Gillian Siddall is Dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities at Lakehead University.

Ellen Waterman is Professor of Music at Memorial University of Newfoundland and the coeditor of Art of Immersive Soundscapes.

Acknowledgments xi

Introduction: Improvising at the Nexus of Discursive and Material Bodies / Gillian Siddall and Ellen Waterman 1

1. Improvisation within a Scene of Constraint: An Interview with Judith Butler / Tracy McMullen 21

Part I. Listening, Place, and Space

2. "How Am I to Listen to You?": Soundwalking, Intimacy, and Improvised Listening / Andra McCartney 37

3. Community Sound [e]Scapes: Improvising Bodies and Site/Space/Place in New Media Audio Art / Rebecca Caines 55

Part II. Technology and Embodiment

4. Improvising Composition: How to Listen to the Time Between / Pauline Oliveros 75

5. The Networked Body: Physicality, Embodiment, and Latency in Multisite Performance / Jason Robinson 91

6. Openness from Closure: The Puzzle of Interagency in Improvised Music and a Neocybernetic Solution / David Borgo 113

7. Mediating the Improvising Body: Art Tatum's Postmortem Performance in a Posthuman World / Andrew Raffo Dewar 131

Part III. Sensibility and Subjectivity

8. Banding Encounters: Embodied Practices in Improvisation / Introduction and Conclusion by Tomie Hahn; Essays by Louise Campbell, Lindsay Vogt, Simon Rose, George Blake, Catherine Lee, Sherrie Tucker, François Mouillot, Jovana Milovic, and Pete Williams

9. Learning to Go with the Flow: David Rokeby's Very Nervous System and the Improvising Body / Jesse Stewart 169

10. Stretched Boundaries: Improvising across Abilities / Introduction and Conclusion by Sherrie Tucker; Essays by Pauline Oliveros, Neil Rolnick, Christine Sun Kim, Clara Tomaz, David Whalen, Leif Miller, and Jaclyn Heyen 181

Part IV. Gender, Trauma, and Memory

11. The Erotics of Improvisation in Ann-Marie MacDonald's Fall on Your Knees / Gillian Sidall 201

12. Corregidora: Corporeal Archaeology, Embodied Memory, Improvisation / Nina Sun Eidsheim and Mandy-Suzanne Wong

13. Theorizing the Saxophonic Scream in Free Jazz Improvisation / Zachary Wallmark 233

14. Extemporaneous Genomics: Nicole Mitchell, Octavia Butler, and Xenogenesis / Kevin McNeilly and Julie Dawn Smith 245

Part V. Representation and Identity

15. Faster and Louder: Heterosexist Improvisation in North American Taiko / Deborah Wong 265

16. Improvisation and the Audibility of Difference: Safa, Canadian Multiculturalism, and the Politics of Recognition / Ellen Waterman 281

17. Performing the National Body Politic in Twenty-First-Century Argentina / Illa Carrillo Rodríguez and Berenice Corti 307

Discography 327

References 329

Contributors 351

Index 355