Creativity and the time-pressured situation of musical performance
First meeting of the new academic year! The processes of improvisation and its relationship to creativity have been theorised in both domain-general and music-specific terms. When improvisation takes place through musical performance it’s happening in time-pressured circumstances. Both the occurrence and duration of the material events and actions that constitute the improvisation are contingent on an emerging, embodied situation that is indexed in time. The site of production – the people, the place, the room, the moment – of music improvisation is relevant to the creative expression which unfolds.
Pre-reading for this discussion topic: Linson, Schulkin & Clark (2020), ‘The fast and the curious: Creative improvisation as action-oriented abduction‘.
