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SUMMARY:Rhythm: A personal act of 'knowing' - Satinder Gill
DTSTART:20190205T131000Z
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CONTACT:Dr Jenny Zhao
DESCRIPTION:Moving well with someone has an aesthetic and ethical quality\
 , be it to shake hands\, dance\, make music\, or have a wonderful conversa
 tion. This foregrounds the relational qualities inherent in music\, such a
 s rhythm and pitch. It is proposed that pragmatic collective rhythm acts c
 an enable us to simultaneously comprehend and engage with our differences\
 , in ‘a personal act of knowing’. Mutual sense-making may be said to b
 e carried by this very fine timing / synchrony that differs from the kind 
 of continuous and stable synchrony seen in most laboratory experiments\, s
 eeming to be fragmentary whilst imbued with purpose to sustain and facilit
 ate. In embodied improvisation\, we come to know when we can change or rej
 ect the synchrony or pattern that we have found with someone without produ
 cing negative emotional or social/artistic effects. This shift is desirabl
 e\, for example\, for a jazz musician to find their own way distinct from 
 a jazz master. A picture of pragmatic salient prosodic rhythms leading to 
 climaxes (crescendos) of entrainment may be a way of considering how we ar
 e able to improvise whilst being together. Salient moments of bodily synch
 rony perhaps carry within them an intention to rebuild the connection even
  though it is mutually understood and desirable that a break of some kind 
 is necessary for the connection to be sustained and to evolve.
LOCATION:The Richard King Room\, Darwin College
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