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Per Boysen schrieb: > I'm not sure I'm prepared, any more, to subscribe to this idea of > "starting out with a blank slate". The background is that I have > noticed, after doing many improvised concerts, that I have developed a > mental and emotional reference system within, that for me as the > performer is exactly the opposite of a "a blank slate". I could agree partially, in terms of that you often aren't aware of your existing palette of possibilities as something which is already there. I think many of the free jazz attempts failed because they had the assumption they are free, when they weren't, hindering them to get a blank slate to start with. If I define myself as free, I am probably not... When I come to a place to perform, I try to be as free as possible, but in the moment I am in there, my slate will be filled, its a bit like a painter who would definitely start with a blank slate, but as soon you look out of the window the process of filling it in the head will start already. And of course you have your personal palette of doing things. But if you need less of your palette, the outcome will be more surprising for yourself, which is what I am after. The palette is for filling the gaps. There is nothing wrong with a non blank slate, its more the ideal of a really free improvisation, I am aware that his is not very close to a real situation, we are all bound into the context of our own history and experience, and its easy to grab one of our tricks to get the music going... And I also like to do conceptual improvisations, with a predefined theme, or a predefined imagined "story". Sometimes this frees up other creative resources... Stefan -- Stefan Tiedje------------x------- --_____-----------|-------------- --(_|_ ----|\-----|-----()------- -- _|_)----|-----()-------------- ----------()--------www.ccmix.com