able to give a semiotic account of both the emergent/evanescent and the enduring/idiomatic aspects of free improvisation. Free improvisation is not at all, as some would hope, free from all conventions. One of the accomplishments of this thesis is to deconstruct the myth of free improvisation's non-idiomaticity and demonstrate that the practice's particular idiomatic commitments have merely been shifted away from formal idioms (such as generically codified and recognizable approaches to tonality and rhythm) and onto codes of conduct that keep the activity coherent and significant for its participants. Musician testimonies reveal that the practices of free improvisers are indeed motivated by similar underlying concerns and principles. As for agreements on the momentary value of any of the improvised performance's formal aspects, they find mutual (if contingent) recognition through short-lived localized formal conventions that we call "entente". Improvisers, however, typically playfully deconstruct these emergent formal conventions rather expeditiously; they are intent on not letting any formal commitments solidify beyond a desired liminal capacity. In the end, any gauge for the success of an improvised performance must refer either to the underlying unifying principles that make up the core of its idiomaticity or to the momentary exigencies of entente.

Studien syftar till att få djupare insikt i hur professionella musikers övning i fri improvisation kan se ut. I bakgrundsavsnittet ges en överblick av begreppen ”improvisation” och ”fri improvisation” och därefter följer en presentation av tidigare litteratur och forskning inom ämnesområdet. Studiens teoretiska utgångspunkt utgörs av det sociokulturella perspektivet på lärande och kommunikation. Studiens datamaterial består av kvalitativa intervjuer med fyra professionella musiker inom fri improvisation. I resultatavsnittet beskrivs informanternas syn på improvisation, fri improvisation och frihet, deras redskap för övning samt deras användande av tillägnade färdigheter. Det framkommer att de intervjuade musikerna ser det som viktigt att öva mycket, att ha en egen metodik, att kunna koppla bort intellektet när de improviserar och att samla erfarenheter i en metaforisk ryggsäck. I det avslutande diskussionsavsnittet lyfts studiens resultat till diskussion i relation till tidigare forskning och till det sociokulturella perspektivet på lärande. Här framkommer att ryggsäcksmetaforen är i linje med det sociokulturella perspektivet på lärande, att lärande sker ständigt. En slutsats är att en improvisation aldrig kan vara helt fri. En musikers frihet i improvisation skulle kunna beskrivas som att denne är fri till något, inte från något. / This study aims to create deeper insight in how professional musicians practice free improvisation. The background chapter provides an overview of the concepts of “improvisation” and “free improvisation” and then followed by a presentation of previous research in the field. The theoretical basis for the study is the socio-cultural perspective on learning and communication. The data consists of qualitative interviews with four professional improvising musicians. The results show the musician’s view of improvisation, free improvisation and freedom, their practicing tools and their use of acquired skills. It reveals that the interviewed musicians regard it important to practice a lot, to have a personal method, to be able to disconnect the intellect when improvising and to collect experiences in a “metaphorical backpack”. In the concluding discussion chapter the results is discussed in relation to the previous research and to the socio-cultural perspective on learning. A conclusion is that the backpack metaphor is in accordance with the socio-cultural perspective on learning and that learning happens constantly. Another conclusion is that an improvisation never can be completely free. A musician´s freedom in improvisation could be described as being free to something rather than from something.

Trataremos de posturas composicionais e interpretativas que abordam a questão da fisicalidade presente na atuação instrumental, em situações nas quais as potencialidades do conjunto executante - instrumento são levadas a situações limite. Isso se dará levando-se em consideração as seguintes variáveis: características intrínsecas do instrumento; interação do intérprete com o instrumento; elementos mecânicos de interferência nessa relação. Serão abordadas, especialmente, obras dos compositores Helmut Lachenmann, Iannis Xenakis, Brian Ferneyhough, Aaron Cassidy e Simon Steen-Andersen. Também será abordada a produção artística do autor do trabalho. / In this work we deal with music, both from the composition as well as from the performance viewpoints, in which the potentials of the relationship between performer and musical instrument are taken to limit situations. This is done with an analysis of the following elements: specific and intrinsic characteristics of an instrument; interaction between performer and instrument; mechanical elements of interference in this relationship. We will approach, specially, works of Helmut Lachenmann, Iannis Xenakis, Brian Ferneyhough, Aaron Cassidy and Simon Steen-Andersen. Recent musical pieces of the author of this work will also be mentioned.

