[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"detail-sidebar-cat-0-en-105":3,"doc-seo-238678-105":59,"doc-detail-238678-en":130},{"code":4,"msg":5,"data":6},0,"success",[7,13,18,23,28,33,38,43,48,51,55],{"id":8,"doc_module":4,"doc_module_name":9,"category_name":10,"show_sort_weight":11,"slug":12},1,"Document","Story & Novel",90,"story-novel",{"id":14,"doc_module":4,"doc_module_name":9,"category_name":15,"show_sort_weight":16,"slug":17},2,"Literature",80,"literature",{"id":19,"doc_module":4,"doc_module_name":9,"category_name":20,"show_sort_weight":21,"slug":22},4,"Exam",70,"exam",{"id":24,"doc_module":4,"doc_module_name":9,"category_name":25,"show_sort_weight":26,"slug":27},5,"Comic",60,"comic",{"id":29,"doc_module":4,"doc_module_name":9,"category_name":30,"show_sort_weight":31,"slug":32},6,"Technology",50,"technology",{"id":34,"doc_module":4,"doc_module_name":9,"category_name":35,"show_sort_weight":36,"slug":37},7,"Healthcare",40,"healthcare",{"id":39,"doc_module":4,"doc_module_name":9,"category_name":40,"show_sort_weight":41,"slug":42},8,"Research & Report",30,"research-report",{"id":44,"doc_module":4,"doc_module_name":9,"category_name":45,"show_sort_weight":46,"slug":47},9,"Religion & Spirituality",20,"religion-spirituality",{"id":46,"doc_module":4,"doc_module_name":9,"category_name":49,"show_sort_weight":46,"slug":50},"World Cup","world-cup",{"id":52,"doc_module":4,"doc_module_name":9,"category_name":53,"show_sort_weight":52,"slug":54},10,"Lifestyle","lifestyle",{"id":56,"doc_module":4,"doc_module_name":9,"category_name":57,"show_sort_weight":24,"slug":58},19,"General","general",{"code":4,"msg":60,"data":61},"ok",{"site_id":62,"language":63,"slug":64,"title":65,"keywords":66,"description":67,"schema_data":68,"social_meta":123,"head_meta":125,"extra_data":127,"updated_unix":129},105,"en","ensemble-pleebland-a-modular-ensemble-and-collective","Ensemble Pleebland - A Modular Ensemble and Collective","","Ensemble Pleebland is an improvisation-focused modular ensemble and collective with a roster of members whose shared work includes group improvisation practices and structured, seeded, and composed improvisation. Its research agenda connects electronic technology with acoustic instruments, and supports both practice-led research in composition and improvisation and research-led performance of these activities. The ensemble’s name draws on Margaret Atwood’s MadAddam trilogy, and its improvisational freedom is framed through contemporary art music’s refusal to fit convenient categories.",{"@graph":69,"@context":122},[70,84,105],{"@type":71,"itemListElement":72},"BreadcrumbList",[73,77,79,82],{"item":74,"name":75,"@type":76,"position":8},"https://docshare.wps.com","Home","ListItem",{"item":78,"name":9,"@type":76,"position":14},"https://docshare.wps.com/document/",{"item":80,"name":40,"@type":76,"position":81},"https://docshare.wps.com/document/research-report/",3,{"item":83,"name":65,"@type":76,"position":19},"https://docshare.wps.com/document/ensemble-pleebland-a-modular-ensemble-and-collective/238678/",{"url":83,"name":65,"@type":85,"image":86,"author":91,"headline":65,"publisher":94,"fileFormat":97,"inLanguage":63,"description":67,"dateModified":98,"datePublished":99,"encodingFormat":97,"isAccessibleForFree":100,"interactionStatistic":101},"DigitalDocument",{"url":87,"@type":88,"width":89,"height":90},"https://docshare.wps.com/thumbnails/ensemble-pleebland-a-modular-ensemble-and-collective/238678.png","ImageObject",300,407,{"name":92,"@type":93},"Rhys","Person",{"url":74,"name":95,"@type":96},"DocShare","Organization","application/pdf","2026-10-30","2026-09-11",true,{"@type":102,"interactionType":103,"userInteractionCount":39},"InteractionCounter",{"@type":104},"ViewAction",{"@type":106,"mainEntity":107},"FAQPage",[108,114,118],{"name":109,"@type":110,"acceptedAnswer":111},"What is Ensemble Pleebland designed to do?","Question",{"text":112,"@type":113},"It is designed as a modular ensemble and collective to develop group improvisation practices, explore structured and composed improvisation, and study interactions between electronic technology and acoustic instruments.","Answer",{"name":115,"@type":110,"acceptedAnswer":116},"What research approaches does the ensemble pursue?",{"text":117,"@type":113},"It undertakes practice-led (practice-based) research in composition and improvisation and also undertakes research-led practice in performance of composition and improvisation.",{"name":119,"@type":110,"acceptedAnswer":120},"Where does the name “Pleebland” come from?",{"text":121,"@type":113},"The name comes from Margaret Atwood’s MadAddam trilogy, where “Pleeblands” describe impoverished urban environments contrasted with controlled compounds.","https://schema.org",{"og:url":83,"og:type":124,"og:title":65,"og:site_name":95,"og:description":67},"article",{"robots":126,"canonical":83},"index,follow",{"doc_id":128,"site_id":62},238678,1790200270,{"code":4,"msg":5,"data":131},{"doc_id":128,"user_id":132,"nickname":92,"user_avatar":133,"doc_module":4,"category_id":39,"category_name":40,"doc_title":65,"doc_description":67,"doc_content":134,"file_id":135,"file_url":136,"file_type":137,"file_size":138,"view_count":39,"is_deleted":4,"is_public":8,"is_downloadable":8,"audit_status":8,"page_count":81,"language":139,"language_code":63,"site_id":62,"html_lang":63,"table_of_contents":140,"faqs":141,"seo_title":142,"seo_description":67,"update_tm":143,"read_time":39,"preview_page_count":4},687207024643,"https://ap-avatar.wpscdn.com/davatar_3d24733baf745e90a7e4bdd5f77d97b2","ENSEMBLE