This book presents a new model to visualize and understand the creative process in free improvisation: the Interactive Dimensions of the Creative Flow (IDCF). Drawing on theoretical work on distributed creativity and the author's background as a professional pianist, this short monograph establishes provocative dialogues between the field of music and the cultural psychology of semiotic dynamics to investigate human interactions involved in the act of creating.

New empirical data and literature research on improvisation are used to discuss the historical and sociocultural factors behind collective and collaborative processes. In this context, the Distributed Free Improvisation Model offers a new theoretical and methodological innovation to the study of musical improvisation, which is presented as the result of a musical practice that develops in a community, in sociocultural contexts, through multiple interactions from which the senses and meanings of what is produced emerge. An inspiring read for students, professionals, and researchers in the field of cultural psychology, music improvisation, and creativity studies, this book opens new pathways to the study of creative processes and affective semiosis.

Introduces an integrative theoretical perspective of creative processes, bridging the gap between psychology and music Presents a new methodology for the study of creative processes in free improvisation performances through psychology Focuses on the musician's perspective to develop the interactive dimensions of the creative flow Additional multimedia content accessible in browser or via SN More Media App

Autorentext

Diogo Monzo is doing a post-doctorate internship at the Institute of Psychology of the University of Brasília, Brazil. He is a recording artist with a career in popular music and musical improvisation.

Inhalt

Chapter 1. Conceptualizing the Proposal.- Chapter 2. The Accordion Bellows Metaphor.- Chapter 3. The Cultural Semiotic Subject.- Chapter 4. Affective-Semiotic Self-Regulation.- Chapter 5.The Tension of Idiosyncrasies.- Chapter 6. The Experimentation Process.- Chapter 7. The Emergence of the New.- Chapter8. Feedback.- 9.Conclusion.