The neural correlates of creativity are poorly understood. Freestyle rap provides a unique opportunity to study spontaneous lyrical improvisation, a multidimensional form of creativity at the interface of music and language. Here we use functional magnetic resonance imaging to characterize this process. Task contrast analyses indicate that improvised performance is characterized by dissociated ...

This paper considers the evolving literature on Organizational Improvisation, considering a number of different perspectives relating to its use and acceptance within a typology of modern management styles. Cunha et al.’s (1999) work is identified as a starting point, and particular attention is given to the gradual integration of improvisational working styles into the lexicon of management th...

This paper describes the findings of a case study that explores the improvisation and bricolage in a structured process management environment. The research focuses on software developers in an embedded system development project. This investigation adopts an interpretive approach, which involves the collection and analysis of qualitative data. The research offers insights into a range of dimen...

Although the organizational capability for agility in IT deployment is crucial to the attainment of enterprise agility, there is scant research on how the capability may be nurtured and leveraged to this end. As improvisation may be an important mechanism for attaining agility in IT deployment, we apply the literature on organizational improvisation to analyze the case of Chang Chun Petrochemic...

While traditional MIS theory focuses on planned decision making as the main managerial activity, in this paper, we submit that improvisation is a frequent and ubiquitous process in economic institutions, such as markets and hierarchies. We argue further that improvisation is a much more grounded individual and organizational process than planned decision making. As a consequence, if information...

Scott J. Simon School of Library and Information Science, University of South Florida, 4202 E. Fowler Ave, CIS1040, Tampa, FL 33620-7800. Email:[email protected]. Phone: 813.974.3521. Fax: 813.974.6840 The following interdisciplinary research explores the concept of entropy in jazz improvisation and demonstrates a method for measuring it utilizing standard music notation. Formulas are adapted ...

The title is meant in two senses: both as a reference to the fact that contemporary freely improvised music is underrepresented in the study of AI and music; and, as a reference to the behavioral robotics research of Rodney Brooks, who famously stated that in place of computational representation, “the world is its own best model”. Brooks cites the theoretical work of Marvin Minsky as a source ...

Since the beginnings of computer science, computers have been used fruitfully for the generation of new music. In the last decades, their utilization to create generative systems moved from the implementation of tools for composition towards the invention of reactive programs aimed at participating in the much more unpredictable and challenging situation of musical improvisation. The work prese...