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Guelph Reading Group: 2009 Readings

"Manifesto". The Improvised Life.
http://www.theimprovisedlife.com

"Landscape with Pauline Oliveros", Music from the Aether, dir. Robert Ashley, 1975
http://www.ubu.com/film/oliveros.html

On the Edge- Improvisation in Music (Part 3), dir. Derek Bailey. UK, Channel 4. 1992
http://www.ubu.com/film/bailey.html

Jacques Derrida “Unpublished Interview.” June 2006.
http://www.derridathemovie.com/readings.html

Durant, Alan. 1989. “Improvisation in the Political Economy of Music”. In Norris, Christopher, ed. 1989. Music and the Politics of Culture. New York: St. Martin's Press, 252-282

Sound?? Dir. Fontaine, D. Per. Rahsaan Roland Kirk and John Cage USA, New Tempo.
http://www.ubu.com/film/kirk.html

Keith Johnstone "Afterthoughts". Impro for Storytellers. (Faber and Faber: New York) 1999. 339-342

Kanellopoulos, P. “Musical Improvisation as Action: An Arendtian Perspective” Action, Criticism, and Theory for Music Education 6/3:
http://act.maydaygroup.org/articles/Kanellopoulos6_3.pdf

Mattin. "Going Fragile". Eds. Mattin and Antony Iles. Noise and Capitalism. Donostia-San Sebastián: Arteleku Audiolab 2009. Kritika Series. 19-23.

David Remnick."Bird-watcher: Thinking about Charlie Parker, every day". Profiles. New Yorker. February 4, 2010.

David Sterritt. "Revision, Prevision, and the Aura of Improvisatory Art". The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, 58:2, “Improvisation in the Arts” (Spring, 2000), pp. 163-172

Improvisation is, simply put, being and living this very moment. No one can hide in music, and improvising in music is to be truly in this very moment and being completely yourself, with all your qualities and faults. It is probably the most honest state for a human being to be in.

– John McLaughlin in an interview with Daniel Fischlin.