The research group Jazz, Improvised Music, and Popular Music places the artistic process at the center of its inquiry. It embraces all forms of jazz, (jazz-based) improvised music, and popular music, with a focus on contemporary perspectives in a performance-oriented context.
Several of our researchers work on interdisciplinary or hybrid projects and are therefore also active in other research groups, such as Collective Creation. Current projects span a wide range of topics, including spectralism, historically informed jazz performance, jazz & metal drumming, and the influence of non-Western and/or non-European musical traditions on rhythm, vocal technique, and the double bass.
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Matthias Heyman
