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Since the inception of Chinapainting in 2006 everything I've done both in the days of this band and my solo work and other projects, has been complete improv with the exception of some recent vocal arrangements I,ve been doing.. I began trying to finish some work last summer on 'writing down' some solo guitar pieces for a Mel Bay project and it just feels really painful to write down again but at some point I need to return to some of that. Point is I've been enjoying pretty much being total in improv land. J On 2/19/11, Dave Draper <dh.draper@virgin.net> wrote: > Well I guess I started improvising before I got into looping, but the > two certainly go together well. > I got into looping because of my love of Congolese pop music - 70s > soukous, those sparkling guitars - & a 4-second delay pedal (Arion > DDS-4) gave me an alter-ego to develop funky riffs with. > Mind you, before that I'd been messing with a couple of reel to reel > tape recorders, magnetic pick-ups, electric fires, hacksaw blades (& the > occasional guitar!), so there's history there. The advent of digital > looping technology made it possible to do all that sound-on-sound stuff > live, at the London Musicians' Collective, short-lived clubs in back > rooms of pubs, occasionally in concert halls, on tour, but always > completely, 100%, improvised. > Yep, starting a set with absolutely no preparation whatsoever is the > preferred route for me. Once, at Hugh Metcalf's Klinker club, a music > therapist approached me after a set that had admittedly completely got > out of my control in a sort of 'noise/chaos' way, and asked me what > traumatic episode in my childhood had caused me to create such painful > music? She said she hadn't heard anything so distressing since > Lutoslawski! I took this as a compliment! > I should add that I also enjoy listening to 'total improv'. For me, the > process is often as interesting as the result. It doesn't 'work' every > time, maybe, but I'd rather hear musicians taking risks & it not always > happening, than just playing safely b& predictably. There's enough of > that around. A musician once said to me after a rather free, improvised, > definitely not jazz, piece at a Bimhuis 'jam session': "When you're a > sailor, you have to go with the wind." > I couldn't have put it more eloquently. > Dave > > > ----- > No virus found in this message. > Checked by AVG - www.avg.com > Version: 10.0.1204 / Virus Database: 1435/3452 - Release Date: 02/18/11 > > -- Sent from my mobile device *From Brooklyn To Glindran*, a new World/Free Jazz recording by Jim Goodin & Peter Thörn. Proceeds from the sale of this CD will benefit JDRF International. jimgoodinpeterthorn.bandcamp.com. woodandwiremusic.wordpress.com