Improvisation between composition and impredictability

Composition and improvisation are often considered contradictory musical genres. In this lecture, I will show how the different processes of musical creation, such as composition, real-time composition and improvisation, not only have a differentiated temporal positioning in relation to the notation or performance, but also have differing degrees of determination of the sound. However, these markers of determination – whether by means of notation or performance practice – are on a sliding scale.

During the lecture I will play examples of  more or less „composed“ Improvisations and in the integrated concert play free improvisation.