Esta pesquisa investiga as possibilidades de iniciação aos instrumentos de cordas dedilhadas por meio da improvisação livre. Ela divide-se em três partes: fundamentação teórica, oficinas de improvisação livre e elaboração de um caderno de iniciação. A reflexão teórica tem como principais referências, as pesquisas de Rogério L. M. Costa e H. J. Koellreutter a cerca da Improvisação Livre, e as investigações de Flávia M. Cruvinel sobre o Ensino Coletivo de Instrumentos Musicais. Os diversos tipos de gestos musicais são descritos com enfoque no gesto instrumental, termo adotado na pesquisa para representar os elementos da técnica instrumental. Os gestos instrumentais foram selecionados através de seis oficinas de improvisação livre realizadas nos Conservatórios Estaduais de Música do Triângulo Mineiro, onde se procurou uma forma de registro gráfico musical que favorecesse a prática da improvisação livre e colaborasse no desenvolvimento de um caderno de iniciação aos instrumentos de cordas dedilhadas. Esta nova proposta de iniciação instrumental divide-se em seis partes através da sugestão de roteiros para improvisação livre, grafados de forma não tradicional, com o objetivo de estimular a exploração sonora e timbrística em sintonia com a música da contemporaneidade. Através da criação, da liberdade gestual e da expansão da escuta, permite ao aprendiz desenvolver habilidades instrumentais e musicais para a criação de seu próprio repertório, de acordo com sua identidade, sua biografia, sua experiência de vida. / This research investigates the possibilities of initiation to plucked strings instruments through free improvisation. It is divided into three parts: theoretical foundation, free improvisation workshops and notebook initiation. The theoretical reflection has as main references the research of Rogério L. M. Costa and H. J. Koellreutter about Free Improvisation and Flávia M. Cruvinel investigations on Collective Teaching of Musical Instruments. The various kinds of musical gestures are described focusing on instrumental gesture, term adopted in the research to represent the elements of instrumental technique. The instrumental gestures were selected during six free improvisation workshops held in music conservatories in the state of Minas Gerais, where he sought a form of musical graphic record favoring the practice of free improvisation and collaborate into the development of a notebook initiation to plucked strings instruments. This new instrumental initiation proposal is divided into six parts that suggest a guide for free improvisation, written in a nontraditional way, with the aim of stimulating sound and timbre exploration combined with the contemporary music. Through the creation of the gestural freedom and the expansion of listening abilities, it seems likely that could develop musical and instrumental skills to create his/her own repertoire, according to his identity, his biography and life experience.

