"Prying Apart the Social Phenomenology of Free Improvisation"
A paper presented by Ritwik Banerji at Phenomenology in Ethnomusicology 2018: The St. John’s Conference, June 6-8, 2018, Research Centre for the Study of Music, Media, and Place, Memorial University of Newfoundland.
How can we access the “unassumable” (Levinas, 1998) nature of our interlocutor’s experience of an interaction? On the one hand, as implicitly suggested by Dreyfus (1972, 1992, 2007), asking human beings to interact with artificial social interactants (ASI) and discuss their failure to be adequately human prompts them to detail elements of their experience of social interaction often glossed over in their “natural attitude” towards interaction (Husserl, 2012 [1913]). On the other, the “bracketing” (ibid.) induced by the encounter with an ASI elicits the articulations of preferences for how musical or social interaction should be conducted, desires which often lie buried beneath the imperative to conduct the interaction smoothly and at speed.
Drawing on several years of fieldwork testing an ASI built to perform as a free improviser, this paper examines the relationship between the accounts of the experience of social interaction elicited through the encounter with an ASI and the experience of inter-human social interaction the ASI re-embodies. The purpose is not merely to assess the relationship in this context, but to argue that the critical encounter of human musicians and machines built to perform humanly constitutes a highly productive frontier of ethnomusicological research, one which shows great promise for understanding the ever illusive nature of intersubjective experience, whether within music exclusively or in human social interaction generally.
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To cite this video: Banerji, Ritwik. "Prying Apart the Social Phenomenology of Free Improvisation." Recorded June 5, 2018 at the Research Centre for the Study of Music, Media, and Place at Memorial University of Newfoundland in St. John’s, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. Phenomenology in Ethnomusicology 2018: The St. John’s Conference. 22:30. • Phenomenology in Ethno...
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