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The duo performance involves tenor saxophonist Graeme Wilson and double bass player Una MacGlone, both founding members of Glasgow Improvisers orchestra in the United Kingdom and leading improvisers of long standing. Recent psychological research by Dr Wilson & Professor Raymond MacDonald at University of Edinburgh has suggested a model for the processes of choice experienced by an individual in group improvisation, albeit at a subconscious level [see image below]. As one stage of an iterative cycle of theory and practice, this duo will undertake an improvised performance using the research diagram as a visual score to guide conscious choices through a series of times. By considering parallels between the constraints imposed by the score and the experience of undertaking such choice in a completely free setting of musical improvisation, theory can directly inform improvising practice, the outcome of which will in turn feed back to the process of psychological theorizing
| Original language | English |
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| Publication status | Published or Performed - 15 May 2015 |
| Event | 9th Festival and Conference International Society of Improvising Musicians - Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo, Canada Duration: 16 May 2015 → 22 May 2015 https://improvisedmusic.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/2016-Toronto-Program.pdf |
Keywords
- psychological model
- creativity
- improvisation
- performance
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