Simon Rose 
The Lived Experience of Improvisation 
In Music, Learning and Life

Improvisation is crucial to a wide range of artistic activities – most prominently, perhaps, in music, but extending to other fields of experience such as literature and pedagogy. Yet it gets short shrift in both appreciation and analysis of art within education. This is in no small part due to our tendency to view the world in fixed categories and structures that belie our ability to generate creative, groundbreaking responses within and between those structures.




The Lived Experience of Improvisation draws on an analysis of interviews with highly regarded improvisers, including Roscoe Mitchell, Pauline Oliveros and George Lewis. Simon Rose also exploits his own experience as a musician and teacher, making a compelling case for bringing back improvisation from the margins. He argues that improvisation is a pervasive aspect of being human and that it should be at the heart of our teaching and understanding of the world.

 

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Preface

Part 1

Chapter 1: Human Improvisation

Chapter 2: The Development of Improvisation

Chapter 3: The Agency of Improvisation

Chapter 4: Improvisation and Knowledge

Part 2

Chapter 5: Recognizing Improvisation

Chapter 6: Process

Chapter 7: Learning

Chapter 8: Body

Chapter 9: Approaches

Chapter 10: The Capacity of Improvisation

Part 3

The Interviews

Roscoe Mitchell, Maggie Nicols, John Butcher, Pauline Oliveros, George Lewis, Mick Beck, Tristan Honsinger, Alan Tomlinson, Sven-Ake Johansson, Bob Ostertag

Over de auteur

Simon Rose is a musician, author and researcher from London, England based in Berlin, Germany. He performs on baritone and alto saxophones in numerous collaborations and as soloist. He also collaborates beyond music with dancers, visual artists, mixed media, built instruments, site specific performance and more. His research interest is in creative processes.