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The contributors to Negotiated Moments explore how subjectivity is formed and expressed through musical improvisation, tracing the ways the transmission and reception of sound occur within and between bodies in real and virtual time and across memory, history, and space. They place the gendered, sexed, raced, classed, disabled, and technologized body at the center of critical improvisation studies and move beyond the field's tendency toward celebrating improvisation's utopian and democratic ideals by highlighting the improvisation of marginalized subjects. Rejecting a singular theory of improvisational agency, the contributors show how improvisation helps people gain hard-won and highly contingent agency. Essays include analyses of the role of the body and technology in performance, improvisation's ability to disrupt power relations, Pauline Oliveros's ideas about listening, flautist Nicole Mitchell's compositions based on Octavia Butler's science fiction, and an interview with Judith Butler about the relationship between her work and improvisation. The contributors' close attention to improvisation provides a touchstone for examining subjectivities and offers ways to hear the full spectrum of ideas that sound out from and resonate within and across bodies.

Acknowledgements ...xi
Introduction: improvising at the nexus of discursive and material bodies / Gillian Siddall and Allen Waterman ...1
1. Improvisation within a scene of constraint : an interview with Judith Butler / Tracy McMullen ...21

PART I. LISTENING, PLACE AND SPACE
2. "How am I to listen to You"? : soundwalking, intimacy, and improvised listening / Andra McCartney ...37
3. Community sound [e]scapes : improvising bodies and site/space/place in new media audio art / Rebecca Caines ...55

PART II. TECHNOLOGY AND EMBODIMENT
4. Improvising composition : how to listen in the time between / Pauline Oliveros ...75
5. The networked body : physicality, embodiment, and latency in multisite performance / Jason Robinson ...91
6. Openness from closure : the puzzle of interagency in improvised music and a neocybernetic solution / David Borgo ...113
7. Mediating the improvising body: Art Tatum's postmortem performance in a posthuman world / Andrew Raffo Dewar ...131

PART III. SENSIBILITY AND SUBJECTIVITY
8. Banding encounters : embodied practices in improvisation / introduction and conclusion by Tomie Hahn ; essays by Louise Campbell, Lindsay Vogt, Simon Rose, George Blake, Catherine Lee, Sherrie Tucker, François Mouillot, Jovana Milović, and Pete Williams ...147
9. Learning to go with the flow : David Rokeby's very nervous system and the improvising body / Jesse Stewart ...169
10. Stretched boundaries : improvising across abilities / introduction and conclusion by Sherrie Tucker ; essays by Pauline Oliveros, Neil Rolnick, Christine Sun Kim, Clara Tomaz, David Whalen, Leaf Miller, and Jaclyn Heyen ...181

PART IV. GENDER, TRAUMA AND MEMORY
11. The erotics of improvisation in Ann-Marie MacDonald's Fall on your knees / Gillian Siddall ...201
12. Corregidora : corporeal archaeology, embodied memory, improvisation / Nina Sun Eidsheim and Mandy-Suzanne Wong ...217
13. Theorizing the saxophonic scream in free jazz improvisation / Zachary Wallmark ...233
14. Extemporaneous genomics : Nicole Mitchell, Octavia Butler, and Xenogenesis / Kevin McNeilly and Julie Dawn Smith ...245

PART V. REPRESENTATION AND IDENTITY
15. Faster and louder : heterosexist improvisation in North American taiko / Deborah Wong ...265
16. Improvisation and the audibility of difference : safa, Canadian multiculturalism, and the politics of recognition / Ellen Waterman ...283
17. Performing the national body politic in twenty-first-century Argentina / Illa Carrillo Rodríguez and Berenice Corti ...307

Discography ...327
References ...329
Contributors ...351
Index ...355