The free musical improvisation and the philosophy of Gilles Deleuze

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Free improvisation, Philosophy, Gilles Deleuze

Abstract

Recently, improvisation has been integrated as a theme increasingly present in scholarly environments and it is now considered as an important line of research. Our thinking about free improvisation, besides relying on our practical experience, has the work of French philosopher Gilles Deleuze as a central reference from which we borrow key concepts such as stratification, territory, plan of consistency, molarity and molecularity, body without organs, rhythm, means and refrain. In this article, originally published in Perspectives of New Music, number 49, v.1, we will try to show how these concepts help us think and support the free musical improvisation as we conceive it in our practical and theoretical work.

Author Biography

  • Rogério Luiz Moraes Costa, University of São Paulo (USP) (Brazil)

    Professor, composer, saxophonist and researcher, he did his undergraduate and master's degree at the Music Department of ECA-USP and his doctorate at the Department of Communication and Semiotics of PUC-SP. His compositions have been played in important events dedicated to contemporary music in Brazil such as the New Music Festival (SP), Brazilian Contemporary Music Biennial (RJ) and Mato Grosso Contemporary Music Biennial. As an improviser, he founded and integrated, together with Edson Ezequiel and Silvio Ferraz, the free improvisation group Akronon. He is coordinator of the graduate program in the music department and president of the CPG at ECA/USP where he also works as a professor in undergraduate and graduate programs. He has a vast bibliographic production on improvisation published in journals, conference proceedings, and books. He is a member of the free improvisation trio Musicaficta along with Cesar Villavicencio and Fernando Iazzetta, and also the Orquestra Errante, composed of undergraduate and graduate students at USP.

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COSTA, Rogério Luiz Moraes. O músico enquanto meio e os territórios da livre improvisação, Tese apresentada à banca examinadora da PUC/SP para obtenção do título de doutor. 2003.

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2012-12-10

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No. 26 (2012): General Topics

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Articles in Portuguese/Spanish

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“The Free Musical Improvisation and the Philosophy of Gilles Deleuze”. 2012. Per Musi, no. 26 (December): 1-7. https://periodicos.ufmg.br/index.php/permusi/article/view/39946.