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Re: david toop article - nytimes - today



2009/9/3 Gareth Whittock <buddhamachin


Sorry, I meant I don't think John Cage gets it... Neither do I get John Cage...


ha,ha,ha  .... i see a documentary where cage, talking to t.duchamp said the same about m.duchamp's work.
 

I'd go as far as to say that improvisation is specifically NOT about what you know,like and feel.
I don't think Margaret Leng Tan gets it..

G

>
> 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
> www.perboysen.com
>

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