Improvvisazione collettiva durante il lockdown
Tecnologie, estetica e paradossi
Abstract
The pandemic of 2020 has forced musicians to rethink their work in order to fully exploit the potential of the digital media in everyone’s home. Many technological tools, previously used only for the marketing of artistic products, have suddenly become the true formative medium of the performative experience. This picture also includes a phenomenon that needs to be carefully problematised: the practice of musical improvisation. I will therefore reflect on the technical possibilities and the aesthetic paradoxes associated with practices of collective improvisation informed by telematic media. Arguably, the lockdown has given rise to a new category of improvisational phenomena capable of articulating autonomous lines of research. In addition, this new category, thanks to the characteristics of the digital medium, may have fostered an expansion of the atmospheric, timbral, and agential possibilities within the field of musical improvisation.
