Reinhard Gagel & Matthias Schwabe 
Improvisation erforschen – improvisierend forschen / Researching Improvisation – Researching by Improvisation 
Beiträge zur Exploration musikalischer Improvisation / Essays About the Exploration of Musical Improvisation

Dieser durchgehend zweisprachige Band versammelt Beiträge zu ästhetischen, künstlerischen und pädagogischen Fragestellungen der musikalischen Improvisation. Er beinhaltet Reflexionen und Modelle, die sich mit der Kunst der Improvisation und den in ihr handelnden Menschen befassen und darüber hinaus faszinierende Perspektiven auch für Kultur und Wissenschaft bieten.

This book, bilingual throughout, brings together essays providing aesthetic, artistic and pedagogical interrogations of the art of musical improvisation. It contains reflections and models which deal both with the art of improvisation and with the people who carry it out and offers fascinating perspectives for culture and for scholarship more generally.

Contributions by Alan Bern, Rogério Costa, Nina Polaschegg, Edwin Prévost, and others.

O autorze

Reinhard Gagel (Dr. phil.), born in 1955, improviser and ensemble-leader, teaches at University of Music and Performing Arts, Vienna and leads the Department for Theory and Research at exploratorium berlin.
Matthias Schwabe, born in 1958, improvisational musician, composer and musical pedagogue, is the founder and director of exploratorium berlin. He teaches at the Social-Pedagogical Institute Berlin and at the Berlin University of the Arts.