ABSTRACT
Bearing in mind that there is no improvisation without the live, wemusicians and researchers with interests in improvisation, performativity and notation-came together to create a unique musical performance. Even if the here and now is nourished from the past and from future expectations, liveness is the primal paradigm of every musical improvisation, characterised by archetypal elements such as temporal continuity, real time action and reaction, presence, originality, immediacy, intimacy, indeterminacy, eventness, existence in the moment, and so forth. As Saladin and Guionnet write:
Free improvisation is liveness taken to a radical extreme. Improvisation arises from an immediate and playful confrontation with the specific characteristics of a situation, whereby relationships between all the elements present-the instruments, players, space, public, whatever-acquire an intensity born precisely of an awareness that everything, at every moment, hangs in the balance.
