Event Description
Eddie Prévost, a world-renowned pioneer of improvised music, joins Comparing Domains of Improvisation for a presentation and discussion about his experience and scholarship in the field.
Event Speaker
Eddie Prévost, percussionist player and author
Event Information
Free and open to the public; RSVP required via Eventbrite. Registered attendees will receive an event link shortly before the seminar begins. For more information, please visit the event webpage.
Please contact the group organizer, Jessie Cox at [email protected] with any questions. This event is sponsored by the Presidential Scholars in Society and Neuroscience program at Columbia University.
The speaker requests participants read the following quote by Cornelius Cardew to prepare for the discussion:
“Informal ‘sound’ has a power over our emotional responses that formal ‘music’ does not, in that it acts subliminally rather than on a conscious cultural level. This is a possible definition of the area in which AMM is experimental. We are searching for sounds and for the responses that attach to them, rather than thinking them up, preparing them and producing them. The search is conducted in the medium of sound and the musician […] is at the heart of the experiment.” - Cardew, C. (1971). Towards an ethic of improvisation. Treatise handbook, 17-20.
