Matthew Lovett's improv

Matthew presents a wholly diplomatic debate around the impact of recording technology on improvised  musical performance. Discussing the tensions between the act and the document he invokes much post-structuralist discourse to illustrate the problematic 'presence' of the act with the  simulacra of record. He continues to counter the unrepeatability of the performance moment with the novelties and positive impacts of recording technologies on performance, looking at its capacities as tool to inform the performance by capturing the moment and holding its memory for the pleasures of repeated listening.