Abstract How may changes in musicians’ experience of time influence their impressions of having conscious intentions during musical activity ? In this essay I will present and discuss an autoethnographic account of how an exceptionally heightened awareness of time during musical improvisation may be connected to a heightened awareness of one’s own mental activity , particularly of speedy internal deliberative processes.

Abstract This article investigates the temporal dimensions of live musical events, with a focus on jazz improvisation. Drawing on phenomenology, cultural philosophy, and musicology, the Gestalt of a musical event is conceptualized as an interplay of three temporal dimensions: playing time (lived time), soundscape (spatial imagination of music), and Nachklang (lasting resonance beyond the event). Through examples from Coltrane, Miles Davis, George Russell, and Pharoah Sanders, the paper demonstrates how improvisation embodies time as fluid, embodied, and transformative rather than mechanistic. Steinmetz argues that live performance not only resists reduction to digital binaries but also affirms music’s role as a meaning-making, identity-shaping practice within human culture. Finally, the article highlights how the temporal Gestalt of improvisation situates music as a living phenomenon that shapes consciousness, community, and memory.

literature (Cash Beare, Barrows), graphic novels (Misztal) and video-performance (DiCarlo) to landscape (Harris), music (Scheuregger), computational science (Harris-Birtill and Harris-Birtill) and history (Ammann).In addition, the volume, impres-

Abstract This essay provides a poetic picture of the author’s experience of the International Society for the Study of Time, of which he has been a member since the 1970s. It includes excerpts from the author’s poetry, including from “Turn Again,” an unpublished work of “semantic autobiography” that charts the process by which the meanings of words emerge and deepen over a lifetime. The word “Time,” especially as characterized by the founder of the Society, J. T. Fraser, is the central actor in the Society’s social and intellectual drama.

Abstract Cisiojanus is what we call a medieval mnemonic device designed to provide temporal orientation by transforming the sequence of immovable religious feast days into a short and memorable poem. Mapping the sacred calendar onto a textual surface enabled its user to determine dates by counting the poem’s syllables, words or lines. As an integral part of elementary education, the cisiojanus is believed to have been one of the most popular poems of the Middle Ages. It survived in hundreds of copies all over Europe and was translated into numerous languages. While the cisiojanus formed what could be one of the largest premodern, text-based temporal communities, it also adapted to the requirements of its users, leading to an astonishing amount of nearly identical, yet significally different poems. This article explores different cisiojani as individual perspectives on time. While some make adjustments for regional and local variants of the calendar, some even bear witness to personal interpretations of the calendar.

Abstract The COVID-19 pandemic has caused a major change in everyday life and also reinvigorated the theoretical and political discussion on the temporal rhythms of social existence. Taking the situation of the coronavirus crisis as a starting point, the present paper attempts to provide the outlines of a theoretical account of social deceleration, a topic that has been hitherto barely explored in the field of social studies of time. In view of the complexity of the phenomenon, a distinction is made between two ways of theoretically approaching it, namely, a descriptive and a normative perspective. The paper proceeds in three steps: First, upon adopting a descriptive perspective, it advances a definition of social deceleration and proposes a typology of its different manifestations. The second step analyzes the coronavirus crisis as a process of partial deceleration of social life. The final step gives an overview of the current normative, i.e., ethical-political, disputes over social speed.