Free jazz, as performed by such artists as John Coltrone and Archie Shepp, is a creative, collaborative art form. This book examines free jazz and develops geometric theories of gestures and distributed identities, also known as swarm intelligence.

The scientific approach of this book transcends the limits of art literature in that it also develops geometric theories of gestures and distributed identities, also known as swarm intelligence.
We exemplify this approach in the framework of free jazz, which is a prototypical creative and collaborative art form. Leader artists such as John Coltrane, Pharoah Sanders, Cecil Taylor, Sun Ra, The Art Ensemble of Chicago, Albert Ayler, Don Cherry, and Archie Shepp are presented in their strongest works and theories.
The pillars of our theory of collaboration are built from psychologist Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi's flow, physicist Gilles Châtelet's gestures, and computer scientist Bill Wulf's collaboratories.

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Linshujie Zheng is a soprano. She has a master's degree with distinction at Cardiff University. Currently she pursues a doctoral degree in voice at the University of Minnesota. Zheng has received awards and scholarships in China, the UK, and the US. She has performed at the Royal Albert Hall, Wales Millennium centre, and St David's Hall. She also sung principal roles, including Zerlina in Don Giovanni, Genovieve in Suor Angelica, Susanna in Le nozze di Figaro. Zheng not only focuses on the performing arts, she also has a passion for Gesture and reception theory. Guerino Mazzola qualified as a professor in mathematics and in computational science at the University of Zürich. Visiting professor at the ENS in Paris in 2005. Since 2007 professor at the School of Music, University of Minnesota. He developed a Mathematical Music Theory and music software presto and Rubato. 2007-2021 he was the president of the Societyfor Mathematics and Computation in Music. He has published 33 books and 150 papers, 27 jazz CDs, two DVDs, and a classical sonata. His most important book is "The Topos of Music", about mathematical music, performance, and gesture theory.

Inhalt
Getting off Ground.- What Is Free Jazz?.- Jazz in Transition.- The Landscape of Free Jazz.- Out of this World.- The Art of Collaboration.- Collaborative Spaces in Free Jazz.- Which Collaboratories?.- The Innards of Time.- Gestural Creativity.- Gestures: From Philosophy to Thought Experiments.- Geometry of Gestures.- The Escher Theorem and Gestural Creativity in Free Jazz.- What Group Flow Generates.- What Is Flow?.- The Symbolic Axis of Distributed Identity.- Epilogue.- From Pre-to Postproduction: The Infinite Listening.- Global Strategies for Free Jazz.- The Future of Free Jazz.