Quantum Improvisation: The Cybernetic Presence

Keynote address presented at the conference Improvisation Across Borders at UCSD April 11, 1999

Dedicated to the memory of Robert Erickson who encouraged us all to improvise.

According to Ray Kurzweil in his new book The Age of Spiritual Machines: When Computers Exceed Human Intelligence:

“Tripping On Wires: The Wireless Body: Who Is Improvising?” Critical Studies
in Improvisation/Etudes critiques en improvisation 1, no. 1 (2004): online.    
“Tools of Change and Transformation.” for the China  Catalog, Alfred University (July 2001).
“As Composers Where Are We Going?” Sounding Board, Newsletter of the American Composers Forum (2001).
“Quantum Listening: From Practice to Theory (to Practise Practice).” MusicWorks 76. (Fall 2000).

by Pauline Oliveros

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