RE: [microsound] microvising

[Jeroen de Boer <Usva-Th2@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

This is a subject I'm paying my attention to a lot lately. To me 
'serious' electronic music, once it started, was part of the classical 
avantgarde: searching for new sounds and structures.  These 
structures, at least to the ear, have quite a lot in common with 
improvised structures. Therefore, for me, it's hard to differentiate 
between the two when listening to, for instance, the Fenn'O'Berg 
album. 
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So a question to Pita: is it an improvised record? And if so, was this 
an incidental thing, or do you always improvise?
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An always occuring question for me is the one if the people 
working in this field today are doing this with the same focus as the 
pioneers in the 50's. Do you all have the urge to create something 
new, or has the microsound-genre already become a genre with 
it's own pioneers and followers? And is improvisation maybe a way 
to distinguish yourself from fellow artists?

Questions, questions, questions. I think I have to stress though 
that I totally believe in the idea a musician improvises, only because 
it's his/her artistic believe (read for instance the things Evan Parker 
has to say about his urge to improvise). 

Jeroen

ps.
the NYT-article on John's website containes some interesting 
points of view regarding this subject.


> Anyway - I think an improv album is an
> improv album (instruments and laptops are only devices after all, and
> glitches mainly an esthetic choice when it comes to improv ...), 
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