In this artistic master’s degree project, I have explored different ways of relating to each other in improvisatory interplay, with a focus on cyclicity and distributed phrases. Through rehearsing and recording with a small acoustic ensemble, I have shown how I can achieve these ways of interplay through the use of enabling constraints. In turn becoming a basis for a composition in the form of a structured improvisation that moves between, and mixes, different ways of interplay that add extra qualities of indeterminacy to the music. Through contextualising with among other things Deleuze and Guattari's ideas of "the molecular" and Zen Buddhism, different areas of tension that this music operates within has caught my attention. Two of these stand out: the first is the tension between a linear sense of time and the cyclic sense of time that this music can evoke. The other is the area of tension between the collectivity in the distributed phrases vs. individual trajectories. Seeing through these perspectives also point to how the music in this work, and other music and art, may involve non-dualistic experience. The composition contains various layers of cyclicity. Its form is cyclic; a macro circle divided into four micro cycles. Distributed phrases come and go repeated with difference. Individual patterns are repeated in superimposed loops. I hope that this thesis can serve as an inspiration for anyone interested in structured group improvisation.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:UPSALLA1/oai:DiVA.org:kmh-5401 |
| Date | January 2024 |
| Creators | Loxbo, Finn |
| Publisher | Kungl. Musikhögskolan, Institutionen för jazz |
| Source Sets | DiVA Archive at Upsalla University |
| Language | Swedish |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Student thesis, info:eu-repo/semantics/bachelorThesis, text |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess |
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