Improvisation Among the Discourses

Authors

  • Jesse Stewart Carleton University

Keywords:

improvisation

Abstract

Guest Editorial for MAiA Vol 5(1): Flirting with Uncertainty: Improvisation in Performance

Author Biography

Jesse Stewart, Carleton University

Jesse Stewart, PhD is an award-winning improviser, composer, researcher, and educator dedicated to re-imagining the spaces between artistic and scholarly disciplines. He has performed and/or recorded with musicians including Hamid Drake, William Parker, Pauline Oliveros, Ernst Reijseger, Joe McPhee, Jandek, Michael Snow, Pandit Anindo Chatterjee, Dong-Won Kim, and many others. His music has been performed at festivals throughout Canada, Europe and the United States. His writings on music and art have appeared in such journals as American Music, Black Music Research Journal, Contemporary Music Review, and in numerous edited anthologies. He is a professor of music in Carleton University’s School for Studies in Art and Culture in Ottawa, Canada.

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Published

2016-03-15

Issue

Vol. 5 No. 1 (2016): Special issue: Flirting with Uncertainty, Improvisation in Performance

Section

Editorial

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