David Borgo | Sync or Swarm: Improvisation, Intersubjectivity, and Embodied Mind Reading ()

Abstract: This talk with provide an overview of themes explored in Sync or Swarm: Improvising Music in a Complex Age (revised edition, 2022), and it will highlight more recent work on the ways that social cognition and coordination dynamics can inform our understandings of ensemble interaction in musical improvisation. Bio: David Borgo is a Professor of Music at UC San Diego where he teaches in the Integrative Studies and Jazz and Music of the African Diaspora Programs. He is affiliated faculty in Ethnic Studies and Cognitive Science. David received a 2013 Distinguished Teaching Award from the African and African American Studies Research Project, a 2020 campus-wide Diversity Equity and Inclusion Teaching Award, and the 2006 Alan P. Merriam Prize from the Society for Ethnomusicology for the first edition of his book, Sync or Swarm: Improvising Music in a Complex Age (Continuum/Bloomsbury). David earned a B.M. degree in Jazz Studies from Indiana University and M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in Ethnomusicology f