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HUMAN SCALE / Body, gesture & creative attention
Automatic music & improvisation.
Spontaneous sound-making recorded before detailed editing or symbolic interpretation.
LEXICON / LANGUAGE & MEANING
Names in context.
- Automatic music
- Música automática
A label for spontaneous music-making intended to reduce advance planning or conscious editing.
- Improvisation
- Improvisación
Creating or developing a performance as it occurs, within or beyond stated musical rules.
PROVENANCE & INTERPRETATIONA practice,
A practice,
a setting.
Automatist art sought to reduce conscious planning; musical improvisation has many separate artistic and cultural traditions. The recording preserves what was played, while the stated method explains its context.
FIELD NOTE / METHOD
Keep a record.
- Name the instrument, prompt and any chosen constraints.
- Record one complete take before editing.
- Date the recording and add the interpretation or listening notes afterward.
POTPOURRI / PHOTO GUIDE
What to include.
- A score, waveform screenshot or photograph of the setup can accompany a recording description.
- Include time marks for the passage and identify any edits or repeated takes.
POTPOURRI / PERSONAL INTERPRETATION
Photo instructions & submission ↗Share a photograph or a record.
A photograph, drawing or dated record can be sent privately for a personal reading. Include the procedure and the question.