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Improvisation and Ethics project awarded 1.7 million Euros by Austrian Science Fund
New research project “(Musical) Improvisation and Ethics”, recently awarded 1.7 million Euros by the Austrian Science Fund (FWF)’s Young Independent Researcher Group program.
The project, which is led by musician and artistic researcher Christopher A. Williams (University of Music and Performing Arts Graz (KUG) and ACPA alumnus), anthropologist Caroline Gatt (University of Graz), and philosopher Joshua Bergamin (University of Vienna) with the collaboration of Prof. Deniz Peters (KUG), will investigate the improvisational foundations of ethical processes across a range of human and other-than-human activity.
The researchers will practically experiment with and analyze agency, habituation, and value-formation in action over seven encounters with three leading experimental improvising musical ensembles: Splitter Orchester (Berlin), the Trondheim Jazz Orchestra (Norway), and the kling