Characteristics and Products of Free Improvisational Music

Abstract

The article analyses the phenomenon of free improvisation through the prism of the perception of the contemporary artist. The aim is not to frame improvisation in stylistic terms; on the contrary, it highlights the pervasiveness of the art of free improvisation in many different artistic movements and the constant adaptation of artistic tools and concepts. The article identifies and analyses the essential qualities of improvisational music and questions absolute freedom. The processuality of free improvisation is emphasised, and the main artistic products that emerge from this process are identified and discussed. The inevitable contradictions, complexity, and multidirectionality are presented in the article not as factors of chaos but as tools that enable innovative thinking inherent in the artistic research.