Performance Network - 24 February 2014 - Improvisation: Live versus Record

Professor Simon Jones (University of Bristol)Floris Schuiling (PhD candidate, University of Cambridge)Chair: Dr Luke Skrebowski (Director of Studies and Fellow of Churchill College, Lecturer in the History of Art, University of Cambridge)*CRASSH is not responsible for the content of external websitesFloris Schuiling is currently a PhD candidate at the University of Cambridge, under the supervision of Nicholas Cook. He studied musicology and philosophy at Utrecht University in the Netherlands. His academic interests are performance, improvisation and textuality, philosophical pragmatism and new materialism. He will speak about the Amsterdam-based musical improvising collective, the Instant Composers Pool, founded in 1967 and still performing. With roots in jazz, political activism and performance art (especially Fluxus), not only do they define free improvisation as 'instant composition', but they use various forms of composition and notation to create different kinds of improvi