Re: [microsound] striated and smooth (was: music is the ultimate incorruptible)

[nick knouf <nknouf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mar 18, 2006, at 5:16 AM, jeff gburek wrote:
> what is interesting is
> that all improvisors have attitudes in their work. but
> they seem often nowhere near as forthcoming about the
> ideas as are composers. maybe because composers had to
> justify their relation to the open, to immanence, to a
> system predicated on closure? whereas improvisors just
> dont care to explain anything to anyone, fuck da
> police, anarchism etc.?

But could it be also that "improvisors" (in your terminology, if I  
understand it correctly, non-academic and non-deterministic  
performance) don't have access to how they created their work?  That  
it is, to use the over-used term, instinctual?  That perhaps  
"composers" who use non-deterministic practices do so with a defined,  
pre-determined purpose in mind that exists before the work is heard?   
For improvisors, the non-determinism happens on the spot; while there  
is definitely much that goes on prior to the performance to lay the  
ground for the improvisation experience (and is determined in some  
sense), the actual experience itself may take place without the  
improvisor knowing exactly how it happened.  This leads to a lack of  
access to the process itself.  Not bad, just what happens.

nick

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