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Why improvisation is not an imperfect art

While waiting for the next live performance opportunity – here is my first ever publication in philosophy – where I set out my argument for why improvisation is not an imperfect art, and the genesis of all musical activity. Something to bang your head with while you’re waiting for performance venues to open.  

Gibbs, Louise (2021) ‘Improvising beyond Hamilton’s aesthetics of imperfection’ in A. Hamilton and L. Pearson, eds, The Aesthetics of Imperfection Music and the Arts: Spontaneity, Flaws, and the Unfinished, London: Bloomsbury, pp. 112-23.