Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Creative Processes in Musical Improvisation

Diogo Monzo is the author of the theoretical model and the book Distributed Free Improvisation: A Cultural Affective-Semiotic Perspective on Creativity. He is currently engaged in postdoctoral research at the Institute of Psychology, University of Brasília, Brazil. He is also a recording artist with a career in popular music and musical improvisation. Mônica Souza Neves-Pereira is Associate Professor in the Department of School and Developmental Psychology at the Institute of Psychology, University of Brasília, and Full Professor in the Postgraduate Program in Developmental and School Psychology (PGPDE). Her research focuses on theoretical approaches to the cultural psychology of creativity, processes of creativity development in the school context, and creativity and racism.

• 1: Introduction - Music Improvisation, Creativity, and Culture: An Interdisciplinary Perspective on Improvisational Processes.- 2:  Distributed Musical Improvisation as a Pleromatic Process of the Human Psyche.- 3: Between the Automatic and the Non-automatic during Improvisation.- 4: What Sound is This? An Overview of Contemporary Research on Creative Processes in Musical Improvisation in Brazil.- 5: Trans-musical Improvisation: Creative Processes as Listening-Action in the Performance Collective Revoada.- 6: Working Memory models and Music improvisation.- 7: Free Improvisation as a Generative Context for Creative Processes and the Study of Possibilities.