A collaborative ethnography in which participants- including myself- share stories of improvising. The oral histories are visualized, imagined, imaged.  Visually, construct and re-construct memories, perceptions, improvisation and sound in New York.

The final product: an installation filled with sound (live and recorded) and images.  A created environment for the viewer -now collaborator- to experience and perceive, to imagine and reflect.

 "joy in improvising while singing and playing is evident in almost all phases of music history.  It was always a powerful force in the creation of new forms…” (E.T. Ferand in Bailey Improvisation, ix).

This work is an improvisation. In interviewing collaborators, questions are improvised based on their responses.  Images are improvised as scenes are found.  Research is improvised as ideas arrive through textual triggers in the databases.