MUSICAL IMPROVISATION AND THE CREATIVE PROCESS

dc.contributor.advisorFry, James
dc.contributor.advisorOzment, Jon
dc.contributor.authorHayes, Elliott Thomas
dc.contributor.departmentMusic
dc.contributor.publisherDigital Repository at the University of Maryland
dc.contributor.publisherUniversity of Maryland (College Park, Md.)
dc.date.accessioned2013-01-22T17:59:30Z
dc.date.available2013-01-22T17:59:30Z
dc.date.issued2012
dc.description.abstractMusical improvisation combines technical proficiency and musical intuition. Due to its interactive nature, improvisation provides an avenue of communication among all art forms. This dissertation project explores the collaborative aspects of improvisation involving a musician, visual artist, a small group of dancers, and videographer. Video footage from two separate recording sessions provided hours of visual materials which were studied and edited. The first session was a live performance recorded in front of a studio audience. The second session was a two-day collaboration between musician and dancers in a studio space. The process of editing and compiling images with audio-an important element in this project-presented many unforeseeable challenges and lessons. This recorded dissertation is comprised of seven music videos that demonstrate my ability as an artist in collaboration with visual artist-professor Richard Klank, dancers David Yates, Jamie Garcia, Raha Behnam, Rachel Wolfe and Adrian Galvin, and video artist Nguyen Nguyen. Each video represents an individual creative process involving musical performance, studio lighting, sound recording, and video editing.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1903/13416
dc.language.isoen_USen_US
dc.rightsNOTICE: Recordings accompanying this record are available only to University of Maryland College Park faculty, staff, and students and cannot be reproduced, copied, distributed or performed publicly by any means without prior permission of the copyright holder.
dc.titleMUSICAL IMPROVISATION AND THE CREATIVE PROCESSen_US
dc.typeDissertationen_US

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