ConnectsMusic is happy to share this exciting PhD research survey by Neil Livingstone, ‘An enlightened conversation: Understanding the interaction between musical spaces and creativity in ensemble jazz improvisatory performance‘.

Participation in this research is completely voluntary, and ConnectsMusic is not involved in creating the survey, but simply wanting to help Neil in his research work.

By participating in the survey, you will be contributing to work which is aimed at presenting a new understanding of group jazz improvisation, group creativity and musical spaces. Before you decide to participate, please read the following information carefully.

Here is the link to the survey:

https://uwlpsych.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_ahi5Y1mgKi8qqgK

The survey is coming from Neil Livingstone, a PhD researcher at the University of West London, London College of Music.

”My PhD research is focused on musical creativity. Specifically, the creativity found in the improvisations of jazz musicians when playing together, and how sonic musical spaces play a part in this. This research is aimed at improving our understanding of musical creativity. Also, it looks to present exciting prospects for new educational approaches to jazz and improvisation.”

 

If you have any further questions about the research feel free to contact the researcher by email (Neil.Livingstone@.uwl.ac.uk).

The aim of this emergent research is to explore the interaction between jazz musicians’ conceptions of creativity and conceptions of musical spaces in a performative improvisation context. This is the second of three stages of data collection. Upon completion of data collection, the potential findings could impact both future education processes and research output in the areas of group creativity, jazz improvisation and space in music.

What do you need to do? Participants will need to complete the following survey questionnaire. This will take approximately 15 minutes.

What will happen with the data? The answers to the survey which participants provide will be recorded on the Qualtrics survey platform. Such data will then be analysed and presented in a reduced format within a PhD thesis. The study has received research ethics clearance by the University of West London Research Ethics Committee (UREC). All information about you will be handled in strict confidence, in accordance with the Data Protection Act (1998) and the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR, 2018). Data is only available to the researcher. Data will only become available to those other than the researcher in the resulting PhD thesis and any publications.