Re: david toop article - nytimes - today

[Per Boysen <perboysen@gmail.com>]

On Wed, Sep 2, 2009 at 10:02 PM, Raul Bonell<raul.bonell@gmail.com> wrote:
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>http://www.nytimes.com/2001/06/10/arts/l-improvisation-against-improvisation-688630.html

A very interesting quote! Thanks for notifying us, Raul! :-)

However, I think it lacks the dimension we were recently discussing
here; how to improvise new stuff without becoming "a cover band of
yourself". The answer to that question is IMHO of course Structures.
Not structures in music but structures for how to stay creative during
improvisation. In essence not far from what she tells about John Cage
methods ;-)

The thesis "Improvisation is generally playing what you know and what
you like and what you feel" is a quite personal definition that I
don't agree with. The heart of improvisation, IMHO, is to have good
strategies to throw yourself out of what you like and what you feel in
order to successfully experiment with the reactions of your musical
instinct when confronting the un-known.

Greetings from Sweden

Per Boysen
www.boysen.se
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