Esta pesquisa investiga as possibilidades de iniciação aos instrumentos de cordas dedilhadas por meio da improvisação livre. Ela divide-se em três partes: fundamentação teórica, oficinas de improvisação livre e elaboração de um caderno de iniciação. A reflexão teórica tem como principais referências, as pesquisas de Rogério L. M. Costa e H. J. Koellreutter a cerca da Improvisação Livre, e as investigações de Flávia M. Cruvinel sobre o Ensino Coletivo de Instrumentos Musicais. Os diversos tipos de gestos musicais são descritos com enfoque no gesto instrumental, termo adotado na pesquisa para representar os elementos da técnica instrumental. Os gestos instrumentais foram selecionados através de seis oficinas de improvisação livre realizadas nos Conservatórios Estaduais de Música do Triângulo Mineiro, onde se procurou uma forma de registro gráfico musical que favorecesse a prática da improvisação livre e colaborasse no desenvolvimento de um caderno de iniciação aos instrumentos de cordas dedilhadas. Esta nova proposta de iniciação instrumental divide-se em seis partes através da sugestão de roteiros para improvisação livre, grafados de forma não tradicional, com o objetivo de estimular a exploração sonora e timbrística em sintonia com a música da contemporaneidade. Através da criação, da liberdade gestual e da expansão da escuta, permite ao aprendiz desenvolver habilidades instrumentais e musicais para a criação de seu próprio repertório, de acordo com sua identidade, sua biografia, sua experiência de vida. / This research investigates the possibilities of initiation to plucked strings instruments through free improvisation. It is divided into three parts: theoretical foundation, free improvisation workshops and notebook initiation. The theoretical reflection has as main references the research of Rogério L. M. Costa and H. J. Koellreutter about Free Improvisation and Flávia M. Cruvinel investigations on Collective Teaching of Musical Instruments. The various kinds of musical gestures are described focusing on instrumental gesture, term adopted in the research to represent the elements of instrumental technique. The instrumental gestures were selected during six free improvisation workshops held in music conservatories in the state of Minas Gerais, where he sought a form of musical graphic record favoring the practice of free improvisation and collaborate into the development of a notebook initiation to plucked strings instruments. This new instrumental initiation proposal is divided into six parts that suggest a guide for free improvisation, written in a nontraditional way, with the aim of stimulating sound and timbre exploration combined with the contemporary music. Through the creation of the gestural freedom and the expansion of listening abilities, it seems likely that could develop musical and instrumental skills to create his/her own repertoire, according to his identity, his biography and life experience.

Trataremos de posturas composicionais e interpretativas que abordam a questão da fisicalidade presente na atuação instrumental, em situações nas quais as potencialidades do conjunto executante - instrumento são levadas a situações limite. Isso se dará levando-se em consideração as seguintes variáveis: características intrínsecas do instrumento; interação do intérprete com o instrumento; elementos mecânicos de interferência nessa relação. Serão abordadas, especialmente, obras dos compositores Helmut Lachenmann, Iannis Xenakis, Brian Ferneyhough, Aaron Cassidy e Simon Steen-Andersen. Também será abordada a produção artística do autor do trabalho. / In this work we deal with music, both from the composition as well as from the performance viewpoints, in which the potentials of the relationship between performer and musical instrument are taken to limit situations. This is done with an analysis of the following elements: specific and intrinsic characteristics of an instrument; interaction between performer and instrument; mechanical elements of interference in this relationship. We will approach, specially, works of Helmut Lachenmann, Iannis Xenakis, Brian Ferneyhough, Aaron Cassidy and Simon Steen-Andersen. Recent musical pieces of the author of this work will also be mentioned.

