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Hi all, My Concept of "experimental" music is fairly broad. But it is a heck of a lot more than merely coming to a gig unprepared and without any particular idea in mind as to "material." If you "make it up as you go along" but still everything sounds more-or-less like a 3-minute pop song that's not very experimental. If you do the above and add a recursive loop or ebow drone it's not really any more "experimental" than if you'd added a kazoo. Experimental music need not be random or atonal or devoid of accessible melody - though it often might seems to be in practice. I think some of us are used to, or are influenced by the labels that the music press often give to artists they don't quite know what to do with. Take Adrian Belew for instance, lovely man, great guitar player, totally innovative and one of a kind - they often call him "experimental." While I certainly love most everything he does, and though he may have some waaaay "out there" experimental moments - still nearly everything he does fits fairly neatly onto a standard pop/rock formula. Highly tweaked? Yes it is! Experimental? Probably not in the truest sense. We're all technology hogs here. But going out and buying the latest, greatest esoteric music technology (instrument, appliance or software) will not make one of us any more "experimental" per se than if we'd used the same money to buy dental floss. That is unless we'd figured out ho to make inventive music with dental floss (I suppose). It's what you play and what your concept of what music **MIGHT BE** (potentiality) that makes it "experimental" in my book. It can be done by the most simple means and even no technology at all for that matter. It can be done without even an "instrument" if it comes to that. It's an openness . . . and something that happens in the mind . . . an attitude . . . inventiveness. An awareness that even the world around you is producing "music" every moment. Every sound you hear. It's tuning into and becoming a part of that (for me) and inventing new "music" right along with the cosmos. -- tEd ® kiLLiAn Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover. - Mark Twain http://www.pfmentum.com/PFMCD007.html http://www.CDbaby.com/cd/tedkillian http://www.guitar9.com/fluxaeterna.html http://www.indiejazz.com/ProductDetailsView.aspx?ProductID=193 http://guitarplayer.com/article/y2k6-international-live/Jun-07/27768 Ted Killian's "Flux Aeterna" is also available at Apple iTunes