Flow is a collection of poems inspired by the North-West coast of Tasmania, explored during the isolation of the pandemic. These works reflect the region's geography and history-rivers cascading from highland crags to the sea, towns growing at estuaries, and people who gradually turned their gaze inland.The poems also grapple with the complex interplay of time, myth, and the human experience. Reinterpreting ancient deities like Psyche and Eros to describe modern mental conditions f...

Once described by Andrew Sant as a 'great talent', Andrys Onsman writes from a migrant's perspective; both joyfully engaged and warily observant. His poetry, plays, essays and translations often focus on how relationships between people and ideas shape the way in which they construct their world.In this collection of poems, Andrys considers how we continually recreate our identities through our relationships with the people, places and ideas we love and value; how we weave every ex...

Trust in the Art of Free Improvisation explores how trust manifests across diverse musical genres and contexts that contribute to free improvisation.Using an interdisciplinary approach which combines insights from sociology, psychology, and performance studies, Trust in the Art of Free Improvisation provides a holistic understanding of trust in creative collaboration, audience engagement, and musical flow. The authors substantiate their analyses with commentary fr...

Experimentation in Improvised Jazz: Chasing Ideas challenges the notion that in the twenty-first century, jazz can be restrained by a singular, static definition. The worldwide trend for jazz to be marginalized by the mainstream music industry, as well as conservatoriums and schools of music, runs the risk of stifling the innovative and challenging aspects of its creativity. The authors argue that to remain relevant, jazz needs to be dynamic, proactively experimental, and consciou...

The increasing interest in artistic research, especially in music, is throwing open doors to exciting ideas about how we generate new musical knowledge and understanding. This book examines the wide array of factors at play in innovative practice and how by treating it as research we can make new ideas more widely accessible.Three key ideas propel the book. First, it argues that artistic research comes from inside the practice and exists in a space that accommodates both objective ...