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Re: Improvisation = fast Composition ?
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>>"Improvisation is just really fast Composition"
>
>nice, but IS it?
>
>Schoenberg certainly knows better than me, but sometimes things are
>just said because they sound nice...
>
>The Composer takes time to think and plan and correct and elaborate
>(mental).
>Improvisation is so massively faster that the player rather
>concentrates on what happens than on what he is going to do
>(intuition)
I am inclined to think that composition allows iterative editing, in
a way that improv does not. For example one can change the beginning
of a composition after hearing the ending, before any one else hears
the beginning. I don't know if that's "better" or "worse", but it
does seem, to me, like a difference between the practices.
And, one of the reasons I like the whole looping/live sampling/live
editing/spontaneous studio production world is that it precisely
opens up some space in between.
-Alex S.