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Improvisation as a Way of Life

Many musical improvisers have understood their practices as addressing larger questions of identity and social organization, as well as creating politically inflected, critically imbued aesthetic spaces. In this lecture, Arnold Davidson and George Lewis will explore the relationship between humans and machines, musicians and their instruments, improvisation, social responsibility, and agency—suggesting that improvisation is not limited to the artistic domain, but is an important aspect of everyday life, one that can lead to new models of intelligibility, ethics, and social transformation.

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