Creative strategies for collective free improvisation: an analysis of the development of the practice by an empirical bias

• Grant number: 22/05792-1
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships abroad - Research Internship - Doctorate
• Start date: October 01, 2022
• End date: September 30, 2023
• Field of knowledge: Linguistics, Literature and Arts - Arts - Music
• Principal Investigator: Rogério Luiz Moraes Costa
• Grantee: Arthur Faraco
• Supervisor: Clément Canonne
• Host Institution: Escola de Comunicações e Artes (ECA). Universidade de São Paulo (USP). São Paulo , SP, Brazil
• Institution abroad: Institut de Recherche et Coordination Acoustique/Musique (IRCAM), France
• Associated to the scholarship: 21/00143-2 - Creative Strategies Models for Collective Free Improvisation: analysis on the development of the practice by an empirical bias, BP.DR

Abstract

In this study plan, we'll describe: a) our research problem and the thesis hypothesis; b) our main objective and the specific objectives for the exchange program; c) our planned methodology and results analysis within the exchange program; d) the justification of the chosen institution and supervisor. Our research project consists in a panoramic study of what we'll consider here as creative strategies in Collective Free Improvisation. Our hypothesis is that creative strategies are emergent elements shared between improvisers in performances and are cognitive processes that help them to solve problems of coordination (change and maintenance of the sound environment) and the creation of consistency. The problem to be investigated is how groups, as they begin a trajectory of CFI practices, create diverse creative strategies for solving the consolidation problems emerging in practice. We'll use two different but complementary methods: an ethnography and empirical experiments. As aforementioned, we'll also discuss the importance of the exchange program with the indicated supervisor, Dr. Clément Canonne, and the institution, IRCAM, in the STMS-lab. (AU)