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On 04-02-01 06.30, "Dan Soltzberg" <d.ans@rcn.com> wrote: > Hi gang, > > > Would love to hear peopleąs experiences with this dilemma: > > Iąve been doing a project, Orange, for a couple years. Tonight, I packed >my > gear out of a rehearsal space and turned in my keys after 3 months of > struggling with trying to take this improvisational project and make it >more > structured‹ i.e., take stuff weąd made up and recorded at various shows >and > sessions and re-learn it and make a bunch of songs out of it. I just >found I > wasnąt enjoying the process of trying to do this. > > So it seems Iąm no longer very interested in writing and playing songs‹ >what > I really get inspired doing is going out on a limb and making the music >up > as I go. I canąt seem to get the kind of spiritual high I get when Iąm > improvising if Iąm playing stuff thatąs pre-structured. Not that I donąt > like structure‹ I just like creating it on the fly. > > Problem is, 1. Itąs kind of intense to go to every show having no idea of > what Iąm going to play, hoping the muse is on the guest list > > 2. Itąs hard to bring other musicians in without having at least some > structure. > > > Thoughts? Similar experiences? Solutions? > > > Dan Hi Dan, My understanding of this is that composition is an act of will power, while improvisation is just an expression of life. Best regards Per Boysen -- Public Music Beta Testing http://www.looproom.com/p2p/