O ambiente da improvisação musical e o tempo

In this article, we strive to reflect about the questions related to time in the context of musical improvisation. How do the relationships and interactions occur between the musicians, between them and their instruments, and between the materials and procedures in the context of real-time practice? How are the issues related to the perception of the past, present, and future outlined in this environment? What is the role of memory in performances? How is time configured in the flow of the performance: as smooth time, unmeasured, or as striated, pulsed, and metrified time according to Pierre Boulez's definition? Or are we within the realm of a multiple, non-linear time, full of simultaneities, as per Olivier Messiaen’s ideas? These and other questions point to a type of improvisation that takes place “out of time” where the notion of organization is replaced by the notion of “resonance”

Art · Brazilian cultural history and politics