LATORRE, Maria Consiglia Raphaela Carrozzo. Sonoridades Múltiplas: práticas criativas e interações poético-estéticas para uma educação sonoro/musical na contemporaneidade. 2014. 223f. – Tese (Doutorado) – Universidade Federal do Ceará, Programa de Pós-graduação em Educação Brasileira, Fortaleza (CE), 2014. / Submitted by Márcia Araújo (marcia_m_bezerra@yahoo.com.br) on 2014-05-14T14:15:46Z No. of bitstreams: 1 2014_tese_mcrclatorre.pdf: 2867253 bytes, checksum: b44e2a7301ef66a7c9ade3f5f0ddb5b7 (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Márcia Araújo(marcia_m_bezerra@yahoo.com.br) on 2014-05-14T14:24:52Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 2014_tese_mcrclatorre.pdf: 2867253 bytes, checksum: b44e2a7301ef66a7c9ade3f5f0ddb5b7 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2014-05-14T14:24:52Z (GMT). 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The major goal is to investigate the performance and qualitative scope of these proposals, in the light of the new paradigms of contemporary knowledge, which I have applied to my work with students of Bachelor of Music, Theatre, Dance, Film and Audiovisual at the ICA of the UFC. The aim is, therefore, the individual and collective development of perceptive and expressive potential of these artists/educators in formation, through knowledge produced interactively by actions undertaken in workshops/laboratories and performances as well as their results in other teaching/learning situations and artistic projects. The thesis is structured in three chapters: a) first I present a revision of the work made by H.-J. Koellreutter, Conrado Silva, Murray Schafer e Chefa Alonso, with their Brazilian counterparts as Teca A. de Brito (Koellreutter), Luís B. Albuquerque (Silva) and Marisa Fonterrada (Schafer), together with Paulo Freire’s work, all of whose lives and intellectual productions attest, with specific contributions, intense dedication to innovative education and the sharing of formative objectives such as autonomy, creativity, critical thinking, dialogism and interactivity; b) then I create dialogues between these authors and other that have studied the great changes in contemporary thought, with strong effects in several areas, leading to the emergence of new paradigms that assert cognitive act as process, creation as pedagogical excellence, and action-research methodology as an imperative dictated by the articulation of shared knowledge production and artisticeducational settings to an actual investigation, seeking supportive strategies to overcome the problems lived; c) then I present the concrete results of the artistic and educational activities in workshops/laboratories, performances and classrooms from a number of action-research instruments, such as the individual and collective documentation, revealing their power of synthesis and analytical evaluation of the whole construction process theoretical of the thesis, whose examination reveals the quality of the changes and advances made by all participants. / Esta tese estuda a qualidade formativa dos processos criativos e improvisação livre, mediante interações poético-estéticas (a partir da concepção grega) em práticas artístico-pedagógicas, voltados para a educação sonoro-musical contemporânea, em sintonia com práticas musicais desta mesma contemporaneidade. Subsidiada pelo suporte teórico-metodológico de um grupo de autores, decisivos em minha formação como artista-docente, trata-se de propostas cruciais para o desenvolvimento do potencial inventivo de pessoas envolvidas em situações de ensino/aprendizagem participativas. Seu escopo maior é investigar o alcance qualitativos de tais propostas, à luz dos novos paradigmas do conhecimento, com alunos de Licenciatura em Música, Teatro e Dança, e do Bacharelado em Cinema/Audiovisual do ICA da UFC. Visa-se, com isso, ao desenvolvimento individual e coletivo do potencial perceptivo e expressivo desses artistas/educadores em formação, via saberes produzidos de modo interativo por ações empreendidas em ateliers/laboratórios e performances públicas, assim como suas ressonâncias multiplicadoras em outras situações de ensino/aprendizagem e projetos artísticos. Em seus três capítulos, a tese analisa: a) os autores H.-J. Koellreutter, Conrado Silva, Murray Schafer e Chefa Alonso, com seus interlocutores brasileiros como Teca A. de Brito (Koellreutter), Luiz Botelho Albuquerque (Silva) e Marisa Fonterrada (Schafer), bem como Paulo Freire, cujas vidas e produções intelectuais testemunham, com seus aportes específicos, intensa dedicação a uma educação inovadora, além de partilhar objetivos formativos comuns como autonomia, criatividade, criticidade, dialogicidade e interatividade entre as linguagens; b) o diálogo destes autores com outros dedicados ao estudo das grandes mudanças do pensamento contemporâneo com fortes ressonâncias em várias áreas, fazendo emergir novos paradigmas para afirmar o ato cognitivo como processo, a criatividade como excelência pedagógica e a metodologia da pesquisa-ação como imperativo ditado pela articulação da produção partilhada de saberes com a criação artístico-pedagógica e a investigação propriamente dita, na busca de estratégias solidárias de superação das situações-problema vividas; c) os resultados concretos das ações artístico-pedagógicas vivenciadas nos ateliers/laboratórios, nas performances públicas e nas salas de aula, a partir de uma série de instrumentos da pesquisaação, a exemplo dos diversos registros em relatos individuais e/ou coletivos, etapa crucial da síntese analítica e avaliação de todo o processo da construção da tese, cujo exame nos revela a qualidade das transformações e avanços obtidos por todos.