RE: [microsound] microvising

[taylor deupree <taylor@xxxxxxx>]

> 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?

speaking for myself.. i try, more and more, to not think about the
"genre" when creating music.. for me it's really about forming some
sort of conceptual basis (however loose) for a particular piece i'm
working on.. and exploring that concept with souds.. i'm always
trying to find new ways to manipulate sound..that's what is most
interesting to me. i don't think any of us are too concerned with
being "groundbreaking".. it's a very hard thing to achieve
consciously.. and might feel a little forced if you wake up and say
"ok, self, today let's do something no one else has ever done!"...

> 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).


i've done a few improv releases.. and try to improvise as much as
possible when i play live.. but mostly i prefer to make much of the
arranging and program an exact fragment-by-fragment science.. to
really be deliberate with every grain.


(taylor)


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