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ESP Duos: Imagined Co-Presence in Remote Improvisation (last edited: 2026)

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Ivar Roban Krizic, Thomas Grill
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This exposition presents the audio recordings produced within the ESP Duos project, a series of remote improvisations performed by long-term collaborators under conditions of complete acoustic and visual separation. Each duo was recorded simultaneously in isolated spaces, without any form of real-time interaction, and later combined into a single auditory perspective available only to the listener. Rather than testing whether musical interaction can be sustained at a distance, the project explores how residual traces of collaboration continue to shape improvisatory behavior when the other performer is imagined rather than perceived. The recordings foreground imagined co-presence as an enacted orientation grounded in embodied memory, shared history, and relational expectation. As artistic outputs, the ESP Duos invite listening not for coordination or synchronization, but for emergent coherence arising from contingency, alignment, divergence, and retrospective sense-making. The exposition situates these recordings as both documents of a research process and autonomous aesthetic artifacts, offering access to a mode of togetherness that persists beyond physical co-presence.
typeresearch exposition
keywordsimprovisation, remote sensing
date10/01/2026
last modified11/01/2026
statusin progress
share statuspublic
affiliationUniversity of Music and Performing Arts Vienna
copyrightIvar Roban Krizic
licenseCC BY-NC-ND
languageEnglish
urlhttps://www.researchcatalogue.net/view/4107691/4107692


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