Instruments and Sounds as Objects of Improvisation in Collective Computer Music Practice

This paper presents the authors' first attempt at a new (and unexpected) exercise: that of observing, contextualising and problema-tising their own collective Computer Music experiences. After two years practising emergent collective improvisation in private and public settings , which has led the authors to fundamentally reconsider both individual and collective musical creation, came the desire to methodologi-cally deconstruct this process-one that they never anticipated and, until now, had never formalised. By starting from the very notions or performance and improvisation in the context of Computer Music, and crossing prolific literature on these topics with humble observations from their own experience, the authors then elaborate on what appears to them as the most enticing perspective of this creative context: the systematic improvisation of both their tools and sounds in an unique flow.