Individuação, performance e improvisação no jazz: proposta exploratória

Abstract

The practice of improvisation demands answers in "real" time to numerous events that emerge from the intensity of generative processes in play. During improvisation, listening is a key technique for the preparation of the musician's reaction and establishes the performative act itself. The ability to emit and model himself through instant answers are identifying characteristics of the performer and require permanent activation of a sensitive attention mode and subjectivity. For the French philosopher Gilbert Simondon, into the individual-mediation-world system, processes of singular and collective individuation simultaneously occur, the latter named transindividuation. I hereby propose that listening is also an individuation system. As a behaviour, technique or thought, it is one of the key features of the artist's subjectivity. Through analysis of interview with a professional musician, this report is a brief account signalling the viability of the theoretical framework on studying the mutuality that sets the individuations of the musician-mediation-world system and the relationship of mutuality between their individuations.