修订版的Sync或Swarm促进了对音乐的生态观，使我们从以主题为中心的即兴创作观转变为以系统为中心的即兴创作观。它探索了有机体自我调节的周期，有机体和环境之间的感觉运动耦合的周期，以及通过社会技术网络介导的主体间互动的周期。从独奏即兴演奏者埃文·帕克（Evan Parker）到非线性团体动力学（Sam Rivers trio），到组成即兴团体的网络，再到影响个人学习的教学动力学，完成了诠释循环。该修订版获得了民族音乐学学会艾伦·梅里亚姆奖（Alan Merriam prize）的第一版，新的章节突出了电声和跨文化即兴创作，以及人机交互和后殖民研究的相关问题。
Sync or Swarm, Revised Edition: Improvising Music in a Complex Age
The revised edition of Sync or Swarm promotes an ecological view of musicking, moving us from a subject-centered to a system-centered view of improvisation. It explores cycles of organismic self-regulation, cycles of sensorimotor coupling between organism and environment, and cycles of intersubjective interaction mediated via socio-technological networks. Chapters funnel outward, from the solo improviser (Evan Parker), to nonlinear group dynamics (Sam Rivers trio), to networks that comprise improvisational communities, to pedagogical dynamics that affect how individuals learn, completing the hermeneutic circle. Winner of the Society for Ethnomusicology’s Alan Merriam prize in its first edition, the revised edition features new sections that highlight electro-acoustic and transcultural improvisation, and concomitant issues of human-machine interaction and postcolonial studies.
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