Re: Improvising vs. composing

[Per Boysen <per@boysen.se>]

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
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