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Liminal Worlds: Presence and Performer Agency in Tele-Collaborative Interaction

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Tele-Improvisation: Intercultural Interaction in the Online Global Music Jam Session

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This chapter explores theories of presence, and performer agency in tele-collaborative interaction, and their application to intercultural tele-improvisation. It examines theories of listening and perception in distributed performance contexts and considers issues of spatiality, temporality and time consciousness. Included in this investigation are practitioner perspectives and examples from case study performance that reveal how participants conceptualised networked space and time as the activity of the music, rather than being external to it. The chapter concludes by reviewing definitions of networked space, third space, and cyberspace, and how our perception and cognition of online space occurs through the actions and social practices (e.g., improvisation) with which we engage.

Pre-existing space underpins not only durable spatial arrangements, but also representational spaces and their attendant imagery and mythic narratives.

—Henri Lefebvre

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Notes

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    Please follow link to view audio-visual documentation on Osmose and Ephémère https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0TdsoRpKRPc.

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    Refers to the Scheffé method of linear statistical analysis in which statistical significance is adjusted to take account for multiple comparisons.

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    Qawwali is a musical genre of the Indian subcontinent and is a feature of Sufi mysticism.

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    General theory of relativity demonstrated that time is the fourth dimension of space creating one entity of space-time, which curves, based on the amount of matter and energy contained within it.

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    Refers to Descartes theory that the mind and body are distinct entities with the mind governed by thought, and the body as extension. Known as Cartesian dualism, or the mind body split, it often defines differences in theoretical approaches between a hard sciences perspective of a measurable object reality, and a social sciences constructionist approach.

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Mills, R. (2019). Liminal Worlds: Presence and Performer Agency in Tele-Collaborative Interaction. In: Tele-Improvisation: Intercultural Interaction in the Online Global Music Jam Session . Springer Series on Cultural Computing. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-71039-6_6

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