platforming the improv community archive

This bibliography accompanies the presentation, “Platforming the Improv Community Archive: Performing Preservation with Digital Obscura in Pittsburgh’s DIY Music Scene.” Presented at the University of Pittsburgh’s 2025 Film and Media Studies Graduate Student Conference.

Bibliography

Baron, Jaimie. The Archive Effect : Found Footage and the Audiovisual Experience of History. 1st ed. London ; Routledge, 2014.

Berliner, Lauren S. “Like No One Is Watching: Taking Digital Obscura Seriously.” JCMS : Journal of Cinema and Media Studies 63, no. 3 (2024): 164–69.

Berliner, Lauren S. “Towards a Methodology of Unwatched Digital Media.” Feminist Media Histories 8, no. 2 (2022): 219–30.

Born, Georgina. “Making Time: Temporality, History, and the Cultural Object.” New Literary History 46, no. 3 (2015): 361–86. 

Hall, Stuart. “Constituting an Archive.” Third Text 15, no. 54 (2001): 89–92.

Harper, Colter. Jazz in the Hill: Nightlife and Narratives of a Pittsburgh Neighborhood. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2024.

hooks, bell. “The Oppositional Gaze: Black Female Spectators.” In Black Looks, 2nd ed., 115–31. Routledge, 2015.

JARK. “part 3.” on JARK. Recorded January–April 2023. Released May 30, 2025. Streaming audio, Bandcamp. https://jayrauch.bandcamp.com/album/jark.

Lewis, George. A Power Stronger than Itself: The AACM and American Experimental Music. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2008.

Marks, Laura U. Touch : Sensuous Theory and Multisensory Media. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2002.

Pittsburgh Sound Preserve. “Open Improvisation Lab: Community Agreements.” Accessed September 12, 2025. https://www.pghsoundpreserve.org/oil.

Phelan, Peggy. Unmarked: The Politics of Performance. 1st ed. London; Routledge, 1993.

Pulver, Seth. “Open Improvisation Lab (Jan 27th, 2025).” Posted by VESICAEoooVESICA on February 10, 2025. YouTube video, 0:05:03. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=47gPP6wRHBs.

______. “Pittsburgh Sound Preserve Open Improvisation Lab 8/11/25.” Posted by VESICAEoooVESICA on August 25, 2025. YouTube video, 0:06:43. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ko-UrH6fk0I.

Sterne, Jonathan. MP3 : The Meaning of a Format. Durham, N.C: Duke University Press, 2012.

Taylor, Diana. The Archive and the Repertoire: Performing Cultural Memory in the Americas. Durham: Duke University Press, 2003.

Wilcher, May (@stripochre). “improvdrawing vol.2.” Instagram, July 13, 2025.