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Re: david toop article - nytimes - today


On Wed, Sep 2, 2009 at 4:44 PM, Per Boysen <perboysen@gmail.com> wrote:
On Wed, Sep 2, 2009 at 10:02 PM, Raul Bonell<raul.bonell@gmail.com> wrote:
> http://www.nytimes.com/2001/06/10/arts/l-improvisation-against-improvisation-688630.html



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.


I like that, Per. I used to set up musicians in a circle where each one modulated the pitch of what the next one was playing via the midi output from his/her own instrument - that way no-one even had deterministic control over their own sound. The whole purpose was to force a complete break in habits.



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