Conference Programme provisional

All sessions will take place at the Faculty of Music unless otherwise specified; poster sessions will run through the conference breaks and before dinner.

Monday 10 September
08:00 14:00 14:15 14:50 15:25 16:00 16:30 17:05 17:40 18:15 19:00 20:3021:30 Preetha Narayanan, Filipe Sousa & Tara Franks Group improvisation: exploring ways in Registration Welcome Session 1: The Concept of Improvisation Improvisation: problems, anxieties, and an alternative What does one know when one knows how to improvise? Music Analysis as Improvisation Tea Session 2: Specific Studies Beyond the Radif: New Forms of Improvisational Practice in Iranian Music Who does it for your love? TBC Poster session Dinner Practical Workshops Danae Stefanou & Panagiotis Kanellopoulos Something out of nothing Laudan Nooshin, City University Benjamin Davies, Conservatori del Liceu, Barcelona, Spain TBC Peter Elsdon, University of Hull Andrew Goldman, University of Cambridge August Sheehy, University of Chicago

The Factory

Workshop to be confirmed

Tuesday 11 September
Session 3: Uses of Improvisation 09:00 09:35 10:10 10:45 11:15 What is distinctive about improvisation in music therapy and can it be performed? Teaching Musical Improvisation in a Contemporary Setting From emancipation from to emancipated to: Re-thinking the role of musical improvisation in university education Rachel Darnley-Smith, University of Roehampton Petter Frost Fadnes and David Kane, University of Stavanger Panagiotis Kanellopoulos, University of Thessaly, Greece Ruth Wright and Jennifer Hutchison, University of Western Ontario

Coffee Session 4: Cognition and Perception David Dolan and John Sloboda, Guildhall School of Measuring the Impact of live classical Improvisation through EEG and audience Music and Drama feedback In pursuit of the diachronic: a generative approach to North Indian rga performance Memory and creativity: different sides of the same coin in musical improvisation? David Clarke, University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne Adam Ockelford, University of Roehampton

11:50 12:25 13:00 14:15 14:50 15:25 16:00 16:30 17:05 17:40

Lunch Session 5: Improvisation and Composition Exploring the contexts of improvisation and composition Music Composed after the End of the World: Olivier Messiaens Last Improvisation Concert at La Trinit Improvisation as a precompositional tool in the work of Giacinto Scelsi Tea Session 6: Improvisation as Ideology Life as it is/ playd now: Improvisation as Political Practice Miles Daviss Music for Louis Malles Ascenseur pour lchafaud (1958): Improvisation, Realism and Ideology The Woman with the 16 -Track Voice: Yoko Onos avant rock vocal improvisations and the gender politics of 1960s counterculture David Grundy, University of Cambridge Tom Perchard, Goldsmiths, University of London Shelina Brown, University of California, Los Angeles Karen Burland and Luke Windsor, University of Leeds Vincent Benitez, The Pennsylvania State University Dan Jeffries, University of Oxford

18:15 19:00 20:3022:00

Poster session Dinner Lecture/recital Thierry Escaich, Paris Conservatoire in Christ Church Cathedral

Wednesday 12 September
Session 7: Coltrane Contrasting concepts of modal improvisation: Miles Davis and John Coltrane play 'If I Were A Bell' on April 8, 1960 What was John Coltrane Doing When he Performed My Favorite Things? Towards a representational theory of improv perf. A Clean Mirror: John Coltranes Ascension as Improvisational Paradigm

09:00 09:35 10:10 10:45 11:15

Olivier Senn, Lucerne School of Music Eric Lewis, McGill University Marc Medwin, American University, Washington, D.C.

Coffee Session 8: Improvising in Sound and Thought Individual decisions and emergent organization in collective free improvisation Clment Canonne, Universit de Bourgogne Panel: Improvising in Sound and Thought: Contest and Collectivities Lydia Goehr, Columbia University "The Agon of Improvising - On Broken Strings" (Lydia Goehr) / "Playing as One: Garry Hagberg, Bard College Jazz Improvisation and Collective Intention (Garry Hagberg) George Lewis (respondent), Columbia University Lunch Session 9: Cuing and creativity Musical imagination: Invention, improvisation and creativity Music improvisation as an embodied activity: the role of schematic and dynamic expectations Getting out of a jam: cuing systems and determinacy in jam band music Tea Session 10: Historical Encounters The Heavenly Improvisations of the Eighteenth-Century Moravian Church Composing the Improvisatory: Quasi-Extemporized Music and Its Manifestation of the Romantic Zeitgeist Sarah Eyerly, Butler University Feng-Shu Lee, University of Chicago David Hargreaves, University of Roehampton Joaqun Prez and Isabel Cecilia Martnez, Universidad Nacional de La Plata - Facultad de Bellas Artes Christopher Gupta, Princeton University

11:50 13:00 14:15 14:50 15:25 16:00 16:30 17:05

17:40 18:15 19:00 20:3022:30

Pre-Bop Perspectives on Jazz Improvisation Poster session Dinner Performance Trio Faint at The Spin Jazz Club, Oxford

Catherine Tackley, The Open University

Thursday 13 September
Session 11: Bodies and Subjects 09:00 09:35 10:10 10.45 11.15 Improvising Femininity: Lil Hardin-Armstrongs Rhythm Method Formulaic Improvisation in the Country Blues: A Bodily Perspective George Burrows, University of Portsmouth David Marquiss, Kings College London

11.50 13:00

Improvising Subjectivity: negotiation and the audibility of difference in Canadian Ellen Waterman, Memorial University of Newfoundland experimental music Coffee Session 12: Discourse and Practice Informal contexts / formalizing discourses: free improvisation and the problem of Danae Stefanou, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, self-representation Greece Invited paper: : From Pattern to Voice: Pentatonics in Mali's Neba Solo and Woody Shaw Ingrid Monson, Harvard University Lunch

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