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posted on 23.06.2021, 01:13 by JORDAN ROBERT MURRAYThis research examines the development of intersubjectivity between improvising musicians. Drawing on Peirce’s (1935) semiotic theory of indexicality and Mead’s (1939) social behaviourist theory of emergence, this practice-based project engages a series of improvisation exercises that explore how an understanding of musical style informs the processes underlying the performance of spontaneously improvised music. A selection of recorded works are analysed subjectively through ethnographic accounts, providing a first-person insight into the processes of free improvised music as dynamically intersubjective.