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...