Sync or Swarm, Revised Edition: Improvising Music in a Complex Age Borgo David
Sync or Swarm, Revised Edition: Improvising Music in a Complex Age Borgo David The revised edition of Sync or Swarm promotes an ecological view of musicking, moving us from a subject-centered to a…
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Sync or Swarm, Revised Edition: Improvising Music in a Complex Age Borgo David
The revised edition of Sync or Swarm promotes an ecological view of musicking, moving us from a subject-centered to a system-centered view of improvisation. Chapters funnel outward, from the solo improviser (Evan Parker), to nonlinear group dynamics (Sam Rivers trio), to networks that comprise improvisational communities, to pedagogical dynamics that affect how individuals learn, completing the hermeneutic circle. It explores cycles of organismic self-regulation, cycles of sensorimotor coupling between organism and environment, and cycles of intersubjective interaction mediated via socio-technological networks.
Winner of the Society for Ethnomusicology's Alan Merriam prize in its first edition, the revised edition features new sections that highlight electro-acoustic and transcultural improvisation, and concomitant issues of human-machine interaction and postcolonial