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This, Here, Now: Invitations to Improvise
2022
A collection of text invitations for improvisation performance and practice
Conceived for use by musicians, dancers, actors, performance-makers, theatre-makers, composers, choreographers, poets, artists, and any other working in the performing arts (and beyond), these texts are offered as stimuli for practical work in the studio, on the stage, and in the rehearsal space.
They can be approached as scores or structures, research questions, discussion points, reflective tools, provocations, experiments, meditations, poems, or in any other way that practitioners might find useful and stimulating.
Video Essays and Digital Papers can be viewed by following links.
(under review). McPherson, D. H. J., Catherin, B., Sappho, M. (2024). Making Mychorrizal Noise: Hypermedia, Digitality, and Interpreting the Parafictional Universe of the Noisebringers.
(in press) McPherson, D. H. J. (2024). Environmental Reciprocity in Improvising Practice. Cultures of Sound. Huddersfield University Press.
Weiss, R., Sappho Donohue, M., McPherson, H., Catherin, B., MacDonald, R., (2023). Foutraque: Immersive cyber spaces through AR and telematic music performance with the Glasgow Improvisers Orchestra.
McPherson, H. (2022). This, Here, Now: Invitations to Improvise.
McPherson, D. H. J. (2021). Meanings in the Moment: Nonsense and Narrative Interactions in Transdisciplinary Free Improvisation. The Improviser’s Experience: Knowledge, Methodology, Communication, University of Huddersfield, in association with the Royal Musicological Association.
McPherson, D.H.J. (2021). More Than One Thing [Installation]. hcmf//
McPherson, D. H. J. (2021). “Spinning out world after world”: Considering transdisciplinary free improvisation as a practice of performative worlding. ReCePP/CMCI Research Colloquium, University of Huddersfield.
McPherson, D. H. J. (2020). Fighting Fisher’s Matrix: Hierarchies of Awareness and Improvising Freedom. Capitalist Realism: 10 Years On, Symposium. University of Huddersfield.
McPherson, D. H. J. (2019). Transforming, Translating, Transmitting : Stimulus to Response in Interdisciplinary Improvisation. Lines of Flight Seminar Series. Research Centre for Performance Practice, University of Huddersfield.