http://www.henrikfrisk.com/diary/ This weblog is a diary where I keep notes on the progress of my artistic research activities, primarily in the field of improvisation, at the Malmö Academy of Music / Lund University. Due to spam attacks, you now have to register to comment. It's easy and safe and handled by TypeKey. en-us Copyright 2011 Tue, 20 Dec 2011 10:27:04 +0100 Tue, 20 Dec 2011 10:43:26 +0100 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.0D http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss When discussing improvisation and freedom one argument that is frequently made is that people like Ornette Coleman and Derek Bailey are not as free as they argue. The proof is that they show such clear identity. Because they are so... http://www.henrikfrisk.com/diary/archives/2011/12/freedom_and_ind.php http://www.henrikfrisk.com/diary/archives/2011/12/freedom_and_ind.php Thinking Tue, 20 Dec 2011 10:27:04 +0100 A central concept in jazz improvisation is the development of a personal sound. What are the relations between the known and the unknown, between the conscious and the unconscious? http://www.henrikfrisk.com/diary/archives/2011/10/about_finding_y.php http://www.henrikfrisk.com/diary/archives/2011/10/about_finding_y.php Thinking Thu, 13 Oct 2011 09:55:40 +0100 Every improvising musician knows how the audience can influence a performance and what a difference it makes when things "are right". What is it that the audience provides and what does it get back? How is the musician influenced? Is it the rewarding feeling of confirmation that makes the musician play better? Or is the music in fact the same and it is only the feeling and the perception that is altered? http://www.henrikfrisk.com/diary/archives/2011/10/audience_intera.php http://www.henrikfrisk.com/diary/archives/2011/10/audience_intera.php Performance Tue, 11 Oct 2011 13:15:52 +0100 In jazz improvisation the notion of creating "your own" expression is very important. Individuality in sound, phrasing, articulation and rhythm is held in high esteem. All truly great jazz musicians have created their own sound; Lester Young, Coleman Hawkins, Charles... http://www.henrikfrisk.com/diary/archives/2011/10/improvisation_a_1.php http://www.henrikfrisk.com/diary/archives/2011/10/improvisation_a_1.php Thinking Tue, 04 Oct 2011 10:19:51 +0100 The Routledge Companion to Research in the Arts, to which I have contributed the chapter "Time and Interaction: research through non-visual arts and media", co-written with one of the two editors of the book, Henrik Karlsson, has been reviewed by... http://www.henrikfrisk.com/diary/archives/2011/04/on_artistic_res.php http://www.henrikfrisk.com/diary/archives/2011/04/on_artistic_res.php Thinking Fri, 01 Apr 2011 22:36:38 +0100 (Re)Thinking Improvisation is the name of a research project at the Malmö Academy of Music, funded by the Swedish Research Council that I'm a part of. The project takews a broad view on improvisation and the artistic practicies (in music)... http://www.henrikfrisk.com/diary/archives/2011/03/rethinking_impr.php http://www.henrikfrisk.com/diary/archives/2011/03/rethinking_impr.php General Tue, 15 Mar 2011 23:31:07 +0100 Lund University upgraded their email server to Exchange 2007 which suddenly made it impossible to fetch my email over IMAP via fetchmail using my old settings. It turns out I have to specify the autorization method, which is not 'password'... http://www.henrikfrisk.com/diary/archives/2011/02/fetchmail_and_e.php http://www.henrikfrisk.com/diary/archives/2011/02/fetchmail_and_e.php Fri, 18 Feb 2011 11:01:03 +0100 In the process of writing a second (and possibly a third) part to The Mystic Writing Pad I've been trying to figure out a way that allows me to improvise on the 43-tone scale it uses and easily transcribe the... http://www.henrikfrisk.com/diary/archives/2011/02/writing_microto.php http://www.henrikfrisk.com/diary/archives/2011/02/writing_microto.php Composition Mon, 14 Feb 2011 15:40:27 +0100 I just got my hands on a recording with the "lost" Miles Davis Quintet (with Wayne Shorter (ss, ts), Chick Corea (el-p), Dave Holland (b, el-b), Jack DeJohnette (d)) from the Plugged Nickel in Chicago. I've only listened to one... http://www.henrikfrisk.com/diary/archives/2010/10/plugged_nickel.php http://www.henrikfrisk.com/diary/archives/2010/10/plugged_nickel.php Thinking Sat, 09 Oct 2010 18:24:27 +0100 Browsing the web for Soap Opera content for our Sucktion performance I came across this particularly funny clip: What strikes me about this passage is how it reveals something about the attention span of the dialogue of the drama. The... http://www.henrikfrisk.com/diary/archives/2009/11/soap_operas.php http://www.henrikfrisk.com/diary/archives/2009/11/soap_operas.php Performance Sat, 07 Nov 2009 01:03:31 +0100 I started looking at different ways in which the soprano can "perform" on the vacuum cleaner in Anne LeBaron's Opera Sucktion. One option would be to let Marja, who is doing the soprano part, use a Wii controller that I... http://www.henrikfrisk.com/diary/archives/2009/11/vacuum_cleaner.php http://www.henrikfrisk.com/diary/archives/2009/11/vacuum_cleaner.php Performance Tue, 03 Nov 2009 23:49:24 +0100 Having spent the last few days familiarizing myself with the sound and MIDI-files for Anne LeBarons Cyber opera Sucktion I'm now starting to get an idea of what is expected of me. Initially I thought I'd make use of the... http://www.henrikfrisk.com/diary/archives/2009/11/sucktion_laying.php http://www.henrikfrisk.com/diary/archives/2009/11/sucktion_laying.php Sun, 01 Nov 2009 23:03:23 +0100 On November 13 I will perform in a staging of Anne LeBaron's Cyborgopera Sucktion. I will perform the laptop part which, interestingly enough, is written adding in a lot of freedom for me as a performer. The way the part... http://www.henrikfrisk.com/diary/archives/2009/10/sucktion_a_cybo.php http://www.henrikfrisk.com/diary/archives/2009/10/sucktion_a_cybo.php Performance Wed, 28 Oct 2009 22:57:33 +0100 Since I received my brand new MacBook Pro (17'') I haven't figured out how to get sound routed to the internal speakers using PulseAudio. The headphone outlet produced sound though and for that reason I hadn't bothered too much (it... http://www.henrikfrisk.com/diary/archives/2009/10/fedora_macbook.php http://www.henrikfrisk.com/diary/archives/2009/10/fedora_macbook.php General Thu, 15 Oct 2009 20:57:23 +0100 I experienced a bit of a void after my PhD dissertation/defense about a year ago, so bad that I had no interest in posting on this blog. Well, I'm back now, intending to do something about it. I still have... http://www.henrikfrisk.com/diary/archives/2009/10/back_after_mont.php http://www.henrikfrisk.com/diary/archives/2009/10/back_after_mont.php Thu, 15 Oct 2009 20:50:35 +0100