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Shared Empathy in collaborative Improvisation – Reciprocal creative interactions between musicians of divergent musical and cultural backgrounds (2025)

Jean Beers
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Abstract This Research Catalogue exposition with audio-visual examples documents ongoing research into artistic interactions helping to ascertain and streamline prosocial and empathic behavior in groups with divergent backgrounds and modes of thinking and how these skills can benefit the artistic endeavors positively. Promoting intersociality and an empathic approach to collective music making amongst individuals who represent different schools of musical thoughts and styles or expertise, as well as bringing to the table divergent cultural backgrounds and individual characteristics is the aim of Ensemble Improvisation Experimentell (E i E), founded and lead by me at the Music and Arts University of the City of Vienna (MUK) since February 2021. In a world of pandemics, climate crisis and war it may seem idealistic, even fanciful, to search for moments of ‘shared empathy’ or creative symbiosis amongst musicians in professional exchanges and its influence on artistic experience and outcome, without immediately searching for ways of dimming the fire of destruction through war and climate crisis that our global society faces. However, finding micro-solutions through artistic endeavors and promoting a more sustainable future for the arts themselves in general, and specifically for the genre of contemporary music, is a valuable goal and tool for infiltrating humanism with sustainable thinking and acting patterns. Extensive video and audio documentation of practice sessions and performances, as well as exemplary images are attached to this exposition.
typeresearch exposition
keywordsempathy, prosociality, intuition, collaboration, improvisation, communication, Flow
date11/06/2023
published13/11/2025
last modified13/11/2025
statuspublished
affiliationMusic and Arts University of the City of Vienna (MUK)
copyrightJean Beers
licenseCC BY-NC-ND
languageEnglish
urlhttps://www.researchcatalogue.net/view/2196269/2196270
doihttps://doi.org/10.22501/rc.2196269
published inResearch Catalogue
external linkhttps://www.jeanbeers.com/ensembleimprovisationexperimentell


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nameEnsemble Improvisation Experimentell April 2022 (MUK Students)
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nameTeam building exercise outdoors – Sound Walk Vienna
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name22.06.22 performance, outdoors (labyrinth garden), Accordion Dance Pas de deux (rehearsal 21.6.22)
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