Critical Improvisation Studies – Literature Review
The field of critical improvisation studies seeks to examine
improvisation’s effects, interrogate its discourses, interpret
narratives and histories related to it, discover implications of
those narratives and histories, and uncover its ideologies. In
this lecture, we will take a look at the development of this field
through its literary output–from edited volumes and handbooks,
through philosophical, cognitive, computer music and gender
studies perspectives, all the way to historical curiosities.
Ivar Roban Križić (*1990, Zagreb, Croatia) studied Double Bass at the Jazz Department in Graz and is currently pursuing an Artistic Research Doctorate at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna, focusing on the epistemology of free improvisation. His artistic practice encompasses a wide variety of international projects, spanning contemporary jazz, experimental music, and free improvisation. His research is focused on musical cognition, AI, and technical and technological extensions of the double bass.