ABSTRACT
Critically engaging with concepts of free within an improvisational context, is—from uprooted refugees and rising levels of censorship to education and aesthetics—as relevant as ever. Through re-claiming/re-contextualizing free beyond the function of a hollow mediatized buzzword, and through seeing free a multifaceted conceptual construction, we empower freedom with, on the one hand, the functionality of pragmatic practice and, on the other, forms of aesthetic/cultural/political choice. Performativity of free, therefore, is not just about breaking musical norms and idiomatic restrictions, but an ideologically based desire for Free Spirits to interact with the world.
