Contents

List of examples
List of figures
List of tables

List of contributors

Introduction and overview
Eric Clarke and Mark Doffman

Section 1: Frames

Chapter 1 Composer-performer collaborations in the long twentieth-century
Arnold Whittall

Chapter 2 The labour that dare not speak its name: musical creativity, labour process and the materials of music
Jason Toynbee

Chapter 3. Distributed cognition, ecological theory and group improvisation
Adam Linson and Eric Clarke

Chapter 4. Domesticating gesture: the collaborative creative process of Florence Baschet's StreicherKreis for 'augmented' string quartet (2006-2008)
Nicolas Donin

Section 2: Collaborations

Intervention. 'These four must be stopped'
Irvine Arditti

Chapter 5 Cross-cultural collaborations with the Kronos Quartet
Amanda Bayley

Intervention. Collaboration: making it work
Sarah Nicolls

Chapter 6 Fluid practices, solid roles? The evolution of Forlorn Hope
Eric Clarke, Mark Doffman, David Gorton and Stefan Östersjö

Intervention. surfaces
James Saunders and Simon Limbrick

Chapter 7 Composition changing instruments changing composition
Christopher Redgate

Intervention. My Mother Told Me Not To Stare: composition as a collaborative process
Martyn Harry

Intervention. The composer in the room: Jeremy West on Martyn Harry with His Majesty's Sagbutts and Cornetts
Jeremy West

Chapter 8 Negotiations: sound and speech in the making of a studio recording
Maya Gratier, Rebecca Evans and Ksenija Stevanovic

Intervention. Recording Paraphrase: a 'social occasion'?
Emily Payne

Chapter 9. Contemporary Music in Action: performer-composer collaboration within the conservatoire.
Mark Doffman and Jean-Philippe Calvin

Intervention. On working alone
John Croft

Section 3: Improvisation

Intervention. Knots and other forms of entanglement
Liza Lim

Chapter 10 (Re-)imagining improvisation: discursive positions in Iranian music from classical to jazz
Laudan Nooshin

Intervention. On the conundrum of composing an improvisation
Jeremy Thurlow

Chapter 11 Improvisation as composition: the recorded organ improvisations of Vierne and Tournemire
David Maw

Intervention. Improvisation and composition in the French organ tradition: an interview with Thierry Escaich
David Maw with Thierry Escaich

Chapter 12 Learning to improvise, improvising to learn: a qualitative study of learning processes in improvising musicians
Una MacGlone and Raymond MacDonald

Intervention. Song
Loré Lixenberg

Chapter 13 The ensemble as plural subject: jazz improvisation, collective intention, and group agency
Garry Hagberg

Intervention. What is it like to be an improviser?
Neil Heyde, Christopher Redgate, Roger Redgate and Matthew Wright