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The term can refer to both a technique—employed by any musician in any genre—and as a recognizable genre of experimental music in its own right. Free improvisation, as a genre of music, developed primarily in the U.K. as well as the U.S. and Europe in the mid to late 1960s, largely as an outgrowth of free jazz and contemporary classical music.
This is a list of musicians and groups who compose and play free music, or free improvisation. In alphabetical order: In alphabetical order: This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness.
Free Play can be described as the creative activity of spontaneous free improvisation, by children, artists, and people all around the world. According to Stephen Nachmanovitch, free play is more than improvisation. It runs deeper than our activities involving music and art. It is the essence of our being, something we were born with then ...
Free improvisation or free music is improvised music without any rules beyond the taste of the musicians involved, and not in any particular style. Subcategories This category has the following 4 subcategories, out of 4 total.
Free jazz, or free form in the early to mid-1970s, [1] is a style of avant-garde jazz or an experimental approach to jazz improvisation that developed in the late 1950s and early 1960s, when musicians attempted to change or break down jazz conventions, such as regular tempos, tones, and chord changes.
Musical improvisation (also known as musical extemporization) is the creative activity of immediate ("in the moment") musical composition, which combines performance with communication of emotions and instrumental technique as well as spontaneous response to other musicians. [1]
Improvisation in engineering is to solve a problem with the tools and materials immediately at hand. [17] Examples of such improvisation was the re-engineering of carbon dioxide scrubbers with the materials on hand during the Apollo 13 space mission, [18] or the use of a knife in place of a screwdriver to turn a screw.
Improvisation is a creative process which can be spoken, written, or composed without prior preparation. [4] Improvisation, also called extemporization, can lead to the discovery of new ways to act, new patterns of thought and practices, or new structures. Improvisation is used in the creation of music, theater, and other various forms.