Improvisation, Temporality, and Embodied Experience
Publication information:
Vijay Iyer. 2004. “Improvisation, Temporality, and Embodied Experience”. Journal of Consciousness Studies, 11, 3-4, Pp. 159-73
Abstract
In this paper I focus specifically on improvisational music, and on what it can tell us about consciousness and cognition. Building upon the notion of cognition as embodied action, I would like to propose an understanding of certain improvi- sational music as quintessentially experiential, in that it leads us to re-experience our own practice of perception.