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Hi folks, I too struggle with the choice of doing either wholly improvised or composed music with some of the same problems you all mention. The CD I did a couple of years back was entirely improvised and was the result of one of those rare and sublime "spiritual highs" that was mentioned. Problems arose for me as I started to go out and gig in support of this disc when I tried to replicate (as well as I could) the pieces on the CD. It was not a fun experience generally -- at least not for me. Who knows what the audiences were thinking. I am not a professional performer by any means. But I did my best to struggle through and do these gigs anyway. However, I do have to say my favorite part of them has always been when something went wrong or distracted me for a moment and my "muse" suddenly reappeard. This would invariably happen when my "plans" had somehow been sufficiently knocked off track that true improvising began to happen again. I now try to allow for more of this to happen since it seems (to me) that that is my true calling as a musician anyway. I'm amuch better improvisor (even if I am rather spotty at that) than I am a composer. I just try to live with and accept that. Best, tEd ® kiLLiAn http://www.pfmentum.com/flux.html http://www.CDbaby.com/cd/tedkillian http://www.guitar9.com/fluxaeterna.html http://www.indiejazz.com/ProductDetailsView.aspx?ProductID=193