PLEEBLAND: A MODULAR ENSEMBLE AND COLLECTIVE  \nVincent Giles  \n[vin@vgiles.net](vin@vgiles.net)  \nApril 8, 2020  \n1 Introduction  \nEnsemble Pleebland is designed to be a modular ensemble and collective, meaning that there is a roster of involved people, who are members of the collective. The purpose of the ensemble is:  \n• To develop non-idiomatic,[1] group improvisation practices;  \n• To explore structured, seeded, and composed improvisation and composition practices of its members;  \n• To explore interactions between electronic technology and acoustic instruments;  \n• To undertake practice-led, or practice-based research in composition and improvisation adhering to the above and below, and;  \n• To undertake research-led practice in the performance of composition and improvisation adhering to the above and below.  \nThe name ”Pleebland” comes from Margaret Atwood’s MadAddam trilogy of books, as Cooke summarises:  \nAtwood manifests this divide between rich and poor, haves and have-nots, in the splitting of urban environments intothe Pleeblands — places of filth, disease, poverty, bioterror and chaos; and the Compounds —walled, secure, tightly-controlled and policed districts of biotechnological and capitalist production.[5]  \nsuggesting a degree of political engagement in the ideology of the ensemble. Indeed, the notion of improvisation in this context is informed by a notion of freedom. As Barrett says:  \nI prefer to think of contemporary art music not as another convenient category but, from a more idealistic standpoint, as describing those musics which refuse to be categorised, in other words as a phenomenon which is collectively not smaller but actually larger than the profit-friendly musics which seem to surround it, because of the breadth of its imaginative horizons, and the freedom we have, both as musicians and as listeners, to explore them. This is one of the few real freedoms available to us, after all.[2]  \n2 Principles  \nThe ensemble draws influence from Cornelius Cardew’s Ethic of Improvisation, and John Butcher’s 15 Simple Statements on Free Improvisation.  \nIn the Treatise Handbook, Cardew outlines an ethic of improvisation, which was part of the guiding principles of the Scratch Orchestra.  \nVirtues that a musician can develop  \n1. Simplicity Where everything becomes simple is the most desirable place to be . But, like Wittgenstein and his ’harmless contradiction’, you have to remember how you got there. The simplicity must contain the memory of how hard it was to achieve. (The relevant Wittgenstein quotation is from the posthumously published  \n’Remarks on the Foundations of Mathematics’: ”The pernicious thing is not, to produce a contradiction in the region where neither the consistent nor the contradictory proposition has any kind of work to do; no, what is pernicious is: not to know how one reached the place where contradiction no longer does any harm”.)  \nIn 1957 when I left The Royal Academy of Music in London complex compositional techniques were considered indispensable. I acquired some-and still carry them around like an ”infection that I am perpetually desirous of curing. Sometimes the temptation occurs to me that if I were to infect my students with it I would at last be free of it myself.  \n2. Integrity What we do in the actual event is important-not only what we have in mind. Often what we do is what tells us what we have in rriind. The difference between making the sound and being the sound. The professional musicianmakes the sounds (in full knowledge of them as they are external to him); AMMis their sounds (as ignorant of them as one is about one’s own nature) .  \n3. Selflessness To do something constructive you have to look beyond yourself. The entire world is your sphere if your vision can encompass it. Self-expression lapses too easily into mere documentation- ’I record that this is how I feel’. You should not be concerned with yourself beyond arranging a mode of life that makes it pos","cbCaitjsRMb0Gjos","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaitjsRMb0Gjos","pdf",40688,"English","# Introduction\n# Principles","[{\"question\":\"What is Ensemble Pleebland designed to do?\",\"answer\":\"It is designed as a modular ensemble and collective to develop group improvisation practices, explore structured and composed improvisation, and study interactions between electronic technology and acoustic instruments.\"},{\"question\":\"What research approaches does the ensemble pursue?\",\"answer\":\"It undertakes practice-led (practice-based) research in composition and improvisation and also undertakes research-led practice in performance of composition and improvisation.\"},{\"question\":\"Where does the name “Pleebland” come from?\",\"answer\":\"The name comes from Margaret Atwood’s MadAddam trilogy, where “Pleeblands” describe impoverished urban environments contrasted with controlled compounds.\"}]","Ensemble Pleebland - A Modular Ensemble and Collective | PDF",1789138848]